Intentions to Marry, 1900 January-June

Reference: Registrar-General of Births, Deaths and Marriages, Notices of intention to marry, Series 8937, R2840417, Archives New Zealand Te Rua Mahara o te Kāwanatanga, Wellington

Imaged by Luke at Archives NZ Wellington, September 12 2025

1900 is bound in two volumes, January-June and July-December.

Page 682

District of Inglewood Quarter ending 30 June 1900 Registrar Robert Stevens

No	Date of Notice	Names and Surnames of Parties	BDM Match	Condition	Calling or Profession	Age	Dwelling Place	Length of Residence	Marriage Place	Folio	Consent	Date of Certificate	Officiating Minister
353	14 April 1900	Thomas Lyon Collins Helen Banchope Hall	Thomas Lyon Collins Helen Beanchope Hall 💍 1900/1203	Bachelor Spinster	Carpenter	28 21	Inglewood Inglewood	3 days 1 week	Primitive Methodist Chapel	00/1624		14 April 1900	Rev. Walter Harris
354	21 April 1900	Valentine Bilski Joanna Dravitski	Valentine Bilski Johanna Cravitzki 💍 1900/1205	Bachelor Spinster	Farmer	25 18	Moa District Moa District	20 years 18 years at Inglewood	The Roman Catholic Church	00/1626	Mary Dravitski, mother of Joanna Dravitski	21 April 1900	Rev. Jas. McKenna
355	30 April 1900	James Duncan McKay Frances Louise Hogg	James Duncan McKay Frances Louise Hogg 💍 1900/1181	Bachelor Spinster	Carpenter	31 19	Matau Moa District Matau Moa District	10 days 7 years	At the School house at Matau	00/1629	John Hogg, father of Frances Louise Hogg	30 April 1900	Rev. B. Hutson
356	19 May 1900	John William Paulger Grace Hunter	John William Paulger Grace Hunter 💍 1900/1204	Bachelor Spinster	Farmer	28 26	Moa District Moa District	23 years 20 years on Worthy Road	At the residence of Mr. P. Hunter	00/1625		19 May 1900	Rev. W. Harris
357	29 May 1900	Arnold Drake Carr Caroline Alice Price	Arnold Drake Carr Caroline Alice Price 💍 1900/1182	Bachelor Spinster	Farmer	24 22	Tariki Road, Taranaki Egmont Road, Taranaki	5 years 22 years	The residence of Richard Price	00/1630		29 May 1900	Rev. C. W. Robinson
358	4 June 1900	Alfred Talbot Maile Maud Maria Wooding	Alfred Talbot Maile Maud Maria Wooding 💍 1900/1206	Bachelor Spinster	Mason	27 18	Moa District Moa District	3 days 11 years	The Roman Catholic Church at Inglewood	00/1627	Charles Wooding, father of Maud Maria Wooding	4 June 1900	Rev. P. Treacy
359	7 June 1900	William Carl Besley Clara Drake	William Carl Besky Clara Drake 💍 1900/1171	Bachelor Spinster	Farmer	25 25	Inglewood Inglewood	3 days 3 days	The office of the Registrar at Inglewood	00/1628		7 June 1900	Robert Stevens

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What is an Intention to Marry?

The 1854 Marriage Act required Pakeha settlers (and later Maori) to register their intention to marry from 1855. The resulting Notices of intention to marry were sent by the district registrars to the Registrar-General of Births, Deaths and Marriages and bound into large volumes, each containing a year of notices. These registers were eventually deposited with Archives New Zealand.

What information does an ItM record?

A typical Intention to Marry notice records:

the bride and groom's full names
occupation of the groom (and sometimes the bride)
their ages
district where the marriage would take place
how long they had resided in the district
Where the marriage would take place (eg, a specific church)
Who would officiate the marriage (eg, a minister)
The date of the notice and also a date when the certificate was issued. Marriages had to take place within 3 months, and usually occurred within a week or so of the certificate date.
If one of the parties was under 21, a parent who consented to their marriage was usually specified

These details can provide clues for genealogical and historical research. Knowing the date and district makes it easier to look for wedding notices in Papers Past, and the amount of time that the parties had resided in a district can offer clues to whether a person was born in NZ, or when they immigrated.

However, finding individual records in the Intentions to Marry registers was typically a slow and manual process, usually requiring an in-person visit to Archives NZ's Wellington office (during limited opening hours) and using a handwritten card catalogue index to look up individual names.

Eight years of the registers had been digitised by Archives NZ prior to 2024, but even these digital versions required the use of a manual index and usually examining several pages to locate specific records.

What is the Intentions to Marry Project?

This project aims to transcribe the New Zealand Intentions to Marry registers (from 1855 to 1925) with the assistance of new technology (AI), making the records freely available and easily searchable.

The ITM records have also been cross-referenced with the registered marriages at DIA Births, Deaths and Marriages, where possible (a small fraction of the recorded intentions to marry did not become a registered marriage).

Currently we have almost all records between 1855 and 1899. More registers are being added almost every week.

The project is led by Luke Howison, a web developer who made the free genealogical research search tool NZ Ancestor Search Helper and Archway-style Collections Search. There are also some wonderful volunteers assisting with digitising the registers.

Can I volunteer to help?

Yes, you can! You can sign up to correct errors in the transcribed records and match ITMs with registered marriages.

I am also looking for Wellington-based volunteers to help me digitise more years of the registers. I can provide lighting equipment and a 'clicker' (to trigger your phone's camera).

How is the transcription done?

There are several steps to digitising and transcribing the records:

Digitising the registers (taking clean, straight, high-quality photos)
Processing the digitised pages by straightening, cropping and sharpening the images
Transcribing each page with a combination of AI tools
Matching each ITM with a registered marriage when possible
Human verification of the transcribed information

The main LLM (AI) used are the Google Gemini Pro and Flash models, which have excellent 'Vision' capabilities, and a generous free tier.

Archives NZ has released the register years they have digitised (1865-69, 1872, 1874 and 1880) under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 license.

The Intention to Marry registers (up to 1925) are more than 100 years old, so their Crown Copyright has expired, putting them in the public domain. This also applies to any 'mechanical reproductions' (eg, pictures or photocopies) of their content without substantial alteration.

The transcribed records on this website are released under the Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal license, which allows reusers to distribute, remix, adapt, and build upon the material in any medium or format, even for commercial purposes, while giving credit to the creator (NZ Intentions to Marry Project).