Intentions to Marry, 1900 July-December

Reference: Registrar-General of Births, Deaths and Marriages, Notices of intention to marry, Series 8937, R2840418, Archives New Zealand Te Rua Mahara o te Kāwanatanga, Wellington

Imaged by Carole at Archives NZ Wellington, September 12 2025

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

Page 205

District of Carterton Quarter ending 30 September 1900 Registrar Walter C. Anke

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
18	31 July 1900	Swend August Idson Edith Field	Swend August Nelson Edith Field 💍 1900/3783	Bachelor Spinster	Enginedriver None	41 20	Carterton Carterton	11 years 7 years	Residence of Magnus Field, Carterton	00/3395	Allan Edward Field, father	31 July 1900	William Ritchie, Presbyterian Minister
19	3 August 1900	John George Robert Mold Ada Louisa Reynolds	John George Robert Mold Ada Louisa Bignold 💍 1900/3886	Bachelor Spinster	Blacksmith None	22 21	Gladstone Gladstone	6 months 6 months	St. Marks Church, Carterton	00/4030		3 August 1900	Robert Young, Minister Church of England
20	14 August 1900	Robert Jenkins Rade Smith	Robert Jenkins Kate Smith 💍 1900/3784	Bachelor Spinster	Labourer Servant	35 32	Pinton Terrace, Masterton Masterton	4 days 4 weeks	Residence of George F. Smith, Masterton	00/3396		14 August 1900	William Ritchie, Presbyterian Minister
21	20 August 1900	Percy George Ross Ida Harriet White	Percy George Ross Ida Harriett White 💍 1900/3785	Bachelor Spinster	Carpenter Domestic Duties	25 26	Carterton Carterton	1 year 1 year	Residence of Mary Hopwood, Glasgow St., Carterton	00/3397		20 August 1900	William Ritchie, Presbyterian Minister
22	6 September 1900	Alfred James Arthur Sarah Ann Liddington	Alfred James Attree Sarah Ann Liddington 💍 1900/3889	Bachelor Spinster	Gardener None	30 30	Clareville Clareville	6 years 14 years	Wesleyan Chapel, High St., Carterton	00/4552	Samuel Liddington, father of bride	6 September 1900	John Jeffree, Wesleyan Minister
23	15 August 1900	Michael Lepinowski Frances Bronkowske	August Michael Lepenski Frances Groukowski 💍 1900/3891	Bachelor Spinster	Labourer Domestic Duties	21 16	Carterton Carterton	6 months 16 years	St. Mary's Catholic Church, Carterton	00/4554	Father of Bronkowske	15 September 1900	John McKenna, Catholic Priest
24	18 September 1900	John Francis Gerasky Julia Mary Chase	John Francis Gerosky Julia Max 💍 1900/3892	Bachelor Spinster	Labourer Home Duties	64 23	Carterton Carterton	26 years 6 years	St. Mary's Catholic Church, Carterton	00/4555		18 September 1900	John McKenna, Catholic Priest
25	25 September 1900	Thomas Matthew Day Martha Woodley	Thomas Matthew Cave Martha Woodley 💍 1900/3890	Bachelor Spinster	Railway Storeman Home Duties	27 18	Wellington Carterton	4 days 6 years	Residence of John Woodley, Carterton	00/4553	John Woodley, father	25 September 1900	John J. Pendray, Wesleyan Minister

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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).