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 519

District of Russell Quarter ending 30 September 1900 Registrar W. Russell

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
173	4 July 1900	Patrick Murphy Martha Crilly	Patrick Murphy Martha Crilly 💍 1900/4164	Bachelor Spinster	Farmer	27 21	Hotorua Hotorua	3 days 21 years	The Roman Catholic Church, Winton	00/4037		4 July 1900	Rev. Patrick O'Neill, Roman Catholic
174	6 July 1900	Charles Alfred Price Ada Ethel Sauls		Bachelor Spinster	Labourer	29 19	Gap Road, Winton Gap Road, Winton	1 year 19 years	The Church of England, Winton	00/4027	Thomas Sauls, father	6 July 1900	Rev. J.S.A. Kayll, Church of England
175	28 July 1900	Sydney Harold Day Annie Thomas Shaw	Sydney Harold Day Annie Thomson Shaw 💍 1900/4082	Bachelor Spinster	Miller	23 20	Winton Winton	30 days 20 years	House of Mark Shaw, Shard Road Hill, Lady Barkly, near Winton	00/4028	Mark Shaw, father	30 July 1900	Rev. J.S.A. Kayll, Church of England
176	1 September 1900	Ewen Maurice McLauchlan Susanna Brown	Ewen MacKenzie McLaughlan Susanna Brown 💍 1900/4167	Bachelor Spinster	Farmer	32 21	Spring Hills Forest Hill	9 years 20 years	The residence of the bride's parents, known as the house of Capt. J.J. Brown, Forest Hill	00/4040		1 September 1900	Rev. William, Presbyterian
177	15 August 1900	John Murphy Adelaide Lucas	John Murphy Adelaide Lucas 💍 1900/4165	Bachelor Spinster	Commercial Traveller	33 20	Winton Farm Hills, Winton	6 months 20 years	The Roman Catholic Church, Winton	00/4038	her father	15 August 1900	Rev. Patrick O'Neill, Roman Catholic
178	18 August 1900	Frank Vincent Emily Jane Nevins Blee	Frank Vernon Emily Jane Kevern Blee 💍 1900/4083	Bachelor Spinster	Bricklayer Domestic Servant	36 24	Winton Winton	3 days 18 years	Holy Trinity Church, Winton	00/4029		18 August 1900	Rev. J.S.A. Kayll, Church of England
179	11 September 1900	Edward Matthews Henry Henrietta Jane Thorer	Edward Henry Matthews Henrietta Jane Frazer 💍 1900/4084	Bachelor Spinster	Labourer Domestic Servant	22 23	Benmore Benmore	14 years 2 years	Holy Trinity Church, Winton	00/4030		11 September 1900	Rev. J.S.A. Kayll, Church of England
180	12 September 1900	William Hagerty Jane Ann Munsons Whitehead	William Hagerty Jane Jamieson McLeod 💍 1900/4166	Bachelor Spinster	Mechanic	29 26	Winton Winton	25 years 26 years	House of Allan Whitehead, Winton	00/4039		12 September 1900	Rev. Patrick O'Neill, Roman Catholic

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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).