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 668

District of Whangarei Quarter ending 31 December 1900 Registrar C. E. Nicholas

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
30	8 October 1900	Kiri Brown Grace Amos	Kiri Brown Grace Amos 💍 1900/4553	Bachelor Spinster	Farmer	29 21	Leigh Ngunguru	10 years Life	Registrar's Office, Whangarei	00/4378	illegitimate child of the Palmer. F. T. 667	8 October 1900
31	11 October 1900	John Horatio Hayward Elizabeth Hannah Millington	John Horatio Hayward Elizabeth Hannah Millington 💍 1900/2416	Bachelor Spinster	Farmer	25 22	Maungakaramea Maunu	Life 6 years	Residence Bride's Parents, Maunu	00/4366		11 October 1900
32	15 October 1900	John Burnett Mann Eva Mary Harrison	John Burnett Mann Eva Mary Harrison 💍 1900/2420	Widower Spinster	Settler	45 31	Whangarei Whangarei	24 years 25 years	Residence Brides parent, Whangarei	00/4370		15 October 1900	Revd. Geo. Griffin
33	17 October 1900	John Joseph Nash Kara Isabella Jackman	John Joseph Nash Kara Isabella Jackman 💍 1900/4564	Bachelor Widow	Miner	30 27	Hikurangi Hikurangi	3 years 2 years	Registrar's Office, Whangarei	00/4379		17 October 1900	The Registrar
34	25 October 1900	Luke Webb Julia May Dalley	Luke Webb Julia Daley 💍 1900/5758	Bachelor Spinster	Farmer	26 26	Ruatangata Kamo	Life 3 months	Roman Catholic Church, Whangarei	00/4374		25 October 1900	Revd. W. Van Weskere
35	29 October 1900	David Brien Ada Burlace	David Brien Ada Bentall 💍 1900/2421	Bachelor Spinster	Bushman	24 23	Drivers Valley Drivers Valley	3 years Life	Residence of Bride's Parents, Drivers Valley	00/4371		29 October 1900	Revd. J. W. Griffin
36	12 November 1900	George Teesdale Junr Helena Maud Gager	George Teesdale Helena Maud Crager 💍 1900/77	Bachelor Spinster	Farmer	29 25	Otonga East Hikurangi	20 years 4 years	English Church, Hikurangi	00/4375		12 November 1900	Revd. J. H. Hawkes M.A.
37	16 November 1900	Robert McCorquindale Alice McFadden	Robert McCorguindale Alice McFadden 💍 1900/4555	Bachelor Spinster	Farmer	27 25	Whangarei Patumahoe	10 years Life	St. Brides Church, Waiuku	00/4388		16 November 1900	Revd. W. Webster
38	21 November 1900	George Williams Emily Young	George Williams Emily Young 💍 1900/2417	Bachelor Spinster	Blacksmith	29 23	Whangarei Whangarei	3 years 3 years	Residence Bride's Parents, Whangarei	00/4367		21 November 1900	Revd. L. L. Cubitt
39	27 November 1900	Harry Heaven Kate Annie Hutchinson	Harry Heaven Kate Anne Hutchinson 💍 1900/2423	Bachelor Spinster	Coach Painter	31 27	Whangarei Whangarei	2 years 3 years	Residence Bride's Parents, Whangarei	00/4372		27 November 1900	Revd. J. W. Griffin

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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).