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 818

District of WELLINGTON Quarter ending 31 December 1900 Registrar FREDERICK WILLIAM MANSFIELD

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
620	14 December 1900	John Furrie Margaret Drysdale Miller	John Currie Margaret Drysdale Miller 💍 1900/4913	Widower Spinster	Mariner Tailoress	32 27	Wellington Wellington	7 years 7 days	Residence of J. R. Elliott, Manse, Poneke, Wellington	00/4786		14 December 1900	Revd. J. R. Elliott
621	14 December 1900	Frederick Samuel Harrington Emily Mary Burnell	Frederick Samuel Harrington Emily Mary Durnett 💍 1900/4828	Bachelor Spinster	Carpenter	23 18	Wellington Wellington	23 years 18 years	St. Mark's Church, Wellington	00/4797	William Burnell, Father	14 December 1900	Revd. R. Coffey
622	15 December 1900	John Michael O'Brien Henrietta Sheridan	John Michael O'Brien Henrietta Sheridan 💍 1900/4794	Bachelor Spinster	Clerk	26 24	Wellington Wellington	15 years 24 years	St. Mary's Church Room, Hill St., Wellington	00/4831		15 December 1900	Revd. Wm. Joe Lewis
623	15 December 1900	James Hislop Ann Grace O'Connor	James Hislop Ann Grove O'Connor 💍 1900/5054	Bachelor Spinster	Private Secretary	30 27	Wellington Dunedin	11 months 27 years	Baptist Church, Hanover St., Dunedin	00/5390		15 December 1900	Revd. John Muirhead
624	15 December 1900	Charles Trethewey Eliza Trethewey	Charles Trevethick Eliza Frethey 💍 1900/4807	Widower Spinster	Brush Manufacturer	46 42	Lower Hutt Lower Hutt	22 years 42 years	Residence of Miss E. Trethewey, Lower Hutt	00/4846		15 December 1900	Revd. W. B. Martin
625	17 December 1900	Bertram Manger Susie Day	Bertram John Mangin Susie Day 💍 1900/5374	Bachelor Spinster	Painter	25 25	Wellington Wellington	25 years 3 days	Residence of Mr. Day, 14 Elizabeth St., Wellington	00/5614		17 December 1900	Revd. W. Oliver
626	17 December 1900	Henry Hart Charlotte Solomon	Henry Hart Charlotte Solomons 💍 1900/930	Bachelor Spinster	Commercial Traveller	27 25	Wellington Wellington	3 years 5 months	Registrar's Office, Wellington	00/4738		17 December 1900	F. W. Mansfield, Registrar
627	17 December 1900	Cecil Macpherson Elsie May Royer	Cecil MacPherson Ettie May Royce 💍 1900/5844	Bachelor Spinster	Hairdresser Dressmaker	25 22	Wellington Wellington	8 months 5 days	Congregational Church, Hill St., Wellington	00/4852		17 December 1900	Revd. J. R. Gleeson

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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).