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 843

District of Buller Quarter ending 31 December 1900 Registrar M. E. Douglas

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
844	4 October 1900	Emil Ferdinand George Lander Ottilia Amelia Augusta Krause	Emil Ferdinand George Sander Ottilie Amelia Augusta Krause 💍 1900/4903	Bachelor Spinster	artist Domestic	24 24	Westport Westport	12 months 12 years	Residence of Johanna Krause	00/4887		4 October 1900	Rev. F. P. Couse
845	20 October 1900	Richard James Hawes Miriam Ellen Newell	Richard James Hawes Miriam Ellen Newell 💍 1900/4904	Bachelor Spinster	Farmer Domestic	28 25	Sergeants Hill, Westport Westport	12 months 2 years	Residence of Richard Newell	00/4888		22 October 1900	Rev. J. B. Merrett
846	12 November 1900	John Hayes Annie Veronica Vallis	John Hayes Annie Veronica Sullivan 💍 1900/5490	Bachelor Spinster	Miner Domestic	31 21	Burnett's Face Addison's	11 months	Roman Catholic Church, Addison's	00/5670		13 November 1900	Rev. Thos. Walshe
847	27 November 1900	Ephraim Alexander Crampton Minnie Fraser	Ephraim Alexander Crompton Minnie Fraser 💍 1900/4883	Bachelor Spinster	Fireman Domestic	21 20	Westport Westport	3 months 10 days	Residence of the bridegroom, Rintoul Street, Westport	00/4891	John Fraser, The Father	27 November 1900	Rev. John Hall
848	28 November 1900	David Albert William Woodward Lillie Jephcoate	David Albert William Woodward Lillie Jephcoate 💍 1900/4905	Bachelor Spinster	Bushman Domestic	24 28	Westport Westport	2 years 2 years	Primitive Methodist Church, Westport	00/4889		28 November 1900	Rev. J. B. Merrett
849	1 December 1900	William George Hellyer Frances Roussell	William George Nelson Frances Louisa Larsen 💍 1901/387	Bachelor Spinster	Engineer Domestic	30 25	Westport Westport	3 months 25 years	English Church	01/730		1 December 1900	Rev. J. B. Dart
850	14 December 1900	Alexander McDonald Rozalea Lloyd	Alexander McDonald Rozalee Lloyd 💍 1900/4882	Bachelor Spinster	Engine driver Domestic	25 21	Westport Westport	13 years 6 months	Residence of Samuel Crook Lloyd, Denniston	00/4890		14 December 1900	Rev. J. B. Merrett

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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).