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 869

District of Greymouth Quarter ending 31 December 1900 Registrar B. Harper

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
37	15 December 1900	Henry Joseph Wickes Rose Edith Connor	Henry Joseph Wickes Rose Edith Connor 💍 1900/4844	Bachelor Spinster	Clerk	26 22	Greymouth Greymouth	18 years 14 years	The Presbyterian Church at Greymouth	00/4944		15 December 1900	Rev. Robt. Stewart
38	18 December 1900	John Robert Palmer Violet Barnett Beatriec Moie	John Robert Palmer Violet Bennett Beatrice Mori 💍 1900/4863	Bachelor Spinster	Miner	33 24	Blackball Blackball	6 years 14 days	The English Church at Greymouth	00/4939		18 December 1900	Rev. F. W. York
39	22 December 1900	John Walter Wallace Caroline Mayo	John Walter Wallace Caroline Mayo 💍 1900/4864	Bachelor Spinster	Groom	21 19	Jacksons Jacksons	3 days 3 days	The Church of England at Greymouth	00/4940	Charles Mayo, father	22 December 1900	Rev. F. W. York
40	24 December 1900	John Scatrine Lucy Riordan	John Sectrini Lucy Riordan 💍 1900/4852	Bachelor Spinster	Bushman	33 21	Kokiri Greymouth	6 years 21 years	The Office of the Registrar of Marriages, Greymouth	00/4951		24 December 1900	B. Harper
41	24 December 1900	Austin James Broom Rosina Hobson	Austin James Coom Rosina Nelson 💍 1900/4846	Bachelor Spinster	Miner	25 23	Cobden Cobden	14 years 8 years	The Presbyterian Church at Greymouth	00/4946		24 December 1900	Rev. Robt. Stewart
42	24 December 1900	Frederick Noeff Jane Joseph	Fredrick Wolff Jane Joseph 💍 1900/4845	Bachelor Spinster	Engineer	30 20	Greymouth Greymouth	2 years 9 years	The private residence of Mr. Joseph Joseph, Jamie Street, Greymouth	00/4945	Joseph Joseph, father	24 December 1900	Rev. Robt. Stewart

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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).