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 815

District of Wellington Quarter ending 31 December 1900 Registrar J. H. 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	Date of Certificate	Officiating Minister
598	4 December 1900	Nicholas Calogeras Ida Green	Nicholas Calogaras Ada Green 💍 1900/936	Widower Spinster	Labourer	46 24	Petone Petone	7 years 6 months	Residence of Mr. N. Calogeras, Esplanade, Petone	00/4744	4 December 1900	Rev. A. Hey Thomson
599	4 December 1900	Ernest Edward Brook Emma Jane Sloane	Ernest Edward Brook Emma Jane Sloane 💍 1900/922	Bachelor Spinster	Boilermaker	28 26	Wellington Wellington	4 days 4 days	Registrar's Office, Wellington	00/4730	4 December 1900	J. H. Mansfield, Registrar
600	4 December 1900	Hubert Newman McGregor Catherine Livingstone McGregor	Hubert Newman Wigmore Church Catherine Livingstone McGregor 💍 1900/3930	Bachelor Spinster	Civil Servant	43 27	Wellington Wellington	21 years 29 years	Residence of Mr. McGregor, 8 Buller Street, Wellington	00/4754	4 December 1900	Rev. Jas. Paterson
601	6 December 1900	Hercules Eric Perrin Florence Theresa Hayes	Hercules Eric Perrin Florence Theresa Hayes 💍 1900/924	Bachelor Spinster	Farmer	23 22	Wellington Wellington	10 days 20 years	Registrar's Office, Wellington	00/4732	6 December 1900	J. H. Mansfield, Registrar
602	6 December 1900	Ludovic Lapage Torres Amelia Mooney	Ludovic Lapage Norris Amelia Mooney 💍 1900/923	Bachelor Widow	Printer	51 36	Wellington Wellington	14 years 14 years	Registrar's Office, Wellington	00/4731	6 December 1900	J. H. Mansfield, Registrar
603	7 December 1900	Sydney Smith Ellen Gammie	Sydney Smith Ellen Gammie 💍 1900/4910	Bachelor Spinster	Sheep Farmer	32 35	Wellington Wellington	3 days 14 days	Presbyterian Manse, Pirie Street, Wellington	00/4783	7 December 1900	Rev. J. Kennedy Elliott
604	7 December 1900	Thomas Cook Cooper Amelie McLagan	Thomas Cook Amelia McLagan 💍 1900/937	Bachelor Spinster		25 29	Petone Petone	25 years 10 years	Residence of Mr. McLagan, Gear Street, Petone	00/4745	7 December 1900	Rev. A. Hey Thomson

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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).