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 811

District of Wellington Quarter ending 31 December 1900 Registrar 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
568	19 November 1900	William Robert McLeanfield Louisa Elizabeth Marshall	William Robert McLeanfield Louisa Elizabeth Marshall 💍 1900/4951	Bachelor Spinster	Fireman	24 24	Wellington Wellington	5 years 2 years	Church of St. Andrew's Presbyterian, Wellington	00/4855		19 November 1900	Reverend D. M. McLeanfield
569	19 November 1900	John Walter Williams Emily Haybittle	John Walter Williams Emily Haybittle 💍 1900/5485	Bachelor Spinster	Shipping Agent	31 21	Wellington Silverstream	11 years 21 years	St. Paul's Pro-Cathedral, Wellington	00/5665		19 November 1900	Reverend Thos. Sprott
570	19 November 1900	William Alfred Fish Annie Parish	William Alfred Litchfield Annie Parrish 💍 1900/5685 William Alfred Miller Annie Archer 💍 1901/1534 William Algernon Harris Annie Hayes 💍 1900/3348 William Stockdill Annie Davison 💍 1900/1977 William Derrett Annie Parsons 💍 1900/3635	Bachelor Spinster	Engine Driver Seamstress	25 25	Wellington Wellington	3 days 12 months	Wesley Church, Taranaki Street, Wellington	00/5814		19 November 1900	Reverend W. Collier
571	20 November 1900	Alfred John Miller Mary Miller	Alfred Kohu Mary Miller 💍 1900/4908 Edward Ellis Mary Miller 💍 1900/4310	Bachelor Spinster	Draper	35 32	Wellington Wellington	10 years 5 years	Kent Terrace Presbyterian Church, Wellington	00/4781		20 November 1900	Reverend J. K. Elliott
572	20 November 1900	Martin Luther Teist Margaret Lorne Jamieson	Martin Luther Feist Margaret Lorne Jamieson 💍 1900/4931	Bachelor Spinster	Salesman Folder	28 26	Wellington Wellington	20 years 26 years	Wesleyan Church, Molesworth Street, Wellington	00/4849		20 November 1900	Reverend D. F. Jones
573	21 November 1900	Patrick Healy Emma Stevens	Patrick Healy Emma Sievers 💍 1900/4793	Bachelor Spinster	Labourer	34 39	Makara Makara	7 years 39 years	St. Mary's Church, Karori, Wellington	00/4830		21 November 1900	Reverend W. J. Lewis
574	21 November 1900	Henry Ernest Davis Jinnie Gatfield	Henry Ernest Davis Jennie Gatfield 💍 1900/4909	Bachelor Spinster	Paper Cutter	24 20	Wellington Wellington	12 years 1 year	St. Mark's Parish, Wellington	00/4782	No person in Colony to give consent	21 November 1900	Reverend J. K. Elliott

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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).