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 267

District of Wellington Quarter ending 30 September 1900 Registrar W. 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
406	8 August 1900	Frederick William Schreiber Eliza Johnston	Fredrick William Schruber Eliza Johnston 💍 1900/1889 Frederick Charles Gallot Eliza Johnston 💍 1901/5528	Bachelor Spinster	Blacksmith Tailoress	28 30	Wellington Wellington	4 months 4 months	Residence of Mr. Charles A. Cross, 18 Courtenay Place, Wellington	00/3348		8 August 1900	Rev. H. C. Oliver
407	8 August 1900	William Marshall Marigold Beatrice Marigold	William Marshall Merrigold Beatrice Annie Bushby 💍 1900/3732	Bachelor Spinster	Fisherman	24 23	Wellington Wellington	24 years 20 years	Registrar's Office, Wellington	00/3276		8 August 1900	R. Talbot, Deputy Registrar
408	8 August 1900	Andrew Fountain Sampson Marcella Harriet Fitzmaurice	Andrew Des Fountain Sampson Marcella Harriett Fitzmaurice 💍 1900/3764	Bachelor Spinster	Engineer	23 19	Wellington Lower Hutt	23 years 19 years	Residence of Mr. Andrew E. Sampson, 9 Drummond Street, off Tinakori Road, Wellington	00/3276	Lucillia Amelia Fitzmaurice, Mother	8 August 1900	Rev. T. F. Jones
409	9 August 1900	William Pilcher Florence Elizabeth Faulkner	William Pilcher Florence Elizabeth Faulkner 💍 1900/3733	Bachelor Widow	Butcher	25 25	Wellington Wellington	4 months 8 years	Registrar's Office, Wellington	00/3277		9 August 1900	R. Talbot, Deputy Registrar
410	9 August 1900	Thomas Alexander Littleboy Florence Henry	Thomas Alexander Littleboy Florence Henry 💍 1900/3714	Widower Widow	Fireman	44 31	Wellington Wellington	3 years 10 years	Registrar's Office, Wellington	00/3278		9 August 1900	R. Talbot, Deputy Registrar
411	10 August 1900	Samuel Furdy Susan Emily Riddick	Samuel Cundy Susan Emily Riddick 💍 1900/1875	Widower Spinster	Stock Agent	39 22	Wellington Wellington	3 days 5 years	Residence of Mr. Robert Riddick, 51 Webb Street, Wellington	00/3299		10 August 1900	Rev. J. R. 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).