Intentions to Marry, 1901 North Island

Reference: Registrar-General of Births, Deaths and Marriages, Notices of intention to marry, Series 8937, R2840419, Archives New Zealand Te Rua Mahara o te Kāwanatanga, Wellington

Imaged by Luke at Archives NZ Wellington, September 22 2025

1901 is bound in two volumes, North Island districts and South Island districts.

Page 608

District of Eltham Quarter ending 30 June 1901 Registrar James William Middleton

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

20 April 1901

C. E. Meyenberg
A. B. H. Ritter

Bachelor
Spinster

Farmer

28
25

Stratford
Eltham

20 years
20 years

Church of England Eltham

01/2216

20 April 1901

Rev. E. J. McConnell

No	48
Date of Notice	20 April 1901
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	C. E. Meyenberg	A. B. H. Ritter
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Farmer
Age	28	25
Dwelling Place	Stratford	Eltham
Length of Residence	20 years	20 years
Marriage Place	Church of England Eltham
Folio	01/2216
Consent
Date of Certificate	20 April 1901
Officiating Minister	Rev. E. J. McConnell

29 April 1901

J. J. Thomas
M. E. Croot

Bachelor
Spinster

Labourer

35
26

Mangatoki
Mangatoki

12 months
12 months

Registrar's Office Eltham

01/1728

29 April 1901

Registrar of Marriages Eltham

No	49
Date of Notice	29 April 1901
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	J. J. Thomas	M. E. Croot
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Labourer
Age	35	26
Dwelling Place	Mangatoki	Mangatoki
Length of Residence	12 months	12 months
Marriage Place	Registrar's Office Eltham
Folio	01/1728
Consent
Date of Certificate	29 April 1901
Officiating Minister	Registrar of Marriages Eltham

30 April 1901

H. H. Babbage
J. J. A. Granville

Bachelor
Spinster

Farmer

27
24

Eltham
Eltham

3 days
7 years

At the Church of England Eltham

01/2217

30 April 1901

Rev. E. J. McConnell

No	50
Date of Notice	30 April 1901
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	H. H. Babbage	J. J. A. Granville
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Farmer
Age	27	24
Dwelling Place	Eltham	Eltham
Length of Residence	3 days	7 years
Marriage Place	At the Church of England Eltham
Folio	01/2217
Consent
Date of Certificate	30 April 1901
Officiating Minister	Rev. E. J. McConnell

8 May 1901

E. J. Lindgren
A. Barton

Eric Julius Lindgren
Amelia Barton
💍 1901/6102

Bachelor
Widow

Labourer
Farmer

41
45

Eltham
Kapuni

7 months
6 years

Registrar's Office Eltham

01/1724

8 May 1901

Registrar of Marriages Eltham

No	51
Date of Notice	8 May 1901
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	E. J. Lindgren	A. Barton
BDM Match (61%)	Eric Julius Lindgren	Amelia Barton
	💍 1901/6102
Condition	Bachelor	Widow
Profession	Labourer	Farmer
Age	41	45
Dwelling Place	Eltham	Kapuni
Length of Residence	7 months	6 years
Marriage Place	Registrar's Office Eltham
Folio	01/1724
Consent
Date of Certificate	8 May 1901
Officiating Minister	Registrar of Marriages Eltham

14 May 1901

A. F. Bahner
E. Allan

Bachelor
Spinster

Farmer

25
23

Mangatoki
Mangatoki

3 years
11 months

At the house of Rev. Mr. Chapple Eltham

01/1725

14 May 1901

Rev. J. R. B. Woolaxall

No	52
Date of Notice	14 May 1901
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	A. F. Bahner	E. Allan
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Farmer
Age	25	23
Dwelling Place	Mangatoki	Mangatoki
Length of Residence	3 years	11 months
Marriage Place	At the house of Rev. Mr. Chapple Eltham
Folio	01/1725
Consent
Date of Certificate	14 May 1901
Officiating Minister	Rev. J. R. B. Woolaxall

28 May 1901

J. K. Hoskin
M. J. McGuire

Bachelor
Spinster

Coach Painter

30
29

Eltham
Eltham

2 months
4 days

Roman Catholic Church Eltham

01/1729

28 May 1901

Rev. Father E. Power

No	53
Date of Notice	28 May 1901
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	J. K. Hoskin	M. J. McGuire
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Coach Painter
Age	30	29
Dwelling Place	Eltham	Eltham
Length of Residence	2 months	4 days
Marriage Place	Roman Catholic Church Eltham
Folio	01/1729
Consent
Date of Certificate	28 May 1901
Officiating Minister	Rev. Father E. Power

30 May 1901

S. S. Matthews
M. Bublity

Bachelor
Spinster

Farmer

34
25

Te Roti
Te Roti

14 years
10 years

At the house of bride's parents Te Roti

01/1726

30 May 1901

Rev. J. R. B. Woolaxall

No	54
Date of Notice	30 May 1901
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	S. S. Matthews	M. Bublity
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Farmer
Age	34	25
Dwelling Place	Te Roti	Te Roti
Length of Residence	14 years	10 years
Marriage Place	At the house of bride's parents Te Roti
Folio	01/1726
Consent
Date of Certificate	30 May 1901
Officiating Minister	Rev. J. R. B. Woolaxall

3 June 1901

G. R. S. Avery
C. M. White

not issued

No	55
Date of Notice	3 June 1901
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	G. R. S. Avery	C. M. White
Condition
Profession
Age
Dwelling Place
Length of Residence
Marriage Place
Folio
Consent
Date of Certificate	not issued
Officiating Minister

3 June 1901

J. H. Howard
F. Radford

Bachelor
Spinster

Farmer

23
25

Eltham
Eltham

8 years
18 months

At the house of bride's parents Becton Road Eltham

01/1800

3 June 1901

Rev. G. E. Bertram

No	56
Date of Notice	3 June 1901
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	J. H. Howard	F. Radford
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Farmer
Age	23	25
Dwelling Place	Eltham	Eltham
Length of Residence	8 years	18 months
Marriage Place	At the house of bride's parents Becton Road Eltham
Folio	01/1800
Consent
Date of Certificate	3 June 1901
Officiating Minister	Rev. G. E. Bertram

11 June 1901

J. J. Goodrick
A. L. Mills

Bachelor
Spinster

Carpenter

25
20

Eltham
Eltham

3 days
14 years

At the house of bride's parents Eltham

01/1727

H. Mills, father of bride

11 May 1901

Rev. J. R. B. Woolaxall

No	57
Date of Notice	11 June 1901
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	J. J. Goodrick	A. L. Mills
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Carpenter
Age	25	20
Dwelling Place	Eltham	Eltham
Length of Residence	3 days	14 years
Marriage Place	At the house of bride's parents Eltham
Folio	01/1727
Consent	H. Mills, father of bride
Date of Certificate	11 May 1901
Officiating Minister	Rev. J. R. B. Woolaxall

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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 1903. 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).