Intentions to Marry, 1901 South Island

Reference: Registrar-General of Births, Deaths and Marriages, Notices of intention to marry, Series 8937, R2840420, Archives New Zealand Te Rua Mahara o te Kāwanatanga, Wellington

Imaged by Carole at Archives NZ Wellington, September 22 2025

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

Page 495

District of Temuka Quarter ending 31 December 1901 Registrar Temuka Registrar

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
22	4 November 1901	Allan Cameron E. D. Harrya	Allan Cameron Charlotte Davenia Henry 💍 1901/5404	Bachelor Spinster	Police Detective	27 24	Temuka Temuka	6 Days 24 years	Presbyterian Church	01/6073		4 November 1901	Thos Dickson
23	5 November 1901	Chas Woodley Sarah Dredge	Charles Woodley Sarah Preddy 💍 1901/4982	Bachelor Spinster	Police Constable	25 22	Temuka Temuka	3 Days 22 years	Primitive Methodist Church	01/5374		5 November 1901	Joseph Sharp
24	20 November 1901	Thos Rye Amy Alice Story	Thomas Henry Pye Amy Alice Story 💍 1901/5427	Bachelor Spinster	Nurseryman	24 18	Temuka Temuka	3 Days 18 years	St. Peter's Anglican Church	01/6098	Arthur Story, father	20 November 1901	Thos Darley
25	20 November 1901	Adam Wilkinson Johanna Palmer	Adam Wilkinson Johanna Palmer 💍 1901/5428	Bachelor Spinster	Farmer	26 24	Temuka Temuka	3 Days 24 years	Church of England	01/6099		20 November 1901	Thos Darley
26	9 December 1901	R. S. Turnbull A. J. McCallum		Bachelor Spinster	Farmer	40 20	Pleasant Point Temuka	24 years 20 years	Residence of A. J. McCallum, Temuka	01/5370	A. B. Ford, mother	9 December 1901	James Watson
27	12 December 1901	Chas Jessop E. A. Perry		Bachelor Spinster	Engineer	26 21	Temuka Waitohi	3 years 4 years	Residence of Chas Jessop	01/5375		12 December 1901	Joseph Mertz
28	14 December 1901	Jno. Barrett Jr. A. E. Raynor		Bachelor Spinster	Labourer	29 32	Temuka Temuka	28 years 3 years	Church of England	01/6100		14 December 1901	Thos Darley
29	16 December 1901	Arthur Deans E. J. Talbot	Arthur Dean Emma Frances Talbot 💍 1901/4974	Bachelor Spinster	Labourer	27 22	Waitohi Flat Waitohi Flat	27 years 22 years	Residence of Thos Talbot	01/5372		16 December 1901	Wm. Finlay
30	17 December 1901	Wm. Edmonds R. M. Ravana		Bachelor Spinster	Labourer	22 21	Temuka Temuka	5 weeks 10 weeks	Registrar's Office	01/5373		17 December 1901	Temuka Registrar
31	24 December 1901	E. G. Claridge M. Mitchell		Bachelor Spinster	Labourer	22 20	Temuka Temuka	22 years 8 months	Church of England	01/6101		24 December 1901	Thos Darley
32	30 December 1901	Samuel Tisdall Martha Heron		Bachelor Spinster	Labourer	30 25	Temuka Temuka	5 days 6 months	Residence of [illegible] Heron	01/5371		30 December 1901	A. B. Todal
33	31 December 1901	Amos Hope N. J. Armstrong	Amos Hope Agnes Jane Armitage 💍 1902/347	Bachelor Spinster	Labourer	22 19	Temuka Temuka	17 years 13 years	St. Peter's Church of England	01/1171		31 December 1901	Thos Darley

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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 1901. 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).