Intentions to Marry, 1902 North Island

Reference: Registrar-General of Births, Deaths and Marriages, Notices of intention to marry, Series 8937, R2840421, Archives New Zealand Te Rua Mahara o te Kāwanatanga, Wellington

Imaged by Luke at Archives NZ Wellington, October 3 2025

1902 is bound in two volumes, North Island districts and South Island districts.

Page 140

District of Wellington Quarter ending 31 March 1902 Registrar G W Mansfield

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

4 January 1902

George James Hyde
Ellen May Hook

George James Hyde
Ellen May Hook
💍 1902/3141

Bachelor
Spinster

Farmer

32
22

Tawa Flat
Tawa Flat

28 years
22 years

Residence of Mr Frend Hook Tawa Flat

02/789

10 January 1902

Rev Geo. P. Hunt

No	7
Date of Notice	4 January 1902
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	George James Hyde	Ellen May Hook
	💍 1902/3141
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Farmer
Age	32	22
Dwelling Place	Tawa Flat	Tawa Flat
Length of Residence	28 years	22 years
Marriage Place	Residence of Mr Frend Hook Tawa Flat
Folio	02/789
Consent
Date of Certificate	10 January 1902
Officiating Minister	Rev Geo. P. Hunt

6 January 1902

John Southee
Mary Tannahill

John Southee
Mary Tannahill
💍 1902/2726

Bachelor
Spinster

Labourer

37
24

Upper Hutt
Upper Hutt

37 years
24 years

Registrars office Wellington

02/638

6 January 1902

R Talbot Deputy The Registrar

No	8
Date of Notice	6 January 1902
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	John Southee	Mary Tannahill
	💍 1902/2726
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Labourer
Age	37	24
Dwelling Place	Upper Hutt	Upper Hutt
Length of Residence	37 years	24 years
Marriage Place	Registrars office Wellington
Folio	02/638
Consent
Date of Certificate	6 January 1902
Officiating Minister	R Talbot Deputy The Registrar

6 January 1902

Charles Sargeant
Ellen Adelean McKay

Charles Sargeant
Ellen Adeilan McKay
💍 1902/2756

Bachelor
Spinster

Telephone Linesman

32
28

Wellington
Wellington

4 years
2 years

St Pauls pro Cathedral Wellington

02/675

6 January 1902

Rev T. H. Sprott

No	9
Date of Notice	6 January 1902
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Charles Sargeant	Ellen Adelean McKay
BDM Match (95%)	Charles Sargeant	Ellen Adeilan McKay
	💍 1902/2756
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Telephone Linesman
Age	32	28
Dwelling Place	Wellington	Wellington
Length of Residence	4 years	2 years
Marriage Place	St Pauls pro Cathedral Wellington
Folio	02/675
Consent
Date of Certificate	6 January 1902
Officiating Minister	Rev T. H. Sprott

6 January 1902

Thomas Lintern
Ellen Brown

Thomas Lintern
Ellen Brown
💍 1902/2727

Widower
Spinster

Labourer

41
35

Wellington
Wellington

3 years
1 year

Registrars Office Wellington

02/639

6 January 1902

R Talbot Deputy The Registrar

No	10
Date of Notice	6 January 1902
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Thomas Lintern	Ellen Brown
	💍 1902/2727
Condition	Widower	Spinster
Profession	Labourer
Age	41	35
Dwelling Place	Wellington	Wellington
Length of Residence	3 years	1 year
Marriage Place	Registrars Office Wellington
Folio	02/639
Consent
Date of Certificate	6 January 1902
Officiating Minister	R Talbot Deputy The Registrar

7 January 1902

Frederick James Silvius
Charlotte Brown

Frederick James Silvius
Charlotte Brown
💍 1902/2728

Bachelor
Spinster

Mariner

36
29

Wellington
Wellington

4 Months
1 week

Registrars office Wellington

02/640

7 January 1902

R Talbot Deputy The Registrar

No	11
Date of Notice	7 January 1902
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Frederick James Silvius	Charlotte Brown
	💍 1902/2728
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Mariner
Age	36	29
Dwelling Place	Wellington	Wellington
Length of Residence	4 Months	1 week
Marriage Place	Registrars office Wellington
Folio	02/640
Consent
Date of Certificate	7 January 1902
Officiating Minister	R Talbot Deputy The Registrar

8 January 1902

Henry Godfrey
Annie Elizabeth Inneman

Henry Godfrey
Annie Elizabeth Trueman
💍 1902/2729

Bachelor
Spinster

Mariner

27
20

Wellington
Wellington

7 years
20 years

Registrars office Wellington

02/641

Edwin Henry Inneman Father

8 January 1902

R Talbot Deputy The Registrar

No	12
Date of Notice	8 January 1902
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Henry Godfrey	Annie Elizabeth Inneman
BDM Match (94%)	Henry Godfrey	Annie Elizabeth Trueman
	💍 1902/2729
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Mariner
Age	27	20
Dwelling Place	Wellington	Wellington
Length of Residence	7 years	20 years
Marriage Place	Registrars office Wellington
Folio	02/641
Consent	Edwin Henry Inneman Father
Date of Certificate	8 January 1902
Officiating Minister	R Talbot Deputy The Registrar

8 January 1902

Thomas Alfred Coe
Mabel Annie Baldwin

Thomas Alfred Coe
Mabel Annie Baldwin
💍 1902/2847

Bachelor
Spinster

Insurance Agent

22
20

Wellington
Wellington

21 years
19 years

St Thomas' Church Wellington

02/706

Henry Baldwin Father

15 January 1902

Rev A. W. H. Compton

No	13
Date of Notice	8 January 1902
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Thomas Alfred Coe	Mabel Annie Baldwin
	💍 1902/2847
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Insurance Agent
Age	22	20
Dwelling Place	Wellington	Wellington
Length of Residence	21 years	19 years
Marriage Place	St Thomas' Church Wellington
Folio	02/706
Consent	Henry Baldwin Father
Date of Certificate	15 January 1902
Officiating Minister	Rev A. W. H. Compton

9 January 1902

Robert George Gray
Agnes Payne

Robert George Gray
Agnes Pyne
💍 1902/2867

Bachelor
Spinster

Labourer

23
23

Wellington
Wellington

9 Months
5 years

St James Church Wellington

02/726

9 January 1902

Rev Wm Shirer

No	14
Date of Notice	9 January 1902
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Robert George Gray	Agnes Payne
BDM Match (95%)	Robert George Gray	Agnes Pyne
	💍 1902/2867
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Labourer
Age	23	23
Dwelling Place	Wellington	Wellington
Length of Residence	9 Months	5 years
Marriage Place	St James Church Wellington
Folio	02/726
Consent
Date of Certificate	9 January 1902
Officiating Minister	Rev Wm Shirer

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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).