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.

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District of Waipawa Quarter ending 31 March 1902 Registrar Samuel Johnson

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

641

16 January 1902

Charles Rose
Ethel Mary Diamond

Charles Rose
Ethel Mary Diamond
💍 1902/2353

Bachelor
Spinster

Station Hand
Domestic Duties

31
22

Waipawa
Waipawa

7 years
22 years

St. Peter's Church

02/487

16 January 1902

Rev. W. Swinburn

No	641
Date of Notice	16 January 1902
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Charles Rose	Ethel Mary Diamond
	💍 1902/2353
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Station Hand	Domestic Duties
Age	31	22
Dwelling Place	Waipawa	Waipawa
Length of Residence	7 years	22 years
Marriage Place	St. Peter's Church
Folio	02/487
Consent
Date of Certificate	16 January 1902
Officiating Minister	Rev. W. Swinburn

642

25 January 1902

Arthur Lord
Ada Florence Oakenfull

Arthur Lord
Ada Florence Oakenfull
💍 1902/2354

Bachelor
Spinster

Livery Stable Keeper
Domestic Duties

21
20

Waipawa
Waipawa

6 years
20 years

St. Peter's Church

02/488

Father

25 January 1902

Rev. W. Swinburn

No	642
Date of Notice	25 January 1902
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Arthur Lord	Ada Florence Oakenfull
	💍 1902/2354
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Livery Stable Keeper	Domestic Duties
Age	21	20
Dwelling Place	Waipawa	Waipawa
Length of Residence	6 years	20 years
Marriage Place	St. Peter's Church
Folio	02/488
Consent	Father
Date of Certificate	25 January 1902
Officiating Minister	Rev. W. Swinburn

643

8 February 1902

Jens Louis Petersen
Matilda Kerstone Saltrup

Bachelor
Spinster

Farmer
Domestic Duties

27
19

Onga Onga
Onga Onga

3 days
1½ years

Residence of M. Saltrup

02/487

M. Saltrup, father

8 February 1902

Rev. H. M. Rice

No	643
Date of Notice	8 February 1902
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Jens Louis Petersen	Matilda Kerstone Saltrup
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Farmer	Domestic Duties
Age	27	19
Dwelling Place	Onga Onga	Onga Onga
Length of Residence	3 days	1½ years
Marriage Place	Residence of M. Saltrup
Folio	02/487
Consent	M. Saltrup, father
Date of Certificate	8 February 1902
Officiating Minister	Rev. H. M. Rice

644

27 February 1902

Leonard Glensides
Emily Wolstenholme Badley

Leonard Greenside
Emily Wolstenholme Badley
💍 1902/2355

Bachelor
Spinster

Printer
Dressmaker

27
33

Waipawa
Waipawa

27 years
6 years

St. Peter's Church

02/489

27 February 1902

Rev. W. Swinburn

No	644
Date of Notice	27 February 1902
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Leonard Glensides	Emily Wolstenholme Badley
BDM Match (91%)	Leonard Greenside	Emily Wolstenholme Badley
	💍 1902/2355
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Printer	Dressmaker
Age	27	33
Dwelling Place	Waipawa	Waipawa
Length of Residence	27 years	6 years
Marriage Place	St. Peter's Church
Folio	02/489
Consent
Date of Certificate	27 February 1902
Officiating Minister	Rev. W. Swinburn

645

1 March 1902

Charles Alfred Farquhar
Ethel May Hobbs

Charles Alfred Fargher
Ethel Mary Hobbs
💍 1902/2334

Bachelor
Spinster

Labourer
Domestic Duties

26
23

Onga Onga
Onga Onga

5 days
23 years

Office of Registrar

02/490

1 March 1902

Samuel Johnson, Registrar

No	645
Date of Notice	1 March 1902
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Charles Alfred Farquhar	Ethel May Hobbs
BDM Match (90%)	Charles Alfred Fargher	Ethel Mary Hobbs
	💍 1902/2334
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Labourer	Domestic Duties
Age	26	23
Dwelling Place	Onga Onga	Onga Onga
Length of Residence	5 days	23 years
Marriage Place	Office of Registrar
Folio	02/490
Consent
Date of Certificate	1 March 1902
Officiating Minister	Samuel Johnson, Registrar

646

25 March 1902

James William Hobby
Emma Seabright

James William Dobbs
Emma Seabright
💍 1902/2335

Widower
Widow

Farmer
Domestic Duties

41
26

Waipawa
Waipawa

3 days
3 days

Office of Registrar

02/491

25 March 1902

Samuel Johnson, Registrar

No	646
Date of Notice	25 March 1902
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	James William Hobby	Emma Seabright
BDM Match (95%)	James William Dobbs	Emma Seabright
	💍 1902/2335
Condition	Widower	Widow
Profession	Farmer	Domestic Duties
Age	41	26
Dwelling Place	Waipawa	Waipawa
Length of Residence	3 days	3 days
Marriage Place	Office of Registrar
Folio	02/491
Consent
Date of Certificate	25 March 1902
Officiating Minister	Samuel Johnson, Registrar

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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).