Intentions to Marry, 1904 South Island

Reference: Registrar-General of Births, Deaths and Marriages, Notices of intention to marry, Series 8937, R2840426, Archives New Zealand Te Rua Mahara o te Kāwanatanga, Wellington

Imaged by Carole at Archives NZ Wellington, October 13 2025.

1904 is bound in two volumes, North Island districts and South Island districts.

Page 427

District of Lyttelton Quarter ending 31 March 1904 Registrar G. Fity-Gerald

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

5 January 1904

Segred Edward Brice
Maud Moor

Alfred Edward Brice
Maud Mon
💍 1904/256

Bachelor
Spinster

Draper's Assistant
Tailoress

25
21

Lyttelton
Lyttelton

25 years
8 years

Holy Trinity Church

04/1218

Rev. W. W. Wales

No	1
Date of Notice	5 January 1904
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Segred Edward Brice	Maud Moor
BDM Match (81%)	Alfred Edward Brice	Maud Mon
	💍 1904/256
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Draper's Assistant	Tailoress
Age	25	21
Dwelling Place	Lyttelton	Lyttelton
Length of Residence	25 years	8 years
Marriage Place	Holy Trinity Church
Folio	04/1218
Consent
Date of Certificate
Officiating Minister	Rev. W. W. Wales

6 January 1904

Malcolm James Miller
Ann Eliza Owens

Malcolm James Miller
Ann Eliza Owens
💍 1904/261

Bachelor
Spinster

Shipwright

39
28

Lyttelton
Lyttelton

29 years
3 days

Salvation Army Barracks

04/1222

Major John Scrimshaw

No	2
Date of Notice	6 January 1904
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Malcolm James Miller	Ann Eliza Owens
	💍 1904/261
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Shipwright
Age	39	28
Dwelling Place	Lyttelton	Lyttelton
Length of Residence	29 years	3 days
Marriage Place	Salvation Army Barracks
Folio	04/1222
Consent
Date of Certificate
Officiating Minister	Major John Scrimshaw

4 January 1904

Charles Seymour Luney
Annie Jones

Charles Symom Luney
Annie Jones
💍 1904/257

Bachelor
Spinster

Restaurant Keeper
Waitress

26
23

Lyttelton
Lyttelton

15 months
14 months

Holy Trinity Church

04/1219

Rev. W. W. Wales

No	3
Date of Notice	4 January 1904
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Charles Seymour Luney	Annie Jones
BDM Match (93%)	Charles Symom Luney	Annie Jones
	💍 1904/257
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Restaurant Keeper	Waitress
Age	26	23
Dwelling Place	Lyttelton	Lyttelton
Length of Residence	15 months	14 months
Marriage Place	Holy Trinity Church
Folio	04/1219
Consent
Date of Certificate
Officiating Minister	Rev. W. W. Wales

19 January 1904

Hoani Te Ruahuaniu Tainui
Rahera Tikao

Hoani Te Ruahuanui Tainui
Rahua Tikas
💍 1904/259

Bachelor
Spinster

Laborer
nil

20
22

Rapaki
Rapaki

5 days
14 years

Residence of Mr. Hone Tare Tikao at Rapaki

04/1220

Hoani Tainui (Father)

Rev. W. W. Wales

No	4
Date of Notice	19 January 1904
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Hoani Te Ruahuaniu Tainui	Rahera Tikao
BDM Match (84%)	Hoani Te Ruahuanui Tainui	Rahua Tikas
	💍 1904/259
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Laborer	nil
Age	20	22
Dwelling Place	Rapaki	Rapaki
Length of Residence	5 days	14 years
Marriage Place	Residence of Mr. Hone Tare Tikao at Rapaki
Folio	04/1220
Consent	Hoani Tainui (Father)
Date of Certificate
Officiating Minister	Rev. W. W. Wales

20 January 1904

James Smith
Kade Jackson

James Smith
Kate Jackson
💍 1904/258

James Barr
Annie Jackson
💍 1904/2592

Widower
Widow

Seaman
nil

44
34

Lyttelton
Lyttelton

11 days
13 years

Holy Trinity Church

04/1221

Rev. W. W. Wales

No	5
Date of Notice	20 January 1904
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	James Smith	Kade Jackson
BDM Match (96%)	James Smith	Kate Jackson
	💍 1904/258
BDM Match (62%)	James Barr	Annie Jackson
	💍 1904/2592
Condition	Widower	Widow
Profession	Seaman	nil
Age	44	34
Dwelling Place	Lyttelton	Lyttelton
Length of Residence	11 days	13 years
Marriage Place	Holy Trinity Church
Folio	04/1221
Consent
Date of Certificate
Officiating Minister	Rev. W. W. Wales

20 January 1904

Oliver Archibald Nolan
Mary Elizabeth Pascoe

Oliver Archibald Nolan
Mary Elizabeth Pascoe
💍 1904/262

Bachelor
Spinster

Seaman
nil

29
23

Lyttelton
Lyttelton

3 years
19 years

Residence of Mr. Richard Pascoe

04/1223

Rev. J. A. Suseford

No	6
Date of Notice	20 January 1904
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Oliver Archibald Nolan	Mary Elizabeth Pascoe
	💍 1904/262
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Seaman	nil
Age	29	23
Dwelling Place	Lyttelton	Lyttelton
Length of Residence	3 years	19 years
Marriage Place	Residence of Mr. Richard Pascoe
Folio	04/1223
Consent
Date of Certificate
Officiating Minister	Rev. J. A. Suseford

21 January 1904

William Charles Rutledge
Emily Burnip

William Charles Rutledge
Emily Burnip
💍 1904/267

Bachelor
Spinster

Boiler maker
nil

28
26

Lyttelton
Lyttelton

10 years
26 years

Residence of Mr. John Burnip

04/1227

Rev. A. A. Treadwell

No	7
Date of Notice	21 January 1904
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	William Charles Rutledge	Emily Burnip
	💍 1904/267
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Boiler maker	nil
Age	28	26
Dwelling Place	Lyttelton	Lyttelton
Length of Residence	10 years	26 years
Marriage Place	Residence of Mr. John Burnip
Folio	04/1227
Consent
Date of Certificate
Officiating Minister	Rev. A. A. Treadwell

26 January 1904

William Orson Bradley
Elizabeth Mahar

William Orton Bradley
Elizabeth Maher
💍 1904/263

Bachelor
Spinster

Artilleryman
nil

31
22

Lyttelton
Lyttelton

4 years
22 years

Roman Catholic Church

04/1224

Rev. Robert Richards

No	8
Date of Notice	26 January 1904
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	William Orson Bradley	Elizabeth Mahar
BDM Match (94%)	William Orton Bradley	Elizabeth Maher
	💍 1904/263
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Artilleryman	nil
Age	31	22
Dwelling Place	Lyttelton	Lyttelton
Length of Residence	4 years	22 years
Marriage Place	Roman Catholic Church
Folio	04/1224
Consent
Date of Certificate
Officiating Minister	Rev. Robert Richards

29 January 1904

Richard Perkin Pascoe
Amelia Rebecca Button

Richard Perkin Pascoe
Amelia Rebecca Button
💍 1904/264

Bachelor
Spinster

Butcher
nil

49 years
31 years

Lyttelton
Lyttelton

2 years
10 years

St. Andrew's Church

04/1225

Rev. W. T. Chambers

No	9
Date of Notice	29 January 1904
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Richard Perkin Pascoe	Amelia Rebecca Button
	💍 1904/264
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Butcher	nil
Age	49 years	31 years
Dwelling Place	Lyttelton	Lyttelton
Length of Residence	2 years	10 years
Marriage Place	St. Andrew's Church
Folio	04/1225
Consent
Date of Certificate
Officiating Minister	Rev. W. T. Chambers

1 February 1904

Thomas Reece Williams
Selina Berry

Thomas Reece Williams
Selina Berry
💍 1904/265

Bachelor
Spinster

Carrier
nil

21 years
20 years

Lyttelton
Lyttelton

21 years
3 months

St. Andrew's Church

04/1226

Henry Berry (Father)

Rev. W. T. Chambers

No	10
Date of Notice	1 February 1904
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Thomas Reece Williams	Selina Berry
	💍 1904/265
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Carrier	nil
Age	21 years	20 years
Dwelling Place	Lyttelton	Lyttelton
Length of Residence	21 years	3 months
Marriage Place	St. Andrew's Church
Folio	04/1226
Consent	Henry Berry (Father)
Date of Certificate
Officiating Minister	Rev. W. T. Chambers

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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).