Intentions to Marry, 1905 Auckland, Taranaki, Hawke's Bay

Reference: Registrar-General of Births, Deaths and Marriages, Notices of intention to marry, Series 8937, R2840427, Archives New Zealand Te Rua Mahara o te Kāwanatanga, Wellington

1905 is bound in three volumes - Auckland, Taranaki, Hawke's Bay (1905a), Wellington, Marlborough, Nelson, Westland (1905b), and Canterbury, Otago, Chatham Islands (1905c).

Page 210

District of Inglewood Quarter ending 30 September 1905 Registrar G. W. Bennett

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

526

2 July 1905

Mathias Sprenger
Catherine Ellen Tervee

Mathias Sprenger
Catherine Ellen Vercoe
💍 1905/1511

Bachelor
Spinster

Farmer

28
21

Mow District
Inglewood

2 years
20 years

At the Office of the Registrar of Marriages at Inglewood

05/73931

2 July 1905

G. W. Bennett (Registrar)

No	526
Date of Notice	2 July 1905
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Mathias Sprenger	Catherine Ellen Tervee
BDM Match (93%)	Mathias Sprenger	Catherine Ellen Vercoe
	💍 1905/1511
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Farmer
Age	28	21
Dwelling Place	Mow District	Inglewood
Length of Residence	2 years	20 years
Marriage Place	At the Office of the Registrar of Marriages at Inglewood
Folio	05/73931
Consent
Date of Certificate	2 July 1905
Officiating Minister	G. W. Bennett (Registrar)

527

10 July 1905

Samuel Henry Davis
Lillian Lightfoot

Samuel Henry Alvis
Lillian Lightfoot
💍 1905/1499

Bachelor
Spinster

Auctioneer
Assistant

23
20

Inglewood
Inglewood

3 days
10 years

At the Church of England at Inglewood

05/73937

10 July 1905

Rev. H. Reeve

No	527
Date of Notice	10 July 1905
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Samuel Henry Davis	Lillian Lightfoot
BDM Match (94%)	Samuel Henry Alvis	Lillian Lightfoot
	💍 1905/1499
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Auctioneer	Assistant
Age	23	20
Dwelling Place	Inglewood	Inglewood
Length of Residence	3 days	10 years
Marriage Place	At the Church of England at Inglewood
Folio	05/73937
Consent
Date of Certificate	10 July 1905
Officiating Minister	Rev. H. Reeve

528

20 July 1905

Harland Woods Jensen Manby
Jane Elizabeth Bennett

Harland Woods Jensen Manby
Jane Elizabeth Bennett
💍 1905/1510

Bachelor
Spinster

Storeman

32
29

Inglewood
Mow District

11 years
29 years

At the Residence of Mr. G. W. Bennett, Bristol Road

05/73930

20 July 1905

Rev. J. Thomas

No	528
Date of Notice	20 July 1905
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Harland Woods Jensen Manby	Jane Elizabeth Bennett
	💍 1905/1510
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Storeman
Age	32	29
Dwelling Place	Inglewood	Mow District
Length of Residence	11 years	29 years
Marriage Place	At the Residence of Mr. G. W. Bennett, Bristol Road
Folio	05/73930
Consent
Date of Certificate	20 July 1905
Officiating Minister	Rev. J. Thomas

529

26 July 1905

John William Collingwood
Lily Rebecca Bracegirdle

John William Collingwood
Lily Rebecca Bracegirdle
💍 1905/1500

Bachelor
Spinster

Farmer

28
22

Mow District
Mow District

11 years
22 years

At the Church of England at Inglewood

05/73938

26 July 1905

Rev. H. Reeve

No	529
Date of Notice	26 July 1905
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	John William Collingwood	Lily Rebecca Bracegirdle
	💍 1905/1500
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Farmer
Age	28	22
Dwelling Place	Mow District	Mow District
Length of Residence	11 years	22 years
Marriage Place	At the Church of England at Inglewood
Folio	05/73938
Consent
Date of Certificate	26 July 1905
Officiating Minister	Rev. H. Reeve

530

29 July 1905

David Curry Tizzard
Helen Rowan

David Curry Tizzard
Helen Rowan
💍 1905/1512

Bachelor
Spinster

Farmer

25
23

Mow District
Mow District

3 days
3 years

At the Office of the Registrar at Inglewood

05/73932

29 July 1905

G. W. Bennett (Registrar)

No	530
Date of Notice	29 July 1905
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	David Curry Tizzard	Helen Rowan
	💍 1905/1512
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Farmer
Age	25	23
Dwelling Place	Mow District	Mow District
Length of Residence	3 days	3 years
Marriage Place	At the Office of the Registrar at Inglewood
Folio	05/73932
Consent
Date of Certificate	29 July 1905
Officiating Minister	G. W. Bennett (Registrar)

531

2 August 1905

Joseph Felix Bodunski
Johanna Wisnewski

Joseph Philix Dodunski
Johanna Wisnewski
💍 1905/2046

Bachelor
Spinster

Farmer

23
18

Mow District
Mow District

23 years
18 years

At the Roman Catholic Church at Inglewood

05/14418

Andrew Wesnewski, father of Johanna Wesnewski

2 August 1905

Rev. Jas. M. Kenna

No	531
Date of Notice	2 August 1905
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Joseph Felix Bodunski	Johanna Wisnewski
BDM Match (91%)	Joseph Philix Dodunski	Johanna Wisnewski
	💍 1905/2046
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Farmer
Age	23	18
Dwelling Place	Mow District	Mow District
Length of Residence	23 years	18 years
Marriage Place	At the Roman Catholic Church at Inglewood
Folio	05/14418
Consent	Andrew Wesnewski, father of Johanna Wesnewski
Date of Certificate	2 August 1905
Officiating Minister	Rev. Jas. M. Kenna

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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).