Intentions to Marry, 1905 Wellington, Marlborough, Nelson, Westland

Reference: Registrar-General of Births, Deaths and Marriages, Notices of intention to marry, Series 8937, R2840428, 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 324

District of Wellington Quarter ending 31 March 1905 Registrar Gilbert Graham Hodgkins

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

19 January 1905

Thomas Peter Falvey
May Mogridge

Thomas Peter Falvey
May Mogridge
💍 1905/5947

Bachelor
Spinster

Drapers assistant

25
23

Wellington
Wellington

2 years
2 years

St Mary of the Angels, Wellington

05/776

19 January 1905

Rev J. McNamara

No	41
Date of Notice	19 January 1905
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Thomas Peter Falvey	May Mogridge
	💍 1905/5947
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Drapers assistant
Age	25	23
Dwelling Place	Wellington	Wellington
Length of Residence	2 years	2 years
Marriage Place	St Mary of the Angels, Wellington
Folio	05/776
Consent
Date of Certificate	19 January 1905
Officiating Minister	Rev J. McNamara

19 January 1905

Walter Charles Redding
Jamie Hore

Walter Charles Redding
Janie Hore
💍 1905/4871

Bachelor
Spinster

Printer

28
27

Wellington
Wellington

26 years
10 years

St Marks Church, Sussex Square, Wellington

05/697

19 January 1905

Rev R. Coffey

No	42
Date of Notice	19 January 1905
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Walter Charles Redding	Jamie Hore
BDM Match (95%)	Walter Charles Redding	Janie Hore
	💍 1905/4871
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Printer
Age	28	27
Dwelling Place	Wellington	Wellington
Length of Residence	26 years	10 years
Marriage Place	St Marks Church, Sussex Square, Wellington
Folio	05/697
Consent
Date of Certificate	19 January 1905
Officiating Minister	Rev R. Coffey

19 January 1905

John Bishop Gauntlett
Mabel Edmonds

John Bishop Gauntlett
Mabel Edmonds
💍 1905/341

Bachelor
Spinster

Clerk

19 years
19 years

Wellington
Wellington

14 years
19 years

Church of Christ, Dixon Street, Wellington

05/829

Charity Williams Gauntlett, mother; John Edmonds, father

19 January 1905

Rev T. J. Ball

No	43
Date of Notice	19 January 1905
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	John Bishop Gauntlett	Mabel Edmonds
	💍 1905/341
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Clerk
Age	19 years	19 years
Dwelling Place	Wellington	Wellington
Length of Residence	14 years	19 years
Marriage Place	Church of Christ, Dixon Street, Wellington
Folio	05/829
Consent	Charity Williams Gauntlett, mother; John Edmonds, father
Date of Certificate	19 January 1905
Officiating Minister	Rev T. J. Ball

19 January 1905

Samuel Wilkin Cleaver
Catherine Maria Burrell

Samuel Wilkin Cleaver
Catherine Maria Burrell
💍 1905/5911

Bachelor
Spinster

Blacksmith

33
22

Porirua, Wellington
Mungaroa Valley, Wellington

5 years
22 years

Presbyterian Church, Mungaroa

05/762

19 January 1905

Rev W. Marshall

No	44
Date of Notice	19 January 1905
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Samuel Wilkin Cleaver	Catherine Maria Burrell
	💍 1905/5911
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Blacksmith
Age	33	22
Dwelling Place	Porirua, Wellington	Mungaroa Valley, Wellington
Length of Residence	5 years	22 years
Marriage Place	Presbyterian Church, Mungaroa
Folio	05/762
Consent
Date of Certificate	19 January 1905
Officiating Minister	Rev W. Marshall

20 January 1905

Maurice O'Sullivan
Annie Paterson

Maurice O'Sullivan
Annie Paterson
💍 1905/5948

Bachelor
Spinster

Machinist

26
27

Wellington
Wellington

26 years
3 years

St Joseph's Church, Buckle Street, Wellington

05/777

20 January 1905

Rev T. O'Shea

No	45
Date of Notice	20 January 1905
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Maurice O'Sullivan	Annie Paterson
	💍 1905/5948
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Machinist
Age	26	27
Dwelling Place	Wellington	Wellington
Length of Residence	26 years	3 years
Marriage Place	St Joseph's Church, Buckle Street, Wellington
Folio	05/777
Consent
Date of Certificate	20 January 1905
Officiating Minister	Rev T. O'Shea

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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).