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).

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District of Buller Quarter ending 30 September 1905 Registrar H. Robert Logie

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 July 1905

Frank Albert Pachnetz
Evelyn Miriam Tully Ellison

Frank Albert Pachnatz
Evelyn T Munson
💍 1905/2006

Bachelor
Spinster

Telegraphist

23
23

Westport
Westport

3 years
23 years

In the Residence of J. & L. Ellison, Peel Street, Westport

05/4480

4 July 1905

Rev. James Molloy, Roman Catholic

No	16
Date of Notice	4 July 1905
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Frank Albert Pachnetz	Evelyn Miriam Tully Ellison
BDM Match (70%)	Frank Albert Pachnatz	Evelyn T Munson
	💍 1905/2006
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Telegraphist
Age	23	23
Dwelling Place	Westport	Westport
Length of Residence	3 years	23 years
Marriage Place	In the Residence of J. & L. Ellison, Peel Street, Westport
Folio	05/4480
Consent
Date of Certificate	4 July 1905
Officiating Minister	Rev. James Molloy, Roman Catholic

14 July 1905

Frank Charles Buchanan
Annie Mulqueen

Frank Charles Buchanan
Annie Mulqueen
💍 1905/2007

Bachelor
Spinster

Draughtsman

24
26

Westport
Westport

10 days
26 years

At the Residence of Mr. Edward Mulqueen, Westport

05/4481

14 July 1905

Rev. J. Walshe, Roman Catholic

No	17
Date of Notice	14 July 1905
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Frank Charles Buchanan	Annie Mulqueen
	💍 1905/2007
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Draughtsman
Age	24	26
Dwelling Place	Westport	Westport
Length of Residence	10 days	26 years
Marriage Place	At the Residence of Mr. Edward Mulqueen, Westport
Folio	05/4481
Consent
Date of Certificate	14 July 1905
Officiating Minister	Rev. J. Walshe, Roman Catholic

11 July 1905

Michael Henry Reedy
Elizabeth Jane Buchan

Michael Henry Reedy
Elizabeth Jane Birch
💍 1905/2008

Bachelor
Spinster

Railway Employee

38
23

Westport
Westport

16 years
12 months

In the Roman Catholic Church, Westport

05/4482

11 July 1905

Rev. J. Walshe, Roman Catholic

No	18
Date of Notice	11 July 1905
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Michael Henry Reedy	Elizabeth Jane Buchan
BDM Match (91%)	Michael Henry Reedy	Elizabeth Jane Birch
	💍 1905/2008
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Railway Employee
Age	38	23
Dwelling Place	Westport	Westport
Length of Residence	16 years	12 months
Marriage Place	In the Roman Catholic Church, Westport
Folio	05/4482
Consent
Date of Certificate	11 July 1905
Officiating Minister	Rev. J. Walshe, Roman Catholic

19 July 1905

Albert James Thing
Margaret Mary Ferguson

Albert James Ching
Margaret Mary Ferguson
💍 1905/2151

Bachelor
Spinster

Clerk

25
25

Westport
Westport

18 months
25 years

In St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church, Westport

05/4475

19 July 1905

Rev. H. H. Barton, Presbyterian

No	19
Date of Notice	19 July 1905
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Albert James Thing	Margaret Mary Ferguson
BDM Match (97%)	Albert James Ching	Margaret Mary Ferguson
	💍 1905/2151
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Clerk
Age	25	25
Dwelling Place	Westport	Westport
Length of Residence	18 months	25 years
Marriage Place	In St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church, Westport
Folio	05/4475
Consent
Date of Certificate	19 July 1905
Officiating Minister	Rev. H. H. Barton, Presbyterian

14 August 1905

Jonathan Holloway
Sarah Annie Supper

Jonathan Holloway
Sarah Annie Tupper
💍 1905/1988

Bachelor
Widow

Miner

43
54

Westport
Westport

3 days
3 days

In the Church of England, Westport

05/4477

14 August 1905

Rev. J. R. Dart, Church of England

No	20
Date of Notice	14 August 1905
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Jonathan Holloway	Sarah Annie Supper
BDM Match (97%)	Jonathan Holloway	Sarah Annie Tupper
	💍 1905/1988
Condition	Bachelor	Widow
Profession	Miner
Age	43	54
Dwelling Place	Westport	Westport
Length of Residence	3 days	3 days
Marriage Place	In the Church of England, Westport
Folio	05/4477
Consent
Date of Certificate	14 August 1905
Officiating Minister	Rev. J. R. Dart, Church of England

21 August 1905

Alfred Ralph Butler
Grace Edith Sangwell

Alfred Ralph Butler
Grace Edith Sangwell
💍 1905/1999

Bachelor
Spinster

Mariner

25
21

Westport
Westport

5 days
19 years

In the Wesleyan Church, Westport

05/4479

21 August 1905

Rev. M. K. Pratt, Wesleyan

No	21
Date of Notice	21 August 1905
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Alfred Ralph Butler	Grace Edith Sangwell
	💍 1905/1999
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Mariner
Age	25	21
Dwelling Place	Westport	Westport
Length of Residence	5 days	19 years
Marriage Place	In the Wesleyan Church, Westport
Folio	05/4479
Consent
Date of Certificate	21 August 1905
Officiating Minister	Rev. M. K. Pratt, Wesleyan

12 September 1905

John Prince
Clara Smith

John Prince
Marcella Smith
💍 1905/2009

Bachelor
Spinster

Carter

26
52

Westport
Westport

2 months
2 weeks

In the Roman Catholic Church, Westport

05/4483

12 September 1905

Rev. J. Molloy, Roman Catholic

No	22
Date of Notice	12 September 1905
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	John Prince	Clara Smith
BDM Match (79%)	John Prince	Marcella Smith
	💍 1905/2009
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Carter
Age	26	52
Dwelling Place	Westport	Westport
Length of Residence	2 months	2 weeks
Marriage Place	In the Roman Catholic Church, Westport
Folio	05/4483
Consent
Date of Certificate	12 September 1905
Officiating Minister	Rev. J. Molloy, Roman Catholic

28 September 1905

John Kyle
Daisy Ida Thomson

John Kyle
Daisy Isles Thomson
💍 1905/2152

Bachelor
Spinster

Laborer

24
22

Westport
Westport

8 years
22 years

In the Presbyterian Church, Westport

05/4476

28 September 1905

Rev. H. H. Barton, Presbyterian

No	23
Date of Notice	28 September 1905
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	John Kyle	Daisy Ida Thomson
BDM Match (89%)	John Kyle	Daisy Isles Thomson
	💍 1905/2152
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Laborer
Age	24	22
Dwelling Place	Westport	Westport
Length of Residence	8 years	22 years
Marriage Place	In the Presbyterian Church, Westport
Folio	05/4476
Consent
Date of Certificate	28 September 1905
Officiating Minister	Rev. H. H. Barton, Presbyterian

28 September 1905

John Evon Pearce
Maria Alexandra Dickinson

John Evson Pearce
Maria Alexandra Dickenson
💍 1905/399

Bachelor
Widow

Mine Manager

40
53

Westport
Westport

9 months
30 years

In the residence of Mrs. A. Dickinson, Palmerston Street, Westport

05/4478

28 September 1905

Rev. J. R. Dart, Church of England

No	24
Date of Notice	28 September 1905
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	John Evon Pearce	Maria Alexandra Dickinson
BDM Match (95%)	John Evson Pearce	Maria Alexandra Dickenson
	💍 1905/399
Condition	Bachelor	Widow
Profession	Mine Manager
Age	40	53
Dwelling Place	Westport	Westport
Length of Residence	9 months	30 years
Marriage Place	In the residence of Mrs. A. Dickinson, Palmerston Street, Westport
Folio	05/4478
Consent
Date of Certificate	28 September 1905
Officiating Minister	Rev. J. R. Dart, Church of England

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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 1908. 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).