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 617

District of Motueka Quarter ending 31 March 1905 Registrar Henry Alexander Tarrant

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

6 January 1905

Leslie Duncan
Amy Parkes

Leslie Duncan
Amy Parkes
💍 1905/4950

Bachelor
Spinster

Farmer
Domestic duties

21 years
20 years

Riwaka
Riwaka

21 years
1 year

Manson Askew's house, Riwaka

05/897

John W. Parkes, Father

6 January 1905

Rev. Thomas Johnston, Church of England

No	13
Date of Notice	6 January 1905
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Leslie Duncan	Amy Parkes
	💍 1905/4950
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Farmer	Domestic duties
Age	21 years	20 years
Dwelling Place	Riwaka	Riwaka
Length of Residence	21 years	1 year
Marriage Place	Manson Askew's house, Riwaka
Folio	05/897
Consent	John W. Parkes, Father
Date of Certificate	6 January 1905
Officiating Minister	Rev. Thomas Johnston, Church of England

18 January 1905

Thomas Samuel Clarkson
Elizabeth Clark

Thomas Samuel Clarkson
Elizabeth Clark
💍 1905/4952

John Wallace
Elizabeth Clark
💍 1905/3672

Bachelor
Spinster

Labourer
Servant

47 years
25 years

Motueka
Motueka

10 months
3 days

St. Thomas Church, Motueka

05/898

18 January 1905

Rev. Thomas Johnston, Church of England

No	14
Date of Notice	18 January 1905
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Thomas Samuel Clarkson	Elizabeth Clark
	💍 1905/4952
BDM Match (64%)	John Wallace	Elizabeth Clark
	💍 1905/3672
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Labourer	Servant
Age	47 years	25 years
Dwelling Place	Motueka	Motueka
Length of Residence	10 months	3 days
Marriage Place	St. Thomas Church, Motueka
Folio	05/898
Consent
Date of Certificate	18 January 1905
Officiating Minister	Rev. Thomas Johnston, Church of England

19 January 1905

Cecil John Clement Kimble Tutbury
Ann Elizabeth Clark

Cecil John Clement Kimble Tutbury
Ann Elizabeth Clark
💍 1905/4954

Bachelor
Spinster

Farmer
Domestic duties

26 years
29 years

Riwaka
Riwaka

26 years
12 years

John Tutbury's house, Riwaka

05/900

19 January 1905

Rev. Thomas Johnston, Church of England

No	15
Date of Notice	19 January 1905
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Cecil John Clement Kimble Tutbury	Ann Elizabeth Clark
	💍 1905/4954
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Farmer	Domestic duties
Age	26 years	29 years
Dwelling Place	Riwaka	Riwaka
Length of Residence	26 years	12 years
Marriage Place	John Tutbury's house, Riwaka
Folio	05/900
Consent
Date of Certificate	19 January 1905
Officiating Minister	Rev. Thomas Johnston, Church of England

22 January 1905

Frederick William Eure
Mabel Lucy Chittenden

Frederick William Eure
Mabel Lucy Chittenden
💍 1905/4953

Bachelor
Spinster

Draper
Domestic duties

32 years
31 years

Motueka
Motueka

3 days
25 years

St. Thomas Church, Motueka

05/899

22 January 1905

Rev. Thomas Johnston, Church of England

No	16
Date of Notice	22 January 1905
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Frederick William Eure	Mabel Lucy Chittenden
	💍 1905/4953
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Draper	Domestic duties
Age	32 years	31 years
Dwelling Place	Motueka	Motueka
Length of Residence	3 days	25 years
Marriage Place	St. Thomas Church, Motueka
Folio	05/899
Consent
Date of Certificate	22 January 1905
Officiating Minister	Rev. Thomas Johnston, Church of England

2 February 1905

Henry Edward Burden
Myra Eleanor Leslie

Henry Edward Burden
Myra Eleanor Leslie
💍 1905/6014

Bachelor
Spinster

Solicitor
Nurse

33 years
27 years

Blenheim
Motueka

8 years
16 years

John Leslie's house, Motueka

05/876

2 February 1905

Rev. Thomas Johnston, Church of England

No	17
Date of Notice	2 February 1905
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Henry Edward Burden	Myra Eleanor Leslie
	💍 1905/6014
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Solicitor	Nurse
Age	33 years	27 years
Dwelling Place	Blenheim	Motueka
Length of Residence	8 years	16 years
Marriage Place	John Leslie's house, Motueka
Folio	05/876
Consent
Date of Certificate	2 February 1905
Officiating Minister	Rev. Thomas Johnston, Church of England

11 February 1905

Frank Richard Trolove
Margaret Trewavas

Frank Richard Trolove
Margaret Trewavas
💍 1905/4955

Bachelor
Spinster

Farmer
Chemist Assistant

35 years
27 years

Motueka
Motueka

5 years
27 years

St. Thomas Church, Motueka

05/901

11 February 1905

Rev. Thomas Johnston, Church of England

No	18
Date of Notice	11 February 1905
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Frank Richard Trolove	Margaret Trewavas
	💍 1905/4955
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Farmer	Chemist Assistant
Age	35 years	27 years
Dwelling Place	Motueka	Motueka
Length of Residence	5 years	27 years
Marriage Place	St. Thomas Church, Motueka
Folio	05/901
Consent
Date of Certificate	11 February 1905
Officiating Minister	Rev. Thomas Johnston, Church of England

20 February 1905

George Newell Horn
Daisy Beatrice Drummond

George Newell Horn
Daisy Beatrice Drummond
💍 1905/6490

Bachelor
Spinster

Farmer
Domestic duties

25 years
23 years

Motueka
Riwaka

3 days
4 weeks

Presbyterian Church, Riwaka

05/1573

20 February 1905

Rev. Amos Reader, Methodist

No	19
Date of Notice	20 February 1905
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	George Newell Horn	Daisy Beatrice Drummond
	💍 1905/6490
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Farmer	Domestic duties
Age	25 years	23 years
Dwelling Place	Motueka	Riwaka
Length of Residence	3 days	4 weeks
Marriage Place	Presbyterian Church, Riwaka
Folio	05/1573
Consent
Date of Certificate	20 February 1905
Officiating Minister	Rev. Amos Reader, Methodist

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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).