Intentions to Marry, 1906 Auckland, Taranaki, Hawke's Bay

Reference: Registrar-General of Births, Deaths and Marriages, Notices of intention to marry, Series 8937, R2840430, Archives New Zealand Te Rua Mahara o te Kāwanatanga, Wellington

1906 is bound in three volumes - Auckland, Taranaki, Hawke's Bay (1906a), Wellington, Marlborough, Nelson, Westland (1906b), and Canterbury, Otago, Chatham Islands (1906c).

Page 009

District of Auckland Quarter ending 31 March 1906 Registrar Edmund Humphrey Lyons

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

3 January 1906

Robert Archer Sanders
Alice Alberta Ludoe

Robert Archer Sanders
Alice Alberta McIndoe
💍 1906/104

Bachelor
Spinster

Farmer

25
24

Auckland
Auckland

2 years
24 years

St Mary's Cathedral, Parnell

06/62

3 January 1906

Rev. E. MacMurray, Church of England

No	1
Date of Notice	3 January 1906
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Robert Archer Sanders	Alice Alberta Ludoe
BDM Match (91%)	Robert Archer Sanders	Alice Alberta McIndoe
	💍 1906/104
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Farmer
Age	25	24
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	2 years	24 years
Marriage Place	St Mary's Cathedral, Parnell
Folio	06/62
Consent
Date of Certificate	3 January 1906
Officiating Minister	Rev. E. MacMurray, Church of England

3 January 1906

John Harris
Mary Jane Litt

John Harris
Mary Jane Litt
💍 1906/62

Bachelor
Spinster

Bushman

44
33

Auckland
Auckland

5 days

Registrar's Office, Auckland

06/2

3 January 1906

E. H. Lyons, Registrar

No	2
Date of Notice	3 January 1906
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	John Harris	Mary Jane Litt
	💍 1906/62
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Bushman
Age	44	33
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	5 days
Marriage Place	Registrar's Office, Auckland
Folio	06/2
Consent
Date of Certificate	3 January 1906
Officiating Minister	E. H. Lyons, Registrar

3 January 1906

Samuel John Crawford
Elizabeth Ann Poole

Samuel John Crawford
Elizabeth Ann Poole
💍 1906/1483

Bachelor
Spinster

Accountant

29
29

Auckland
Auckland

2 years

Methodist Church, 2 Pitt Street

06/120

3 January 1906

Rev. C. H. Garland, Methodist

No	3
Date of Notice	3 January 1906
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Samuel John Crawford	Elizabeth Ann Poole
	💍 1906/1483
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Accountant
Age	29	29
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	2 years
Marriage Place	Methodist Church, 2 Pitt Street
Folio	06/120
Consent
Date of Certificate	3 January 1906
Officiating Minister	Rev. C. H. Garland, Methodist

3 January 1906

Ernest Green
Amy Helena Killip

Ernest Green
Amy Helena Killip
💍 1906/105

Bachelor
Spinster

Wood Turner

28
27

Auckland
Auckland

28 years
2 years

St Mary's Cathedral, Parnell

06/63

3 January 1906

Rev. S. MacMurray, Church of England

No	4
Date of Notice	3 January 1906
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Ernest Green	Amy Helena Killip
	💍 1906/105
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Wood Turner
Age	28	27
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	28 years	2 years
Marriage Place	St Mary's Cathedral, Parnell
Folio	06/63
Consent
Date of Certificate	3 January 1906
Officiating Minister	Rev. S. MacMurray, Church of England

4 January 1906

John Pile Moore
Florence Barnaby

John Pile Moore
Florence Barnaby
💍 1906/1578

Bachelor
Spinster

Draper

29
23

Auckland
Auckland

5 days
23 years

Baptist Church, Mount Roskill

06/166

4 January 1906

Rev. E. G. Kirwood, Baptist

No	5
Date of Notice	4 January 1906
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	John Pile Moore	Florence Barnaby
	💍 1906/1578
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Draper
Age	29	23
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	5 days	23 years
Marriage Place	Baptist Church, Mount Roskill
Folio	06/166
Consent
Date of Certificate	4 January 1906
Officiating Minister	Rev. E. G. Kirwood, Baptist

4 January 1906

Charles Johnstone
Edith Day

Charles Johnston
Edith Day
💍 1906/1455

Bachelor
Spinster

Painter

28
30

Auckland
Auckland

12 years
3 days

House of Rev. G. W. Smails, Eden Terrace

06/141

4 January 1906

Rev. G. W. Smails, Primitive Methodist

No	6
Date of Notice	4 January 1906
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Charles Johnstone	Edith Day
BDM Match (97%)	Charles Johnston	Edith Day
	💍 1906/1455
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Painter
Age	28	30
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	12 years	3 days
Marriage Place	House of Rev. G. W. Smails, Eden Terrace
Folio	06/141
Consent
Date of Certificate	4 January 1906
Officiating Minister	Rev. G. W. Smails, Primitive 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).