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).

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District of AUCKLAND Quarter ending 31 March 1906

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 1906

Charles Hindecliffe Goldstone
Amelia Eliza Carpenter

Charles Hinchcliffe Goldstone
Amelia Eliza Carpenter
💍 1906/1582

Bachelor
Spinster

Draper's assistant

21
21

Auckland
Paget Street

6 years
13 years

House of W. C. Watt

06/169

6 January 1906

Mr. C. Watt, Church of Christ

No	13
Date of Notice	6 January 1906
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Charles Hindecliffe Goldstone	Amelia Eliza Carpenter
BDM Match (97%)	Charles Hinchcliffe Goldstone	Amelia Eliza Carpenter
	💍 1906/1582
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Draper's assistant
Age	21	21
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Paget Street
Length of Residence	6 years	13 years
Marriage Place	House of W. C. Watt
Folio	06/169
Consent
Date of Certificate	6 January 1906
Officiating Minister	Mr. C. Watt, Church of Christ

8 January 1906

Thomas Higgins
Eva Elizabeth Paddy

Thomas Higgins
Eva Elizabeth Paddy
💍 1906/122

Bachelor
Spinster

Carter

29
21

Auckland
Remuera

1 year
2 years

St. Marks Church

06/56

8 January 1906

Rev. W. Beattie, Church of England

No	14
Date of Notice	8 January 1906
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Thomas Higgins	Eva Elizabeth Paddy
	💍 1906/122
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Carter
Age	29	21
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Remuera
Length of Residence	1 year	2 years
Marriage Place	St. Marks Church
Folio	06/56
Consent
Date of Certificate	8 January 1906
Officiating Minister	Rev. W. Beattie, Church of England

8 January 1906

John George Lacey
Frances Edith Potter

John George Lacey
Frances Edith Potter
💍 1906/71

Bachelor
Spinster

Cycle maker

27
26

Auckland
Auckland

6 days
4 days

Registrar's Office

06/16

8 January 1906

E. H. Lyons, Registrar

No	15
Date of Notice	8 January 1906
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	John George Lacey	Frances Edith Potter
	💍 1906/71
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Cycle maker
Age	27	26
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	6 days	4 days
Marriage Place	Registrar's Office
Folio	06/16
Consent
Date of Certificate	8 January 1906
Officiating Minister	E. H. Lyons, Registrar

8 January 1906

George Ovens
Constance Leah Cooksey

George Ovens
Constance Leah Cooksey
💍 1906/2247

Widower
Spinster

Farmer

45
27

Auckland
Auckland

1 week
2 weeks

St. Matthew's Church

06/972

8 January 1906

Rev. W. R. Gillam, Church of England

No	16
Date of Notice	8 January 1906
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	George Ovens	Constance Leah Cooksey
	💍 1906/2247
Condition	Widower	Spinster
Profession	Farmer
Age	45	27
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	1 week	2 weeks
Marriage Place	St. Matthew's Church
Folio	06/972
Consent
Date of Certificate	8 January 1906
Officiating Minister	Rev. W. R. Gillam, Church of England

8 January 1906

Leonard Townley
Florence Windus

Leonard Townley
Florence Windus
💍 1906/2220

Bachelor
Spinster

Clerk

29
23

Auckland
Auckland

29 years
20 years

Epiphany Church

06/819

8 January 1906

Rev. W. E. Lush, Church of England

No	17
Date of Notice	8 January 1906
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Leonard Townley	Florence Windus
	💍 1906/2220
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Clerk
Age	29	23
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	29 years	20 years
Marriage Place	Epiphany Church
Folio	06/819
Consent
Date of Certificate	8 January 1906
Officiating Minister	Rev. W. E. Lush, Church of England

8 January 1906

George Duffy
Eva Marion Clark

James Herbert George Duffy
Ena Marion Clark
💍 1906/112

Bachelor
Spinster

Settler

27
31

Auckland
Devonport

3 days
15 years

Church of England

06/169

8 January 1906

Rev. T. Ivershed, Church of England

No	18
Date of Notice	8 January 1906
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	George Duffy	Eva Marion Clark
BDM Match (70%)	James Herbert George Duffy	Ena Marion Clark
	💍 1906/112
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Settler
Age	27	31
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Devonport
Length of Residence	3 days	15 years
Marriage Place	Church of England
Folio	06/169
Consent
Date of Certificate	8 January 1906
Officiating Minister	Rev. T. Ivershed, Church of England

8 January 1906

Axel Engelbert Jansen
Stella Binks

Axel Engelbert Jansen
Stella Binks
💍 1906/243

Bachelor
Spinster

Carpenter

32
27

Auckland
Ponsonby

3.5 years
1 day

All Saints Church

06/1566

8 January 1906

Ven. Arch. W. Calder, Church of England

No	19
Date of Notice	8 January 1906
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Axel Engelbert Jansen	Stella Binks
	💍 1906/243
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Carpenter
Age	32	27
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Ponsonby
Length of Residence	3.5 years	1 day
Marriage Place	All Saints Church
Folio	06/1566
Consent
Date of Certificate	8 January 1906
Officiating Minister	Ven. Arch. W. Calder, 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 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).