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 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

30 January 1906

George Stanley Grivett
Alice Mary Gedye

George Stanley Evitt
Alice Mary Gedye
💍 1906/107

Bachelor
Spinster

Railway employee

26
26

Auckland
Auckland

26 years
26 years

St Mary's Cathedral

06/65

30 January 1906

Rev. G. MacMurray, Church of England

No	68
Date of Notice	30 January 1906
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	George Stanley Grivett	Alice Mary Gedye
BDM Match (91%)	George Stanley Evitt	Alice Mary Gedye
	💍 1906/107
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Railway employee
Age	26	26
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	26 years	26 years
Marriage Place	St Mary's Cathedral
Folio	06/65
Consent
Date of Certificate	30 January 1906
Officiating Minister	Rev. G. MacMurray, Church of England

30 January 1906

Frederick George James Moilcham
Nellie Sharratt

Frederick George Mitcham
Nellie Sharratt
💍 1906/57

Bachelor
Spinster

Gardener

28
22

Auckland
Auckland

28 years
22 years

Registrar's Office

06/15

30 January 1906

E. H. Lyons, Registrar

No	69
Date of Notice	30 January 1906
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Frederick George James Moilcham	Nellie Sharratt
BDM Match (87%)	Frederick George Mitcham	Nellie Sharratt
	💍 1906/57
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Gardener
Age	28	22
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	28 years	22 years
Marriage Place	Registrar's Office
Folio	06/15
Consent
Date of Certificate	30 January 1906
Officiating Minister	E. H. Lyons, Registrar

30 January 1906

Thomas Douglas Graham
Mary Johnston

Thomas Douglas Graham
Mary Johnston
💍 1906/1450

Widower
Widow

Farmer

66
67

Auckland
Franklin Road

1 month
30 years

Primitive Methodist

06/136

30 January 1906

Rev. G. Clement, Methodist

No	70
Date of Notice	30 January 1906
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Thomas Douglas Graham	Mary Johnston
	💍 1906/1450
Condition	Widower	Widow
Profession	Farmer
Age	66	67
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Franklin Road
Length of Residence	1 month	30 years
Marriage Place	Primitive Methodist
Folio	06/136
Consent
Date of Certificate	30 January 1906
Officiating Minister	Rev. G. Clement, Methodist

30 January 1906

Francis William Meleowan
Audrey Gertrude Ada Moller

Francis William McCowan
Audrey Gertrude Ada Moller
💍 1906/90

Bachelor
Spinster

Engineer

29
19

Auckland
Northcote

8 years
11 years

Church of England

06/47

Carl Otto Moller, father

30 January 1906

Rev. A. F. Smith, Church of England

No	71
Date of Notice	30 January 1906
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Francis William Meleowan	Audrey Gertrude Ada Moller
BDM Match (94%)	Francis William McCowan	Audrey Gertrude Ada Moller
	💍 1906/90
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Engineer
Age	29	19
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Northcote
Length of Residence	8 years	11 years
Marriage Place	Church of England
Folio	06/47
Consent	Carl Otto Moller, father
Date of Certificate	30 January 1906
Officiating Minister	Rev. A. F. Smith, Church of England

30 January 1906

Colin Edmond Macdonald
Flora Isabell Balder

Colin Edmond MacDonald
Flora Isabelle Calder
💍 1906/1490

Bachelor
Spinster

Warder

32
30

Auckland
Auckland

1 year
20 years

St Benedict's Church

06/105

30 January 1906

Rev. H. Gillam, Roman Catholic

No	72
Date of Notice	30 January 1906
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Colin Edmond Macdonald	Flora Isabell Balder
BDM Match (93%)	Colin Edmond MacDonald	Flora Isabelle Calder
	💍 1906/1490
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Warder
Age	32	30
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	1 year	20 years
Marriage Place	St Benedict's Church
Folio	06/105
Consent
Date of Certificate	30 January 1906
Officiating Minister	Rev. H. Gillam, Roman Catholic

31 January 1906

George Pugh
Mary Ellen McCarthy

George Pugh
Mary Ellen McCarthy
💍 1906/1469

Bachelor
Spinster

Sugarworks Employee

21
21

Auckland
Birkenhead

21 years
21 years

House of Bridegroom

06/131

31 January 1906

Rev. G. S. Cook, Methodist

No	73
Date of Notice	31 January 1906
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	George Pugh	Mary Ellen McCarthy
	💍 1906/1469
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Sugarworks Employee
Age	21	21
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Birkenhead
Length of Residence	21 years	21 years
Marriage Place	House of Bridegroom
Folio	06/131
Consent
Date of Certificate	31 January 1906
Officiating Minister	Rev. G. S. Cook, Methodist

31 January 1906

Edward Walter
Georgina Murray

Edward Walker
Georgina Murray
💍 1906/1570

Widower
Spinster

Butcher

35
31

Auckland
Auckland

35 years
8 years

House of Rev. J. Clark

06/158

31 January 1906

Rev. J. Clark, Baptist

No	74
Date of Notice	31 January 1906
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Edward Walter	Georgina Murray
BDM Match (96%)	Edward Walker	Georgina Murray
	💍 1906/1570
Condition	Widower	Spinster
Profession	Butcher
Age	35	31
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	35 years	8 years
Marriage Place	House of Rev. J. Clark
Folio	06/158
Consent
Date of Certificate	31 January 1906
Officiating Minister	Rev. J. Clark, Baptist

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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).