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 032

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

143

1 March 1906

Bertie Hedgland (Known as Parker)
Mary Jane Logan Stewart

Bertie Parker
Mary Jane Loean Stewart
💍 1906/2226

Bachelor
Spinster

Telegraphist

28
32

Auckland
Vermont St.

4 days
3 years

House of father of Bride

06/825

1 March 1906

Rev. A. M. Caldwell, Presbyterian

No	143
Date of Notice	1 March 1906
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Bertie Hedgland (Known as Parker)	Mary Jane Logan Stewart
BDM Match (68%)	Bertie Parker	Mary Jane Loean Stewart
	💍 1906/2226
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Telegraphist
Age	28	32
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Vermont St.
Length of Residence	4 days	3 years
Marriage Place	House of father of Bride
Folio	06/825
Consent
Date of Certificate	1 March 1906
Officiating Minister	Rev. A. M. Caldwell, Presbyterian

144

1 March 1906

John Harold Bigelow
Eva Eliza Matthews

John Harold Bigelow
Eva Eliza Matthews
💍 1906/1584

Bachelor
Spinster

Stationer

27
26

Auckland
Ponsonby

21 years
26 years

House of father of Bride

06/171

1 March 1906

Rev. A. North, Baptist

No	144
Date of Notice	1 March 1906
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	John Harold Bigelow	Eva Eliza Matthews
	💍 1906/1584
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Stationer
Age	27	26
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Ponsonby
Length of Residence	21 years	26 years
Marriage Place	House of father of Bride
Folio	06/171
Consent
Date of Certificate	1 March 1906
Officiating Minister	Rev. A. North, Baptist

145

1 March 1906

Arthur Lethbridge Jones
Mabel Catherine Isabel Lyons

Arthur Lethbridge Jones
Mabel Catherine Isabel Lyons
💍 1906/1480

Bachelor
Spinster

Salesman

38
24

Auckland
Devonport

3 1/2 years
4 years

House of father of Bride

06/117

1 March 1906

Rev. M. J. Furlong, Roman Catholic

No	145
Date of Notice	1 March 1906
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Arthur Lethbridge Jones	Mabel Catherine Isabel Lyons
	💍 1906/1480
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Salesman
Age	38	24
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Devonport
Length of Residence	3 1/2 years	4 years
Marriage Place	House of father of Bride
Folio	06/117
Consent
Date of Certificate	1 March 1906
Officiating Minister	Rev. M. J. Furlong, Roman Catholic

146

2 March 1906

Alfred Brown
Lily Graham

Alfred Brown
Lily Graham
💍 1906/1575

Bachelor
Spinster

Builder

25
27

Auckland
George St.

4 years
27 years

House of father of Bride

06/163

2 March 1906

Rev. J. Aldridge, Church of Christ

No	146
Date of Notice	2 March 1906
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Alfred Brown	Lily Graham
	💍 1906/1575
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Builder
Age	25	27
Dwelling Place	Auckland	George St.
Length of Residence	4 years	27 years
Marriage Place	House of father of Bride
Folio	06/163
Consent
Date of Certificate	2 March 1906
Officiating Minister	Rev. J. Aldridge, Church of Christ

147

3 March 1906

Carrick Hey Robertson
Constance Maxwell Hibberd

Carrick Hoy Robertson
Emmeline Constance Maxwell Hibberd
💍 1906/293

Bachelor
Spinster

Medical Practitioner

26
22

Auckland
Reading (Eng.)

3 days
22 years

St. Paul's Church

06/487

3 March 1906

Rev. A. S. Buckland, Church of England

No	147
Date of Notice	3 March 1906
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Carrick Hey Robertson	Constance Maxwell Hibberd
BDM Match (84%)	Carrick Hoy Robertson	Emmeline Constance Maxwell Hibberd
	💍 1906/293
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Medical Practitioner
Age	26	22
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Reading (Eng.)
Length of Residence	3 days	22 years
Marriage Place	St. Paul's Church
Folio	06/487
Consent
Date of Certificate	3 March 1906
Officiating Minister	Rev. A. S. Buckland, Church of England

148

3 March 1906

Herbert John Ross Butler
Mary Margaret Dowd

Herbert John Ross Cutler
Mary Margaret Dowd
💍 1906/1482

Bachelor
Spinster

Nurseryman

25
23

Auckland
Parnell

25 years
23 years

House of father of Bride

06/101

3 March 1906

Rev. G. B. Monro, Presbyterian

No	148
Date of Notice	3 March 1906
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Herbert John Ross Butler	Mary Margaret Dowd
BDM Match (98%)	Herbert John Ross Cutler	Mary Margaret Dowd
	💍 1906/1482
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Nurseryman
Age	25	23
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Parnell
Length of Residence	25 years	23 years
Marriage Place	House of father of Bride
Folio	06/101
Consent
Date of Certificate	3 March 1906
Officiating Minister	Rev. G. B. Monro, Presbyterian

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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).