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 Inglewood Quarter ending 30 September 1906 Registrar J. G. W. Bennett

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

574

30 July 1906

Frederick Fenning
Huda Annette Jacobsen

Frederick Fenning Dowman
Hilda Annette Jacobsen
💍 1906/4958

Bachelor
Spinster

Farmer

30
22

Purangi, Taranaki
Purangi, Taranaki

14 years
2 months

at the Residence of Mr. J. Jacobsen at Pita Road, Tarata

06/4618

30 July 1906

Rev. H. Reece

No	574
Date of Notice	30 July 1906
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Frederick Fenning	Huda Annette Jacobsen
BDM Match (81%)	Frederick Fenning Dowman	Hilda Annette Jacobsen
	💍 1906/4958
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Farmer
Age	30	22
Dwelling Place	Purangi, Taranaki	Purangi, Taranaki
Length of Residence	14 years	2 months
Marriage Place	at the Residence of Mr. J. Jacobsen at Pita Road, Tarata
Folio	06/4618
Consent
Date of Certificate	30 July 1906
Officiating Minister	Rev. H. Reece

575

14 August 1906

Louis Oscar Arthur Gernhoefer
Edith Emily Barron

Louis Oscar Arthur Gernhoefer
Edith Emily Barron
💍 1906/3881

Bachelor
Spinster

Farmer

22
22

Moa District
Moa District

22 years
22 years

at the Residence of Mr. James Lindsay, Rugby Road, Moa District

06/4077

14 August 1906

Rev. J. S. Webster

No	575
Date of Notice	14 August 1906
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Louis Oscar Arthur Gernhoefer	Edith Emily Barron
	💍 1906/3881
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Farmer
Age	22	22
Dwelling Place	Moa District	Moa District
Length of Residence	22 years	22 years
Marriage Place	at the Residence of Mr. James Lindsay, Rugby Road, Moa District
Folio	06/4077
Consent
Date of Certificate	14 August 1906
Officiating Minister	Rev. J. S. Webster

576

17 August 1906

Robert Schrider
Mary Drygawski

Robert Schrider
Mary Drosdowski
💍 1906/4981

Bachelor
Spinster

Laborer

26
20

Moa District
Moa District

25 years
20 years

at the Roman Catholic Church at Inglewood

06/4674

F. Drygawski, father of Mary Drygawski

17 August 1906

Rev. J. McKenna

No	576
Date of Notice	17 August 1906
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Robert Schrider	Mary Drygawski
BDM Match (87%)	Robert Schrider	Mary Drosdowski
	💍 1906/4981
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Laborer
Age	26	20
Dwelling Place	Moa District	Moa District
Length of Residence	25 years	20 years
Marriage Place	at the Roman Catholic Church at Inglewood
Folio	06/4674
Consent	F. Drygawski, father of Mary Drygawski
Date of Certificate	17 August 1906
Officiating Minister	Rev. J. McKenna

577

18 August 1906

George Edward Docock
Fanny Elizabeth Bennett

George Edward Bocock
Fanny Elizabeth Bennett
💍 1906/4959

Bachelor
Spinster

Farmer

25
22

Moa District
Moa District

14 years
15 years

at the Wesleyan Church at Inglewood

06/4619

18 August 1906

Rev. E. D. Patchett

No	577
Date of Notice	18 August 1906
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	George Edward Docock	Fanny Elizabeth Bennett
BDM Match (98%)	George Edward Bocock	Fanny Elizabeth Bennett
	💍 1906/4959
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Farmer
Age	25	22
Dwelling Place	Moa District	Moa District
Length of Residence	14 years	15 years
Marriage Place	at the Wesleyan Church at Inglewood
Folio	06/4619
Consent
Date of Certificate	18 August 1906
Officiating Minister	Rev. E. D. Patchett

578

25 August 1906

James Paterson
Ellen Drummond

James Paterson
Ellen Drummond
💍 1906/3882

Bachelor
Spinster

Storekeeper

27
22

Tarata, Taranaki
Tarata, Taranaki

15 years
8 years

at the Residence of Mr. R. Drummond, Junction Road, New Tarata

06/4078

25 August 1906

Rev. J. S. Webster

No	578
Date of Notice	25 August 1906
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	James Paterson	Ellen Drummond
	💍 1906/3882
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Storekeeper
Age	27	22
Dwelling Place	Tarata, Taranaki	Tarata, Taranaki
Length of Residence	15 years	8 years
Marriage Place	at the Residence of Mr. R. Drummond, Junction Road, New Tarata
Folio	06/4078
Consent
Date of Certificate	25 August 1906
Officiating Minister	Rev. J. S. Webster

579

3 September 1906

Arthur Buckland
May Fanny Arabella Hopkinson

Arthur Buckland
May Fanny Arabella Hopkinson
💍 1906/4960

Bachelor
Spinster

Carpenter

21
20

Inglewood
Inglewood

3 days
14 days

at the Residence of Mr. J. Hopkinson, Cutfield St., Inglewood

06/4620

Joseph Hopkinson, father of May Fanny Arabella Hopkinson

3 September 1906

Rev. E. D. Patchett

No	579
Date of Notice	3 September 1906
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Arthur Buckland	May Fanny Arabella Hopkinson
	💍 1906/4960
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Carpenter
Age	21	20
Dwelling Place	Inglewood	Inglewood
Length of Residence	3 days	14 days
Marriage Place	at the Residence of Mr. J. Hopkinson, Cutfield St., Inglewood
Folio	06/4620
Consent	Joseph Hopkinson, father of May Fanny Arabella Hopkinson
Date of Certificate	3 September 1906
Officiating Minister	Rev. E. D. Patchett

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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).