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 578

District of Thames Quarter ending 30 September 1906 Registrar William H. T. [illegible]

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

17 August 1906

Martin Alexander John Ryan
Emily Jane Clarke

Martin Alexander John Ryan
Emily Jane Clarke
💍 1906/3797

Bachelor
Spinster

Miner
Domestic duties

35
24

Thames
Thames

7 months
24 years

In the house of Mr. Pell, Thames

06/4036

17 August 1906

Rev. E. H. Taylor, Church of Christ

No	32
Date of Notice	17 August 1906
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Martin Alexander John Ryan	Emily Jane Clarke
	💍 1906/3797
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Miner	Domestic duties
Age	35	24
Dwelling Place	Thames	Thames
Length of Residence	7 months	24 years
Marriage Place	In the house of Mr. Pell, Thames
Folio	06/4036
Consent
Date of Certificate	17 August 1906
Officiating Minister	Rev. E. H. Taylor, Church of Christ

23 August 1906

Archibald Jubilee Trembath
Sarah Ellen Harvey

Archibald Jubilee Trembath
Sarah Ellen Harvey
💍 1906/3798

Bachelor
Spinster

Salesman
Domestic duties

19
21

Thames
Thames

19 years
21 years

In the house of Mr. Harvey, Thames

06/4024

Francis Trembath, Father of A. J. Trembath

23 August 1906

Rev. Robert Taylor, Methodist Church of Australasia

No	33
Date of Notice	23 August 1906
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Archibald Jubilee Trembath	Sarah Ellen Harvey
	💍 1906/3798
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Salesman	Domestic duties
Age	19	21
Dwelling Place	Thames	Thames
Length of Residence	19 years	21 years
Marriage Place	In the house of Mr. Harvey, Thames
Folio	06/4024
Consent	Francis Trembath, Father of A. J. Trembath
Date of Certificate	23 August 1906
Officiating Minister	Rev. Robert Taylor, Methodist Church of Australasia

25 August 1906

Otto Jonikait
Lucy Marion Wright

Otto Jonikait
Lucy Marion Wright
💍 1906/3796

Bachelor
Spinster

Farmer
Domestic duties

36 years
32 years

Puriri
Puriri

6 years
21 years

In the house of Edmund H. Taylor, Parawai, Thames

06/4035

25 August 1906

Rev. Edmund H. Taylor, Church of Christ

No	34
Date of Notice	25 August 1906
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Otto Jonikait	Lucy Marion Wright
	💍 1906/3796
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Farmer	Domestic duties
Age	36 years	32 years
Dwelling Place	Puriri	Puriri
Length of Residence	6 years	21 years
Marriage Place	In the house of Edmund H. Taylor, Parawai, Thames
Folio	06/4035
Consent
Date of Certificate	25 August 1906
Officiating Minister	Rev. Edmund H. Taylor, Church of Christ

31 August 1906

Richard Gladstone Hosking
Aileen Isabel Gemming

Richard Gladstone Hosking
Aileen Isabel Gemming
💍 1906/3944

Bachelor
Spinster

Draper
Domestic duties

22
25

Thames
Thames

5 days
25 years

St. Georges Church, Thames

06/4022

31 August 1906

Rev. Dr. O'Callaghan, Church of England

No	35
Date of Notice	31 August 1906
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Richard Gladstone Hosking	Aileen Isabel Gemming
	💍 1906/3944
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Draper	Domestic duties
Age	22	25
Dwelling Place	Thames	Thames
Length of Residence	5 days	25 years
Marriage Place	St. Georges Church, Thames
Folio	06/4022
Consent
Date of Certificate	31 August 1906
Officiating Minister	Rev. Dr. O'Callaghan, Church of England

8 September 1906

William Hicks
Elizabeth Ann Horn

William Hicks
Elizabeth Ann Horn
💍 1906/3799

Bachelor
Spinster

Grocer's Assistant
Tailoress

24
22

Thames
Thames

5 days
22 years

In the house of Mr. F. J. Horn, Thames

06/4025

8 September 1906

Rev. R. Taylor, Methodist Church of Australasia

No	36
Date of Notice	8 September 1906
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	William Hicks	Elizabeth Ann Horn
	💍 1906/3799
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Grocer's Assistant	Tailoress
Age	24	22
Dwelling Place	Thames	Thames
Length of Residence	5 days	22 years
Marriage Place	In the house of Mr. F. J. Horn, Thames
Folio	06/4025
Consent
Date of Certificate	8 September 1906
Officiating Minister	Rev. R. Taylor, Methodist Church of Australasia

17 September 1906

Albert Charles Pollard
Mabel Gendall

Albert Charles Pollard
Mabel Kendall
💍 1906/3800

Bachelor
Spinster

Tailor
Tailoress

28
24

Thames
Thames

2 days
24 years

Methodist Church

06/4026

17 September 1906

Rev. R. Taylor, Methodist Church of Australasia

No	37
Date of Notice	17 September 1906
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Albert Charles Pollard	Mabel Gendall
BDM Match (96%)	Albert Charles Pollard	Mabel Kendall
	💍 1906/3800
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Tailor	Tailoress
Age	28	24
Dwelling Place	Thames	Thames
Length of Residence	2 days	24 years
Marriage Place	Methodist Church
Folio	06/4026
Consent
Date of Certificate	17 September 1906
Officiating Minister	Rev. R. Taylor, Methodist Church of Australasia

9 September 1906

John Murdock
Minnie Amelia Avery

John Murdock
Minnie Amelia Avery
💍 1906/4082

Bachelor
Spinster

Miner
Domestic duties

27
18

Thames
Hikutaia

27 years
2 years

In the house of Mr. Percy, Thames

06/4212

George Avery, Father of M. A. Avery

19 September 1906

Rev. S. Henderson, Primitive Methodist

No	38
Date of Notice	9 September 1906
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	John Murdock	Minnie Amelia Avery
	💍 1906/4082
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Miner	Domestic duties
Age	27	18
Dwelling Place	Thames	Hikutaia
Length of Residence	27 years	2 years
Marriage Place	In the house of Mr. Percy, Thames
Folio	06/4212
Consent	George Avery, Father of M. A. Avery
Date of Certificate	19 September 1906
Officiating Minister	Rev. S. Henderson, Primitive Methodist

20 September 1906

William James Hardman
Emily Jane Powdrell

William James Hardman
Emily Jane Powdrell
💍 1906/3801

Bachelor
Spinster

Butcher's Assistant
Domestic duties

19
20

Thames
Matatoke

19 years
10 years

At the house of Mr. Powdrell, Matatoke

06/4027

James E. Hardman (father of groom), T. Powdrell (father of bride)

20 September 1906

Rev. R. Taylor, Methodist Church of Australasia

No	39
Date of Notice	20 September 1906
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	William James Hardman	Emily Jane Powdrell
	💍 1906/3801
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Butcher's Assistant	Domestic duties
Age	19	20
Dwelling Place	Thames	Matatoke
Length of Residence	19 years	10 years
Marriage Place	At the house of Mr. Powdrell, Matatoke
Folio	06/4027
Consent	James E. Hardman (father of groom), T. Powdrell (father of bride)
Date of Certificate	20 September 1906
Officiating Minister	Rev. R. Taylor, Methodist Church of Australasia

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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).