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 062

District of Auckland Quarter ending 30 June 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

321

25 April 1906

Albert Ernest Oswald
Jessie Brown

Albert Ernest Oswald
Jessie Brown
💍 1906/250

Ethelbert Joseph James Welch
Jessie Brown
💍 1907/552

Hedley Arney Wells Blincoe
Jessie Brown
💍 1906/5838

Bachelor
Spinster

Warehouseman

33
35

Auckland
Auckland

33 years
35 years

All Saints Church, Auckland

06/1572

25 April 1906

Rev. W. Balder, Church of England

No	321
Date of Notice	25 April 1906
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Albert Ernest Oswald	Jessie Brown
	💍 1906/250
BDM Match (68%)	Ethelbert Joseph James Welch	Jessie Brown
	💍 1907/552
BDM Match (62%)	Hedley Arney Wells Blincoe	Jessie Brown
	💍 1906/5838
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Warehouseman
Age	33	35
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	33 years	35 years
Marriage Place	All Saints Church, Auckland
Folio	06/1572
Consent
Date of Certificate	25 April 1906
Officiating Minister	Rev. W. Balder, Church of England

322

25 April 1906

William John Frederick Shanaghan
Mildred Mooney

Bachelor
Spinster

Boiler maker

24
27

Auckland
Auckland

22 years
23 years

Registrar's Office, Auckland

25 April 1906

E. H. Lyons, Registrar

No	322
Date of Notice	25 April 1906
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	William John Frederick Shanaghan	Mildred Mooney
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Boiler maker
Age	24	27
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	22 years	23 years
Marriage Place	Registrar's Office, Auckland
Folio
Consent
Date of Certificate	25 April 1906
Officiating Minister	E. H. Lyons, Registrar

323

25 April 1906

Arthur Irwin Rea
Belle Evelyn Barber

Arthur Irwin Rea
Belle Evelyn Barber
💍 1906/430

Bachelor
Spinster

Storeman

31
25

Auckland
Ponsonby

3 years
25 years

House of father of Bride

06/1757

25 April 1906

Rev. B. F. Rothwell, Methodist

No	323
Date of Notice	25 April 1906
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Arthur Irwin Rea	Belle Evelyn Barber
	💍 1906/430
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Storeman
Age	31	25
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Ponsonby
Length of Residence	3 years	25 years
Marriage Place	House of father of Bride
Folio	06/1757
Consent
Date of Certificate	25 April 1906
Officiating Minister	Rev. B. F. Rothwell, Methodist

324

25 April 1906

Wilfrid Hubert Hemingway
Elsie Bona Barber

Wilfrid Hubert Hemingway
Elsie Bona Carder
💍 1906/262

Bachelor
Spinster

Accountant

27
23

Auckland
Auckland

9 years
23 years

St. Matthew's Church, Auckland

06/1587

25 April 1906

Rev. W. E. Gillam, Church of England

No	324
Date of Notice	25 April 1906
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Wilfrid Hubert Hemingway	Elsie Bona Barber
BDM Match (94%)	Wilfrid Hubert Hemingway	Elsie Bona Carder
	💍 1906/262
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Accountant
Age	27	23
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	9 years	23 years
Marriage Place	St. Matthew's Church, Auckland
Folio	06/1587
Consent
Date of Certificate	25 April 1906
Officiating Minister	Rev. W. E. Gillam, Church of England

325

26 April 1906

Burnett Chetwynd Housley
Edith Fanny Hook

Burnett Chetwnyrd Housley
Edith Fanny Hook
💍 1906/298

Bachelor
Spinster

Clerk

26
38

Auckland
Auckland

10 years
2 months

St. Sepulchre's Church, Auckland

06/1611

26 April 1906

Rev. G. A. Carver, Church of England

No	325
Date of Notice	26 April 1906
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Burnett Chetwynd Housley	Edith Fanny Hook
BDM Match (96%)	Burnett Chetwnyrd Housley	Edith Fanny Hook
	💍 1906/298
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Clerk
Age	26	38
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	10 years	2 months
Marriage Place	St. Sepulchre's Church, Auckland
Folio	06/1611
Consent
Date of Certificate	26 April 1906
Officiating Minister	Rev. G. A. Carver, Church of England

326

26 April 1906

Frederick Tang Chin
Sarah Ann Lamsey

Frederick Yang Chin
Sarah Ann Lamsey
💍 1906/3079

Bachelor
Spinster

Laundryman

41
25

Auckland
Whitaker Lane

12 years
8 months

House of Rev. J. Clark, Whitaker Lane

06/2858

26 April 1906

Rev. J. Clark, Baptist

No	326
Date of Notice	26 April 1906
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Frederick Tang Chin	Sarah Ann Lamsey
BDM Match (97%)	Frederick Yang Chin	Sarah Ann Lamsey
	💍 1906/3079
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Laundryman
Age	41	25
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Whitaker Lane
Length of Residence	12 years	8 months
Marriage Place	House of Rev. J. Clark, Whitaker Lane
Folio	06/2858
Consent
Date of Certificate	26 April 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).