Intentions to Marry, 1906 Wellington, Marlborough, Nelson, Westland

Reference: Registrar-General of Births, Deaths and Marriages, Notices of intention to marry, Series 8937, R2840431, 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 441

District of Wellington Quarter ending 30 September 1906 Registrar Gilbert Graham Hodgkins

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

545

24 July 1906

Arthur Wallace Thompson
Clara Ann Parker

Arthur Wallace Thompson
Clara Ann Parker
💍 1906/4805

Bachelor
Spinster

Plumber

23
32

Wellington
Wellington

4 days
1 day

Residence of Mr. A. F. Turner, 3 Lawrence Street, Wellington

06/4569

24 July 1906

Mr. A. F. Turner

No	545
Date of Notice	24 July 1906
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Arthur Wallace Thompson	Clara Ann Parker
	💍 1906/4805
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Plumber
Age	23	32
Dwelling Place	Wellington	Wellington
Length of Residence	4 days	1 day
Marriage Place	Residence of Mr. A. F. Turner, 3 Lawrence Street, Wellington
Folio	06/4569
Consent
Date of Certificate	24 July 1906
Officiating Minister	Mr. A. F. Turner

546

24 July 1906

Arthur Anderson Stewart
Anne Lusk Gibson

Arthur Anderson Stewart
Annie Lusk Gibson
💍 1906/6464

Bachelor
Spinster

Medical Practitioner
Hospital Nurse

29 years
24 years

Petone
Petone

5 months
4 days

St. Davids Church, Petone

06/6418

24 July 1906

Rev. A. Thomson

No	546
Date of Notice	24 July 1906
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Arthur Anderson Stewart	Anne Lusk Gibson
BDM Match (97%)	Arthur Anderson Stewart	Annie Lusk Gibson
	💍 1906/6464
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Medical Practitioner	Hospital Nurse
Age	29 years	24 years
Dwelling Place	Petone	Petone
Length of Residence	5 months	4 days
Marriage Place	St. Davids Church, Petone
Folio	06/6418
Consent
Date of Certificate	24 July 1906
Officiating Minister	Rev. A. Thomson

547

24 July 1906

Frederick Vivian Connell
Lily Anne Turnbull

Frederick Vivian Connell
Lily Anne Turnbull
💍 1906/4548

Bachelor
Spinster

Clerk
Nurse

23
27

Wellington
Wellington

6 years
3 years

Residence of Rev. I. G. Smith, 33 Hill Street, Wellington

06/4492

24 July 1906

Rev. I. G. Smith

No	547
Date of Notice	24 July 1906
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Frederick Vivian Connell	Lily Anne Turnbull
	💍 1906/4548
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Clerk	Nurse
Age	23	27
Dwelling Place	Wellington	Wellington
Length of Residence	6 years	3 years
Marriage Place	Residence of Rev. I. G. Smith, 33 Hill Street, Wellington
Folio	06/4492
Consent
Date of Certificate	24 July 1906
Officiating Minister	Rev. I. G. Smith

548

24 July 1906

James Prendeville
Helen Katherine Sutherland

James Prendeville
Helen Katherine Sutherland
💍 1906/4437

Bachelor
Spinster

Barrister & Solicitor

29
24

Karori
Wellington

3 days
3 months

Sacred Heart Church, Hill Street, Wellington

06/4521

24 July 1906

Rev. W. I. Lewis

No	548
Date of Notice	24 July 1906
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	James Prendeville	Helen Katherine Sutherland
	💍 1906/4437
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Barrister & Solicitor
Age	29	24
Dwelling Place	Karori	Wellington
Length of Residence	3 days	3 months
Marriage Place	Sacred Heart Church, Hill Street, Wellington
Folio	06/4521
Consent
Date of Certificate	24 July 1906
Officiating Minister	Rev. W. I. Lewis

549

26 July 1906

Alfred Karl Julius Krause
Eliza Janet Fyfe

Alfred Karl Julius Krause
Eliza Janet Fyfe
💍 1906/4371

Bachelor
Spinster

Chef

26
25

Wellington
Wellington

3 months
3 months

Registrar's Office, Wellington

06/4412

26 July 1906

G. G. Hodgkins, Deputy Registrar

No	549
Date of Notice	26 July 1906
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Alfred Karl Julius Krause	Eliza Janet Fyfe
	💍 1906/4371
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Chef
Age	26	25
Dwelling Place	Wellington	Wellington
Length of Residence	3 months	3 months
Marriage Place	Registrar's Office, Wellington
Folio	06/4412
Consent
Date of Certificate	26 July 1906
Officiating Minister	G. G. Hodgkins, Deputy Registrar

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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).