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).

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District of Waimea South Quarter ending 31 March 1906 Registrar Shiah Bargenr

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

2 January 1906

Francis Henry Norgate
Alma Blanche Bargent

Francis Henry Norgate
Alma Blanche Baigent
💍 1906/2468

Bachelor
Spinster

Carpenter

26
20

Wakefield
Wakefield

3 days
3 days

Residence of Shiah Bargent, Wakefield

06/914

Shiah Bargent, Father

2 January 1906

Joshua F. Trentlyn, Church of Christ

No	1
Date of Notice	2 January 1906
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Francis Henry Norgate	Alma Blanche Bargent
BDM Match (98%)	Francis Henry Norgate	Alma Blanche Baigent
	💍 1906/2468
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Carpenter
Age	26	20
Dwelling Place	Wakefield	Wakefield
Length of Residence	3 days	3 days
Marriage Place	Residence of Shiah Bargent, Wakefield
Folio	06/914
Consent	Shiah Bargent, Father
Date of Certificate	2 January 1906
Officiating Minister	Joshua F. Trentlyn, Church of Christ

5 January 1906

Augustus Percy Bargent
Eva Evans

Augustus Percy Baigent
Eva Evans
💍 1906/2189

Bachelor
Spinster

Farmer

37
27

Wakefield
Wakefield

37 years
1 year

St. Johns Church

06/941

5 January 1906

Wm. Geo. Baker, Church of England

No	2
Date of Notice	5 January 1906
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Augustus Percy Bargent	Eva Evans
BDM Match (98%)	Augustus Percy Baigent	Eva Evans
	💍 1906/2189
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Farmer
Age	37	27
Dwelling Place	Wakefield	Wakefield
Length of Residence	37 years	1 year
Marriage Place	St. Johns Church
Folio	06/941
Consent
Date of Certificate	5 January 1906
Officiating Minister	Wm. Geo. Baker, Church of England

16 January 1906

Ronald Reston Anowden
Eunice Gifford

Kennard Richers Snowden
Eunice Gifford
💍 1906/2191

Bachelor
Spinster

Farmer

25
16

Brightwater
Brightwater

25 years
8 years

Registrar's Office

06/943

William Charles Gifford, Father

16 January 1906

Shiah Bargent, Registrar of Marriages

No	3
Date of Notice	16 January 1906
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Ronald Reston Anowden	Eunice Gifford
BDM Match (76%)	Kennard Richers Snowden	Eunice Gifford
	💍 1906/2191
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Farmer
Age	25	16
Dwelling Place	Brightwater	Brightwater
Length of Residence	25 years	8 years
Marriage Place	Registrar's Office
Folio	06/943
Consent	William Charles Gifford, Father
Date of Certificate	16 January 1906
Officiating Minister	Shiah Bargent, Registrar of Marriages

22 January 1906

George Gilbert Wearing
Alice Mead

George Gilbert Wearing
Alice Mead
💍 1906/2190

Bachelor
Spinster

Clerk

27
23

Foxhill
Foxhill

3 days
23 years

St. Lukes Church

06/942

22 January 1906

Wm. Geo. Baker, Church of England

No	4
Date of Notice	22 January 1906
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	George Gilbert Wearing	Alice Mead
	💍 1906/2190
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Clerk
Age	27	23
Dwelling Place	Foxhill	Foxhill
Length of Residence	3 days	23 years
Marriage Place	St. Lukes Church
Folio	06/942
Consent
Date of Certificate	22 January 1906
Officiating Minister	Wm. Geo. Baker, Church of England

24 January 1906

George Robertson
Ethel May Fornie

George Robertson
Ethel May Gorrie
💍 1906/2192

Bachelor
Spinster

Blacksmith

32
30

Wakefield
Wakefield

32 years
20 years

St. Johns Church

06/944

24 January 1906

Oswald R. Hewlett, Church of England

No	5
Date of Notice	24 January 1906
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	George Robertson	Ethel May Fornie
BDM Match (94%)	George Robertson	Ethel May Gorrie
	💍 1906/2192
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Blacksmith
Age	32	30
Dwelling Place	Wakefield	Wakefield
Length of Residence	32 years	20 years
Marriage Place	St. Johns Church
Folio	06/944
Consent
Date of Certificate	24 January 1906
Officiating Minister	Oswald R. Hewlett, Church of England

17 February 1906

Henry William Earl Biggeltrow
Olive Clara Schroder

Henry William Carl Siggelkow
Olive Clara Schroder
💍 1906/2170

Bachelor
Spinster

Farmer

24
19

Dovedale
Dovedale

3 days
18 years

Registrar's Office

06/945

Ellen Hocker, Mother

17 February 1906

Shiah Bargent, Registrar of Marriages

No	6
Date of Notice	17 February 1906
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Henry William Earl Biggeltrow	Olive Clara Schroder
BDM Match (93%)	Henry William Carl Siggelkow	Olive Clara Schroder
	💍 1906/2170
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Farmer
Age	24	19
Dwelling Place	Dovedale	Dovedale
Length of Residence	3 days	18 years
Marriage Place	Registrar's Office
Folio	06/945
Consent	Ellen Hocker, Mother
Date of Certificate	17 February 1906
Officiating Minister	Shiah Bargent, Registrar of Marriages

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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).