Intentions to Marry, 1907 Auckland, Taranaki, Hawke's Bay

Reference: Registrar-General of Births, Deaths and Marriages, Notices of intention to marry, Series 8937, R2840433, Archives New Zealand Te Rua Mahara o te Kāwanatanga, Wellington

1907 is bound in three volumes - Auckland, Taranaki, Hawke's Bay (1907a), Wellington, Marlborough, Nelson, Westland (1907b), and Canterbury, Otago, Chatham Islands (1907c).

Page 009

District of Auckland Quarter ending 31 March 1907 Registrar Edmund Humphrey Lyons

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 1907

George William Keith
Helen Mildred Taylor

George William Keith
Helen Mildred Taylor
💍 1907/150

Bachelor
Spinster

Farmer

23
21

Auckland
Auckland

4 days
10 years

St Barnabas Church, Mount Eden

07/162

2 January 1907

Rev. H. B. Wingfield, Church of England

No	1
Date of Notice	2 January 1907
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	George William Keith	Helen Mildred Taylor
	💍 1907/150
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Farmer
Age	23	21
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	4 days	10 years
Marriage Place	St Barnabas Church, Mount Eden
Folio	07/162
Consent
Date of Certificate	2 January 1907
Officiating Minister	Rev. H. B. Wingfield, Church of England

2 January 1907

John Patrick Plunkett
Minnie Druery

John Patrick Plunkett
Minnie Druery
💍 1907/85

Bachelor
Spinster

Carpenter

29
21

Auckland
Auckland

8 days
8 days

St Paul's Church, Auckland

07/70

2 January 1907

Rev. C. M. Nelson, Church of England

No	2
Date of Notice	2 January 1907
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	John Patrick Plunkett	Minnie Druery
	💍 1907/85
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Carpenter
Age	29	21
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	8 days	8 days
Marriage Place	St Paul's Church, Auckland
Folio	07/70
Consent
Date of Certificate	2 January 1907
Officiating Minister	Rev. C. M. Nelson, Church of England

2 January 1907

William Lawrence Lyons
Hilda Bernice Moon

William Lawrence Lyons
Hilda Bernice Moon
💍 1907/190

Bachelor
Spinster

Quarryman

28
21

Auckland
Auckland

4 years
2 years

Registrar's Office, Auckland

07/181

2 January 1907

E. H. Lyons, Registrar

No	3
Date of Notice	2 January 1907
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	William Lawrence Lyons	Hilda Bernice Moon
	💍 1907/190
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Quarryman
Age	28	21
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	4 years	2 years
Marriage Place	Registrar's Office, Auckland
Folio	07/181
Consent
Date of Certificate	2 January 1907
Officiating Minister	E. H. Lyons, Registrar

2 January 1907

William Chaytor
Grace Margaret Thorburn

William Chaylor
Grace Margaret Thorbury
💍 1907/8315

Bachelor
Spinster

Bushman

24
21

Auckland
Auckland

2 weeks
1 month

St Matthew's Church, Auckland

07/129

2 January 1907

Rev. W. E. Gillam, Church of England

No	4
Date of Notice	2 January 1907
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	William Chaytor	Grace Margaret Thorburn
BDM Match (95%)	William Chaylor	Grace Margaret Thorbury
	💍 1907/8315
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Bushman
Age	24	21
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	2 weeks	1 month
Marriage Place	St Matthew's Church, Auckland
Folio	07/129
Consent
Date of Certificate	2 January 1907
Officiating Minister	Rev. W. E. Gillam, Church of England

2 January 1907

Heywood Melvill Crispe
Frances Amy Burrows

Heywood Melvill Crispe
Amy Frances Burrows
💍 1907/57

Bachelor
Spinster

Builder

30
21

Auckland
Auckland

3 days
3 months

Church of England, Howick

07/18

2 January 1907

Rev. N. D. Boyes, Church of England

No	5
Date of Notice	2 January 1907
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Heywood Melvill Crispe	Frances Amy Burrows
BDM Match (79%)	Heywood Melvill Crispe	Amy Frances Burrows
	💍 1907/57
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Builder
Age	30	21
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	3 days	3 months
Marriage Place	Church of England, Howick
Folio	07/18
Consent
Date of Certificate	2 January 1907
Officiating Minister	Rev. N. D. Boyes, Church of England

2 January 1907

John Taylor Hutchinson
Lydia Lewis

John Taylor Hutchinson
Lydia Lewis
💍 1907/151

Bachelor
Spinster

Ferryman

37 years
33

Auckland
Auckland

3 days
3 days

St Barnabas Church, Mount Eden

07/163

2 January 1907

Rev. H. B. Wingfield, Church of England

No	6
Date of Notice	2 January 1907
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	John Taylor Hutchinson	Lydia Lewis
	💍 1907/151
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Ferryman
Age	37 years	33
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	3 days	3 days
Marriage Place	St Barnabas Church, Mount Eden
Folio	07/163
Consent
Date of Certificate	2 January 1907
Officiating Minister	Rev. H. B. Wingfield, Church of England

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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 1908. 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).