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).

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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

253

27 March 1907

Robert David Miller
Edith Chaytor

Robert David Miller
Edith Chaytor
💍 1907/1697

Bachelor
Spinster

Storeman

27
26

Auckland
Auckland

27 years
20 years

Congregational Church, Beresford Street

07/1816

27 March 1907

Rev. Wilkins, Congregational Independent

No	253
Date of Notice	27 March 1907
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Robert David Miller	Edith Chaytor
	💍 1907/1697
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Storeman
Age	27	26
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	27 years	20 years
Marriage Place	Congregational Church, Beresford Street
Folio	07/1816
Consent
Date of Certificate	27 March 1907
Officiating Minister	Rev. Wilkins, Congregational Independent

254

27 March 1907

Archibald Wilson
Hilda Sarah Laud

Archibald Wilson
Hilda Sarah Land
💍 1907/1735

Bachelor
Spinster

Storekeeper

26
24

Auckland
Rollerslie

24 years
24 years

House of Father of Bride, Rollerslie

07/1854

27 March 1907

Rev. R. Y. Macnicol, Presbyterian

No	254
Date of Notice	27 March 1907
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Archibald Wilson	Hilda Sarah Laud
BDM Match (97%)	Archibald Wilson	Hilda Sarah Land
	💍 1907/1735
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Storekeeper
Age	26	24
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Rollerslie
Length of Residence	24 years	24 years
Marriage Place	House of Father of Bride, Rollerslie
Folio	07/1854
Consent
Date of Certificate	27 March 1907
Officiating Minister	Rev. R. Y. Macnicol, Presbyterian

255

27 March 1907

Bertie Louis Smith
Harriet Walker

Bertie Louis Smith
Harriett Walker
💍 1907/2224

Bachelor
Spinster

Upholsterer

26
27

Auckland
Auckland

15 years
13 years

Primitive Methodist Church, Alexandra St.

07/2344

27 March 1907

Rev. W. S. Potter, Primitive Methodist

No	255
Date of Notice	27 March 1907
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Bertie Louis Smith	Harriet Walker
BDM Match (97%)	Bertie Louis Smith	Harriett Walker
	💍 1907/2224
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Upholsterer
Age	26	27
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	15 years	13 years
Marriage Place	Primitive Methodist Church, Alexandra St.
Folio	07/2344
Consent
Date of Certificate	27 March 1907
Officiating Minister	Rev. W. S. Potter, Primitive Methodist

256

27 March 1907

Maurice Ralph Keeping
Elizabeth Graham

Maurice Ralph Keesing
Elizabeth Graham
💍 1907/73

Bachelor
Spinster

Teacher

52
43

Auckland
Auckland

52 years
15 years

House of Rev. M. Walker, Wellington Street

07/51

27 March 1907

Rev. M. Walker, Church of Our Father

No	256
Date of Notice	27 March 1907
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Maurice Ralph Keeping	Elizabeth Graham
BDM Match (98%)	Maurice Ralph Keesing	Elizabeth Graham
	💍 1907/73
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Teacher
Age	52	43
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	52 years	15 years
Marriage Place	House of Rev. M. Walker, Wellington Street
Folio	07/51
Consent
Date of Certificate	27 March 1907
Officiating Minister	Rev. M. Walker, Church of Our Father

257

28 March 1907

Edwin Horace Smith
Ada Charlotte Webster

Edwin Horace Smith
Ada Charlotte Webster
💍 1907/1698

Bachelor
Spinster

Cabinet-maker

25
24

Auckland
Auckland

3 days
24 years

Congregational Church, Beresford Street

07/1817

28 March 1907

Rev. R. H. Catherwood, Presbyterian

No	257
Date of Notice	28 March 1907
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Edwin Horace Smith	Ada Charlotte Webster
	💍 1907/1698
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Cabinet-maker
Age	25	24
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	3 days	24 years
Marriage Place	Congregational Church, Beresford Street
Folio	07/1817
Consent
Date of Certificate	28 March 1907
Officiating Minister	Rev. R. H. Catherwood, Presbyterian

258

28 March 1907

William Sime
Kathleen Kyle

William Sime
Kathleen Kyle
💍 1907/1754

Bachelor
Spinster

Fireman

25
21

Auckland
Auckland

6 years
9 years

St. Patrick's Cathedral, Auckland

07/1874

28 March 1907

Rev. H. Y. Holbrook, Roman Catholic

No	258
Date of Notice	28 March 1907
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	William Sime	Kathleen Kyle
	💍 1907/1754
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Fireman
Age	25	21
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	6 years	9 years
Marriage Place	St. Patrick's Cathedral, Auckland
Folio	07/1874
Consent
Date of Certificate	28 March 1907
Officiating Minister	Rev. H. Y. Holbrook, Roman Catholic

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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).