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 December 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

1111

12 December 1907

William Henry Rice
Lucy Christine Worthington

William Henry Rice
Lucy Christina Worthington
💍 1907/6107

Bachelor
Spinster

Gardener

21
22

Auckland
Auckland

4 years

Primitive Methodist Church, Upper Pitt Street

07/6355

12 December 1907

Rev. W. O. Potter, Primitive Methodist

No	1111
Date of Notice	12 December 1907
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	William Henry Rice	Lucy Christine Worthington
BDM Match (98%)	William Henry Rice	Lucy Christina Worthington
	💍 1907/6107
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Gardener
Age	21	22
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	4 years
Marriage Place	Primitive Methodist Church, Upper Pitt Street
Folio	07/6355
Consent
Date of Certificate	12 December 1907
Officiating Minister	Rev. W. O. Potter, Primitive Methodist

1112

13 December 1907

George William Taylor
Agnes Isabella Binns

George William Taylor
Agnes Isabella Binns
💍 1907/6101

Bachelor
Spinster

French Polisher

27
19

Auckland
Auckland

12 years

House of mother of bride, 19 Grey Lynn

07/6364

Mary Binns, Mother

13 December 1907

Rev. G. Aldridge, Church of Christ

No	1112
Date of Notice	13 December 1907
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	George William Taylor	Agnes Isabella Binns
	💍 1907/6101
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	French Polisher
Age	27	19
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	12 years
Marriage Place	House of mother of bride, 19 Grey Lynn
Folio	07/6364
Consent	Mary Binns, Mother
Date of Certificate	13 December 1907
Officiating Minister	Rev. G. Aldridge, Church of Christ

1113

13 December 1907

Alfred Thomas Bell
Rebecca Susan Boughlan

Alfred Thomas Bell
Rebecca Susan Coughlan
💍 1907/6884

Bachelor
Spinster

Boatbuilder

24
23

Auckland
Auckland

12 years
10 years

St. Matthew's Church, Auckland

07/6173

13 December 1907

Rev. W. R. Gillam, Church of England

No	1113
Date of Notice	13 December 1907
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Alfred Thomas Bell	Rebecca Susan Boughlan
BDM Match (98%)	Alfred Thomas Bell	Rebecca Susan Coughlan
	💍 1907/6884
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Boatbuilder
Age	24	23
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	12 years	10 years
Marriage Place	St. Matthew's Church, Auckland
Folio	07/6173
Consent
Date of Certificate	13 December 1907
Officiating Minister	Rev. W. R. Gillam, Church of England

1114

13 December 1907

Clement Charles Barker
Rosie Annie Sandford

Clement Charles Capper
Rosie Annie Sandford
💍 1907/6835

Bachelor
Spinster

Boilermaker

28
25

Auckland
Auckland

12 years

Registrar's Office, Auckland

07/6123

13 December 1907

E. H. Lyons, Registrar

No	1114
Date of Notice	13 December 1907
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Clement Charles Barker	Rosie Annie Sandford
BDM Match (93%)	Clement Charles Capper	Rosie Annie Sandford
	💍 1907/6835
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Boilermaker
Age	28	25
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	12 years
Marriage Place	Registrar's Office, Auckland
Folio	07/6123
Consent
Date of Certificate	13 December 1907
Officiating Minister	E. H. Lyons, Registrar

1115

14 December 1907

Henry Alexander Ideckie
Louisa Agnes Johnson

Henry Alexander Leckie
Agnes Louisa Johnson
💍 1907/8001

Bachelor
Spinster

Clerk

29
21

Auckland
Auckland

10 years

Central Mission Hall, Albert Street

07/8097

14 December 1907

Rev. H. G. Hercus, Central Mission

No	1115
Date of Notice	14 December 1907
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Henry Alexander Ideckie	Louisa Agnes Johnson
BDM Match (71%)	Henry Alexander Leckie	Agnes Louisa Johnson
	💍 1907/8001
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Clerk
Age	29	21
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	10 years
Marriage Place	Central Mission Hall, Albert Street
Folio	07/8097
Consent
Date of Certificate	14 December 1907
Officiating Minister	Rev. H. G. Hercus, Central Mission

1116

14 December 1907

Herbert Henry Yonkin
Amy May Piddock

Herbert Henry Tonkins
Amy May Piddock
💍 1907/6885

Bachelor
Spinster

Warehouseman

23
19

Auckland
Auckland

10 years

St. Matthew's Church, Auckland

07/6174

William Henry Piddock, Father

14 December 1907

Rev. W. R. Gillam, Church of England

No	1116
Date of Notice	14 December 1907
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Herbert Henry Yonkin	Amy May Piddock
BDM Match (95%)	Herbert Henry Tonkins	Amy May Piddock
	💍 1907/6885
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Warehouseman
Age	23	19
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	10 years
Marriage Place	St. Matthew's Church, Auckland
Folio	07/6174
Consent	William Henry Piddock, Father
Date of Certificate	14 December 1907
Officiating Minister	Rev. W. R. Gillam, 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).