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 New Plymouth Quarter ending 31 March 1907 Registrar J.b. Smith

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

14 February 1907

James Henry Loesch
Ethel May Goodaere

James Henry Loesch
Ethel May Goodacre
💍 1907/1702

Bachelor
Spinster

Musician
Home duties

19
23

New Plymouth
New Plymouth

3 years
15 years

Goodaere's house, Westown

07/1821

Emily Loesch, mother of groom

22 February 1907

Wm Drew, Baptist

No	14
Date of Notice	14 February 1907
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	James Henry Loesch	Ethel May Goodaere
BDM Match (97%)	James Henry Loesch	Ethel May Goodacre
	💍 1907/1702
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Musician	Home duties
Age	19	23
Dwelling Place	New Plymouth	New Plymouth
Length of Residence	3 years	15 years
Marriage Place	Goodaere's house, Westown
Folio	07/1821
Consent	Emily Loesch, mother of groom
Date of Certificate	22 February 1907
Officiating Minister	Wm Drew, Baptist

8 February 1907

Archibald Findlay
Jessie Marguerite Gray

Archibald Findlay
Jessie Marguerite Gray
💍 1907/406

Bachelor
Spinster

Solicitor
Home duties

26
20

New Plymouth
New Plymouth

15 days
8 years

St Mary's Church

07/443

Henry Gray, father of bride

19 February 1907

J. G. Evans, Anglican

No	15
Date of Notice	8 February 1907
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Archibald Findlay	Jessie Marguerite Gray
	💍 1907/406
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Solicitor	Home duties
Age	26	20
Dwelling Place	New Plymouth	New Plymouth
Length of Residence	15 days	8 years
Marriage Place	St Mary's Church
Folio	07/443
Consent	Henry Gray, father of bride
Date of Certificate	19 February 1907
Officiating Minister	J. G. Evans, Anglican

18 February 1907

Arthur Wellington
Minnie Agnes Jordan

Arthur Wellington
Minnie Agnes Jordan
💍 1907/379

Bachelor
Spinster

Laborer
Home duties

29
24

New Plymouth
New Plymouth

3 days
1 year 24 days

Registry Office

07/437

18 February 1907

J.b. Smith, Registrar

No	16
Date of Notice	18 February 1907
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Arthur Wellington	Minnie Agnes Jordan
	💍 1907/379
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Laborer	Home duties
Age	29	24
Dwelling Place	New Plymouth	New Plymouth
Length of Residence	3 days	1 year 24 days
Marriage Place	Registry Office
Folio	07/437
Consent
Date of Certificate	18 February 1907
Officiating Minister	J.b. Smith, Registrar

26 February 1907

Joseph Corbett
Bessie Dora Black

Joseph Corbett
Bessie Dora Black
💍 1907/380

Bachelor
Spinster

Settler
Home duties

38
25

New Plymouth
Waitara

34 years
2 years

Registry Office

07/438

26 February 1907

J.b. Smith, Registrar

No	17
Date of Notice	26 February 1907
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Joseph Corbett	Bessie Dora Black
	💍 1907/380
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Settler	Home duties
Age	38	25
Dwelling Place	New Plymouth	Waitara
Length of Residence	34 years	2 years
Marriage Place	Registry Office
Folio	07/438
Consent
Date of Certificate	26 February 1907
Officiating Minister	J.b. Smith, Registrar

9 March 1907

Benjamin Enroth
Clara Berridge

Benjamin Emoth
Clara Berridge
💍 1907/399

Widower
Widow

Settler
Housekeeper

61
56

New Plymouth
New Plymouth

1 month
56 years

Registry Office

07/440

9 March 1907

J.b. Smith, Registrar

No	18
Date of Notice	9 March 1907
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Benjamin Enroth	Clara Berridge
BDM Match (93%)	Benjamin Emoth	Clara Berridge
	💍 1907/399
Condition	Widower	Widow
Profession	Settler	Housekeeper
Age	61	56
Dwelling Place	New Plymouth	New Plymouth
Length of Residence	1 month	56 years
Marriage Place	Registry Office
Folio	07/440
Consent
Date of Certificate	9 March 1907
Officiating Minister	J.b. Smith, Registrar

9 March 1907

Joseph Johnston
Margaret Whitehill Campbell

Joseph Johnston
Margaret Whitehill Campbell
💍 1907/388

Bachelor
Spinster

Compositor
Dressmaker

25
23

New Plymouth
New Plymouth

3 years
3 weeks

Registry Office

07/439

9 March 1907

J.b. Smith, Registrar

No	19
Date of Notice	9 March 1907
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Joseph Johnston	Margaret Whitehill Campbell
	💍 1907/388
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Compositor	Dressmaker
Age	25	23
Dwelling Place	New Plymouth	New Plymouth
Length of Residence	3 years	3 weeks
Marriage Place	Registry Office
Folio	07/439
Consent
Date of Certificate	9 March 1907
Officiating Minister	J.b. Smith, Registrar

11 March 1907

Harry Gunn Mosgrove
Dora Yates

Harry Gunn Mosgrove
Dora Yates
💍 1907/404

Bachelor
Spinster

Showman
Home duties

35
22

New Plymouth
New Plymouth

1 week
5 weeks

Registry Office

07/441

11 March 1907

J.b. Smith, Registrar

No	20
Date of Notice	11 March 1907
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Harry Gunn Mosgrove	Dora Yates
	💍 1907/404
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Showman	Home duties
Age	35	22
Dwelling Place	New Plymouth	New Plymouth
Length of Residence	1 week	5 weeks
Marriage Place	Registry Office
Folio	07/441
Consent
Date of Certificate	11 March 1907
Officiating Minister	J.b. Smith, 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 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).