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 Hamilton Quarter ending 30 June 1907 Registrar J. S. Bond

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

3 June 1907

Douglas Horatio Hunter
Alice Elsie Preston

Douglas Horutis Dale Hunter
Alice Elsie Preston
💍 1907/2333

Bachelor
Spinster

Flaxmiller
Domestic duties

24
22

Lamahere
Lamahere

3 days
3 years

English Church

07/2438

3 June 1907

Rev. Archdeacon Willis

No	27
Date of Notice	3 June 1907
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Douglas Horatio Hunter	Alice Elsie Preston
BDM Match (87%)	Douglas Horutis Dale Hunter	Alice Elsie Preston
	💍 1907/2333
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Flaxmiller	Domestic duties
Age	24	22
Dwelling Place	Lamahere	Lamahere
Length of Residence	3 days	3 years
Marriage Place	English Church
Folio	07/2438
Consent
Date of Certificate	3 June 1907
Officiating Minister	Rev. Archdeacon Willis

18 June 1907

John David Bann
Annie Maria Davies

John David Cann
Annie Maria Davies
💍 1907/2358

Bachelor
Spinster

Carpenter
Home duties

26
26

Hamilton
Kirikiriroa

4 years
26 years

Presbyterian Church, Hamilton

07/2479

18 June 1907

Rev. James Ernest Adams

No	28
Date of Notice	18 June 1907
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	John David Bann	Annie Maria Davies
BDM Match (97%)	John David Cann	Annie Maria Davies
	💍 1907/2358
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Carpenter	Home duties
Age	26	26
Dwelling Place	Hamilton	Kirikiriroa
Length of Residence	4 years	26 years
Marriage Place	Presbyterian Church, Hamilton
Folio	07/2479
Consent
Date of Certificate	18 June 1907
Officiating Minister	Rev. James Ernest Adams

19 June 1907

Duncan Livingstone McCallum
Lucy Ellen Mayes

David Livingstone McAllum
Lucy Ellen Mayes
💍 1907/2349

Bachelor
Spinster

Carter
Domestic Duties

24
21

Hamilton
Hamilton

5 years
21 years

Residence of Bride's parents, Hamilton West

07/2477

19 June 1907

Rev. P. J. Inairs

No	29
Date of Notice	19 June 1907
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Duncan Livingstone McCallum	Lucy Ellen Mayes
BDM Match (87%)	David Livingstone McAllum	Lucy Ellen Mayes
	💍 1907/2349
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Carter	Domestic Duties
Age	24	21
Dwelling Place	Hamilton	Hamilton
Length of Residence	5 years	21 years
Marriage Place	Residence of Bride's parents, Hamilton West
Folio	07/2477
Consent
Date of Certificate	19 June 1907
Officiating Minister	Rev. P. J. Inairs

21 June 1907

John Smith
Alice Maud Tebbs

John Smith
Alice Maud Tebbs
💍 1907/2369

Bachelor
Spinster

Blacksmith
Domestic duties

30
25

Hamilton
Frankton

3 years
24 years

Presbyterian Church, Hamilton East

07/2480

21 June 1907

Rev. James Ernest Adams

No	30
Date of Notice	21 June 1907
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	John Smith	Alice Maud Tebbs
	💍 1907/2369
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Blacksmith	Domestic duties
Age	30	25
Dwelling Place	Hamilton	Frankton
Length of Residence	3 years	24 years
Marriage Place	Presbyterian Church, Hamilton East
Folio	07/2480
Consent
Date of Certificate	21 June 1907
Officiating Minister	Rev. James Ernest Adams

27 June 1907

Norman Kenneth Taylor
Katie Linton McNicol

Norman Kenneth Taylor
Kate Linton McNicol
💍 1907/4690

Bachelor
Spinster

Farmer
Domestic duties

27
19

Hukanui
Hukanui

2 years
4 years

At Residence of Bride's mother, Hukanui

07/4079

Eliza Forsaith, mother of bride

27 June 1907

Rev. James Ernest Adams

No	31
Date of Notice	27 June 1907
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Norman Kenneth Taylor	Katie Linton McNicol
BDM Match (98%)	Norman Kenneth Taylor	Kate Linton McNicol
	💍 1907/4690
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Farmer	Domestic duties
Age	27	19
Dwelling Place	Hukanui	Hukanui
Length of Residence	2 years	4 years
Marriage Place	At Residence of Bride's mother, Hukanui
Folio	07/4079
Consent	Eliza Forsaith, mother of bride
Date of Certificate	27 June 1907
Officiating Minister	Rev. James Ernest Adams

3 July 1907

John Penny
Cecilia Margareta Hemmingson

John Penny
Cecilia Margareta Hemmingson
💍 1907/3515

Bachelor
Spinster

Settler
Domestic duties

42
24

Ngaruawahia
Ngaruawahia

12 days
3 weeks

Office of the Registrar of Marriages, Hamilton

3 July 1907

Registrar of Marriages

No	32
Date of Notice	3 July 1907
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	John Penny	Cecilia Margareta Hemmingson
	💍 1907/3515
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Settler	Domestic duties
Age	42	24
Dwelling Place	Ngaruawahia	Ngaruawahia
Length of Residence	12 days	3 weeks
Marriage Place	Office of the Registrar of Marriages, Hamilton
Folio
Consent
Date of Certificate	3 July 1907
Officiating Minister	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 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).