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 E. H. 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

14 January 1907

Walton Davis
Florence Kirkpatrick

Walton Davis
Florence Kirkpatrick
💍 1907/178

Bachelor
Spinster

Law Clerk

21
24

Auckland
Auckland

1 yr
3 days

Registrar's Office, Auckland

07/192

14 January 1907

E. H. Lyons Registrar

No	43
Date of Notice	14 January 1907
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Walton Davis	Florence Kirkpatrick
	💍 1907/178
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Law Clerk
Age	21	24
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	1 yr	3 days
Marriage Place	Registrar's Office, Auckland
Folio	07/192
Consent
Date of Certificate	14 January 1907
Officiating Minister	E. H. Lyons Registrar

14 January 1907

Harold Oswald Ellis
Florence Clunies Clunies-Ross

Harold Oswald Ellis
Florence Clunies Clunies-Ross
💍 1907/179

Bachelor
Spinster

Purser

24
24

Auckland
Auckland

4 days
4

Registrar's Office, Auckland

07/193

14 January 1907

E. H. Lyons Registrar

No	44
Date of Notice	14 January 1907
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Harold Oswald Ellis	Florence Clunies Clunies-Ross
	💍 1907/179
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Purser
Age	24	24
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	4 days	4
Marriage Place	Registrar's Office, Auckland
Folio	07/193
Consent
Date of Certificate	14 January 1907
Officiating Minister	E. H. Lyons Registrar

15 January 1907

Charles Fraser Snowdon
Annie Elizabeth Kirk

Charles Fraser Snowdon
Annie Elizabeth Kirk
💍 1907/188

Bachelor
Spinster

Painter

24
38

Auckland
Auckland

4 yrs
14

House of Mr J. Kirk, Wellesley St, Auckland

07/179

15 January 1907

Rev. J. Wilson Methodist

No	45
Date of Notice	15 January 1907
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Charles Fraser Snowdon	Annie Elizabeth Kirk
	💍 1907/188
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Painter
Age	24	38
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	4 yrs	14
Marriage Place	House of Mr J. Kirk, Wellesley St, Auckland
Folio	07/179
Consent
Date of Certificate	15 January 1907
Officiating Minister	Rev. J. Wilson Methodist

14 January 1907

William Alexander Johnston
Vivienne Myriel McNeil

William Alexander Johnston
Vivienne Muriel McNeil
💍 1907/180

Bachelor
Not heard of husband for seven years

Labourer

26
23

Auckland
Auckland

24
4 yrs

Registrar's Office, Auckland

07/194

17 January 1907

E. H. Lyons Registrar

No	46
Date of Notice	14 January 1907
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	William Alexander Johnston	Vivienne Myriel McNeil
BDM Match (98%)	William Alexander Johnston	Vivienne Muriel McNeil
	💍 1907/180
Condition	Bachelor	Not heard of husband for seven years
Profession	Labourer
Age	26	23
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	24	4 yrs
Marriage Place	Registrar's Office, Auckland
Folio	07/194
Consent
Date of Certificate	17 January 1907
Officiating Minister	E. H. Lyons Registrar

17 January 1907

Joseph Hancock
Theresa Thorne

Joseph Hancock
Theresa Thorne
💍 1907/1748

Bachelor
Spinster

Salesman

33
27

Auckland
Auckland

11 yrs
27

St Patrick's Cathedral, Auckland

07/1868

17 January 1907

Rev. H. F. Holbrook Roman Catholic

No	47
Date of Notice	17 January 1907
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Joseph Hancock	Theresa Thorne
	💍 1907/1748
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Salesman
Age	33	27
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	11 yrs	27
Marriage Place	St Patrick's Cathedral, Auckland
Folio	07/1868
Consent
Date of Certificate	17 January 1907
Officiating Minister	Rev. H. F. Holbrook Roman Catholic

18 January 1907

Edward Sewell
Elizabeth Ash

Edward Servell
Elizabeth Ash
💍 1907/55

Widower
Spinster

Farmer

50
33

Auckland
Mt Roskill

40 yrs
33

Church of England, Mt Roskill

07/16

18 January 1907

Rev. G. B. Wingfield Church of England

No	48
Date of Notice	18 January 1907
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Edward Sewell	Elizabeth Ash
BDM Match (93%)	Edward Servell	Elizabeth Ash
	💍 1907/55
Condition	Widower	Spinster
Profession	Farmer
Age	50	33
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Mt Roskill
Length of Residence	40 yrs	33
Marriage Place	Church of England, Mt Roskill
Folio	07/16
Consent
Date of Certificate	18 January 1907
Officiating Minister	Rev. G. 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).