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

8 January 1907

Henry Irvine Elliott
Catherine Sarah Lindhorn

Henry Irvine Elliott
Catherine Sarah Linkhorn
💍 1907/8318

Bachelor
Spinster

Clerk

34
26

Auckland
Auckland

6 years
6 years

St Matthews Church Auckland

07/132

8 January 1907

Rev W. E. Gillam, Church of England

No	31
Date of Notice	8 January 1907
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Henry Irvine Elliott	Catherine Sarah Lindhorn
BDM Match (98%)	Henry Irvine Elliott	Catherine Sarah Linkhorn
	💍 1907/8318
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Clerk
Age	34	26
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	6 years	6 years
Marriage Place	St Matthews Church Auckland
Folio	07/132
Consent
Date of Certificate	8 January 1907
Officiating Minister	Rev W. E. Gillam, Church of England

9 January 1907

Cecil James Garfield Hunt
Emily Elphingston Jolly

Cecil James Garfield Hunt
Emily Elfingston Jolly
💍 1907/173

Bachelor
Spinster

Blacksmith

23
19

Auckland
Auckland

3 weeks
3 weeks

Registrars Office Auckland

07/187

Louisa Burdett, Mother

9 January 1907

E. H. Lyons, Registrar

No	32
Date of Notice	9 January 1907
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Cecil James Garfield Hunt	Emily Elphingston Jolly
BDM Match (96%)	Cecil James Garfield Hunt	Emily Elfingston Jolly
	💍 1907/173
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Blacksmith
Age	23	19
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	3 weeks	3 weeks
Marriage Place	Registrars Office Auckland
Folio	07/187
Consent	Louisa Burdett, Mother
Date of Certificate	9 January 1907
Officiating Minister	E. H. Lyons, Registrar

9 January 1907

John Gardner
Eliza Stella Christina Dunn

John Gardner
Eliza Stella Christina Dunn
💍 1907/175

Bachelor
Not heard of husband for 10 years

Farmer

26
29

Auckland
Auckland

3 years
14 years

Registrars Office Auckland

07/189

9 January 1907

E. H. Lyons, Registrar

No	33
Date of Notice	9 January 1907
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	John Gardner	Eliza Stella Christina Dunn
	💍 1907/175
Condition	Bachelor	Not heard of husband for 10 years
Profession	Farmer
Age	26	29
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	3 years	14 years
Marriage Place	Registrars Office Auckland
Folio	07/189
Consent
Date of Certificate	9 January 1907
Officiating Minister	E. H. Lyons, Registrar

10 January 1907

William Daniel Donovan
Elsie May Havord

William Daniel Donovan
Elsie May Havord
💍 1907/174

Bachelor
Spinster

Blacksmith

21
19

Auckland
Auckland

17 years
19 years

Registrars Office Auckland

07/188

Matthew Henry Havord, Father

10 January 1907

E. H. Lyons, Registrar

No	34
Date of Notice	10 January 1907
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	William Daniel Donovan	Elsie May Havord
	💍 1907/174
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Blacksmith
Age	21	19
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	17 years	19 years
Marriage Place	Registrars Office Auckland
Folio	07/188
Consent	Matthew Henry Havord, Father
Date of Certificate	10 January 1907
Officiating Minister	E. H. Lyons, Registrar

10 January 1907

Robert Charles Barnes
Florence Eva Langford

Robert Charles Barnes
Florence Eva Langford
💍 1907/158

Bachelor
Spinster

Warehouseman

46
35

Auckland
Auckland

30 years
20 years

Church of England Papakura

07/170

10 January 1907

Rev W. G. Moncrieff, Church of England

No	35
Date of Notice	10 January 1907
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Robert Charles Barnes	Florence Eva Langford
	💍 1907/158
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Warehouseman
Age	46	35
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	30 years	20 years
Marriage Place	Church of England Papakura
Folio	07/170
Consent
Date of Certificate	10 January 1907
Officiating Minister	Rev W. G. Moncrieff, Church of England

10 January 1907

Francis Samuel Thorn Shepherd
Ella Jane McIntyre

Francis Samuel Thorn Shepherd
Ella Jane McIntyre
💍 1907/91

Bachelor
Spinster

Farmer

31
19

Auckland
Auckland

3 days
3 days

St Davids Church Auckland

07/53

John McIntyre, Father

10 January 1907

Rev W. G. Dixon, Presbyterian

No	36
Date of Notice	10 January 1907
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Francis Samuel Thorn Shepherd	Ella Jane McIntyre
	💍 1907/91
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Farmer
Age	31	19
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	3 days	3 days
Marriage Place	St Davids Church Auckland
Folio	07/53
Consent	John McIntyre, Father
Date of Certificate	10 January 1907
Officiating Minister	Rev W. G. Dixon, Presbyterian

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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).