Intentions to Marry, 1907 Wellington, Marlborough, Nelson, Westland

Reference: Registrar-General of Births, Deaths and Marriages, Notices of intention to marry, Series 8937, R2840434, 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 Wellington Quarter ending 31 March 1907 Registrar Gilbert Graham Hodghins

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

Edward Sharon
Edith Emily Thomas

Edward Sharon
Edith Emily Thomas
💍 1907/774

Widower
Spinster

Assistant Engineer

51
32

Detour
Detour

6 years
11 months

Residence of Turidge, Tainui Terrace, Wellington

07/866

14 January 1907

Rev. G. J. North

No	41
Date of Notice	14 January 1907
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Edward Sharon	Edith Emily Thomas
	💍 1907/774
Condition	Widower	Spinster
Profession	Assistant Engineer
Age	51	32
Dwelling Place	Detour	Detour
Length of Residence	6 years	11 months
Marriage Place	Residence of Turidge, Tainui Terrace, Wellington
Folio	07/866
Consent
Date of Certificate	14 January 1907
Officiating Minister	Rev. G. J. North

14 January 1907

Walter George Kendle
Georgina Carter

Walter George Kendle
Georgina Carter-Cavanagh
💍 1907/819

Bachelor
Spinster

Carpenter

25
21

Wellington
Wellington

5 months
8 months

Registrars Office, Wellington

07/903

14 January 1907

G. G. Hodgkins, Deputy Registrar

No	42
Date of Notice	14 January 1907
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Walter George Kendle	Georgina Carter
BDM Match (81%)	Walter George Kendle	Georgina Carter-Cavanagh
	💍 1907/819
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Carpenter
Age	25	21
Dwelling Place	Wellington	Wellington
Length of Residence	5 months	8 months
Marriage Place	Registrars Office, Wellington
Folio	07/903
Consent
Date of Certificate	14 January 1907
Officiating Minister	G. G. Hodgkins, Deputy Registrar

14 January 1907

Roger Corbett Outtrim
Alice Violet Brian

Roger Corbett Outtrim
Alice Violet Brian
💍 1907/763

Bachelor
Spinster

Storeman

20
18

Wellington
Wellington

5 years
5 years

St. Joseph's Church, Wellington

07/830

W. Simmonds Outtrim (Father), Charles Brian (Father)

14 January 1907

Rev. T. O'Shea

No	43
Date of Notice	14 January 1907
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Roger Corbett Outtrim	Alice Violet Brian
	💍 1907/763
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Storeman
Age	20	18
Dwelling Place	Wellington	Wellington
Length of Residence	5 years	5 years
Marriage Place	St. Joseph's Church, Wellington
Folio	07/830
Consent	W. Simmonds Outtrim (Father), Charles Brian (Father)
Date of Certificate	14 January 1907
Officiating Minister	Rev. T. O'Shea

14 January 1907

Samuel Bingham Whitehead
Mary Leonard Rudman

Samuel Bingham McLeod
Mary Leonard Rudman
💍 1907/830

Widower
Widow

Labourer

52
50

Wellington
Wellington

10 years
50 years

Registrars Office, Wellington

07/904

14 January 1907

G. G. Hodgkins, Deputy Registrar

No	44
Date of Notice	14 January 1907
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Samuel Bingham Whitehead	Mary Leonard Rudman
BDM Match (85%)	Samuel Bingham McLeod	Mary Leonard Rudman
	💍 1907/830
Condition	Widower	Widow
Profession	Labourer
Age	52	50
Dwelling Place	Wellington	Wellington
Length of Residence	10 years	50 years
Marriage Place	Registrars Office, Wellington
Folio	07/904
Consent
Date of Certificate	14 January 1907
Officiating Minister	G. G. Hodgkins, Deputy Registrar

15 January 1907

Albert Edwards Jackson
Ethel Margaret Parsons

Albert Edward Jackson
Ethel Margaret Parsons
💍 1907/714

Bachelor
Spinster

Bookseller & Stationer

32
26

Wellington
Lower Hutt

3 days
7 years

Church of England, Lower Hutt

07/805

15 January 1907

Rev. J. J. Gaze

No	45
Date of Notice	15 January 1907
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Albert Edwards Jackson	Ethel Margaret Parsons
BDM Match (98%)	Albert Edward Jackson	Ethel Margaret Parsons
	💍 1907/714
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Bookseller & Stationer
Age	32	26
Dwelling Place	Wellington	Lower Hutt
Length of Residence	3 days	7 years
Marriage Place	Church of England, Lower Hutt
Folio	07/805
Consent
Date of Certificate	15 January 1907
Officiating Minister	Rev. J. J. Gaze

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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 1903. 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).