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 Hodgkins

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

24 January 1907

Patrick Davin
Mary Sullivan

Patrick Davin
Mary Magdalene Sullivan
💍 1907/738

Bachelor
Spinster

Railway Employee

29
28

Wellington
Wellington

2 years
18 Months

Sacred Heart Church, Hill Street, Wellington

07/815

24 January 1907

Rev. W. J. Lewis

No	71
Date of Notice	24 January 1907
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Patrick Davin	Mary Sullivan
BDM Match (78%)	Patrick Davin	Mary Magdalene Sullivan
	💍 1907/738
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Railway Employee
Age	29	28
Dwelling Place	Wellington	Wellington
Length of Residence	2 years	18 Months
Marriage Place	Sacred Heart Church, Hill Street, Wellington
Folio	07/815
Consent
Date of Certificate	24 January 1907
Officiating Minister	Rev. W. J. Lewis

24 January 1907

Charles Samuel Eagle
Georgina Page

Charles Samuel Eagle
Georgina Page
💍 1907/840

Bachelor
Widow

Labourer

25
46

Karori
Karori

2 years
30 years

Registrars Office, Wellington

07/910

24 January 1907

G. G. Hodgkins, Deputy Registrar

No	72
Date of Notice	24 January 1907
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Charles Samuel Eagle	Georgina Page
	💍 1907/840
Condition	Bachelor	Widow
Profession	Labourer
Age	25	46
Dwelling Place	Karori	Karori
Length of Residence	2 years	30 years
Marriage Place	Registrars Office, Wellington
Folio	07/910
Consent
Date of Certificate	24 January 1907
Officiating Minister	G. G. Hodgkins, Deputy Registrar

26 January 1907

Hugh Bunten Pollock
Sarah Hebberley

Hugh Bunten Pollock
Sarah Hebberley
💍 1907/841

Bachelor
Spinster

Labourer

48
42

Wellington
Wellington

3 days
3 days

Registrars Office, Wellington

07/911

26 January 1907

G. G. Hodgkins, Deputy Registrar

No	73
Date of Notice	26 January 1907
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Hugh Bunten Pollock	Sarah Hebberley
	💍 1907/841
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Labourer
Age	48	42
Dwelling Place	Wellington	Wellington
Length of Residence	3 days	3 days
Marriage Place	Registrars Office, Wellington
Folio	07/911
Consent
Date of Certificate	26 January 1907
Officiating Minister	G. G. Hodgkins, Deputy Registrar

26 January 1907

Sven Nelson Roband
Angela Mary Josephine Dowling

Sven Velson Roband
Angela Mary Josephine Dowling
💍 1907/783

Bachelor
Spinster

Farmer

46
42

Wellington
Upper Hutt

4 Months
20 years

Rowan Catholic Church, Upper Hutt

07/874

26 January 1907

Rev. J. J. Lane

No	74
Date of Notice	26 January 1907
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Sven Nelson Roband	Angela Mary Josephine Dowling
BDM Match (97%)	Sven Velson Roband	Angela Mary Josephine Dowling
	💍 1907/783
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Farmer
Age	46	42
Dwelling Place	Wellington	Upper Hutt
Length of Residence	4 Months	20 years
Marriage Place	Rowan Catholic Church, Upper Hutt
Folio	07/874
Consent
Date of Certificate	26 January 1907
Officiating Minister	Rev. J. J. Lane

28 January 1907

Arthur Hayward Andrews
Dorothy Florence Churchouse

Arthur Haywood Andrews
Florence Dorothy Churchouse
💍 1907/711

Bachelor
Spinster

Warehouseman

23
19

Wellington
Wellington

23 years
2 weeks

St. Peters Church, Wellington

07/802

Albert Churchouse, father

28 January 1907

Rev. G. P. Davy

No	75
Date of Notice	28 January 1907
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Arthur Hayward Andrews	Dorothy Florence Churchouse
BDM Match (73%)	Arthur Haywood Andrews	Florence Dorothy Churchouse
	💍 1907/711
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Warehouseman
Age	23	19
Dwelling Place	Wellington	Wellington
Length of Residence	23 years	2 weeks
Marriage Place	St. Peters Church, Wellington
Folio	07/802
Consent	Albert Churchouse, father
Date of Certificate	28 January 1907
Officiating Minister	Rev. G. P. Davy

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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).