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 30 September 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

646

22 August 1907

Robert Frances Darby
Ada Emily Tobin

Robert Francis Darby
Ada Emily Tobin
💍 1907/5412

Bachelor
Spinster

Steward

28
20

Wellington
Wellington

12 years
7 years

Residence of Mrs Underwood, 56 Constable Street, Wellington

07/5237

Henry Tobin (Father)

22 August 1907

Rev. W. J. Williams

No	646
Date of Notice	22 August 1907
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Robert Frances Darby	Ada Emily Tobin
BDM Match (98%)	Robert Francis Darby	Ada Emily Tobin
	💍 1907/5412
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Steward
Age	28	20
Dwelling Place	Wellington	Wellington
Length of Residence	12 years	7 years
Marriage Place	Residence of Mrs Underwood, 56 Constable Street, Wellington
Folio	07/5237
Consent	Henry Tobin (Father)
Date of Certificate	22 August 1907
Officiating Minister	Rev. W. J. Williams

647

22 August 1907

Percival George Jeffrey
Queennie Elvera Angerstein

Percival George Jeffrey
Queenie Elvira Augustein
💍 1907/5339

Bachelor
Spinster

Salesman

25
19

Wellington
Wellington

7 years
5 years

St. Peter's Church, Wellington

07/5738

Julius William Henry Angerstein (Father)

22 August 1907

Rev. G. P. Wavys

No	647
Date of Notice	22 August 1907
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Percival George Jeffrey	Queennie Elvera Angerstein
BDM Match (90%)	Percival George Jeffrey	Queenie Elvira Augustein
	💍 1907/5339
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Salesman
Age	25	19
Dwelling Place	Wellington	Wellington
Length of Residence	7 years	5 years
Marriage Place	St. Peter's Church, Wellington
Folio	07/5738
Consent	Julius William Henry Angerstein (Father)
Date of Certificate	22 August 1907
Officiating Minister	Rev. G. P. Wavys

648

22 August 1907

John William Ewings Jones
Martha Matilda Harris

John William Ewings Jones
Martha Matilda Harris
💍 1907/3692

Bachelor
Spinster

Mechanic

22
24

Wellington
Masterton

10 years
5 Months

Registrar's Office, Wellington

07/5701

Masterton

22 August 1907

G. G. Hodgkins, Registrar

No	648
Date of Notice	22 August 1907
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	John William Ewings Jones	Martha Matilda Harris
	💍 1907/3692
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Mechanic
Age	22	24
Dwelling Place	Wellington	Masterton
Length of Residence	10 years	5 Months
Marriage Place	Registrar's Office, Wellington
Folio	07/5701
Consent	Masterton
Date of Certificate	22 August 1907
Officiating Minister	G. G. Hodgkins, Registrar

649

22 August 1907

William David Book
Isabelle Minchin Nicol

William David Cook
Isabelle Minchin Nicol
💍 1907/5397

Bachelor
Spinster

Merchant

30
31

Wellington
Kelburne

7 years
2 years

St. Andrew's Church, Wellington

07/5795

Wellington

22 August 1907

Rev. J. G. Smith

No	649
Date of Notice	22 August 1907
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	William David Book	Isabelle Minchin Nicol
BDM Match (97%)	William David Cook	Isabelle Minchin Nicol
	💍 1907/5397
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Merchant
Age	30	31
Dwelling Place	Wellington	Kelburne
Length of Residence	7 years	2 years
Marriage Place	St. Andrew's Church, Wellington
Folio	07/5795
Consent	Wellington
Date of Certificate	22 August 1907
Officiating Minister	Rev. J. G. Smith

650

23 August 1907

Walter Hamilton Lees
Margaret Lindsay

Walter Hamilton Lees
Margaret Lindsay
💍 1907/5373

Bachelor
Spinster

Ironmonger

24
21

Wellington
Mitchelltown

5 years
16 years

Residence of Mr. Lindsay, Mitchelltown

07/5771

Mitchelltown

23 August 1907

Rev. J. K. Elliott

No	650
Date of Notice	23 August 1907
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Walter Hamilton Lees	Margaret Lindsay
	💍 1907/5373
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Ironmonger
Age	24	21
Dwelling Place	Wellington	Mitchelltown
Length of Residence	5 years	16 years
Marriage Place	Residence of Mr. Lindsay, Mitchelltown
Folio	07/5771
Consent	Mitchelltown
Date of Certificate	23 August 1907
Officiating Minister	Rev. J. K. Elliott

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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).