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 Greymouth Quarter ending 31 March 1907

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

30 January 1907

William Webb
Eva Masters

William Webb
Eva Masters
💍 1907/974

bachelor
spinster

Crane driver
Milliner

27
21

Greymouth
Greymouth

7 months
3 months

Trinity Church, Greymouth

07/1069

30 January 1907

Ven. Archdeacon Geo. W. York

No	9
Date of Notice	30 January 1907
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	William Webb	Eva Masters
	💍 1907/974
Condition	bachelor	spinster
Profession	Crane driver	Milliner
Age	27	21
Dwelling Place	Greymouth	Greymouth
Length of Residence	7 months	3 months
Marriage Place	Trinity Church, Greymouth
Folio	07/1069
Consent
Date of Certificate	30 January 1907
Officiating Minister	Ven. Archdeacon Geo. W. York

8 February 1907

Michael Minehan
Edith Caroline Louise Taylor

Michael Minahan
Ellen Caroline Louise Taylor
💍 1907/983

bachelor
spinster

Grocer
Domestic duties

26
26

Cobden
Cobden

3 years
26 years

Rowan Catholic Church, Greymouth

07/1078

8 February 1907

Rev. Jas. Taylor

No	10
Date of Notice	8 February 1907
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Michael Minehan	Edith Caroline Louise Taylor
BDM Match (90%)	Michael Minahan	Ellen Caroline Louise Taylor
	💍 1907/983
Condition	bachelor	spinster
Profession	Grocer	Domestic duties
Age	26	26
Dwelling Place	Cobden	Cobden
Length of Residence	3 years	26 years
Marriage Place	Rowan Catholic Church, Greymouth
Folio	07/1078
Consent
Date of Certificate	8 February 1907
Officiating Minister	Rev. Jas. Taylor

12 February 1907

Francis Bertram Stallard
Isabella Adelia Dawson

Francis Bertram Stallard
Isabella Adelia Dawson
💍 1907/975

bachelor
widow

Salesman

34
33

Reefton
Reefton

3 days
3 days

Trinity Church, Greymouth

07/1070

12 February 1907

Ven. Archdeacon Geo. W. York

No	11
Date of Notice	12 February 1907
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Francis Bertram Stallard	Isabella Adelia Dawson
	💍 1907/975
Condition	bachelor	widow
Profession	Salesman
Age	34	33
Dwelling Place	Reefton	Reefton
Length of Residence	3 days	3 days
Marriage Place	Trinity Church, Greymouth
Folio	07/1070
Consent
Date of Certificate	12 February 1907
Officiating Minister	Ven. Archdeacon Geo. W. York

21 February 1907

Maurice Livingston Gibbens
Bridget Brennan

Maurice Livingston Gibbens
Bridget Brennan
💍 1907/988

bachelor
spinster

Laborer
Domestic

19
20

Greymouth
Greymouth

19 years
1 year

Office of the Registrar of Marriages, Greymouth

07/1083

Maria Brennan, mother of bride; [illegible] Gibbens, father of groom

21 February 1907

Registrar of Marriages, Greymouth

No	12
Date of Notice	21 February 1907
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Maurice Livingston Gibbens	Bridget Brennan
	💍 1907/988
Condition	bachelor	spinster
Profession	Laborer	Domestic
Age	19	20
Dwelling Place	Greymouth	Greymouth
Length of Residence	19 years	1 year
Marriage Place	Office of the Registrar of Marriages, Greymouth
Folio	07/1083
Consent	Maria Brennan, mother of bride; [illegible] Gibbens, father of groom
Date of Certificate	21 February 1907
Officiating Minister	Registrar of Marriages, Greymouth

25 February 1907

Ludwig Neubauer
Mary Saylor

Ludwig Neubauer
Mary Taylor
💍 1907/8187

bachelor
spinster

Electrical Engineer
Domestic duties

32
26

Wellington but now Greymouth
Greymouth

5 years 3 days
3 weeks

Methodist Church, Greymouth

07/1081

25 February 1907

Rev. D. McNicol

No	13
Date of Notice	25 February 1907
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Ludwig Neubauer	Mary Saylor
BDM Match (95%)	Ludwig Neubauer	Mary Taylor
	💍 1907/8187
Condition	bachelor	spinster
Profession	Electrical Engineer	Domestic duties
Age	32	26
Dwelling Place	Wellington but now Greymouth	Greymouth
Length of Residence	5 years 3 days	3 weeks
Marriage Place	Methodist Church, Greymouth
Folio	07/1081
Consent
Date of Certificate	25 February 1907
Officiating Minister	Rev. D. McNicol

6 March 1907

David Selford Brownlie
Lucy Ethel Black

David Telford Brownlie
Lucy Ethel Black
💍 1907/978

Bachelor
Spinster

Insurance Manager

43
32

Dunedin
Greymouth

6 years
5 months

Trinity Church, Greymouth

07/1073

6 March 1907

Ven. Archdeacon Geo. W. York

No	14
Date of Notice	6 March 1907
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	David Selford Brownlie	Lucy Ethel Black
BDM Match (98%)	David Telford Brownlie	Lucy Ethel Black
	💍 1907/978
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Insurance Manager
Age	43	32
Dwelling Place	Dunedin	Greymouth
Length of Residence	6 years	5 months
Marriage Place	Trinity Church, Greymouth
Folio	07/1073
Consent
Date of Certificate	6 March 1907
Officiating Minister	Ven. Archdeacon Geo. W. York

8 March 1907

Sydney Arthur Coburn
Sarah Jane Hazeldine

Sydney Arthur Coburn
Sarah Jane Hazeldine
💍 1907/976

Bachelor
spinster

Carter
domestic

26
26

Greymouth
Greymouth

26 years
3 years

Trinity Church, Greymouth

07/1071

8 March 1907

Ven. Archdeacon Geo. W. York

No	15
Date of Notice	8 March 1907
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Sydney Arthur Coburn	Sarah Jane Hazeldine
	💍 1907/976
Condition	Bachelor	spinster
Profession	Carter	domestic
Age	26	26
Dwelling Place	Greymouth	Greymouth
Length of Residence	26 years	3 years
Marriage Place	Trinity Church, Greymouth
Folio	07/1071
Consent
Date of Certificate	8 March 1907
Officiating Minister	Ven. Archdeacon Geo. W. York

11 March 1907

Alfred Armstrong
Mary Armstrong

Alfred Armstrong
Mary Armstrong
💍 1907/987

Bachelor
spinster

Sawmiller

22
19

Kokiri
Kokiri

15 years
15 years

Office of the Registrar of Marriages, Greymouth

07/1082

Robert Armstrong, father

11 March 1907

Registrar of Marriages, Greymouth

No	16
Date of Notice	11 March 1907
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Alfred Armstrong	Mary Armstrong
	💍 1907/987
Condition	Bachelor	spinster
Profession	Sawmiller
Age	22	19
Dwelling Place	Kokiri	Kokiri
Length of Residence	15 years	15 years
Marriage Place	Office of the Registrar of Marriages, Greymouth
Folio	07/1082
Consent	Robert Armstrong, father
Date of Certificate	11 March 1907
Officiating Minister	Registrar of Marriages, Greymouth

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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).