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).

Page 394

District of Wellington Quarter ending 30 June 1907 Registrar G. G. 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

386

3 May 1907

Johan Wilhelm Lindholm
Minnie Braile

Johan Wilhelm Lindholm
Minnie Brake
💍 1907/2708

Bachelor
Spinster

Stevedore

36
30

Wellington
Wellington

5 years
2 years

Registrar's Office, Wellington

07/2929

3 May 1907

Registrar

No	386
Date of Notice	3 May 1907
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Johan Wilhelm Lindholm	Minnie Braile
BDM Match (92%)	Johan Wilhelm Lindholm	Minnie Brake
	💍 1907/2708
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Stevedore
Age	36	30
Dwelling Place	Wellington	Wellington
Length of Residence	5 years	2 years
Marriage Place	Registrar's Office, Wellington
Folio	07/2929
Consent
Date of Certificate	3 May 1907
Officiating Minister	Registrar

387

4 May 1907

Leonard William Griffiths
Lena Catherine Morris

Lenard Viti Griffiths
Lena Catherine Morris
💍 1907/3033

Bachelor
Spinster

Clerk

23
21

Wellington
Wellington

5 years
Life

St. Peter's Church

07/3064

4 May 1907

Rev. G. P. Davys

No	387
Date of Notice	4 May 1907
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Leonard William Griffiths	Lena Catherine Morris
BDM Match (88%)	Lenard Viti Griffiths	Lena Catherine Morris
	💍 1907/3033
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Clerk
Age	23	21
Dwelling Place	Wellington	Wellington
Length of Residence	5 years	Life
Marriage Place	St. Peter's Church
Folio	07/3064
Consent
Date of Certificate	4 May 1907
Officiating Minister	Rev. G. P. Davys

388

4 May 1907

Denis O'Keefe
Catherine Elizabeth Anderson

Denis O'Keeffe
Catherine Elizabeth Anderson
💍 1907/2984

Bachelor
Spinster

Laborer

20
20

Lower Hutt
Wellington

12 months
9 months

St. Joseph's Church, Buckle Street

07/2990

Richard O'Keefe, Father. There is no person in the Colony having authority to give consent to the marriage of Catherine Elizabeth Anderson.

8 May 1907

Rev. C. J. Venning

No	388
Date of Notice	4 May 1907
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Denis O'Keefe	Catherine Elizabeth Anderson
BDM Match (96%)	Denis O'Keeffe	Catherine Elizabeth Anderson
	💍 1907/2984
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Laborer
Age	20	20
Dwelling Place	Lower Hutt	Wellington
Length of Residence	12 months	9 months
Marriage Place	St. Joseph's Church, Buckle Street
Folio	07/2990
Consent	Richard O'Keefe, Father. There is no person in the Colony having authority to give consent to the marriage of Catherine Elizabeth Anderson.
Date of Certificate	8 May 1907
Officiating Minister	Rev. C. J. Venning

389

6 May 1907

Alfred Edward Clarke
Sarah Annette Mansell

Alfred Edward Clarke
Sarah Annette Mansell
💍 1907/3020

Bachelor
Spinster

Storeman

44
22

Wellington
Wellington

6 years
12 months

Residence of Mrs. Brown, 11 Crawford Terrace

07/3044

6 May 1907

Rev. J. Dawson

No	389
Date of Notice	6 May 1907
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Alfred Edward Clarke	Sarah Annette Mansell
	💍 1907/3020
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Storeman
Age	44	22
Dwelling Place	Wellington	Wellington
Length of Residence	6 years	12 months
Marriage Place	Residence of Mrs. Brown, 11 Crawford Terrace
Folio	07/3044
Consent
Date of Certificate	6 May 1907
Officiating Minister	Rev. J. Dawson

390

6 May 1907

Henry Alfred Glover
Edith Olivia Booth

Henry Alfred Glover
Edith Olivia Booth
💍 1907/2709

Bachelor
Spinster

Government Messenger

33
18

Wellington
Wellington

4 years
12 months

Registrar's Office, Wellington

07/2930

William Booth, Father

6 May 1907

Registrar

No	390
Date of Notice	6 May 1907
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Henry Alfred Glover	Edith Olivia Booth
	💍 1907/2709
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Government Messenger
Age	33	18
Dwelling Place	Wellington	Wellington
Length of Residence	4 years	12 months
Marriage Place	Registrar's Office, Wellington
Folio	07/2930
Consent	William Booth, Father
Date of Certificate	6 May 1907
Officiating Minister	Registrar

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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).