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 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

23 January 1907

Bertrand Edward Eustace Whitcombe
Voelita Isadore Brooke Hicksou

Bertrand Edward Eustace Whitcombe
Melita Isadore Brooke Hickson
💍 1907/743

Bachelor
Spinster

Bank Clerk

31
30

Wellington
Wellington

3 days
1 month

Anglican Church, Worser Bay

07/820

23 January 1907

Rev. G. A. McNickle

No	66
Date of Notice	23 January 1907
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Bertrand Edward Eustace Whitcombe	Voelita Isadore Brooke Hicksou
BDM Match (95%)	Bertrand Edward Eustace Whitcombe	Melita Isadore Brooke Hickson
	💍 1907/743
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Bank Clerk
Age	31	30
Dwelling Place	Wellington	Wellington
Length of Residence	3 days	1 month
Marriage Place	Anglican Church, Worser Bay
Folio	07/820
Consent
Date of Certificate	23 January 1907
Officiating Minister	Rev. G. A. McNickle

23 January 1907

John Cook Fairbairn
Alice Pawson

John Cook Fairbairn
Alice Pawson
💍 1907/813

Bachelor
Spinster

Telegraphist

27
23

Wellington
Wellington

5 years
14 years

Residence of P. McAnulty, 49 Austin Street

07/881

23 January 1907

Rev. G. K. Elliott

No	67
Date of Notice	23 January 1907
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	John Cook Fairbairn	Alice Pawson
	💍 1907/813
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Telegraphist
Age	27	23
Dwelling Place	Wellington	Wellington
Length of Residence	5 years	14 years
Marriage Place	Residence of P. McAnulty, 49 Austin Street
Folio	07/881
Consent
Date of Certificate	23 January 1907
Officiating Minister	Rev. G. K. Elliott

23 January 1907

Haralambos Economos
Ariel Eliza Parker

Haralambos Economos
Ariel Eliza Parker
💍 1907/839

Bachelor
Spinster

Waiter

27
23

Wellington
Wellington

3 1/2 years
1 month

Registrars Office, Wellington

07/909

23 January 1907

G. G. Hodgkins, Deputy Registrar

No	68
Date of Notice	23 January 1907
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Haralambos Economos	Ariel Eliza Parker
	💍 1907/839
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Waiter
Age	27	23
Dwelling Place	Wellington	Wellington
Length of Residence	3 1/2 years	1 month
Marriage Place	Registrars Office, Wellington
Folio	07/909
Consent
Date of Certificate	23 January 1907
Officiating Minister	G. G. Hodgkins, Deputy Registrar

23 January 1907

Domenico Angelini
Gilda Florence Italia Moschini

Domenico Angelini
Gilda Florence Italia Moschini
💍 1907/754

Bachelor
Spinster

Labourer

27
25

Wellington
Wellington South

3 1/2 years
14 years

Roman Catholic Church, Green Street

07/846

23 January 1907

Rev. G. A. Ainsworth

No	69
Date of Notice	23 January 1907
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Domenico Angelini	Gilda Florence Italia Moschini
	💍 1907/754
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Labourer
Age	27	25
Dwelling Place	Wellington	Wellington South
Length of Residence	3 1/2 years	14 years
Marriage Place	Roman Catholic Church, Green Street
Folio	07/846
Consent
Date of Certificate	23 January 1907
Officiating Minister	Rev. G. A. Ainsworth

24 January 1907

Thomas Weatherburn Ware
Norton

Thomas Weatherburn
Mary Norton
💍 1907/710

Bachelor
Spinster

Waiter

25
23

Wellington
Wellington

10 months
6 months

St. Peters Church, Willis Street

07/801

24 January 1907

Rev. G. P. Davys

No	70
Date of Notice	24 January 1907
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Thomas Weatherburn Ware	Norton
BDM Match (66%)	Thomas Weatherburn	Mary Norton
	💍 1907/710
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Waiter
Age	25	23
Dwelling Place	Wellington	Wellington
Length of Residence	10 months	6 months
Marriage Place	St. Peters Church, Willis Street
Folio	07/801
Consent
Date of Certificate	24 January 1907
Officiating Minister	Rev. G. P. Davys

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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).