Intentions to Marry, 1908 Auckland, Taranaki, Hawke's Bay

Reference: Registrar-General of Births, Deaths and Marriages, Notices of intention to marry, Series 8937, R2840436, Archives New Zealand Te Rua Mahara o te Kāwanatanga, Wellington

1908 is bound in three volumes - Auckland, Taranaki, Hawke's Bay (1908a), Wellington, Marlborough, Nelson, Westland (1908b), and Canterbury, Otago, Chatham Islands (1908c).

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District of Auckland Quarter ending 31 March 1908 Registrar Edmund Humphrey Lyons

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

205

29 February 1908

Yeati Yemere known as George Smith
Lottie Laumatangi

Bachelor
Spinster

Farmer

23
21

Auckland
Auckland

3 days
3 days

House of Rev. M. Walker, Wellington Street

08/222

29 February 1908

Rev. M. Walker, Church of Christather

No	205
Date of Notice	29 February 1908
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Yeati Yemere known as George Smith	Lottie Laumatangi
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Farmer
Age	23	21
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	3 days	3 days
Marriage Place	House of Rev. M. Walker, Wellington Street
Folio	08/222
Consent
Date of Certificate	29 February 1908
Officiating Minister	Rev. M. Walker, Church of Christather

206

29 February 1908

Joseph Henry
Minnie Emma Gracie

Joseph Henry Ferrif
Minnie Emma Gracie
💍 1908/179

Bachelor
Spinster

Canvaser

23
23

Auckland
Auckland

8 months
23 years

St. David's Church, Khyber Pass

08/147

29 February 1908

Rev. W. G. Dixon, Presbyterian

No	206
Date of Notice	29 February 1908
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Joseph Henry	Minnie Emma Gracie
BDM Match (82%)	Joseph Henry Ferrif	Minnie Emma Gracie
	💍 1908/179
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Canvaser
Age	23	23
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	8 months	23 years
Marriage Place	St. David's Church, Khyber Pass
Folio	08/147
Consent
Date of Certificate	29 February 1908
Officiating Minister	Rev. W. G. Dixon, Presbyterian

207

2 March 1908

Alexander William Hunter
Olive Elizabeth Lambourne

Alexander William Hunter
Olive Elizabeth Lambourne
💍 1908/3856

Bachelor
Spinster

Telegraphist

28
25

Auckland
Auckland

1 year
25 years

St. David's Church, Khyber Pass

08/148

2 March 1908

Rev. W. G. Dixon, Presbyterian

No	207
Date of Notice	2 March 1908
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Alexander William Hunter	Olive Elizabeth Lambourne
	💍 1908/3856
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Telegraphist
Age	28	25
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	1 year	25 years
Marriage Place	St. David's Church, Khyber Pass
Folio	08/148
Consent
Date of Certificate	2 March 1908
Officiating Minister	Rev. W. G. Dixon, Presbyterian

208

2 March 1908

James Norman Spence
Kathleen Louisa Pickering

James Norman Spence
Kathleen Louisa Pickering
💍 1908/131

Bachelor
Spinster

Station Manager

27
29

Auckland
Auckland

3 days
18 years

St. Sepulchre's Church, Auckland

08/196

2 March 1908

Rev. H. Reeve, Church of England

No	208
Date of Notice	2 March 1908
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	James Norman Spence	Kathleen Louisa Pickering
	💍 1908/131
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Station Manager
Age	27	29
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	3 days	18 years
Marriage Place	St. Sepulchre's Church, Auckland
Folio	08/196
Consent
Date of Certificate	2 March 1908
Officiating Minister	Rev. H. Reeve, Church of England

209

2 March 1908

Robert William Heald
Eliza Jane Warnock

Robert William Heald
Eliza Jane Warnock
💍 1908/5935

Bachelor
Spinster

Draper

29
23

Auckland
Auckland

8 months
3 days

St. Patrick's Cathedral, Auckland

08/445

2 March 1908

Rev. G. Y. Holbrook, Roman Catholic

No	209
Date of Notice	2 March 1908
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Robert William Heald	Eliza Jane Warnock
	💍 1908/5935
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Draper
Age	29	23
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	8 months	3 days
Marriage Place	St. Patrick's Cathedral, Auckland
Folio	08/445
Consent
Date of Certificate	2 March 1908
Officiating Minister	Rev. G. Y. Holbrook, Roman Catholic

210

2 March 1908

Edward Hicks
Emma Lila Goodwill

Edward Hicks
Emma Lila Goodwill
💍 1908/3842

Bachelor
Spinster

Bookmaker

33
23

Auckland
Auckland

33 years
5 years

House of father of bridegroom, Bae Street

08/275

2 March 1908

Rev. W. P. Potter, Primitive Methodist

No	210
Date of Notice	2 March 1908
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Edward Hicks	Emma Lila Goodwill
	💍 1908/3842
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Bookmaker
Age	33	23
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	33 years	5 years
Marriage Place	House of father of bridegroom, Bae Street
Folio	08/275
Consent
Date of Certificate	2 March 1908
Officiating Minister	Rev. W. P. Potter, Primitive Methodist

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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 1908. 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).