Intentions to Marry, 1910 Auckland, Taranaki

Reference: Registrar-General of Births, Deaths and Marriages, Notices of intention to marry, Series 8937, R2840442, Archives New Zealand Te Rua Mahara o te Kāwanatanga, Wellington

1910 is bound in three volumes - Auckland, Taranaki (1910a), Wellington, , Hawke's Bay, Nelson, Westland (1910b), and Canterbury, Otago, Chatham Islands (1910c).

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District of Stratford Quarter ending 31 March 1910 Registrar H. J. James

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

12 February 1910

Dixon Morris
Kate Priscilla Campin

Dixon Morris
Kate Priscilla Campin
💍 1910/610

Bachelor
Spinster

Carrier

34
25

Stratford
Auckland

4 years
1 year

Holy Trinity Church, Stratford

10/607

12 February 1910

Rev. H. A. Favell, Church of England

No	7
Date of Notice	12 February 1910
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Dixon Morris	Kate Priscilla Campin
	💍 1910/610
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Carrier
Age	34	25
Dwelling Place	Stratford	Auckland
Length of Residence	4 years	1 year
Marriage Place	Holy Trinity Church, Stratford
Folio	10/607
Consent
Date of Certificate	12 February 1910
Officiating Minister	Rev. H. A. Favell, Church of England

14 February 1910

Roy Gordon Steer
Grace Isabel Goodwin

Roy Gordon Steer
Grace Isabel Goodwin
💍 1910/5469

Bachelor
Spinster

Railway Surfaceman

24
22

Mokoia
Midhirst

4 months
22 years

Residence of C. Goodwin, Salisbury road, Midhirst

10/566

14 February 1910

Rev. B. Metson, Primitive Methodist

No	8
Date of Notice	14 February 1910
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Roy Gordon Steer	Grace Isabel Goodwin
	💍 1910/5469
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Railway Surfaceman
Age	24	22
Dwelling Place	Mokoia	Midhirst
Length of Residence	4 months	22 years
Marriage Place	Residence of C. Goodwin, Salisbury road, Midhirst
Folio	10/566
Consent
Date of Certificate	14 February 1910
Officiating Minister	Rev. B. Metson, Primitive Methodist

21 February 1910

Ernest Percival Norgate
Amy Edith Walsh

Ernest Percival Norgate
Amy Edith Walsh
💍 1910/608

Bachelor
Spinster

Farmer

23
21

Rowan
Rowan

10 years
2 years

Holy Trinity Church, Stratford

10/605

21 February 1910

Rev. H. A. Favell, Church of England

No	9
Date of Notice	21 February 1910
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Ernest Percival Norgate	Amy Edith Walsh
	💍 1910/608
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Farmer
Age	23	21
Dwelling Place	Rowan	Rowan
Length of Residence	10 years	2 years
Marriage Place	Holy Trinity Church, Stratford
Folio	10/605
Consent
Date of Certificate	21 February 1910
Officiating Minister	Rev. H. A. Favell, Church of England

8 March 1910

Cecille Burton
Margaret Violet Lamb

Cecil Ormond Bouham
Margaret Violet Lamb
💍 1910/624

Bachelor
Spinster

Driver

27
19

Douglas
Stratford

6 months
6 months

The Manse, Stratford

10/597

8 March 1910

Rev. J. Millar Thomson, Presbyterian

No	10
Date of Notice	8 March 1910
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Cecille Burton	Margaret Violet Lamb
BDM Match (68%)	Cecil Ormond Bouham	Margaret Violet Lamb
	💍 1910/624
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Driver
Age	27	19
Dwelling Place	Douglas	Stratford
Length of Residence	6 months	6 months
Marriage Place	The Manse, Stratford
Folio	10/597
Consent
Date of Certificate	8 March 1910
Officiating Minister	Rev. J. Millar Thomson, Presbyterian

12 March 1910

James Montgomerie
Blanche Marion Robinson

James Montgomerie
Blanche Marion Robinson
💍 1910/5470

Bachelor
Spinster

Farmer

28
24

Stratford
Stratford

28 years
11 years

Primitive Methodist Church at Stratford

10/567

12 March 1910

Rev. Basil Metson, Primitive Methodist

No	11
Date of Notice	12 March 1910
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	James Montgomerie	Blanche Marion Robinson
	💍 1910/5470
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Farmer
Age	28	24
Dwelling Place	Stratford	Stratford
Length of Residence	28 years	11 years
Marriage Place	Primitive Methodist Church at Stratford
Folio	10/567
Consent
Date of Certificate	12 March 1910
Officiating Minister	Rev. Basil Metson, 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).