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).

Page 687

District of Auckland Quarter ending 30 September 1910 Registrar Thomas Culpan

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

770

14 July 1910

Walter Herbert Andrews
Edith Maud Riff

Walter Herbert Andrews
Edith Maud Riggs
💍 1910/3863

Bachelor
Spinster

Brick Vendor

22
21

Newton
Eden Terrace

6 months
1 year

Registrar's Office Auckland

10/4069

14 July 1910

Registrar

No	770
Date of Notice	14 July 1910
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Walter Herbert Andrews	Edith Maud Riff
BDM Match (91%)	Walter Herbert Andrews	Edith Maud Riggs
	💍 1910/3863
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Brick Vendor
Age	22	21
Dwelling Place	Newton	Eden Terrace
Length of Residence	6 months	1 year
Marriage Place	Registrar's Office Auckland
Folio	10/4069
Consent
Date of Certificate	14 July 1910
Officiating Minister	Registrar

966

13 July 1910

Edward Herman Sullen
Henrietta Ellen Aitken

Edward Sherrar Bullen
Henrietta Ellen Aitken
💍 1910/3836

Bachelor
Spinster

Draper

27
23

Auckland
Ponsonby

20 years
3 years

Methodist Church Pitt St Auckland

10/4034

13 July 1910

Rev. W. Ready

No	966
Date of Notice	13 July 1910
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Edward Herman Sullen	Henrietta Ellen Aitken
BDM Match (88%)	Edward Sherrar Bullen	Henrietta Ellen Aitken
	💍 1910/3836
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Draper
Age	27	23
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Ponsonby
Length of Residence	20 years	3 years
Marriage Place	Methodist Church Pitt St Auckland
Folio	10/4034
Consent
Date of Certificate	13 July 1910
Officiating Minister	Rev. W. Ready

967

13 July 1910

John Gape
Grace Hannah Pame

Bachelor
Spinster

Dental Surgeon

35
31

Auckland
Auckland

6 years
4 years

St. Mary's Cathedral (not solemnized, see memo attached)

13 July 1910

Rev. MacMurray

No	967
Date of Notice	13 July 1910
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	John Gape	Grace Hannah Pame
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Dental Surgeon
Age	35	31
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	6 years	4 years
Marriage Place	St. Mary's Cathedral (not solemnized, see memo attached)
Folio
Consent
Date of Certificate	13 July 1910
Officiating Minister	Rev. MacMurray

968

14 July 1910

Joseph John Brultrus
Ellen Meehan Clinton

Joseph John Multrus
Ellen Meehan Clinton
💍 1910/5164

Bachelor
Spinster

Contractor

31
21

Waiheke
Auckland

30 years
4 years

St. Patrick's Cathedral

10/5452

14 July 1910

Rev. H. Holbrook

No	968
Date of Notice	14 July 1910
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Joseph John Brultrus	Ellen Meehan Clinton
BDM Match (95%)	Joseph John Multrus	Ellen Meehan Clinton
	💍 1910/5164
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Contractor
Age	31	21
Dwelling Place	Waiheke	Auckland
Length of Residence	30 years	4 years
Marriage Place	St. Patrick's Cathedral
Folio	10/5452
Consent
Date of Certificate	14 July 1910
Officiating Minister	Rev. H. Holbrook

969

14 July 1910

Claude Partride Simpson
Edith Winifred Weston

Claude Gartside Culpan
Edith Winifred Weston
💍 1910/5601

Bachelor
Spinster

Commercial Traveller

24
27

Ponsonby
Devonport

10 years
1 year

Holy Trinity Church Devonport

10/5580

14 July 1910

Rev. W. H. Sutton

No	969
Date of Notice	14 July 1910
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Claude Partride Simpson	Edith Winifred Weston
BDM Match (85%)	Claude Gartside Culpan	Edith Winifred Weston
	💍 1910/5601
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Commercial Traveller
Age	24	27
Dwelling Place	Ponsonby	Devonport
Length of Residence	10 years	1 year
Marriage Place	Holy Trinity Church Devonport
Folio	10/5580
Consent
Date of Certificate	14 July 1910
Officiating Minister	Rev. W. H. Sutton

991

15 July 1910

Arthur Charles Bishop
Olivia Gertrude Smith

Arthur Charles Bishop
Olivia Gertrude Smith
💍 1910/3870

Bachelor
Spinster

Painter

27
22

Auckland
Auckland

Life
5 years

Registrar's Office Auckland

10/4070

15 July 1910

Registrar

No	991
Date of Notice	15 July 1910
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Arthur Charles Bishop	Olivia Gertrude Smith
	💍 1910/3870
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Painter
Age	27	22
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	Life	5 years
Marriage Place	Registrar's Office Auckland
Folio	10/4070
Consent
Date of Certificate	15 July 1910
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 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).