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 772

District of Auckland Quarter ending 31 March 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

280

19 March 1910

Frank Percy Cashmore
Lara Edmonds Smith

Frank Percy Cashmore
Lena Edmonds
💍 1910/372

Bachelor
Spinster

Carpenter

27
28

Auckland
Auckland

6 years

Epiphany Church, Parnell

10/142

19 March 1910

Rev. W. Rush, Anglican

No	280
Date of Notice	19 March 1910
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Frank Percy Cashmore	Lara Edmonds Smith
BDM Match (78%)	Frank Percy Cashmore	Lena Edmonds
	💍 1910/372
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Carpenter
Age	27	28
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	6 years
Marriage Place	Epiphany Church, Parnell
Folio	10/142
Consent
Date of Certificate	19 March 1910
Officiating Minister	Rev. W. Rush, Anglican

281

19 March 1910

Robert Alexander Brown
Margaret Prudence Grieve

Robert Alexander Brown
Margaret Strathern Grieve
💍 1910/141

Bachelor
Spinster

Sailor

24
21

Auckland
Auckland

2 1/2 years
5 years

Registrar's Office

10/60

19 March 1910

W. E. Parsons, Registrar

No	281
Date of Notice	19 March 1910
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Robert Alexander Brown	Margaret Prudence Grieve
BDM Match (84%)	Robert Alexander Brown	Margaret Strathern Grieve
	💍 1910/141
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Sailor
Age	24	21
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	2 1/2 years	5 years
Marriage Place	Registrar's Office
Folio	10/60
Consent
Date of Certificate	19 March 1910
Officiating Minister	W. E. Parsons, Registrar

282

19 March 1910

Henry James Smith
Rosina Aird Mattocks

Henry James Smith
Rosina Bird Mattocks
💍 1910/8343

Bachelor
Spinster

Engineer

27
30

Auckland
Remuera

Life
28 years

St. Marks Church

10/102

19 March 1910

Rev. W. Seath, Anglican

No	282
Date of Notice	19 March 1910
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Henry James Smith	Rosina Aird Mattocks
BDM Match (98%)	Henry James Smith	Rosina Bird Mattocks
	💍 1910/8343
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Engineer
Age	27	30
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Remuera
Length of Residence	Life	28 years
Marriage Place	St. Marks Church
Folio	10/102
Consent
Date of Certificate	19 March 1910
Officiating Minister	Rev. W. Seath, Anglican

283

19 March 1910

Reuben Francis Hewett
Eleanor Sayler Hewett

Reuben Francis Hewett
Eleanor Bayley
💍 1910/333

Bachelor
Spinster

Engineer

26
27

Auckland
Auckland

7 days
6 years

House of T. J. Sadlen, 6 Great North Rd, Auckland

10/281

19 March 1910

Rev. W. Read, Methodist

No	283
Date of Notice	19 March 1910
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Reuben Francis Hewett	Eleanor Sayler Hewett
BDM Match (79%)	Reuben Francis Hewett	Eleanor Bayley
	💍 1910/333
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Engineer
Age	26	27
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	7 days	6 years
Marriage Place	House of T. J. Sadlen, 6 Great North Rd, Auckland
Folio	10/281
Consent
Date of Certificate	19 March 1910
Officiating Minister	Rev. W. Read, Methodist

284

19 March 1910

Richard Forrest Hooley
Sarah Hooley

Richard Horrocks
Sarah Hooley
💍 1910/142

Bachelor
Spinster

Miner

32
31

Auckland
Auckland

1 month
1 month

Registrar's Office

10/61

19 March 1910

E. Livermore, Dep. Regr.

No	284
Date of Notice	19 March 1910
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Richard Forrest Hooley	Sarah Hooley
BDM Match (77%)	Richard Horrocks	Sarah Hooley
	💍 1910/142
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Miner
Age	32	31
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	1 month	1 month
Marriage Place	Registrar's Office
Folio	10/61
Consent
Date of Certificate	19 March 1910
Officiating Minister	E. Livermore, Dep. Regr.

285

19 March 1910

Walter Cross Reynolds
Ida Reynolds

Bachelor
Spinster

Miner

31
30

Auckland
Auckland

17 days
1 month

Registrar's Office

10/62

19 March 1910

E. Livermore, Dep. Regr.

No	285
Date of Notice	19 March 1910
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Walter Cross Reynolds	Ida Reynolds
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Miner
Age	31	30
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	17 days	1 month
Marriage Place	Registrar's Office
Folio	10/62
Consent
Date of Certificate	19 March 1910
Officiating Minister	E. Livermore, Dep. Regr.

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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).