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 817

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

7 January 1910

Reginald John Inglis
Daisy Mary Salter

Reginald John Inglis
Pansy May Salter
💍 1910/341

Bachelor
Spinster

Clerk

27
22

Remuera
Alexandra St, Auckland

9 years
Life

Primitive Methodist Church

10/313

7 January 1910

Rev J. Cocker, Primitive Methodist

No	19
Date of Notice	7 January 1910
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Reginald John Inglis	Daisy Mary Salter
BDM Match (91%)	Reginald John Inglis	Pansy May Salter
	💍 1910/341
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Clerk
Age	27	22
Dwelling Place	Remuera	Alexandra St, Auckland
Length of Residence	9 years	Life
Marriage Place	Primitive Methodist Church
Folio	10/313
Consent
Date of Certificate	7 January 1910
Officiating Minister	Rev J. Cocker, Primitive Methodist

8 January 1910

Oscar Gunnar Lindstrom
Teresa Daley

Oscar Gunnar Lindstrom
Teresa Daley
💍 1910/243

Bachelor
Spinster

Engineer

34
23

Auckland
Auckland

11 months
2 years

St Patrick's Cathedral

10/214

8 January 1910

Rev H. G. Holbrook, Roman Catholic

No	20
Date of Notice	8 January 1910
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Oscar Gunnar Lindstrom	Teresa Daley
	💍 1910/243
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Engineer
Age	34	23
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	11 months	2 years
Marriage Place	St Patrick's Cathedral
Folio	10/214
Consent
Date of Certificate	8 January 1910
Officiating Minister	Rev H. G. Holbrook, Roman Catholic

8 January 1910

John Moir
Margaret Crawford

John Moir
Margaret Crawford
💍 1910/165

John Lillie
Grace Margaret Crawford
💍 1910/1639

Bachelor
Spinster

Boilermaker

24
24

Auckland
Mt Albert

Life
Life

St Matthew's Church

10/76

8 January 1910

Rev W. G. Fillan, Anglican

No	21
Date of Notice	8 January 1910
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	John Moir	Margaret Crawford
	💍 1910/165
BDM Match (64%)	John Lillie	Grace Margaret Crawford
	💍 1910/1639
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Boilermaker
Age	24	24
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Mt Albert
Length of Residence	Life	Life
Marriage Place	St Matthew's Church
Folio	10/76
Consent
Date of Certificate	8 January 1910
Officiating Minister	Rev W. G. Fillan, Anglican

8 January 1910

Albert Stephen Cliffe
Ruby May Cottingham

Albert Stephen Cliffe
Ruby May Cottingham
💍 1910/8326

Bachelor
Spinster

School Teacher

24
20

Auckland
Auckland

3 months
3 months

St Epiphany Church

10/109

Elizabeth Henderson Pottingham, mother

8 January 1910

Rev W. E. Rush, Anglican

No	22
Date of Notice	8 January 1910
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Albert Stephen Cliffe	Ruby May Cottingham
	💍 1910/8326
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	School Teacher
Age	24	20
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	3 months	3 months
Marriage Place	St Epiphany Church
Folio	10/109
Consent	Elizabeth Henderson Pottingham, mother
Date of Certificate	8 January 1910
Officiating Minister	Rev W. E. Rush, Anglican

10 January 1910

John Arnold Kempthorne
Eva Anne Hanchen

John Arnold Kempthorne
Enid Anna Houchen
💍 1910/371

Bachelor
Spinster

Clerk in Holy Orders

30
26

Auckland
Takapuna

7 days
Life

St Peter's Church

10/141

10 January 1910

Rev J. P. Kempthorne, Anglican

No	23
Date of Notice	10 January 1910
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	John Arnold Kempthorne	Eva Anne Hanchen
BDM Match (82%)	John Arnold Kempthorne	Enid Anna Houchen
	💍 1910/371
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Clerk in Holy Orders
Age	30	26
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Takapuna
Length of Residence	7 days	Life
Marriage Place	St Peter's Church
Folio	10/141
Consent
Date of Certificate	10 January 1910
Officiating Minister	Rev J. P. Kempthorne, Anglican

10 January 1910

John Merwyn Wilkes Hunt
Kathleen McLean

John Mervyn Winter Humphrys
Kathleen McLean
💍 1910/244

Bachelor
Spinster

Railway Clerk

21
21

Frankton
Avondale

1 year 1 month
7 months

St John's Roman Catholic Church, Hamilton

10/215

10 January 1910

Rev M. Meagher, Roman Catholic

No	24
Date of Notice	10 January 1910
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	John Merwyn Wilkes Hunt	Kathleen McLean
BDM Match (82%)	John Mervyn Winter Humphrys	Kathleen McLean
	💍 1910/244
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Railway Clerk
Age	21	21
Dwelling Place	Frankton	Avondale
Length of Residence	1 year 1 month	7 months
Marriage Place	St John's Roman Catholic Church, Hamilton
Folio	10/215
Consent
Date of Certificate	10 January 1910
Officiating Minister	Rev M. Meagher, Roman Catholic

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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).