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 775

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

263

16 March 1910

Ernest Berthold Vaile
Rebecca Elizabeth Head

Ernest Berthold Vaile
Rebecca Elizabeth Head
💍 1910/359

Bachelor
Spinster

Agent

42
34

Auckland
Auckland

30 years
30 years

Congregational Church, Mount Eden

10/307

16 March 1910

Rev. A. S. Day, Congregational

No	263
Date of Notice	16 March 1910
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Ernest Berthold Vaile	Rebecca Elizabeth Head
	💍 1910/359
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Agent
Age	42	34
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	30 years	30 years
Marriage Place	Congregational Church, Mount Eden
Folio	10/307
Consent
Date of Certificate	16 March 1910
Officiating Minister	Rev. A. S. Day, Congregational

264

16 March 1910

Thomas William Mortimer
Emma Cecilia Brennan

Thomas William Mortimer
Emma Sarah Cecelia Brennan
💍 1910/293

Bachelor
Spinster

Railway Employee

25
24

Auckland
Onehunga

4 days
Life

Roman Catholic Church, Onehunga

10/239

16 March 1910

Rev. F. J. O'Mahoney, Roman Catholic

No	264
Date of Notice	16 March 1910
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Thomas William Mortimer	Emma Cecilia Brennan
BDM Match (87%)	Thomas William Mortimer	Emma Sarah Cecelia Brennan
	💍 1910/293
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Railway Employee
Age	25	24
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Onehunga
Length of Residence	4 days	Life
Marriage Place	Roman Catholic Church, Onehunga
Folio	10/239
Consent
Date of Certificate	16 March 1910
Officiating Minister	Rev. F. J. O'Mahoney, Roman Catholic

265

16 March 1910

Sydney James Hudson
Hannah Dawson Raybould

Sydney James Hudson Watt
Hannah Dawson Reyburn
💍 1910/8185

Bachelor
Spinster

Carrier

30
40

Auckland
Auckland

3 days
3 months

St. Barnabas Church, Mount Eden

10/125

16 March 1910

Rev. E. J. McFarland, Anglican

No	265
Date of Notice	16 March 1910
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Sydney James Hudson	Hannah Dawson Raybould
BDM Match (81%)	Sydney James Hudson Watt	Hannah Dawson Reyburn
	💍 1910/8185
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Carrier
Age	30	40
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	3 days	3 months
Marriage Place	St. Barnabas Church, Mount Eden
Folio	10/125
Consent
Date of Certificate	16 March 1910
Officiating Minister	Rev. E. J. McFarland, Anglican

266

16 March 1910

Arthur Edwin Forbes Thode
Jessie Archer Miller

Arthur Edwin Forbes Thode
Jessie Archer Miller
💍 1910/208

Bachelor
Spinster

Storekeeper

29
29

Ponsonby
Ponsonby

25 years
3 days

St. Stephen's Church, Ponsonby

10/181

16 March 1910

Rev. J. Jolly, Presbyterian

No	266
Date of Notice	16 March 1910
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Arthur Edwin Forbes Thode	Jessie Archer Miller
	💍 1910/208
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Storekeeper
Age	29	29
Dwelling Place	Ponsonby	Ponsonby
Length of Residence	25 years	3 days
Marriage Place	St. Stephen's Church, Ponsonby
Folio	10/181
Consent
Date of Certificate	16 March 1910
Officiating Minister	Rev. J. Jolly, Presbyterian

267

16 March 1910

William Smith McPherson
Alice Hudson Henry

William Smith McPherson
Alice Susan Berry Hudson
💍 1910/160

Bachelor
Spinster

Blacksmith

20
21

Auckland
Auckland

30 years
32 days

Registrar's Office, Auckland

10/55

Parents of Groom, Mother

16 March 1910

Culpan, Registrar

No	267
Date of Notice	16 March 1910
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	William Smith McPherson	Alice Hudson Henry
BDM Match (75%)	William Smith McPherson	Alice Susan Berry Hudson
	💍 1910/160
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Blacksmith
Age	20	21
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	30 years	32 days
Marriage Place	Registrar's Office, Auckland
Folio	10/55
Consent	Parents of Groom, Mother
Date of Certificate	16 March 1910
Officiating Minister	Culpan, 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).