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 695

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

724

1 July 1910

Edward Jowett Clark
Grace Morrow

Edward Jowett Clark
Grace Morrow
💍 1910/3782

Bachelor
Spinster

Driver

31
25

Auckland
Kingsland

9 years
25 years

Methodist Church

10/3980

1 July 1910

Rev. A. R. Scotter

No	724
Date of Notice	1 July 1910
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Edward Jowett Clark	Grace Morrow
	💍 1910/3782
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Driver
Age	31	25
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Kingsland
Length of Residence	9 years	25 years
Marriage Place	Methodist Church
Folio	10/3980
Consent
Date of Certificate	1 July 1910
Officiating Minister	Rev. A. R. Scotter

725

1 July 1910

Kenneth Allan MacHabb
Vivien Alberta Hinton

Kenneth Allan McNabb
Vivien Alberta Hinton
💍 1910/3804

Bachelor
Spinster

Saddler

23
23

Auckland
Auckland

2 1/2 months
22 months

Registrar's Office

10/4053

1 July 1910

Registrar

No	725
Date of Notice	1 July 1910
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Kenneth Allan MacHabb	Vivien Alberta Hinton
BDM Match (95%)	Kenneth Allan McNabb	Vivien Alberta Hinton
	💍 1910/3804
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Saddler
Age	23	23
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	2 1/2 months	22 months
Marriage Place	Registrar's Office
Folio	10/4053
Consent
Date of Certificate	1 July 1910
Officiating Minister	Registrar

726

1 July 1910

Sydney Herbert Gulliver
Ettie Mary Morris

Sydney Herbert Fulljames
Ettie Mary Morris
💍 1910/8161

Bachelor
Spinster

Fruiterer

25
21

Devonport
Devonport

4 years
2 years

St. John's Parsonage

10/5353

1 July 1910

Rev. J. Bond

No	726
Date of Notice	1 July 1910
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Sydney Herbert Gulliver	Ettie Mary Morris
BDM Match (90%)	Sydney Herbert Fulljames	Ettie Mary Morris
	💍 1910/8161
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Fruiterer
Age	25	21
Dwelling Place	Devonport	Devonport
Length of Residence	4 years	2 years
Marriage Place	St. John's Parsonage
Folio	10/5353
Consent
Date of Certificate	1 July 1910
Officiating Minister	Rev. J. Bond

727

1 July 1910

Ernest Woodcock
Mary Jane Yeoman

Ernest Woodcock
Mary Jane Yeoman
💍 1910/5600

Bachelor
Spinster

Brushman

21
16

Auckland
Devonport

3 months
4 years

Holy Trinity Church

10/5849

Sarah Mary Yeoman, mother

1 July 1910

Rev. M. Sutton

No	727
Date of Notice	1 July 1910
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Ernest Woodcock	Mary Jane Yeoman
	💍 1910/5600
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Brushman
Age	21	16
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Devonport
Length of Residence	3 months	4 years
Marriage Place	Holy Trinity Church
Folio	10/5849
Consent	Sarah Mary Yeoman, mother
Date of Certificate	1 July 1910
Officiating Minister	Rev. M. Sutton

728

2 July 1910

James Ferguson Hutchison
Millicent Ida Blay

James Ferguson Hutchison Brownlee
Millicent Ida Kay
💍 1910/3969

Bachelor
Spinster

Porter

30
20

Auckland
Parnell

16 months
Life

St. Andrew's Manse

10/3913

Nathan Blay, father

2 July 1910

Rev. A. A. Murray

No	728
Date of Notice	2 July 1910
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	James Ferguson Hutchison	Millicent Ida Blay
BDM Match (81%)	James Ferguson Hutchison Brownlee	Millicent Ida Kay
	💍 1910/3969
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Porter
Age	30	20
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Parnell
Length of Residence	16 months	Life
Marriage Place	St. Andrew's Manse
Folio	10/3913
Consent	Nathan Blay, father
Date of Certificate	2 July 1910
Officiating Minister	Rev. A. A. Murray

729

2 July 1910

Charles Darwin Bradley
Helen Amelia Sinclair

Charles Darwin Bradley
Helen Amelia Sinclair
💍 1910/5621

Bachelor
Spinster

Farmer

31
22

Auckland
Auckland

4 days
Life

St. Matthew's Church

10/5413

2 July 1910

Rev. R. E. Gillam

No	729
Date of Notice	2 July 1910
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Charles Darwin Bradley	Helen Amelia Sinclair
	💍 1910/5621
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Farmer
Age	31	22
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	4 days	Life
Marriage Place	St. Matthew's Church
Folio	10/5413
Consent
Date of Certificate	2 July 1910
Officiating Minister	Rev. R. E. Gillam

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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).