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 684

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

984

19 July 1910

John Tidswell
Mary Ann Evans

John Tidswell
Mary Ann Evans
💍 1910/3933

Bachelor
Spinster

Farmer

65
47

Auckland
Onehunga

3 days
4 years

St. Peter's Church, Onehunga

10/4183

19 July 1910

Rev. J. Haselden

No	984
Date of Notice	19 July 1910
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	John Tidswell	Mary Ann Evans
	💍 1910/3933
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Farmer
Age	65	47
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Onehunga
Length of Residence	3 days	4 years
Marriage Place	St. Peter's Church, Onehunga
Folio	10/4183
Consent
Date of Certificate	19 July 1910
Officiating Minister	Rev. J. Haselden

985

19 July 1910

Karl Johnson
Amy Stander

Karl Johnson
Amy Hooker
💍 1910/3873

Bachelor
Spinster

Labourer

39
21

Newmarket
Newmarket

2 years
12 months

Registrar's Office

10/4073

19 July 1910

Registrar

No	985
Date of Notice	19 July 1910
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Karl Johnson	Amy Stander
BDM Match (77%)	Karl Johnson	Amy Hooker
	💍 1910/3873
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Labourer
Age	39	21
Dwelling Place	Newmarket	Newmarket
Length of Residence	2 years	12 months
Marriage Place	Registrar's Office
Folio	10/4073
Consent
Date of Certificate	19 July 1910
Officiating Minister	Registrar

986

19 July 1910

Cornelius David Windust
Florence Mary Calhoun

Cornelius David Windust
Florence May Colhoun
💍 1910/5689

Bachelor
Spinster

Carpenter

27
27

Auckland
Auckland

3 days
3 months

Baptist Church

10/6022

19 July 1910

Rev. R. A. Hempton

No	986
Date of Notice	19 July 1910
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Cornelius David Windust	Florence Mary Calhoun
BDM Match (95%)	Cornelius David Windust	Florence May Colhoun
	💍 1910/5689
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Carpenter
Age	27	27
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	3 days	3 months
Marriage Place	Baptist Church
Folio	10/6022
Consent
Date of Certificate	19 July 1910
Officiating Minister	Rev. R. A. Hempton

987

19 July 1910

Charles Gough Stowell
Evelyn Ingram

Charles Baugh Howell
Evelyn Clara Ingram
💍 1910/3857

Bachelor
Spinster

Labourer

25
18

Auckland
Auckland

4 years
17 months

Registrar's Office

10/4081

4 days notice

2 August 1910

Registrar

No	987
Date of Notice	19 July 1910
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Charles Gough Stowell	Evelyn Ingram
BDM Match (75%)	Charles Baugh Howell	Evelyn Clara Ingram
	💍 1910/3857
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Labourer
Age	25	18
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	4 years	17 months
Marriage Place	Registrar's Office
Folio	10/4081
Consent	4 days notice
Date of Certificate	2 August 1910
Officiating Minister	Registrar

988

21 July 1910

William Dunbar
Helen Isabella Christie

William Dunbar
Helen Isabella Christie
💍 1910/3960

Bachelor
Spinster

Carpenter

26
28

Auckland
Auckland

4 days
6 months

Presbyterian Church

10/3905

21 July 1910

Rev. J. P. Bertram

No	988
Date of Notice	21 July 1910
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	William Dunbar	Helen Isabella Christie
	💍 1910/3960
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Carpenter
Age	26	28
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	4 days	6 months
Marriage Place	Presbyterian Church
Folio	10/3905
Consent
Date of Certificate	21 July 1910
Officiating Minister	Rev. J. P. Bertram

989

21 July 1910

John Brand
Mary Lockwood

John Ward Wilkes
Mary Lockwood
💍 1910/5097

Widower
Widow

Labourer

56
60

Grey Lynn
Mount Eden

40 years
3 months

House of Peter Smith, Mount Eden

10/5333

21 July 1910

Rev. J. Jellie

No	989
Date of Notice	21 July 1910
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	John Brand	Mary Lockwood
BDM Match (69%)	John Ward Wilkes	Mary Lockwood
	💍 1910/5097
Condition	Widower	Widow
Profession	Labourer
Age	56	60
Dwelling Place	Grey Lynn	Mount Eden
Length of Residence	40 years	3 months
Marriage Place	House of Peter Smith, Mount Eden
Folio	10/5333
Consent
Date of Certificate	21 July 1910
Officiating Minister	Rev. J. Jellie

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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).