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 682

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

796

22 July 1910

Denar Raymond Forbes
Kunfred Scott

Percy Raymond Forbes Thode
Ivy Winifred Scott
💍 1910/4060

Bachelor
Spinster

Store Keeper

24
22

Auckland
Greenlane

20 years
22 years

Dwelling of James Scott

10/4167

22 July 1910

Rev. A. Johnston

No	796
Date of Notice	22 July 1910
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Denar Raymond Forbes	Kunfred Scott
BDM Match (61%)	Percy Raymond Forbes Thode	Ivy Winifred Scott
	💍 1910/4060
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Store Keeper
Age	24	22
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Greenlane
Length of Residence	20 years	22 years
Marriage Place	Dwelling of James Scott
Folio	10/4167
Consent
Date of Certificate	22 July 1910
Officiating Minister	Rev. A. Johnston

797

23 July 1910

Walter Symes Imple
Annie Dowell

Bachelor
Widow

Parker

30
32

Auckland
Auckland

10 years
15 years

Registrar's Office

10/4075

23 July 1910

Registrar

No	797
Date of Notice	23 July 1910
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Walter Symes Imple	Annie Dowell
Condition	Bachelor	Widow
Profession	Parker
Age	30	32
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	10 years	15 years
Marriage Place	Registrar's Office
Folio	10/4075
Consent
Date of Certificate	23 July 1910
Officiating Minister	Registrar

798

23 July 1910

Hugh Bishell Tencae
Amy Olive Driver

Hugh Bishell
Amy Olive Vercoe
💍 1910/3935

Bachelor
Spinster

Engineer

27
21

Auckland
Mount Roskill, Franklin Rd.

14 years
6 years

Primitive Methodist Church

10/4185

23 July 1910

Rev. R. Raine

No	798
Date of Notice	23 July 1910
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Hugh Bishell Tencae	Amy Olive Driver
BDM Match (66%)	Hugh Bishell	Amy Olive Vercoe
	💍 1910/3935
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Engineer
Age	27	21
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Mount Roskill, Franklin Rd.
Length of Residence	14 years	6 years
Marriage Place	Primitive Methodist Church
Folio	10/4185
Consent
Date of Certificate	23 July 1910
Officiating Minister	Rev. R. Raine

799

23 July 1910

Frederick Robinson Webster
Rose Cecilia Spender

Bachelor
Spinster

Labourer

23
21

Newton
Ponsonby

14 years
11 years

St. Paul's Church

10/3944

23 July 1910

Rev. C. A. Watson

No	799
Date of Notice	23 July 1910
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Frederick Robinson Webster	Rose Cecilia Spender
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Labourer
Age	23	21
Dwelling Place	Newton	Ponsonby
Length of Residence	14 years	11 years
Marriage Place	St. Paul's Church
Folio	10/3944
Consent
Date of Certificate	23 July 1910
Officiating Minister	Rev. C. A. Watson

800

23 July 1910

William Brundland Boswell
Selina May Carr

William Brunkard Boswell
Selina May Carr
💍 1910/3787

Bachelor
Spinster

Clicker

25
25

Grey Lynn
Grey Lynn

6 years
5 years

Church of Christ

10/3985

23 July 1910

Rev. A. J. Turner

No	800
Date of Notice	23 July 1910
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	William Brundland Boswell	Selina May Carr
BDM Match (94%)	William Brunkard Boswell	Selina May Carr
	💍 1910/3787
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Clicker
Age	25	25
Dwelling Place	Grey Lynn	Grey Lynn
Length of Residence	6 years	5 years
Marriage Place	Church of Christ
Folio	10/3985
Consent
Date of Certificate	23 July 1910
Officiating Minister	Rev. A. J. Turner

801

23 July 1910

John Henry Peebles
Catherine Ann McLarnon

John Henry Peebles
Catherine Ann McLamon
💍 1910/3853

Bachelor
Spinster

Labourer

21
25

Auckland
Otahuhu

3 years
14 years

Registrar's Office

10/4077

23 July 1910

Registrar

No	801
Date of Notice	23 July 1910
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	John Henry Peebles	Catherine Ann McLarnon
BDM Match (95%)	John Henry Peebles	Catherine Ann McLamon
	💍 1910/3853
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Labourer
Age	21	25
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Otahuhu
Length of Residence	3 years	14 years
Marriage Place	Registrar's Office
Folio	10/4077
Consent
Date of Certificate	23 July 1910
Officiating Minister	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).