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).

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District of Rotorua Quarter ending 31 March 1910 Registrar Arthur Frederick Beut

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

2 February 1910

John Bryce Turner
Isabell Fraser

John Bryce Turner
Isabell Fraser
💍 1910/535

Bachelor
Spinster

Carpenter
Housemaid

34
29

Rotorua (present), Abbirley, Grafton Road, Auckland (usual)
Auckland

3 days

Courthouse, Rotorua

10/479

2 February 1910

Arthur Frederick Beut, Registrar of Marriages

No	1
Date of Notice	2 February 1910
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	John Bryce Turner	Isabell Fraser
	💍 1910/535
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Carpenter	Housemaid
Age	34	29
Dwelling Place	Rotorua (present), Abbirley, Grafton Road, Auckland (usual)	Auckland
Length of Residence	3 days
Marriage Place	Courthouse, Rotorua
Folio	10/479
Consent
Date of Certificate	2 February 1910
Officiating Minister	Arthur Frederick Beut, Registrar of Marriages

19 February 1910

Stanley Graves French
Florence Mary Fuszard

Stanley Graves French
Florence Mary Fuszard
💍 1910/533

Bachelor
Divorced

Carpenter
Waitress

29
34

Rotorua
Rotorua

15 months
13 months

The Presbyterian Manse, Pukuatua Street, Rotorua

10/477

19 February 1910

Rev. Thomas Scott, M.A.

No	2
Date of Notice	19 February 1910
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Stanley Graves French	Florence Mary Fuszard
	💍 1910/533
Condition	Bachelor	Divorced
Profession	Carpenter	Waitress
Age	29	34
Dwelling Place	Rotorua	Rotorua
Length of Residence	15 months	13 months
Marriage Place	The Presbyterian Manse, Pukuatua Street, Rotorua
Folio	10/477
Consent
Date of Certificate	19 February 1910
Officiating Minister	Rev. Thomas Scott, M.A.

23 February 1910

Patrick Arthur Narrow
Mary Charlotte Wilson

Patrick Arthur Harron
Mary Charlotte Wilson
💍 1910/534

Bachelor
Spinster

Solicitor
Domestic duties

34
23

Whakatane
Rotorua

3 days
26 days

Roman Catholic Church, Ohinemutu

10/478

23 February 1910

Very Rev. Dean Albert Lightheart

No	3
Date of Notice	23 February 1910
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Patrick Arthur Narrow	Mary Charlotte Wilson
BDM Match (95%)	Patrick Arthur Harron	Mary Charlotte Wilson
	💍 1910/534
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Solicitor	Domestic duties
Age	34	23
Dwelling Place	Whakatane	Rotorua
Length of Residence	3 days	26 days
Marriage Place	Roman Catholic Church, Ohinemutu
Folio	10/478
Consent
Date of Certificate	23 February 1910
Officiating Minister	Very Rev. Dean Albert Lightheart

10 March 1910

Percy Bowring Morse
Josephine Marcella White

Percy Bowering Morse
Josephine Marscella White
💍 1910/536

Bachelor
Spinster

Carpenter
Domestic duties

21
25

Rotorua
Rotorua

3 years
about 13 months

Courthouse, Rotorua

10/480

10 March 1910

Arthur Frederick Beut, Registrar of Marriages

No	4
Date of Notice	10 March 1910
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Percy Bowring Morse	Josephine Marcella White
BDM Match (96%)	Percy Bowering Morse	Josephine Marscella White
	💍 1910/536
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Carpenter	Domestic duties
Age	21	25
Dwelling Place	Rotorua	Rotorua
Length of Residence	3 years	about 13 months
Marriage Place	Courthouse, Rotorua
Folio	10/480
Consent
Date of Certificate	10 March 1910
Officiating Minister	Arthur Frederick Beut, Registrar of Marriages

14 March 1910

Edwin Flowers
Jane Evelyn Coldfield

Edwin Flowers
Jane Evelyn Oldfield
💍 1910/537

Bachelor
Spinster

Hairdresser
Domestic duties

32
32

Rotorua
Rotorua

about 8 years
10 days

St. Luke's Church, Rotorua

10/481

14 March 1910

Rev. C. A. Tisdall

No	5
Date of Notice	14 March 1910
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Edwin Flowers	Jane Evelyn Coldfield
BDM Match (95%)	Edwin Flowers	Jane Evelyn Oldfield
	💍 1910/537
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Hairdresser	Domestic duties
Age	32	32
Dwelling Place	Rotorua	Rotorua
Length of Residence	about 8 years	10 days
Marriage Place	St. Luke's Church, Rotorua
Folio	10/481
Consent
Date of Certificate	14 March 1910
Officiating Minister	Rev. C. A. Tisdall

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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).