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 Waimate Plains Quarter ending 31 March 1910 Registrar Daniel Henry Tott

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

3 January 1910

Ernest John Betto
Ivy Beatrice Putt

Ernest John Bett
Ivy Beatrice Putt
💍 1910/617

Bachelor
Domestic

Farmer
Domestic

48
26

Manaia
Manaia

20 years
17 years

Residence of J. H. Betto

10/614

3 January 1910

W. F. Stout

No	1
Date of Notice	3 January 1910
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Ernest John Betto	Ivy Beatrice Putt
BDM Match (97%)	Ernest John Bett	Ivy Beatrice Putt
	💍 1910/617
Condition	Bachelor	Domestic
Profession	Farmer	Domestic
Age	48	26
Dwelling Place	Manaia	Manaia
Length of Residence	20 years	17 years
Marriage Place	Residence of J. H. Betto
Folio	10/614
Consent
Date of Certificate	3 January 1910
Officiating Minister	W. F. Stout

10 January 1910

Cecil Herbert Harrison
Jessie Evelyn West

Cecil Herbert Harrison
Jessie Evelyn West
💍 1910/613

Bachelor
Spinster

Farmer
Domestic

25
21 years 7 months

Otakeho
Otakeho

4 years
3 years

Registrar's Office, Manaia

10/610

10 January 1910

Registrar, Manaia

No	2
Date of Notice	10 January 1910
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Cecil Herbert Harrison	Jessie Evelyn West
	💍 1910/613
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Farmer	Domestic
Age	25	21 years 7 months
Dwelling Place	Otakeho	Otakeho
Length of Residence	4 years	3 years
Marriage Place	Registrar's Office, Manaia
Folio	10/610
Consent
Date of Certificate	10 January 1910
Officiating Minister	Registrar, Manaia

28 January 1910

Cornelius Thorburn
Mary Ann Slattery

Cornelius Horgan
Mary Ann Slattery
💍 1910/612

Bachelor
Spinster

Farm Labourer
Domestic

25 years
26 years

Pihama
Manaia

9 years
4 months

Roman Catholic Church, Manaia

10/609

28 January 1910

Michael O'Dwyer, Manaia

No	3
Date of Notice	28 January 1910
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Cornelius Thorburn	Mary Ann Slattery
BDM Match (86%)	Cornelius Horgan	Mary Ann Slattery
	💍 1910/612
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Farm Labourer	Domestic
Age	25 years	26 years
Dwelling Place	Pihama	Manaia
Length of Residence	9 years	4 months
Marriage Place	Roman Catholic Church, Manaia
Folio	10/609
Consent
Date of Certificate	28 January 1910
Officiating Minister	Michael O'Dwyer, Manaia

18 February 1910

Whakatutu
Keiriana

Widower
Widow

Farmer
Domestic

28
21

Otakeho
Otakeho

20 years
3 months

Registrar's Office, Manaia

10/611

18 February 1910

Registrar, Manaia

No	4
Date of Notice	18 February 1910
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Whakatutu	Keiriana
Condition	Widower	Widow
Profession	Farmer	Domestic
Age	28	21
Dwelling Place	Otakeho	Otakeho
Length of Residence	20 years	3 months
Marriage Place	Registrar's Office, Manaia
Folio	10/611
Consent
Date of Certificate	18 February 1910
Officiating Minister	Registrar, Manaia

22 February 1910

Richard Henry Natkies
Charlotte Katherine Mandle

Richard Henry Watkins
Charlotte Katherine Yandle
💍 1910/8287

Bachelor
Spinster

Farmer
Domestic

28
22

Auroa
Auroa

4 years
2 years

Registrar's Office, Manaia

10/612

22 February 1910

Registrar, Manaia

No	5
Date of Notice	22 February 1910
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Richard Henry Natkies	Charlotte Katherine Mandle
BDM Match (93%)	Richard Henry Watkins	Charlotte Katherine Yandle
	💍 1910/8287
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Farmer	Domestic
Age	28	22
Dwelling Place	Auroa	Auroa
Length of Residence	4 years	2 years
Marriage Place	Registrar's Office, Manaia
Folio	10/612
Consent
Date of Certificate	22 February 1910
Officiating Minister	Registrar, Manaia

31 March 1910

Augustus Cameron
Daisy Annell

Augustus Cameron
Daisy Annett
💍 1910/616

Bachelor
Spinster

Farmer
Barmaid

28
19

Manaia
Manaia

14 days
9 weeks

Registrar's Office, Manaia

10/613

Joseph Annell, Adopted Father

31 March 1910

Registrar, Manaia

No	6
Date of Notice	31 March 1910
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Augustus Cameron	Daisy Annell
BDM Match (92%)	Augustus Cameron	Daisy Annett
	💍 1910/616
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Farmer	Barmaid
Age	28	19
Dwelling Place	Manaia	Manaia
Length of Residence	14 days	9 weeks
Marriage Place	Registrar's Office, Manaia
Folio	10/613
Consent	Joseph Annell, Adopted Father
Date of Certificate	31 March 1910
Officiating Minister	Registrar, Manaia

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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).