Intentions to Marry, 1910 Wellington, Marlborough, Nelson, Westland

Reference: Registrar-General of Births, Deaths and Marriages, Notices of intention to marry, Series 8937, R2840443, 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 467

District of Wellington Quarter ending 31 March 1910 Registrar Gilboat Graham Hodghins

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

106

18 February 1910

John Anderson
Agatha Matilda Orriss

John Anderson
Agatha Matilda Orriss
💍 1910/73

Bachelor
Spinster

Chef

35
33

Wellington
Wellington

9 days
3 days

Registrars Office

10/948

18 February 1910

Registrar

No	106
Date of Notice	18 February 1910
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	John Anderson	Agatha Matilda Orriss
	💍 1910/73
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Chef
Age	35	33
Dwelling Place	Wellington	Wellington
Length of Residence	9 days	3 days
Marriage Place	Registrars Office
Folio	10/948
Consent
Date of Certificate	18 February 1910
Officiating Minister	Registrar

107

18 February 1910

Horace Leonard McKay
Margaret Mouat

Horace Leonard McKay
Margaret Mouat
💍 1910/1069

Bachelor
Spinster

Storeman

23
23

Wellington
Wellington

19 years
11 years

Residence of Mr & Mrs McKay, 7 Home Street

10/1055

18 February 1910

Rev J K Elliott

No	107
Date of Notice	18 February 1910
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Horace Leonard McKay	Margaret Mouat
	💍 1910/1069
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Storeman
Age	23	23
Dwelling Place	Wellington	Wellington
Length of Residence	19 years	11 years
Marriage Place	Residence of Mr & Mrs McKay, 7 Home Street
Folio	10/1055
Consent
Date of Certificate	18 February 1910
Officiating Minister	Rev J K Elliott

108

21 February 1910

Christopher Joseph Farrelly
Evelyn Blanche Realon

Christopher Joseph Farrelly
Evelyn Blanche Nealon
💍 1910/79

Bachelor
Spinster

Labourer

32
26

Wellington
Maranui, Wellington

5 years
4 years

Registrars Office

10/949

21 February 1910

Registrar

No	108
Date of Notice	21 February 1910
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Christopher Joseph Farrelly	Evelyn Blanche Realon
BDM Match (98%)	Christopher Joseph Farrelly	Evelyn Blanche Nealon
	💍 1910/79
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Labourer
Age	32	26
Dwelling Place	Wellington	Maranui, Wellington
Length of Residence	5 years	4 years
Marriage Place	Registrars Office
Folio	10/949
Consent
Date of Certificate	21 February 1910
Officiating Minister	Registrar

109

21 February 1910

Percy Sadler
Ada Mabel Emily Smith

Percy Sadler
Ada Mabel Emily Smith
💍 1910/1125

Bachelor
Spinster

Salesman

23
27

Wellington
Wellington

18 months
4 years

Primitive Methodist Church, Donald McLean Street, Wellington

Not held by Rev C A Sims. 2nd cert. issued on 11.3.10 by Rev W J [illegible]

21 February 1910

Rev C A Sims

No	109
Date of Notice	21 February 1910
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Percy Sadler	Ada Mabel Emily Smith
	💍 1910/1125
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Salesman
Age	23	27
Dwelling Place	Wellington	Wellington
Length of Residence	18 months	4 years
Marriage Place	Primitive Methodist Church, Donald McLean Street, Wellington
Folio	Not held by Rev C A Sims. 2nd cert. issued on 11.3.10 by Rev W J [illegible]
Consent
Date of Certificate	21 February 1910
Officiating Minister	Rev C A Sims

110

21 February 1910

Charles Henry Bjermqvist
Selina Louie Sheehy

Charles Henry Bjeronqvist
Selina Louie Sheehy
💍 1910/1070

Bachelor
Spinster

Compositor

29
25

Wellington
Wellington

9 years
15 years

St Johns Church, Willis Street, Wellington

10/1056

21 February 1910

Rev Dr J Gibb

No	110
Date of Notice	21 February 1910
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Charles Henry Bjermqvist	Selina Louie Sheehy
BDM Match (96%)	Charles Henry Bjeronqvist	Selina Louie Sheehy
	💍 1910/1070
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Compositor
Age	29	25
Dwelling Place	Wellington	Wellington
Length of Residence	9 years	15 years
Marriage Place	St Johns Church, Willis Street, Wellington
Folio	10/1056
Consent
Date of Certificate	21 February 1910
Officiating Minister	Rev Dr J Gibb

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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).