Intentions to Marry, 1910 Canterbury, Otago, Chatham Islands

Reference: Registrar-General of Births, Deaths and Marriages, Notices of intention to marry, Series 8937, R2840444, Archives New Zealand Te Rua Mahara o te Kāwanatanga, Wellington

1910 is bound in three volumes - Auckland, Taranaki, Hawke's Bay (1910a), Wellington, Marlborough, Nelson, Westland (1910b), and Canterbury, Otago, Chatham Islands (1910c).

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District of Temuka Quarter ending 31 December 1910 Registrar A. H. Winterburn

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

12 October 1910

Samuel Joseph McClintock
Maud Ermina Hobbs

Samuel Joseph McClintock
Maud Emma Hobbs
💍 1910/7631

Bachelor
Spinster

Laborer
Domestic Duties

28
22

Temuka
Temuka

28 years as Resident
22 years

10/7975

12 October 1910

Rev. C. Macdonald

No	34
Date of Notice	12 October 1910
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Samuel Joseph McClintock	Maud Ermina Hobbs
BDM Match (91%)	Samuel Joseph McClintock	Maud Emma Hobbs
	💍 1910/7631
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Laborer	Domestic Duties
Age	28	22
Dwelling Place	Temuka	Temuka
Length of Residence	28 years as Resident	22 years
Marriage Place
Folio	10/7975
Consent
Date of Certificate	12 October 1910
Officiating Minister	Rev. C. Macdonald

1 November 1910

Alfred Robert Hearn
Ethel Blyth

Alfred Hubert Weavers
Ethel Blyth
💍 1910/7632

Bachelor
Spinster

Clerk
Domestic Duties

28 years
26 years

Auckland
Temuka

15 months
26 years

Presbyterian Church, Temuka

10/7976

1 November 1910

Rev. C. Macdonald

No	35
Date of Notice	1 November 1910
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Alfred Robert Hearn	Ethel Blyth
BDM Match (86%)	Alfred Hubert Weavers	Ethel Blyth
	💍 1910/7632
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Clerk	Domestic Duties
Age	28 years	26 years
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Temuka
Length of Residence	15 months	26 years
Marriage Place	Presbyterian Church, Temuka
Folio	10/7976
Consent
Date of Certificate	1 November 1910
Officiating Minister	Rev. C. Macdonald

15 November 1910

Hugh Henry Dillon
Annie Moore

Hugh Henry Gillon
Annie Moore
💍 1910/7957

Bachelor
Spinster

Farmer
House Duties

43 years
38 years

Summer Hill
Waihohi

1 year
38 years

Roman Catholic Church

10/8316

15 November 1910

Rev. F. Day

No	36
Date of Notice	15 November 1910
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Hugh Henry Dillon	Annie Moore
BDM Match (97%)	Hugh Henry Gillon	Annie Moore
	💍 1910/7957
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Farmer	House Duties
Age	43 years	38 years
Dwelling Place	Summer Hill	Waihohi
Length of Residence	1 year	38 years
Marriage Place	Roman Catholic Church
Folio	10/8316
Consent
Date of Certificate	15 November 1910
Officiating Minister	Rev. F. Day

18 November 1910

Arthur Lacombe
Ethel Rose Hobbs

Arthur Larcombe
Ethel Rose Hobbs
💍 1910/7634

Bachelor
Spinster

Laborer
Domestic

25 years
26 years

Temuka
Temuka

25 years as Residence
26 years

10/7977

18 November 1910

Rev. C. Macdonald

No	37
Date of Notice	18 November 1910
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Arthur Lacombe	Ethel Rose Hobbs
BDM Match (97%)	Arthur Larcombe	Ethel Rose Hobbs
	💍 1910/7634
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Laborer	Domestic
Age	25 years	26 years
Dwelling Place	Temuka	Temuka
Length of Residence	25 years as Residence	26 years
Marriage Place
Folio	10/7977
Consent
Date of Certificate	18 November 1910
Officiating Minister	Rev. C. Macdonald

1 December 1910

Archibald Macdonald
Violet Olive Hookley

Archibald McDonald
Violet Olive Woodley
💍 1910/7576

Bachelor
Spinster

Baker
Domestic Duties

29 years
22

Temuka
Temuka

3 years & 8 months
18 months

10/7955

1 December 1910

Rev. A. S. Morris

No	38
Date of Notice	1 December 1910
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Archibald Macdonald	Violet Olive Hookley
BDM Match (90%)	Archibald McDonald	Violet Olive Woodley
	💍 1910/7576
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Baker	Domestic Duties
Age	29 years	22
Dwelling Place	Temuka	Temuka
Length of Residence	3 years & 8 months	18 months
Marriage Place
Folio	10/7955
Consent
Date of Certificate	1 December 1910
Officiating Minister	Rev. A. S. Morris

31 December 1910

Arthur Gordon Elsom
Esther Elsom

Arthur Gordon Scott
Esther Girwan Elsom
💍 1911/4379

Bachelor
Spinster

Farmer
Domestic Servant

27
18

Winchester
Winchester

27 years as Resident
5 years

10/1140

George Elsom, the father

31 December 1910

Rev. C. Macdonald

No	39
Date of Notice	31 December 1910
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Arthur Gordon Elsom	Esther Elsom
BDM Match (68%)	Arthur Gordon Scott	Esther Girwan Elsom
	💍 1911/4379
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Farmer	Domestic Servant
Age	27	18
Dwelling Place	Winchester	Winchester
Length of Residence	27 years as Resident	5 years
Marriage Place
Folio	10/1140
Consent	George Elsom, the father
Date of Certificate	31 December 1910
Officiating Minister	Rev. C. Macdonald

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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).