Intentions to Marry, 1911 Auckland, Taranaki

Reference: Registrar-General of Births, Deaths and Marriages, Notices of intention to marry, Series 8937, R2840445, Archives New Zealand Te Rua Mahara o te Kāwanatanga, Wellington

1911 is bound in three volumes - Auckland, Taranaki, (1911a), Hawke's Bay, Wellington, Marlborough, Nelson, Westland (1911b), and Canterbury, Otago, Chatham Islands (1911c).

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District of Auckland Quarter ending 31 March 1911 Registrar Ernest Livermore

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

245

10 March 1911

Edward Thomas Peebles
Jean Peebles

Edward Thomas
Jean Peetles
💍 1911/726

Bachelor
Spinster

Boiler-maker

34
28

Auckland
Auckland

26 years
3 years

House of James Peebles, Manning Street, Newton, Auckland

11/98

10 March 1911

Rev. R. Raine

No	245
Date of Notice	10 March 1911
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Edward Thomas Peebles	Jean Peebles
BDM Match (77%)	Edward Thomas	Jean Peetles
	💍 1911/726
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Boiler-maker
Age	34	28
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	26 years	3 years
Marriage Place	House of James Peebles, Manning Street, Newton, Auckland
Folio	11/98
Consent
Date of Certificate	10 March 1911
Officiating Minister	Rev. R. Raine

246

11 March 1911

Thomas Richard Good
Maggie Florence Rise

Thomas Richard Good
Maggie Florence Rix
💍 1911/886

Bachelor
Spinster

Painter

31
32

Auckland
Auckland

3 years
19 years

House of Mrs Y. Streeter, Harold Street, Mount Eden, Auckland

11/203

11 March 1911

Rev. A. R. Scotter

No	246
Date of Notice	11 March 1911
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Thomas Richard Good	Maggie Florence Rise
BDM Match (95%)	Thomas Richard Good	Maggie Florence Rix
	💍 1911/886
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Painter
Age	31	32
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	3 years	19 years
Marriage Place	House of Mrs Y. Streeter, Harold Street, Mount Eden, Auckland
Folio	11/203
Consent
Date of Certificate	11 March 1911
Officiating Minister	Rev. A. R. Scotter

247

13 March 1911

Harold Easterbrook Smith
Rebecca Louise Jones

Harold Easterbrook Smith
Rebecca Louise Jones
💍 1911/804

Bachelor
Spinster

Carpenter

27
27

Auckland
Auckland

13 years
20 years

Zion Hill Methodist Church, Birkenhead

11/230

13 March 1911

Rev. T. G. Carr

No	247
Date of Notice	13 March 1911
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Harold Easterbrook Smith	Rebecca Louise Jones
	💍 1911/804
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Carpenter
Age	27	27
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	13 years	20 years
Marriage Place	Zion Hill Methodist Church, Birkenhead
Folio	11/230
Consent
Date of Certificate	13 March 1911
Officiating Minister	Rev. T. G. Carr

248

13 March 1911

Frank Clifford Williams
Emma Georgia Jones

Frank Clifford Williams
Emma Georgina Jones
💍 1911/668

Bachelor
Spinster

Shipwright

24
16

Auckland
Auckland

3 years
4 years

Registrar's Office, Auckland

11/41

Timothy Jones, Father

13 March 1911

Deputy Registrar

No	248
Date of Notice	13 March 1911
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Frank Clifford Williams	Emma Georgia Jones
BDM Match (97%)	Frank Clifford Williams	Emma Georgina Jones
	💍 1911/668
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Shipwright
Age	24	16
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	3 years	4 years
Marriage Place	Registrar's Office, Auckland
Folio	11/41
Consent	Timothy Jones, Father
Date of Certificate	13 March 1911
Officiating Minister	Deputy Registrar

249

13 March 1911

James Alfred Ernest Preston
Alice Sinton

James Alfred Ernest Preston
Alice Sinton
💍 1911/1102

Bachelor
Spinster

Salvation Army Officer

33
26

Auckland
Auckland

4 years
18 years

Salvation Army Hall, Albert Street, Auckland

11/453

13 March 1911

Lt. Col. J. Birkenshaw

No	249
Date of Notice	13 March 1911
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	James Alfred Ernest Preston	Alice Sinton
	💍 1911/1102
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Salvation Army Officer
Age	33	26
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	4 years	18 years
Marriage Place	Salvation Army Hall, Albert Street, Auckland
Folio	11/453
Consent
Date of Certificate	13 March 1911
Officiating Minister	Lt. Col. J. Birkenshaw

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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).