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 Thomas Culpan

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

192

22 February 1911

Gabriel Michael Joseph East
Margaret Isabella Garlick Dean

Gabnel Michael Joseph East
Margaret Agnes Isabella Garlick Dean
💍 1911/4442

Bachelor
Spinster

Medical Practitioner

33
32

Auckland
Auckland

3 years
3 months

St Patrick's Cathedral Auckland

11/486

22 February 1911

Rev H G Holbrook

No	192
Date of Notice	22 February 1911
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Gabriel Michael Joseph East	Margaret Isabella Garlick Dean
BDM Match (88%)	Gabnel Michael Joseph East	Margaret Agnes Isabella Garlick Dean
	💍 1911/4442
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Medical Practitioner
Age	33	32
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	3 years	3 months
Marriage Place	St Patrick's Cathedral Auckland
Folio	11/486
Consent
Date of Certificate	22 February 1911
Officiating Minister	Rev H G Holbrook

193

22 February 1911

Howard Michael Brown
Annie Eliza Roberts

Howard Michael Morris
Annie Eliza Roberts
💍 1911/679

Bachelor
Spinster

Mariner

33
38

Auckland
Parnell

3.5 years
5 years

Registrar's Office Auckland

11/28

22 February 1911

Registrar

No	193
Date of Notice	22 February 1911
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Howard Michael Brown	Annie Eliza Roberts
BDM Match (88%)	Howard Michael Morris	Annie Eliza Roberts
	💍 1911/679
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Mariner
Age	33	38
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Parnell
Length of Residence	3.5 years	5 years
Marriage Place	Registrar's Office Auckland
Folio	11/28
Consent
Date of Certificate	22 February 1911
Officiating Minister	Registrar

194

22 February 1911

Ernest Frank Wright
Margaret Jane Marnie

Ernest Mark Wright
Margaret Jane Marnie
💍 1911/680

Bachelor
Spinster

Labourer

25
22

Northcote
Auckland

6 months
3 months

Registrar's Office Auckland

11/29

22 February 1911

Registrar

No	194
Date of Notice	22 February 1911
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Ernest Frank Wright	Margaret Jane Marnie
BDM Match (92%)	Ernest Mark Wright	Margaret Jane Marnie
	💍 1911/680
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Labourer
Age	25	22
Dwelling Place	Northcote	Auckland
Length of Residence	6 months	3 months
Marriage Place	Registrar's Office Auckland
Folio	11/29
Consent
Date of Certificate	22 February 1911
Officiating Minister	Registrar

195

23 February 1911

Frederick Lewis Reed
Lila Rebecca Smith

Frederick Lewis Rees
Lila Rebecca Smith
💍 1911/844

Widower 15 Aug 1906
Spinster

Miner

35
20

Auckland
Auckland

10 years
4 months

St Thomas' Church Auckland

11/118

John Dalhar Smith, Father

23 February 1911

Rev G F Harvie

No	195
Date of Notice	23 February 1911
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Frederick Lewis Reed	Lila Rebecca Smith
BDM Match (98%)	Frederick Lewis Rees	Lila Rebecca Smith
	💍 1911/844
Condition	Widower 15 Aug 1906	Spinster
Profession	Miner
Age	35	20
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	10 years	4 months
Marriage Place	St Thomas' Church Auckland
Folio	11/118
Consent	John Dalhar Smith, Father
Date of Certificate	23 February 1911
Officiating Minister	Rev G F Harvie

196

23 February 1911

Andrew Dow Picken
Elvina Young Gilbert Miller

Bachelor
Spinster

Fruiterer

26
20

Kingsland
Auckland

1.5 years
1 day

Baptist Church Mt Eden

11/114

Adolph Miller, Father

9 March 1911

Rev. E. A. Kirwood

No	196
Date of Notice	23 February 1911
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Andrew Dow Picken	Elvina Young Gilbert Miller
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Fruiterer
Age	26	20
Dwelling Place	Kingsland	Auckland
Length of Residence	1.5 years	1 day
Marriage Place	Baptist Church Mt Eden
Folio	11/114
Consent	Adolph Miller, Father
Date of Certificate	9 March 1911
Officiating Minister	Rev. E. A. Kirwood

197

23 February 1911

John Hepworth Chapman
Anne Mabel Fuller

John Hepworth Chapman
Annie Mabel Bullen
💍 1911/685

Divorced Decree abs. 13 Dec 1906
Spinster

Driver

31
22

Auckland
Auckland

2 years
1 year

Registrar's Office Auckland

11/34

23 February 1911

Registrar

No	197
Date of Notice	23 February 1911
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	John Hepworth Chapman	Anne Mabel Fuller
BDM Match (92%)	John Hepworth Chapman	Annie Mabel Bullen
	💍 1911/685
Condition	Divorced Decree abs. 13 Dec 1906	Spinster
Profession	Driver
Age	31	22
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	2 years	1 year
Marriage Place	Registrar's Office Auckland
Folio	11/34
Consent
Date of Certificate	23 February 1911
Officiating Minister	Registrar

198

24 February 1911

Peter Lucan Avery
Mary Duff

Peter McAvery
Mary Duffy
💍 1911/773

Bachelor
Spinster

Acid Worker

28
28

Onehunga
Onehunga

2 months
2 years

Roman Catholic Church Onehunga

11/172

24 February 1911

Rev M Mahoney

No	198
Date of Notice	24 February 1911
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Peter Lucan Avery	Mary Duff
BDM Match (80%)	Peter McAvery	Mary Duffy
	💍 1911/773
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Acid Worker
Age	28	28
Dwelling Place	Onehunga	Onehunga
Length of Residence	2 months	2 years
Marriage Place	Roman Catholic Church Onehunga
Folio	11/172
Consent
Date of Certificate	24 February 1911
Officiating Minister	Rev M Mahoney

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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).