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 Inglewood Quarter ending 30 September 1911 Registrar J. G. W. Bennett

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

9 August 1911

Arthur Lewis Robert
Ethel Selina Ward

Arthur Lewis Roberts
Ethel Selina Ward
💍 1911/8899

Bachelor
Spinster

Builder

26
24

Inglewood
Inglewood

3 days
20 years

at the Church of England at Inglewood

11/5004

9 August 1911

Rev. J. Wilkinson

No	20
Date of Notice	9 August 1911
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Arthur Lewis Robert	Ethel Selina Ward
BDM Match (98%)	Arthur Lewis Roberts	Ethel Selina Ward
	💍 1911/8899
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Builder
Age	26	24
Dwelling Place	Inglewood	Inglewood
Length of Residence	3 days	20 years
Marriage Place	at the Church of England at Inglewood
Folio	11/5004
Consent
Date of Certificate	9 August 1911
Officiating Minister	Rev. J. Wilkinson

26 August 1911

Charles Edward Menchin
Emily Christina Gibb

Charles Edward Minchin
Emily Christina Gibb
💍 1911/9005

Bachelor
Spinster

Farmer
Dressmaker

27
26

Moa District
Moa District

27 years
1 month

at the Church of England at Pariki

11/8541

26 August 1911

Rev. C. Houchen

No	22
Date of Notice	26 August 1911
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Charles Edward Menchin	Emily Christina Gibb
BDM Match (98%)	Charles Edward Minchin	Emily Christina Gibb
	💍 1911/9005
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Farmer	Dressmaker
Age	27	26
Dwelling Place	Moa District	Moa District
Length of Residence	27 years	1 month
Marriage Place	at the Church of England at Pariki
Folio	11/8541
Consent
Date of Certificate	26 August 1911
Officiating Minister	Rev. C. Houchen

19 September 1911

Ernest Flintoff
Edith Lily May Rodgers

Ernest Flintoff
Edith Lily May Rodgers
💍 1911/5662

Bachelor
Spinster

Butcher

25
18

Inglewood
Inglewood

25 years
5 years

at the Primitive Methodist Church at Inglewood

11/5528

John Rodgers, father of Edith Lily May Rodgers

19 September 1911

Rev. H. Sharp

No	23
Date of Notice	19 September 1911
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Ernest Flintoff	Edith Lily May Rodgers
	💍 1911/5662
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Butcher
Age	25	18
Dwelling Place	Inglewood	Inglewood
Length of Residence	25 years	5 years
Marriage Place	at the Primitive Methodist Church at Inglewood
Folio	11/5528
Consent	John Rodgers, father of Edith Lily May Rodgers
Date of Certificate	19 September 1911
Officiating Minister	Rev. H. Sharp

20 September 1911

Stanley Hyland Hunt
Maggie Ellen Hogg

Stanley Hyland Hunt
Maggie Elliot Hogg
💍 1911/5179

Bachelor
Spinster

Bricklayer

29
25

Inglewood
Inglewood

4 days
3 weeks

at the Presbyterian Church at Inglewood

11/5016

20 September 1911

Rev. J. Richards

No	24
Date of Notice	20 September 1911
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Stanley Hyland Hunt	Maggie Ellen Hogg
BDM Match (92%)	Stanley Hyland Hunt	Maggie Elliot Hogg
	💍 1911/5179
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Bricklayer
Age	29	25
Dwelling Place	Inglewood	Inglewood
Length of Residence	4 days	3 weeks
Marriage Place	at the Presbyterian Church at Inglewood
Folio	11/5016
Consent
Date of Certificate	20 September 1911
Officiating Minister	Rev. J. Richards

21 September 1911

William Thomas Dale
Emma Jane Taylor

William Thomas Dale
Emma Jane Taylor
💍 1911/5168

Bachelor
Spinster

Farmer

40
33

Inglewood
Inglewood

3 days
33 years

at the Residence of J. A. Kennedy, Brookes St., Inglewood

11/5015

21 September 1911

Rev. J. Richards

No	25
Date of Notice	21 September 1911
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	William Thomas Dale	Emma Jane Taylor
	💍 1911/5168
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Farmer
Age	40	33
Dwelling Place	Inglewood	Inglewood
Length of Residence	3 days	33 years
Marriage Place	at the Residence of J. A. Kennedy, Brookes St., Inglewood
Folio	11/5015
Consent
Date of Certificate	21 September 1911
Officiating Minister	Rev. J. Richards

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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).