Intentions to Marry, 1911 Hawke's Bay, Wellington, Marlborough, Nelson, Westland

Reference: Registrar-General of Births, Deaths and Marriages, Notices of intention to marry, Series 8937, R2840446, 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 Hastings Quarter ending 30 September 1911 Registrar R. Brathwaite

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

5 July 1911

William Thomas Hutchell
Emma Williams

William Thomas Mitchell
Emma Williams
💍 1911/5670

William Arthur Vogel
Eliza Williams
💍 1911/3565

Widower
Spinster

Gardener
Domestic

55
36

Hastings
Hastings

11 months
8 months

Presbyterian House, Hastings

11/5518

5 July 1911

Rev. P. Ramsay

No	49
Date of Notice	5 July 1911
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	William Thomas Hutchell	Emma Williams
BDM Match (96%)	William Thomas Mitchell	Emma Williams
	💍 1911/5670
BDM Match (63%)	William Arthur Vogel	Eliza Williams
	💍 1911/3565
Condition	Widower	Spinster
Profession	Gardener	Domestic
Age	55	36
Dwelling Place	Hastings	Hastings
Length of Residence	11 months	8 months
Marriage Place	Presbyterian House, Hastings
Folio	11/5518
Consent
Date of Certificate	5 July 1911
Officiating Minister	Rev. P. Ramsay

12 July 1911

George Alfred Poland Maddison
Eileen Mabel Bellwood

George Alfred Roland Maddison
Eileen Isabel Willwood
💍 1911/5407

Bachelor
Spinster

Draper
Household duties

26
22

Hastings
Hastings

26 years
22 years

St. Matthew's, Hastings

11/5229

12 July 1911

Rev. J. B. Brocklehurst

No	50
Date of Notice	12 July 1911
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	George Alfred Poland Maddison	Eileen Mabel Bellwood
BDM Match (89%)	George Alfred Roland Maddison	Eileen Isabel Willwood
	💍 1911/5407
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Draper	Household duties
Age	26	22
Dwelling Place	Hastings	Hastings
Length of Residence	26 years	22 years
Marriage Place	St. Matthew's, Hastings
Folio	11/5229
Consent
Date of Certificate	12 July 1911
Officiating Minister	Rev. J. B. Brocklehurst

19 July 1911

Henry Otto Slater
Constance Louise Tremellyn Hay

Henry Otto Shattky
Constance Louise Tremellyn Hay
💍 1911/5406

Bachelor
Spinster

Hairdresser
Milliner

27
26

Hastings
Hastings

8 years
5 years

St. Matthew's, Hastings

11/5228

19 July 1911

Rev. J. B. Brocklehurst

No	51
Date of Notice	19 July 1911
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Henry Otto Slater	Constance Louise Tremellyn Hay
BDM Match (89%)	Henry Otto Shattky	Constance Louise Tremellyn Hay
	💍 1911/5406
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Hairdresser	Milliner
Age	27	26
Dwelling Place	Hastings	Hastings
Length of Residence	8 years	5 years
Marriage Place	St. Matthew's, Hastings
Folio	11/5228
Consent
Date of Certificate	19 July 1911
Officiating Minister	Rev. J. B. Brocklehurst

19 July 1911

Harold Joseph Lester
Theodora May Reeves

Harold Joseph Lester
Theodora May Meyer
💍 1911/5395

Bachelor
Spinster

Station Worker
Domestic duties

35
27

Hastings
Hastings

3 days
6 months

St. Matthew's, Blenheim, Hastings

11/5233

19 July 1911

Rev. Theodde A. Mayer

No	52
Date of Notice	19 July 1911
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Harold Joseph Lester	Theodora May Reeves
BDM Match (89%)	Harold Joseph Lester	Theodora May Meyer
	💍 1911/5395
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Station Worker	Domestic duties
Age	35	27
Dwelling Place	Hastings	Hastings
Length of Residence	3 days	6 months
Marriage Place	St. Matthew's, Blenheim, Hastings
Folio	11/5233
Consent
Date of Certificate	19 July 1911
Officiating Minister	Rev. Theodde A. Mayer

19 July 1911

Alfred Ernest Elwood
Kathleen Carney

Alfred Ernest Elwood
Kathleen Carney
💍 1911/8356

Bachelor
Spinster

Bar Tender
Domestic

25
25

Hastings
Hastings

20 years
2 years

Catholic Church, Hastings

11/8407

19 July 1911

Rev. Walter Keogh

No	53
Date of Notice	19 July 1911
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Alfred Ernest Elwood	Kathleen Carney
	💍 1911/8356
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Bar Tender	Domestic
Age	25	25
Dwelling Place	Hastings	Hastings
Length of Residence	20 years	2 years
Marriage Place	Catholic Church, Hastings
Folio	11/8407
Consent
Date of Certificate	19 July 1911
Officiating Minister	Rev. Walter Keogh

21 July 1911

Arthur Ernest Lowe
Esther Louisa Marchant

Arthur Ernest Lowe
Esther Louisa Marchant
💍 1911/5405

Bachelor
Spinster

Bee Keeper
Household duties

27
20

Hastings
Hastings

4 years
20 years

St. Matthew's, Hastings

11/5227

Francis Septimus Marchant, father

21 July 1911

Rev. J. B. Brocklehurst

No	54
Date of Notice	21 July 1911
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Arthur Ernest Lowe	Esther Louisa Marchant
	💍 1911/5405
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Bee Keeper	Household duties
Age	27	20
Dwelling Place	Hastings	Hastings
Length of Residence	4 years	20 years
Marriage Place	St. Matthew's, Hastings
Folio	11/5227
Consent	Francis Septimus Marchant, father
Date of Certificate	21 July 1911
Officiating Minister	Rev. J. B. Brocklehurst

25 July 1911

Donald Archibald Maclean Cox
Sylvia Eugenie Cox

Donald Archibald McLean
Sylvia Eugenie Cox
💍 1911/8469

Widower
Spinster

Builder
Domestic

52
34

Maraekakaho, Hastings
Maraekakaho, Hastings

28 years
10 months

Private House, Maraekakaho

11/8525

25 July 1911

Rev. Catherwood

No	55
Date of Notice	25 July 1911
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Donald Archibald Maclean Cox	Sylvia Eugenie Cox
BDM Match (89%)	Donald Archibald McLean	Sylvia Eugenie Cox
	💍 1911/8469
Condition	Widower	Spinster
Profession	Builder	Domestic
Age	52	34
Dwelling Place	Maraekakaho, Hastings	Maraekakaho, Hastings
Length of Residence	28 years	10 months
Marriage Place	Private House, Maraekakaho
Folio	11/8525
Consent
Date of Certificate	25 July 1911
Officiating Minister	Rev. Catherwood

7 August 1911

Arona Ritiuna
Ori Hia

Arona Ratima
Ani Hira
💍 1911/8265

Bachelor
Spinster

Settler
Native

24
21

Hawke's Bay
Hawke's Bay

24 years
21 years

Maori Church, Te Hauke

11/8335

7 August 1911

Udu George Bowles

No	56
Date of Notice	7 August 1911
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Arona Ritiuna	Ori Hia
BDM Match (70%)	Arona Ratima	Ani Hira
	💍 1911/8265
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Settler	Native
Age	24	21
Dwelling Place	Hawke's Bay	Hawke's Bay
Length of Residence	24 years	21 years
Marriage Place	Maori Church, Te Hauke
Folio	11/8335
Consent
Date of Certificate	7 August 1911
Officiating Minister	Udu George Bowles

9 August 1911

Herbert Chees
Eva Leyland

Herbert Cheer
Eva Leyland
💍 1911/5404

Bachelor
Spinster

Ploughman
Domestic

35
27

Hastings
Hastings

35 years
7 days

St. Matthew's, Hastings

11/5226

9 August 1911

Rev. J. B. Brocklehurst

No	57
Date of Notice	9 August 1911
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Herbert Chees	Eva Leyland
BDM Match (96%)	Herbert Cheer	Eva Leyland
	💍 1911/5404
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Ploughman	Domestic
Age	35	27
Dwelling Place	Hastings	Hastings
Length of Residence	35 years	7 days
Marriage Place	St. Matthew's, Hastings
Folio	11/5226
Consent
Date of Certificate	9 August 1911
Officiating Minister	Rev. J. B. Brocklehurst

23 August 1911

Philip George Drummond
Ruth Mary Thomson

Philip George Drummond
Ruth Mary Thomson
💍 1911/8985

Bachelor
Spinster

Station Manager
Nurse

30
35

Te Mata, Havelock
Havelock

4 years
2 years

St. Luke's Church, Havelock

11/8406

23 August 1911

Rev. H. S. Hamilton

No	58
Date of Notice	23 August 1911
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Philip George Drummond	Ruth Mary Thomson
	💍 1911/8985
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Station Manager	Nurse
Age	30	35
Dwelling Place	Te Mata, Havelock	Havelock
Length of Residence	4 years	2 years
Marriage Place	St. Luke's Church, Havelock
Folio	11/8406
Consent
Date of Certificate	23 August 1911
Officiating Minister	Rev. H. S. Hamilton

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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).