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).

Page 214

District of Feilding Quarter ending 30 September 1911 Registrar Charles C. Halliday

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

11 July 1911

Algernon Holland Colvile
Olive May Enard Peat

Algernon Holland Colvile
Olive May Penard Peat
💍 1911/5375

Bachelor
Spinster

Clerk in Holy Orders

40
28

Feilding
Feilding

3 days
4 years

Church of England, Feilding

11/5213

11 July 1911

Rev. A. S. Innes-Jones

No	35
Date of Notice	11 July 1911
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Algernon Holland Colvile	Olive May Enard Peat
BDM Match (95%)	Algernon Holland Colvile	Olive May Penard Peat
	💍 1911/5375
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Clerk in Holy Orders
Age	40	28
Dwelling Place	Feilding	Feilding
Length of Residence	3 days	4 years
Marriage Place	Church of England, Feilding
Folio	11/5213
Consent
Date of Certificate	11 July 1911
Officiating Minister	Rev. A. S. Innes-Jones

21 July 1911

James Wilkinson
Annie Hesketh

James Wilkinson
Annie Hesketh
💍 1911/5771

Bachelor
Spinster

Chauffeur

29
21

Feilding
Aorangi

3 years
3 years

Residence of William Hesketh, Aorangi

11/5637

21 July 1911

Rev. Henry Burran

No	36
Date of Notice	21 July 1911
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	James Wilkinson	Annie Hesketh
	💍 1911/5771
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Chauffeur
Age	29	21
Dwelling Place	Feilding	Aorangi
Length of Residence	3 years	3 years
Marriage Place	Residence of William Hesketh, Aorangi
Folio	11/5637
Consent
Date of Certificate	21 July 1911
Officiating Minister	Rev. Henry Burran

22 July 1911

Walter Adsett
Mildred Rose Barry

Walter Adsett
Mildred Rose Barry
💍 1911/5378

Bachelor
Spinster

Farmer

33
30

Colyton
Feilding

30 years
8 years

Presbyterian Manse, Feilding

11/5216

22 July 1911

Rev. George Budd

No	37
Date of Notice	22 July 1911
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Walter Adsett	Mildred Rose Barry
	💍 1911/5378
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Farmer
Age	33	30
Dwelling Place	Colyton	Feilding
Length of Residence	30 years	8 years
Marriage Place	Presbyterian Manse, Feilding
Folio	11/5216
Consent
Date of Certificate	22 July 1911
Officiating Minister	Rev. George Budd

1 August 1911

Rupert John Gray
Fanny Elizabeth Gladstone

Rupert John Gray
Fanny Elizabeth Gladstone
💍 1911/5380

Bachelor
Spinster

Butter-maker

26
22

Shannon
Feilding

3 days
2 months

Presbyterian Church, Feilding

11/5217

1 August 1911

Rev. George Budd

No	38
Date of Notice	1 August 1911
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Rupert John Gray	Fanny Elizabeth Gladstone
	💍 1911/5380
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Butter-maker
Age	26	22
Dwelling Place	Shannon	Feilding
Length of Residence	3 days	2 months
Marriage Place	Presbyterian Church, Feilding
Folio	11/5217
Consent
Date of Certificate	1 August 1911
Officiating Minister	Rev. George Budd

1 August 1911

Olof Harting Nikolaison
Mabel Lillian Bishop

Olof Hartvig Nikolaison
Mabel Lillian Bishop
💍 1911/5772

Bachelor
Spinster

Butter maker

25
19

Ormondville, Feilding
Feilding

3 days
19 years

The Gospel Hall, Warwick Street, Feilding

11/5638

Mary Sarah Bishop, mother

1 August 1911

Rev. Henry Burran

No	39
Date of Notice	1 August 1911
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Olof Harting Nikolaison	Mabel Lillian Bishop
BDM Match (96%)	Olof Hartvig Nikolaison	Mabel Lillian Bishop
	💍 1911/5772
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Butter maker
Age	25	19
Dwelling Place	Ormondville, Feilding	Feilding
Length of Residence	3 days	19 years
Marriage Place	The Gospel Hall, Warwick Street, Feilding
Folio	11/5638
Consent	Mary Sarah Bishop, mother
Date of Certificate	1 August 1911
Officiating Minister	Rev. Henry Burran

4 August 1911

Hugh Alexander Taylor
Clarissa Hannah Gibson
formerly Merry M. M. Ellison

Hugh Alexander Taylor
Clarissa Hanna Gibson
💍 1911/5381

Bachelor
Divorced

Farmer

29
31

Cheltenham
Cheltenham

18 months
7 months

Presbyterian Manse, Feilding

11/5218

4 August 1911

Rev. Geo Budd

No	40
Date of Notice	4 August 1911
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Hugh Alexander Taylor	Clarissa Hannah Gibson formerly Merry M. M. Ellison
BDM Match (98%)	Hugh Alexander Taylor	Clarissa Hanna Gibson
	💍 1911/5381
Condition	Bachelor	Divorced
Profession	Farmer
Age	29	31
Dwelling Place	Cheltenham	Cheltenham
Length of Residence	18 months	7 months
Marriage Place	Presbyterian Manse, Feilding
Folio	11/5218
Consent
Date of Certificate	4 August 1911
Officiating Minister	Rev. Geo Budd

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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).