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 673

District of Wellington Quarter ending 31 December 1911 Registrar Gilbert Graham Hodgkins

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

928

12 December 1911

Hercules Robert Robinson
Pearl Jenness

Hercules Robert Robinson
Pearl Jenness
💍 1911/6950

Bachelor
Spinster

County Clerk

23
20

Pongaroa
Hutt

2 years
20 years

Wesleyan Church

11/7011

George Lewis Jenness, Father

12 December 1911

Rev. B. H. Ginger

No	928
Date of Notice	12 December 1911
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Hercules Robert Robinson	Pearl Jenness
	💍 1911/6950
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	County Clerk
Age	23	20
Dwelling Place	Pongaroa	Hutt
Length of Residence	2 years	20 years
Marriage Place	Wesleyan Church
Folio	11/7011
Consent	George Lewis Jenness, Father
Date of Certificate	12 December 1911
Officiating Minister	Rev. B. H. Ginger

929

12 December 1911

Stuart Otto Johns
Marion Ethel Barwell-Brooke

Stuart Otto Johns
Marion Ethel Carwell-Cooke
💍 1911/8247

Bachelor
Spinster

Builder & Contractor

25
23

Wellington
Wellington

6 years
18 years

Residence of Mr. G. Barwell-Brooke, Cecil Road, Wadestown

11/8290

12 December 1911

Rev. G. H. Olds

No	929
Date of Notice	12 December 1911
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Stuart Otto Johns	Marion Ethel Barwell-Brooke
BDM Match (94%)	Stuart Otto Johns	Marion Ethel Carwell-Cooke
	💍 1911/8247
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Builder & Contractor
Age	25	23
Dwelling Place	Wellington	Wellington
Length of Residence	6 years	18 years
Marriage Place	Residence of Mr. G. Barwell-Brooke, Cecil Road, Wadestown
Folio	11/8290
Consent
Date of Certificate	12 December 1911
Officiating Minister	Rev. G. H. Olds

930

12 December 1911

Frank Taylor
Florence Victoria Windsor

Frank Taylor
Florence Victoria Windsor
💍 1911/6856

Bachelor
Spinster

Shop Assistant

25
24

Wellington
Wellington

7 years
22 years

Primitive Methodist Manse, Webb Street, Wellington

11/6888

12 December 1911

Rev. W. S. Potter

No	930
Date of Notice	12 December 1911
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Frank Taylor	Florence Victoria Windsor
	💍 1911/6856
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Shop Assistant
Age	25	24
Dwelling Place	Wellington	Wellington
Length of Residence	7 years	22 years
Marriage Place	Primitive Methodist Manse, Webb Street, Wellington
Folio	11/6888
Consent
Date of Certificate	12 December 1911
Officiating Minister	Rev. W. S. Potter

931

13 December 1911

Arthur Edward Talbot
Rose Eliza Little

Arthur Edward Talbot
Rose Eliza Little
💍 1911/6879

Bachelor
Spinster

Pressman

27
20

Wellington
Wellington

3 years
5 years

Presbyterian Church Manse, 35 Perie Street, Wellington

11/6911

Catherine Sophia Little, Mother

13 December 1911

Rev. J. K. Elliott

No	931
Date of Notice	13 December 1911
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Arthur Edward Talbot	Rose Eliza Little
	💍 1911/6879
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Pressman
Age	27	20
Dwelling Place	Wellington	Wellington
Length of Residence	3 years	5 years
Marriage Place	Presbyterian Church Manse, 35 Perie Street, Wellington
Folio	11/6911
Consent	Catherine Sophia Little, Mother
Date of Certificate	13 December 1911
Officiating Minister	Rev. J. K. Elliott

932

13 December 1911

John Arthur Palamountain
Mary Ann Bolton

John Arthur Palamountain
Mary Ann Bolton
💍 1911/6864

Bachelor
Spinster

Engineer

23
26

Petone
Hutt

12 years
9 months

Residence of Mr. J. Pointon, 153 Esplanade, Petone

11/7005

13 December 1911

Rev. A. Thompson

No	932
Date of Notice	13 December 1911
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	John Arthur Palamountain	Mary Ann Bolton
	💍 1911/6864
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Engineer
Age	23	26
Dwelling Place	Petone	Hutt
Length of Residence	12 years	9 months
Marriage Place	Residence of Mr. J. Pointon, 153 Esplanade, Petone
Folio	11/7005
Consent
Date of Certificate	13 December 1911
Officiating Minister	Rev. A. Thompson

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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).