Intentions to Marry, 1912 Auckland, Taranaki, Gisborne

Reference: Registrar-General of Births, Deaths and Marriages, Notices of intention to marry, Series 8937, R2840448, Archives New Zealand Te Rua Mahara o te Kāwanatanga, Wellington

1912 is bound in three volumes - Auckland, Taranaki, Gisborne (1912a), Hawke's Bay, Wellington, Marlborough, Nelson, Westland (1912b), and Canterbury, Otago, Southland, Chatham Islands (1912c).

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District of Cambridge Quarter ending 31 March 1912 Registrar Thos McDermott

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 January 1912

Hugh Armstead Findlay
Agnes Aroha Baskett

Hugh Armstead Findlay
Agnes Aroha Baskett
💍 1912/4421

Bachelor
Spinster

Bank Clerk
Domestic duties

24
20

Te aroha
Cambridge

19 months
6 months

Church of England, Cambridge

12/4289

Nathaniel Baskett, Father

11 January 1912

Revd H del Willis

No	1
Date of Notice	11 January 1912
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Hugh Armstead Findlay	Agnes Aroha Baskett
	💍 1912/4421
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Bank Clerk	Domestic duties
Age	24	20
Dwelling Place	Te aroha	Cambridge
Length of Residence	19 months	6 months
Marriage Place	Church of England, Cambridge
Folio	12/4289
Consent	Nathaniel Baskett, Father
Date of Certificate	11 January 1912
Officiating Minister	Revd H del Willis

24 January 1912

Walter Alexander Lee
Jessie Jeffcot Brooks

Walter Alexander Lee
Jessie Jeffcoate Brooks
💍 1912/4420

Bachelor
Spinster

Farmer

24
28

Waitomo Caves
Cambridge

4 years
28 years

12/4238

24 January 1912

Revd H del Willis

No	2
Date of Notice	24 January 1912
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Walter Alexander Lee	Jessie Jeffcot Brooks
BDM Match (96%)	Walter Alexander Lee	Jessie Jeffcoate Brooks
	💍 1912/4420
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Farmer
Age	24	28
Dwelling Place	Waitomo Caves	Cambridge
Length of Residence	4 years	28 years
Marriage Place
Folio	12/4238
Consent
Date of Certificate	24 January 1912
Officiating Minister	Revd H del Willis

27 January 1912

William Abraham Salt
Mabel Lydia Compton

William Abraham Salt
Mabel Lydia Compton
💍 1912/461

Bachelor
Spinster

Carpenter
Tailoress

23
21

Cambridge
Wellington

4 months
6 months

Registrars Office, Cambridge

12/1

27 January 1912

Thos McDermott

No	3
Date of Notice	27 January 1912
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	William Abraham Salt	Mabel Lydia Compton
	💍 1912/461
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Carpenter	Tailoress
Age	23	21
Dwelling Place	Cambridge	Wellington
Length of Residence	4 months	6 months
Marriage Place	Registrars Office, Cambridge
Folio	12/1
Consent
Date of Certificate	27 January 1912
Officiating Minister	Thos McDermott

21 February 1912

George Barns Foster
Lilian Annie Jarrett

George Barnes Foster
Lilian Annie Jarrett
💍 1912/1601

Bachelor
Spinster

Porter N.Z. Rly

24
23

Paeroa
Leamington

6 months
23 years

Methodist Church, Leamington

12/1309

21 February 1912

Rev Wm Tinsley

No	4
Date of Notice	21 February 1912
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	George Barns Foster	Lilian Annie Jarrett
BDM Match (98%)	George Barnes Foster	Lilian Annie Jarrett
	💍 1912/1601
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Porter N.Z. Rly
Age	24	23
Dwelling Place	Paeroa	Leamington
Length of Residence	6 months	23 years
Marriage Place	Methodist Church, Leamington
Folio	12/1309
Consent
Date of Certificate	21 February 1912
Officiating Minister	Rev Wm Tinsley

28 March 1912

Arthur William George Pearce
Agnes Ethelwin Fisher

Arthur William George Pearce
Agnes Ethelwin Fisher
💍 1912/3132

Bachelor
Spinster

Timber Merchant

28
26

Cambridge
Pukerimu

3 years
26 years

Methodist Church, Cambridge

12/2883

28 March 1912

Rev Wm Tinsley

No	5
Date of Notice	28 March 1912
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Arthur William George Pearce	Agnes Ethelwin Fisher
	💍 1912/3132
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Timber Merchant
Age	28	26
Dwelling Place	Cambridge	Pukerimu
Length of Residence	3 years	26 years
Marriage Place	Methodist Church, Cambridge
Folio	12/2883
Consent
Date of Certificate	28 March 1912
Officiating Minister	Rev Wm Tinsley

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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).