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 Inglewood Quarter ending 30 September 1912 Registrar 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

1 July 1912

Frederick Thomas Crowe
Eliza Kilpatrick

Frederick Thomas Crowe
Eliza Kilpatrick
💍 1912/6138

Bachelor
Spinster

Farmer

27
23

Tepperton
Warongona

27 years
23 years

at the Presbyterian Church at Inglewood

12/5278

1 July 1912

Rev. J. Richards

No	23
Date of Notice	1 July 1912
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Frederick Thomas Crowe	Eliza Kilpatrick
	💍 1912/6138
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Farmer
Age	27	23
Dwelling Place	Tepperton	Warongona
Length of Residence	27 years	23 years
Marriage Place	at the Presbyterian Church at Inglewood
Folio	12/5278
Consent
Date of Certificate	1 July 1912
Officiating Minister	Rev. J. Richards

13 July 1912

Ernest Edmond Bridgeman
Ethel May Hodges

Ernest Edmund Bridgeman
Ethel Mary Hodges
💍 1912/6137

Bachelor
Spinster

Farmer

27
20

Moa District
Moa District

27 years
20 years

at the Residence of Jas. Hodges Bedford Road Moa District

12/5274

James Hodges father of Ethel May Hodges

13 July 1912

Rev. C. Griffen

No	24
Date of Notice	13 July 1912
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Ernest Edmond Bridgeman	Ethel May Hodges
BDM Match (95%)	Ernest Edmund Bridgeman	Ethel Mary Hodges
	💍 1912/6137
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Farmer
Age	27	20
Dwelling Place	Moa District	Moa District
Length of Residence	27 years	20 years
Marriage Place	at the Residence of Jas. Hodges Bedford Road Moa District
Folio	12/5274
Consent	James Hodges father of Ethel May Hodges
Date of Certificate	13 July 1912
Officiating Minister	Rev. C. Griffen

23 July 1912

William Ernest Orr
Ellen Bielby

William Ernest Orr
Ellen Bielby
💍 1912/6032

Bachelor
Spinster

Farmer

24
19

Egmont Village
Egmont Village

3 days
3 days

at the Church of England at Inglewood

12/5280

Mary Jane Bielby Mother of Ellen Bielby

23 July 1912

C. Houchen

No	25
Date of Notice	23 July 1912
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	William Ernest Orr	Ellen Bielby
	💍 1912/6032
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Farmer
Age	24	19
Dwelling Place	Egmont Village	Egmont Village
Length of Residence	3 days	3 days
Marriage Place	at the Church of England at Inglewood
Folio	12/5280
Consent	Mary Jane Bielby Mother of Ellen Bielby
Date of Certificate	23 July 1912
Officiating Minister	C. Houchen

16 August 1912

Frederick James Regent Bracegirdle
Ada Mary Taylor

Frederick James Negent Bracegirdle
Ada Mary Taylor
💍 1912/6017

Charles McDonald
Ada Mary Taylor
💍 1912/7811

Bachelor
Spinster

Farmer

26
20

Kaimata
Ratapiko

14 years
20 years

at the Office of the Registrar of Marriages at Inglewood

12/6058

Henry John Taylor Father of Ada Mary Taylor

16 August 1912

G. W. Bennett

No	26
Date of Notice	16 August 1912
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Frederick James Regent Bracegirdle	Ada Mary Taylor
BDM Match (99%)	Frederick James Negent Bracegirdle	Ada Mary Taylor
	💍 1912/6017
BDM Match (60%)	Charles McDonald	Ada Mary Taylor
	💍 1912/7811
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Farmer
Age	26	20
Dwelling Place	Kaimata	Ratapiko
Length of Residence	14 years	20 years
Marriage Place	at the Office of the Registrar of Marriages at Inglewood
Folio	12/6058
Consent	Henry John Taylor Father of Ada Mary Taylor
Date of Certificate	16 August 1912
Officiating Minister	G. W. Bennett

27 August 1912

Albert Ernest Wickham
Hilda Susan Jones

Albert Ernest Wickham
Hilda Susan Jones
💍 1912/6021

Bachelor
Spinster

Butcher

39
22

Kaimata
Kaimata

3 days
8 years

at the Residence of William Jones, Kaimata Road, Moa District

12/5279

27 August 1912

Rev. J Richards

No	27
Date of Notice	27 August 1912
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Albert Ernest Wickham	Hilda Susan Jones
	💍 1912/6021
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Butcher
Age	39	22
Dwelling Place	Kaimata	Kaimata
Length of Residence	3 days	8 years
Marriage Place	at the Residence of William Jones, Kaimata Road, Moa District
Folio	12/5279
Consent
Date of Certificate	27 August 1912
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).