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 Auckland Quarter ending 31 March 1912 Registrar Thomas Culpan

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

208

19 February 1912

Sidney Herbert Barker
Agnes Primrose Barker

Sidney Herbert Harvey
Agnes Nimmo Baxter
💍 1912/4086

Bachelor
Spinster

Labourer

29
21

Auckland
Auckland

2 years
2 years

Church of St. Matthew, Albert Road, Devonport

12/3950

19 February 1912

Rev. W. R. Parker

No	208
Date of Notice	19 February 1912
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Sidney Herbert Barker	Agnes Primrose Barker
BDM Match (76%)	Sidney Herbert Harvey	Agnes Nimmo Baxter
	💍 1912/4086
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Labourer
Age	29	21
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	2 years	2 years
Marriage Place	Church of St. Matthew, Albert Road, Devonport
Folio	12/3950
Consent
Date of Certificate	19 February 1912
Officiating Minister	Rev. W. R. Parker

209

19 February 1912

Louis de Lys Cecil
Valjean Olga Crittenden-Stuart

Louis De Lys Cecil
Valjean Olga Crittenden-Stuart
💍 1912/453

Bachelor
Spinster

Timberman

25
26

Auckland
Auckland

9 months
2 months

Registrar's Office, Auckland

12/50

19 February 1912

Registrar

No	209
Date of Notice	19 February 1912
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Louis de Lys Cecil	Valjean Olga Crittenden-Stuart
BDM Match (97%)	Louis De Lys Cecil	Valjean Olga Crittenden-Stuart
	💍 1912/453
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Timberman
Age	25	26
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	9 months	2 months
Marriage Place	Registrar's Office, Auckland
Folio	12/50
Consent
Date of Certificate	19 February 1912
Officiating Minister	Registrar

210

19 February 1912

Thomas Edward Avery
Mary Ethel Inchstep

Thomas Edward Avery
Mary Ethel Huckstep
💍 1912/4481

Bachelor
Spinster

Bill Hand

28
24

Auckland
Auckland

8 months
4 months

St. Patrick's Cathedral

12/4348

19 February 1912

Rev. A. D. Holbrook

No	210
Date of Notice	19 February 1912
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Thomas Edward Avery	Mary Ethel Inchstep
BDM Match (92%)	Thomas Edward Avery	Mary Ethel Huckstep
	💍 1912/4481
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Bill Hand
Age	28	24
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	8 months	4 months
Marriage Place	St. Patrick's Cathedral
Folio	12/4348
Consent
Date of Certificate	19 February 1912
Officiating Minister	Rev. A. D. Holbrook

211

19 February 1912

John Lindon Adams
Ada Adeline Adams

John Linton
Ada Adeline Adams
💍 1912/954

Bachelor
Spinster

Blacksmith

32
28

Auckland
Auckland

16 years
2 months

St. Matthew's Church

12/580

19 February 1912

Rev. G. E. Gillam

No	211
Date of Notice	19 February 1912
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	John Lindon Adams	Ada Adeline Adams
BDM Match (79%)	John Linton	Ada Adeline Adams
	💍 1912/954
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Blacksmith
Age	32	28
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	16 years	2 months
Marriage Place	St. Matthew's Church
Folio	12/580
Consent
Date of Certificate	19 February 1912
Officiating Minister	Rev. G. E. Gillam

212

19 February 1912

Thomas Tidswell Stockdale
Evelyn Marion Stockdale

Thomas Tidswell
Evelyn Marion Stockdale
💍 1912/815

Bachelor
Spinster

Clerk

30
22

Auckland
Auckland

1 year 4 months
12 months

Church of St. Barnabas, Mount Eden

12/415

19 February 1912

Rev. J. Cocker

No	212
Date of Notice	19 February 1912
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Thomas Tidswell Stockdale	Evelyn Marion Stockdale
BDM Match (80%)	Thomas Tidswell	Evelyn Marion Stockdale
	💍 1912/815
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Clerk
Age	30	22
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	1 year 4 months	12 months
Marriage Place	Church of St. Barnabas, Mount Eden
Folio	12/415
Consent
Date of Certificate	19 February 1912
Officiating Minister	Rev. J. Cocker

213

19 February 1912

James Carr Melican
Margaret Ellen Melican

James Carr
Margaret Ellen Melican
💍 1912/836

Bachelor
Spinster

Plasterer
N.Z.R.

30
28

Auckland
Auckland

3 years
20 years

Church of St. Peter & St. Michael

12/461

19 February 1912

Rev. O. Doyle

No	213
Date of Notice	19 February 1912
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	James Carr Melican	Margaret Ellen Melican
BDM Match (78%)	James Carr	Margaret Ellen Melican
	💍 1912/836
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Plasterer	N.Z.R.
Age	30	28
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	3 years	20 years
Marriage Place	Church of St. Peter & St. Michael
Folio	12/461
Consent
Date of Certificate	19 February 1912
Officiating Minister	Rev. O. Doyle

214

19 February 1912

James Alexander Casson
Jane Casson

James Alexander Fyfe
Jane Casson
💍 1912/911

Bachelor
Spinster

Commercial Traveller

29
38

Auckland
Auckland

5 months
4 years

St. Andrew's Church, Mount Eden

12/536

19 February 1912

Rev. E. McFarland

No	214
Date of Notice	19 February 1912
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	James Alexander Casson	Jane Casson
BDM Match (86%)	James Alexander Fyfe	Jane Casson
	💍 1912/911
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Commercial Traveller
Age	29	38
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	5 months	4 years
Marriage Place	St. Andrew's Church, Mount Eden
Folio	12/536
Consent
Date of Certificate	19 February 1912
Officiating Minister	Rev. E. McFarland

215

19 February 1912

John Green Almon
Christina Almon

John Maxwell Green
Christina Gilmour
💍 1912/8720

Bachelor
Spinster

Laundryman

22
18

Auckland
Auckland

12 years
4 years

Registrar's Office

12/51

27 February 1912

Registrar

No	215
Date of Notice	19 February 1912
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	John Green Almon	Christina Almon
BDM Match (60%)	John Maxwell Green	Christina Gilmour
	💍 1912/8720
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Laundryman
Age	22	18
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	12 years	4 years
Marriage Place	Registrar's Office
Folio	12/51
Consent
Date of Certificate	27 February 1912
Officiating Minister	Registrar

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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).