Intentions to Marry, 1912 Hawkes Bay, Wellington, Marlborough, Nelson, Westland

Reference: Registrar-General of Births, Deaths and Marriages, Notices of intention to marry, Series 8937, R2840449, 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 Hastings Quarter ending 30 June 1912 Registrar Robert Brathwaste

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

5 June 1912

Arthur Thomas Barrow
Olive Constance Eldershaw

Arthur Thomas Barrow
Olive Constance Eldershaw
💍 1912/3372

Bachelor
Spinster

Motor Mechanic
Household duties

21
18

Hastings
Hastings

2 years
3 years

Wesleyan Church Hastings

12/3150

Mary Eldershaw, Mother

5 June 1912

Rev. T. J. Wallis

No	54
Date of Notice	5 June 1912
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Arthur Thomas Barrow	Olive Constance Eldershaw
	💍 1912/3372
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Motor Mechanic	Household duties
Age	21	18
Dwelling Place	Hastings	Hastings
Length of Residence	2 years	3 years
Marriage Place	Wesleyan Church Hastings
Folio	12/3150
Consent	Mary Eldershaw, Mother
Date of Certificate	5 June 1912
Officiating Minister	Rev. T. J. Wallis

5 June 1912

Thomas Lutton Hammoud
Lucy Murray

Thomas Lutton Hammond
Lucy Murray
💍 1912/3366

Bachelor
Spinster

Grocer
Household duties

23
26

Hastings
Hastings

3 days

Presbyterian Church Hastings

12/3145

5 June 1912

Rev. P. Ramsay

No	56
Date of Notice	5 June 1912
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Thomas Lutton Hammoud	Lucy Murray
BDM Match (98%)	Thomas Lutton Hammond	Lucy Murray
	💍 1912/3366
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Grocer	Household duties
Age	23	26
Dwelling Place	Hastings	Hastings
Length of Residence	3 days
Marriage Place	Presbyterian Church Hastings
Folio	12/3145
Consent
Date of Certificate	5 June 1912
Officiating Minister	Rev. P. Ramsay

11 June 1912

Ernest Alfred Algar
Augusta Ann Smale

Ernest Alfred Algar
Agusta Ann Smale
💍 1912/3385

Bachelor
Spinster

Gardener
Housekeeper

31
30

Hastings
Hastings

3 years
3 weeks

St. Matthews Hastings

12/3164

11 June 1912

Rev. J. B. Brocklehurst

No	58
Date of Notice	11 June 1912
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Ernest Alfred Algar	Augusta Ann Smale
BDM Match (97%)	Ernest Alfred Algar	Agusta Ann Smale
	💍 1912/3385
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Gardener	Housekeeper
Age	31	30
Dwelling Place	Hastings	Hastings
Length of Residence	3 years	3 weeks
Marriage Place	St. Matthews Hastings
Folio	12/3164
Consent
Date of Certificate	11 June 1912
Officiating Minister	Rev. J. B. Brocklehurst

12 June 1912

John Syme
Emma Mosen

John Syme
Emma Mosen
💍 1912/3367

Bachelor
Widow

Shepherd
Domestic

54
60

Sherenden
Hastings

13 years
20 years

Presbyterian Church Hastings

12/3146

12 June 1912

Rev. P. Ramsay

No	59
Date of Notice	12 June 1912
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	John Syme	Emma Mosen
	💍 1912/3367
Condition	Bachelor	Widow
Profession	Shepherd	Domestic
Age	54	60
Dwelling Place	Sherenden	Hastings
Length of Residence	13 years	20 years
Marriage Place	Presbyterian Church Hastings
Folio	12/3146
Consent
Date of Certificate	12 June 1912
Officiating Minister	Rev. P. Ramsay

15 June 1912

Kenneth Bourne Gollan
Annie Mackay

Kenneth Bourne Gollan
Annie Williamson McKay
💍 1912/3371

Bachelor
Spinster

Farmer
Domestic duties

33
27

Hastings
Hastings

3 days
20 years

Presbyterian Church Hastings

12/3149

15 June 1912

Rev. A. Grant

No	60
Date of Notice	15 June 1912
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Kenneth Bourne Gollan	Annie Mackay
BDM Match (73%)	Kenneth Bourne Gollan	Annie Williamson McKay
	💍 1912/3371
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Farmer	Domestic duties
Age	33	27
Dwelling Place	Hastings	Hastings
Length of Residence	3 days	20 years
Marriage Place	Presbyterian Church Hastings
Folio	12/3149
Consent
Date of Certificate	15 June 1912
Officiating Minister	Rev. A. Grant

15 June 1912

Edward Lonergan
Abigail Maddison

Edward Lonergan
Abigail Maddison
💍 1912/6480

Bachelor
Spinster

Farmer
Domestic

32
19

Hastings
Hastings

3 years
5 years

Catholic Ch Hastings

12/6169

15 June 1912

Rev. Father Keogh

No	61
Date of Notice	15 June 1912
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Edward Lonergan	Abigail Maddison
	💍 1912/6480
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Farmer	Domestic
Age	32	19
Dwelling Place	Hastings	Hastings
Length of Residence	3 years	5 years
Marriage Place	Catholic Ch Hastings
Folio	12/6169
Consent
Date of Certificate	15 June 1912
Officiating Minister	Rev. Father Keogh

18 June 1912

Thomas Henry Benjamin Lloyd
Mary McMillan Morrison

Thomas Henry Benjamin Lloyd
Mary McMillan Morrison
💍 1912/3368

Bachelor
Spinster

Engineer
Domestic duties

26
30

Hastings
Hastings

18 months
3 years

Presbyterian Church, Hastings

12/3147

18 June 1912

Rev. P. Ramsay

No	62
Date of Notice	18 June 1912
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Thomas Henry Benjamin Lloyd	Mary McMillan Morrison
	💍 1912/3368
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Engineer	Domestic duties
Age	26	30
Dwelling Place	Hastings	Hastings
Length of Residence	18 months	3 years
Marriage Place	Presbyterian Church, Hastings
Folio	12/3147
Consent
Date of Certificate	18 June 1912
Officiating Minister	Rev. P. Ramsay

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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).