Intentions to Marry, 1913 Auckland, Taranaki

Reference: Registrar-General of Births, Deaths and Marriages, Notices of intention to marry, Series 8937, R2840451, Archives New Zealand Te Rua Mahara o te Kāwanatanga, Wellington

1913 is bound in three volumes - Auckland, Taranaki (1913a), Hawke's Bay, Wellington, Marlborough, Nelson, Westland (1913b), and Canterbury, Otago, Southland, Chatham Islands (1913c).

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District of Auckland Quarter ending 30 June 1913 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

433

8 April 1913

James Henry Fallins
Mary Ann Ryan

James Henry Collins
Mary Ann Ryan
💍 1913/2860

Bachelor
Spinster

Miner
Finisher

24
21

Auckland
Auckland

4 years
4 days

St. James Manse

13/2606

8 April 1913

Rev. H. Heggs

No	433
Date of Notice	8 April 1913
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	James Henry Fallins	Mary Ann Ryan
BDM Match (95%)	James Henry Collins	Mary Ann Ryan
	💍 1913/2860
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Miner	Finisher
Age	24	21
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	4 years	4 days
Marriage Place	St. James Manse
Folio	13/2606
Consent
Date of Certificate	8 April 1913
Officiating Minister	Rev. H. Heggs

434

8 April 1913

Harrison Ashworth Hodder
Ada Minnie Elizabeth Darby

Harrison Ashworth Nodder
Ada Minnie Elizabeth Darby
💍 1913/2896

Bachelor
Spinster

Proprietor

29
25

Auckland
Auckland

5 years
15 years

Primitive Methodist Church, Alexandra Street

13/2666

8 April 1913

Rev. H. Sharp

No	434
Date of Notice	8 April 1913
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Harrison Ashworth Hodder	Ada Minnie Elizabeth Darby
BDM Match (98%)	Harrison Ashworth Nodder	Ada Minnie Elizabeth Darby
	💍 1913/2896
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Proprietor
Age	29	25
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	5 years	15 years
Marriage Place	Primitive Methodist Church, Alexandra Street
Folio	13/2666
Consent
Date of Certificate	8 April 1913
Officiating Minister	Rev. H. Sharp

435

8 April 1913

John Alexander McLeod
Annie Elizabeth Hames

John Alexander McLeod
Annie Elizabeth Haynes
💍 1913/3231

Bachelor
Spinster

Railway Porter

23
24

Auckland
Auckland

4 days
6 months

Methodist Church, Kingsland

13/2755

8 April 1913

Rev. C. E. Harrison

No	435
Date of Notice	8 April 1913
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	John Alexander McLeod	Annie Elizabeth Hames
BDM Match (95%)	John Alexander McLeod	Annie Elizabeth Haynes
	💍 1913/3231
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Railway Porter
Age	23	24
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	4 days	6 months
Marriage Place	Methodist Church, Kingsland
Folio	13/2755
Consent
Date of Certificate	8 April 1913
Officiating Minister	Rev. C. E. Harrison

436

8 April 1913

George Herbert Stables
Annie Elizabeth Gwendoline Homes

George Herbert Stokes
Annie Elizabeth Gwendolan Thomas
💍 1913/421

Bachelor
Spinster

Seaman

22
21

Auckland
Auckland

6 years
Life

Registrar's Office

13/2128

8 April 1913

Registrar

No	436
Date of Notice	8 April 1913
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	George Herbert Stables	Annie Elizabeth Gwendoline Homes
BDM Match (85%)	George Herbert Stokes	Annie Elizabeth Gwendolan Thomas
	💍 1913/421
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Seaman
Age	22	21
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	6 years	Life
Marriage Place	Registrar's Office
Folio	13/2128
Consent
Date of Certificate	8 April 1913
Officiating Minister	Registrar

437

8 April 1913

Leslie Gray Packaberry
Florence Pearl Manski

Bachelor
Spinster

Engineer

21
18

Auckland
Auckland

6 years
3 months

St. Sepulchre's Bridge

13/2619

J. D. Devenport, father

8 April 1913

Rev. J. E. Bertram

No	437
Date of Notice	8 April 1913
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Leslie Gray Packaberry	Florence Pearl Manski
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Engineer
Age	21	18
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	6 years	3 months
Marriage Place	St. Sepulchre's Bridge
Folio	13/2619
Consent	J. D. Devenport, father
Date of Certificate	8 April 1913
Officiating Minister	Rev. J. E. Bertram

438

8 April 1913

Sidney Royle Clist
Helen Clare Munster

Bachelor
Spinster

Police Constable

29
22

Auckland
Gisborne

8 years
4 years

Registrar's Office

13/2356

8 April 1913

Registrar, Gisborne

No	438
Date of Notice	8 April 1913
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Sidney Royle Clist	Helen Clare Munster
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Police Constable
Age	29	22
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Gisborne
Length of Residence	8 years	4 years
Marriage Place	Registrar's Office
Folio	13/2356
Consent
Date of Certificate	8 April 1913
Officiating Minister	Registrar, Gisborne

439

8 April 1913

Frank Medland Shepherd
Olive Ada Beatrice Phillips

Frank Medland Shepherd
Olive Ada Beatrice Phillips
💍 1913/2895

Bachelor
Spinster

Clerk

26
28

Auckland
Auckland

8 years
8 years

Methodist Church, Pitt Street

13/2665

8 April 1913

Rev. C. E. Beecroft

No	439
Date of Notice	8 April 1913
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Frank Medland Shepherd	Olive Ada Beatrice Phillips
	💍 1913/2895
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Clerk
Age	26	28
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	8 years	8 years
Marriage Place	Methodist Church, Pitt Street
Folio	13/2665
Consent
Date of Certificate	8 April 1913
Officiating Minister	Rev. C. E. Beecroft

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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).