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).

Page 293

District of Drury Quarter ending 31 March 1913 Registrar J. A. Mackenzie

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

3 January 1913

Percy George Pit Palmer
May Woodward

Percy George Pitt Palmer
May Woodward
💍 1913/4842

Bachelor
Spinster

Farmer

20
19

Weymouth
Weymouth

3 years
Life

Residence of Mr A. Gibbous, Weymouth

13/4419

Edward Woodward, Father; Alice Palmer, Mother

3 January 1913

Rev. W. C. Wood

No	1
Date of Notice	3 January 1913
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Percy George Pit Palmer	May Woodward
BDM Match (98%)	Percy George Pitt Palmer	May Woodward
	💍 1913/4842
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Farmer
Age	20	19
Dwelling Place	Weymouth	Weymouth
Length of Residence	3 years	Life
Marriage Place	Residence of Mr A. Gibbous, Weymouth
Folio	13/4419
Consent	Edward Woodward, Father; Alice Palmer, Mother
Date of Certificate	3 January 1913
Officiating Minister	Rev. W. C. Wood

7 January 1913

Albert McIntyre Galloway
Margaret Elizabeth Galloway

Albert McIntyre
Margaret Elizabeth Galloway
💍 1913/4841

Bachelor
Spinster

Machinist

24
24

Te Awamutu
Papatoetoe

4 years
Life

Residence of Mr M. Galloway, Papatoetoe

13/4418

7 January 1913

Rev. Porter

No	2
Date of Notice	7 January 1913
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Albert McIntyre Galloway	Margaret Elizabeth Galloway
BDM Match (81%)	Albert McIntyre	Margaret Elizabeth Galloway
	💍 1913/4841
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Machinist
Age	24	24
Dwelling Place	Te Awamutu	Papatoetoe
Length of Residence	4 years	Life
Marriage Place	Residence of Mr M. Galloway, Papatoetoe
Folio	13/4418
Consent
Date of Certificate	7 January 1913
Officiating Minister	Rev. Porter

15 January 1913

Charles Morgan Cossey
Mabel Hannah Cossey

Charles Morgan
Mable Hannah Cossey
💍 1913/4844

Bachelor
Spinster

Stonemason

31
24

Drury
Drury

3 years
Life

Residence of James Cossey, Drury

13/4420

15 January 1913

Rev. W. C. Wood

No	3
Date of Notice	15 January 1913
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Charles Morgan Cossey	Mabel Hannah Cossey
BDM Match (78%)	Charles Morgan	Mable Hannah Cossey
	💍 1913/4844
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Stonemason
Age	31	24
Dwelling Place	Drury	Drury
Length of Residence	3 years	Life
Marriage Place	Residence of James Cossey, Drury
Folio	13/4420
Consent
Date of Certificate	15 January 1913
Officiating Minister	Rev. W. C. Wood

4 March 1913

Thomas Henry Tanner
Winifred Emma Diprose

Thomas Henry Tanner
Winifred Emma Diprose
💍 1913/959

Bachelor
Spinster

Farmer

28
23

Te Puke
Manurewa

17 years
12 months

Residence of Mr T. W. Diprose, Manurewa

13/391

4 March 1913

Rev. Geo. Bond

No	4
Date of Notice	4 March 1913
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Thomas Henry Tanner	Winifred Emma Diprose
	💍 1913/959
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Farmer
Age	28	23
Dwelling Place	Te Puke	Manurewa
Length of Residence	17 years	12 months
Marriage Place	Residence of Mr T. W. Diprose, Manurewa
Folio	13/391
Consent
Date of Certificate	4 March 1913
Officiating Minister	Rev. Geo. Bond

25 March 1913

Samuel Donnell Johnson
Margaret Johnson

Samuel Donnell
Margaret Johnson
💍 1913/1621

Bachelor
Spinster

Milk Vendor

35
27

Auckland
Papakura

12 months
Life

Methodist Church, Papakura

13/626

25 March 1913

Rev. C. C. Harrison

No	5
Date of Notice	25 March 1913
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Samuel Donnell Johnson	Margaret Johnson
BDM Match (82%)	Samuel Donnell	Margaret Johnson
	💍 1913/1621
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Milk Vendor
Age	35	27
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Papakura
Length of Residence	12 months	Life
Marriage Place	Methodist Church, Papakura
Folio	13/626
Consent
Date of Certificate	25 March 1913
Officiating Minister	Rev. C. C. Harrison

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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).