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 Gisborne Quarter ending 31 March 1913 Registrar Henry Ewart Hill

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

2 January 1913

John McKay
Tolley Rosaline Proudfoot

John McKay
Ellen Rosealin Proudfoot
💍 1913/1639

Bachelor
Spinster

Station Manager
Domestic Duties

30
23

Gisborne, Glen Murray, Raglan
Ormond

4 days
23 years

Residence of Bride's Parents, Ormond

13/628

2 January 1913

Rev John B. Carran, Roman Catholic Minister, Ormond

No	1
Date of Notice	2 January 1913
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	John McKay	Tolley Rosaline Proudfoot
BDM Match (90%)	John McKay	Ellen Rosealin Proudfoot
	💍 1913/1639
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Station Manager	Domestic Duties
Age	30	23
Dwelling Place	Gisborne, Glen Murray, Raglan	Ormond
Length of Residence	4 days	23 years
Marriage Place	Residence of Bride's Parents, Ormond
Folio	13/628
Consent
Date of Certificate	2 January 1913
Officiating Minister	Rev John B. Carran, Roman Catholic Minister, Ormond

3 January 1913

James Ambrose Givers
Mabel Meredith des Barres

James Ambrose Eivers
Mabel Meredith De Barres
💍 1913/1640

Bachelor
Divorced

Drover
Domestic Duties

29
34

Patutahi
Patutahi

10 years
9 days

Roman Catholic Church, Ormond

13/629

3 January 1913

Rev John B. Carran, Roman Catholic Minister, Ormond

No	2
Date of Notice	3 January 1913
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	James Ambrose Givers	Mabel Meredith des Barres
BDM Match (94%)	James Ambrose Eivers	Mabel Meredith De Barres
	💍 1913/1640
Condition	Bachelor	Divorced
Profession	Drover	Domestic Duties
Age	29	34
Dwelling Place	Patutahi	Patutahi
Length of Residence	10 years	9 days
Marriage Place	Roman Catholic Church, Ormond
Folio	13/629
Consent
Date of Certificate	3 January 1913
Officiating Minister	Rev John B. Carran, Roman Catholic Minister, Ormond

4 January 1913

William David Varragh
Susan O'Kane

William David Darragh
Susan OKane
💍 1913/1210

Bachelor
Spinster

Tailor
Waitress

23
24

Gisborne
Gisborne

6 months
5 months

St Mary's Roman Catholic Church, Gisborne

13/652

4 January 1913

Rev Thomas Cane, Roman Catholic Minister

No	3
Date of Notice	4 January 1913
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	William David Varragh	Susan O'Kane
BDM Match (93%)	William David Darragh	Susan OKane
	💍 1913/1210
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Tailor	Waitress
Age	23	24
Dwelling Place	Gisborne	Gisborne
Length of Residence	6 months	5 months
Marriage Place	St Mary's Roman Catholic Church, Gisborne
Folio	13/652
Consent
Date of Certificate	4 January 1913
Officiating Minister	Rev Thomas Cane, Roman Catholic Minister

6 January 1913

Walter John Henry Gould Davidson
Eleanor McPhee

Walter John Henry Gould Davidson
Eleanor McPhee
💍 1913/1641

Bachelor
Spinster

Farmer
Domestic Duties

23
21

Puha
Puha, Poverty Bay

2 years
Life

Residence of the Bride's Parents, Rakauroa, Poverty Bay

13/630

6 January 1913

Rev John B. Carran, Catholic Minister, Ormond

No	4
Date of Notice	6 January 1913
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Walter John Henry Gould Davidson	Eleanor McPhee
	💍 1913/1641
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Farmer	Domestic Duties
Age	23	21
Dwelling Place	Puha	Puha, Poverty Bay
Length of Residence	2 years	Life
Marriage Place	Residence of the Bride's Parents, Rakauroa, Poverty Bay
Folio	13/630
Consent
Date of Certificate	6 January 1913
Officiating Minister	Rev John B. Carran, Catholic Minister, Ormond

9 January 1913

Richard Arthur Saunders
Hilda Parkinson

Richard Arthur Saunders
Hilda Parkinson
💍 1913/2333

Bachelor
Divorced

Contractor
Domestic Duties

35
23

Gisborne
Gisborne

About 6 years
1 year

The Office of the Registrar of Marriages, Gisborne

13/1849

No	5
Date of Notice	9 January 1913
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Richard Arthur Saunders	Hilda Parkinson
	💍 1913/2333
Condition	Bachelor	Divorced
Profession	Contractor	Domestic Duties
Age	35	23
Dwelling Place	Gisborne	Gisborne
Length of Residence	About 6 years	1 year
Marriage Place	The Office of the Registrar of Marriages, Gisborne
Folio	13/1849
Consent
Date of Certificate
Officiating Minister

11 January 1913

Michael Patrick Mullooly
Kathleen Margaret Boyd

Michael Patrick Mullooly
Kathleen Margaret Boyd
💍 1913/1217

Bachelor
Spinster

Labourer
Domestic Duties

27
24

Ormond, Poverty Bay
Mangapapa, Gisborne

28 years
11 years

St Mary's Roman Catholic Church, Gisborne

13/653

11 January 1913

Rev Thomas Cane, Roman Catholic Minister

No	6
Date of Notice	11 January 1913
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Michael Patrick Mullooly	Kathleen Margaret Boyd
	💍 1913/1217
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Labourer	Domestic Duties
Age	27	24
Dwelling Place	Ormond, Poverty Bay	Mangapapa, Gisborne
Length of Residence	28 years	11 years
Marriage Place	St Mary's Roman Catholic Church, Gisborne
Folio	13/653
Consent
Date of Certificate	11 January 1913
Officiating Minister	Rev Thomas Cane, Roman Catholic Minister

13 January 1913

Walter John Galloway
Judith Jane Burke

Walter John Galloway
Judith Jane Burke
💍 1913/1218

Bachelor
Spinster

Refrigerating Engineer
Civil Servant

25
29

Kaiti
Kaiti

7 months
2 weeks

St Mary's Roman Catholic Church, Gisborne

13/654

13 January 1913

Rev Thomas Cane, Catholic Minister

No	7
Date of Notice	13 January 1913
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Walter John Galloway	Judith Jane Burke
	💍 1913/1218
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Refrigerating Engineer	Civil Servant
Age	25	29
Dwelling Place	Kaiti	Kaiti
Length of Residence	7 months	2 weeks
Marriage Place	St Mary's Roman Catholic Church, Gisborne
Folio	13/654
Consent
Date of Certificate	13 January 1913
Officiating Minister	Rev Thomas Cane, Catholic Minister

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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).