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 871

District of Inglewood Quarter ending 31 December 1913 Registrar G.W. Sennett

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

13 October 1913

Bernard Joseph Fatish
Josephine Sutter

Bernard Joseph Fabish
Josephine Butler
💍 1913/9004

Bachelor
Spinster

Farmer

23
20

Inglewood
Inglewood

3 days
20 years

at the Roman Catholic Church at Inglewood

8699

Felix Joseph Sutter, father

13 October 1913

Dean McKenna

No	69
Date of Notice	13 October 1913
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Bernard Joseph Fatish	Josephine Sutter
BDM Match (91%)	Bernard Joseph Fabish	Josephine Butler
	💍 1913/9004
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Farmer
Age	23	20
Dwelling Place	Inglewood	Inglewood
Length of Residence	3 days	20 years
Marriage Place	at the Roman Catholic Church at Inglewood
Folio	8699
Consent	Felix Joseph Sutter, father
Date of Certificate	13 October 1913
Officiating Minister	Dean McKenna

3 November 1913

Aaron Alexander Surrell
Helen McMahon

Aaron Alexander Burrell
Helen McMahon
💍 1913/8731

Widower
Spinster

Farmer

26
24

Inglewood
Inglewood

14 days
3 days

at the Roman Catholic Church at Inglewood

8698

3 November 1913

M. O'Beirne

No	70
Date of Notice	3 November 1913
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Aaron Alexander Surrell	Helen McMahon
BDM Match (98%)	Aaron Alexander Burrell	Helen McMahon
	💍 1913/8731
Condition	Widower	Spinster
Profession	Farmer
Age	26	24
Dwelling Place	Inglewood	Inglewood
Length of Residence	14 days	3 days
Marriage Place	at the Roman Catholic Church at Inglewood
Folio	8698
Consent
Date of Certificate	3 November 1913
Officiating Minister	M. O'Beirne

3 November 1913

Maurice King
Ada Mary Smith

Maurice King
Ada Mary Smith
💍 1913/7378

Bachelor
Spinster

Blacksmith

28
33

Tarata
Tarata

5 years
15 years

at the Residence of M. S. Smith at Tarata

13/7190

3 November 1913

G. Bishop

No	71
Date of Notice	3 November 1913
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Maurice King	Ada Mary Smith
	💍 1913/7378
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Blacksmith
Age	28	33
Dwelling Place	Tarata	Tarata
Length of Residence	5 years	15 years
Marriage Place	at the Residence of M. S. Smith at Tarata
Folio	13/7190
Consent
Date of Certificate	3 November 1913
Officiating Minister	G. Bishop

18 November 1913

Eric George Harding
Gladys Catherine Griffiths

Eric George Harding
Gladys Catherine Griffiths
💍 1913/7376

Bachelor
Spinster

Farmer

28
19

New District
New District

3 months
19 years

at the Church of Inglewood at Inglewood

13/7189

Josiah Griffiths, father

18 November 1913

J. A. Kempthorne

No	72
Date of Notice	18 November 1913
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Eric George Harding	Gladys Catherine Griffiths
	💍 1913/7376
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Farmer
Age	28	19
Dwelling Place	New District	New District
Length of Residence	3 months	19 years
Marriage Place	at the Church of Inglewood at Inglewood
Folio	13/7189
Consent	Josiah Griffiths, father
Date of Certificate	18 November 1913
Officiating Minister	J. A. Kempthorne

29 November 1913

Alfred Thomas Styles
Annie Shoemark

Alfred Thomas Styles
Annie Shoemark
💍 1913/7375

Bachelor
Spinster

Labourer

30
27

Taimiro
Taimiro

2 years
2 years

at the Residence of G. W. Shoemark at Taimiro

13/7188

29 November 1913

J. Griffen

No	73
Date of Notice	29 November 1913
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Alfred Thomas Styles	Annie Shoemark
	💍 1913/7375
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Labourer
Age	30	27
Dwelling Place	Taimiro	Taimiro
Length of Residence	2 years	2 years
Marriage Place	at the Residence of G. W. Shoemark at Taimiro
Folio	13/7188
Consent
Date of Certificate	29 November 1913
Officiating Minister	J. Griffen

31 December 1913

William Ruston Hall
Jessie Beatrice Darington

William Ruston Hales
Jessie Beatrice Barrington
💍 1914/6829

Bachelor
Spinster

Farmer

33
28

Inglewood
Inglewood

4 months
3 days

at the Roman Catholic Church at Inglewood

661

31 December 1913

M. O'Beirne

No	74
Date of Notice	31 December 1913
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	William Ruston Hall	Jessie Beatrice Darington
BDM Match (91%)	William Ruston Hales	Jessie Beatrice Barrington
	💍 1914/6829
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Farmer
Age	33	28
Dwelling Place	Inglewood	Inglewood
Length of Residence	4 months	3 days
Marriage Place	at the Roman Catholic Church at Inglewood
Folio	661
Consent
Date of Certificate	31 December 1913
Officiating Minister	M. O'Beirne

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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).