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 31 December 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

1240

25 October 1913

Edmund Bell
Florence Annie Dawson

Edmund Bell
Florence Annie Dawson
💍 1913/7148

Widower
Widow

Architect

91
57

Auckland
Auckland

1 month
1 year

St. Peter's Church

13/6906

25 October 1913

Rev. J. Haselden

No	1240
Date of Notice	25 October 1913
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Edmund Bell	Florence Annie Dawson
	💍 1913/7148
Condition	Widower	Widow
Profession	Architect
Age	91	57
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	1 month	1 year
Marriage Place	St. Peter's Church
Folio	13/6906
Consent
Date of Certificate	25 October 1913
Officiating Minister	Rev. J. Haselden

1241

25 October 1913

Lewis Ashfield Marsh
Annie Brown

Lewis Reginald Marsh
Annie McCann
💍 1913/6704

Bachelor
Spinster

Labourer

28
26

Auckland
Auckland

3 years
2 years

Registrar's Office

13/6413

25 October 1913

Registrar

No	1241
Date of Notice	25 October 1913
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Lewis Ashfield Marsh	Annie Brown
BDM Match (64%)	Lewis Reginald Marsh	Annie McCann
	💍 1913/6704
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Labourer
Age	28	26
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	3 years	2 years
Marriage Place	Registrar's Office
Folio	13/6413
Consent
Date of Certificate	25 October 1913
Officiating Minister	Registrar

1242

25 October 1913

Reginald Talbot Everard
Edith Featherstone Griffin

Reginald Talbot Everard
Edith Fetherstone Griffin
💍 1913/3565

Bachelor
Spinster

Saniter

30
21

Auckland
Auckland

5 years
1 month

St. Andrew's Sunday School Church, Church Road

13/703

25 October 1913

Rev. J. Wilkinson

No	1242
Date of Notice	25 October 1913
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Reginald Talbot Everard	Edith Featherstone Griffin
BDM Match (98%)	Reginald Talbot Everard	Edith Fetherstone Griffin
	💍 1913/3565
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Saniter
Age	30	21
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	5 years	1 month
Marriage Place	St. Andrew's Sunday School Church, Church Road
Folio	13/703
Consent
Date of Certificate	25 October 1913
Officiating Minister	Rev. J. Wilkinson

1243

28 October 1913

Charles Henry Brown
Gertrude Harriet Knight

Charles Henry Brown
Gertrude Harriett Knight
💍 1913/6705

Widower
Spinster

Miner

42
38

Auckland
Auckland

10 years
10 months

Registrar's Office

13/6414

28 October 1913

Registrar

No	1243
Date of Notice	28 October 1913
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Charles Henry Brown	Gertrude Harriet Knight
BDM Match (98%)	Charles Henry Brown	Gertrude Harriett Knight
	💍 1913/6705
Condition	Widower	Spinster
Profession	Miner
Age	42	38
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	10 years	10 months
Marriage Place	Registrar's Office
Folio	13/6414
Consent
Date of Certificate	28 October 1913
Officiating Minister	Registrar

1244

28 October 1913

Ivan Injinovich
Marija Antinovich

Bachelor
Spinster

Labourer

26
27

Auckland
Auckland

9 months
From Auckland

St. Patrick's Cathedral

13/6805

28 October 1913

Rev. J. Ormond

No	1244
Date of Notice	28 October 1913
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Ivan Injinovich	Marija Antinovich
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Labourer
Age	26	27
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	9 months	From Auckland
Marriage Place	St. Patrick's Cathedral
Folio	13/6805
Consent
Date of Certificate	28 October 1913
Officiating Minister	Rev. J. Ormond

1245

28 October 1913

James McLachlan
Isabel Underwood

James McLachlan
Isabel Underwood
💍 1913/7131

Widower
Spinster

Upholsterer

37
31

Auckland
Auckland

6 years
10 years

Knox Church

13/6913

28 October 1913

Rev. R. Inglis

No	1245
Date of Notice	28 October 1913
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	James McLachlan	Isabel Underwood
	💍 1913/7131
Condition	Widower	Spinster
Profession	Upholsterer
Age	37	31
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	6 years	10 years
Marriage Place	Knox Church
Folio	13/6913
Consent
Date of Certificate	28 October 1913
Officiating Minister	Rev. R. Inglis

1246

28 October 1913

John Dowler
Martha Mabel Elder

John George Fowler
Bertha Mabel Elder
💍 1913/7460

Bachelor
Spinster

Miner

25
23

Auckland
Auckland

11 months
11 months

Knox Church, Church Street

13/6930

28 October 1913

Rev. W. A. Keary

No	1246
Date of Notice	28 October 1913
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	John Dowler	Martha Mabel Elder
BDM Match (72%)	John George Fowler	Bertha Mabel Elder
	💍 1913/7460
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Miner
Age	25	23
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	11 months	11 months
Marriage Place	Knox Church, Church Street
Folio	13/6930
Consent
Date of Certificate	28 October 1913
Officiating Minister	Rev. W. A. Keary

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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).