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 September 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

950

11 August 1913

Robert Regardon Duffy
Olive Irene Duffy

Robert Reardon
Olive Joline Duffy
💍 1913/5318

Bachelor
Spinster

Plumber

24
23

Auckland
Auckland

2 months
7 months

Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Auckland

13/4973

11 August 1913

Rev. A. Richards

No	950
Date of Notice	11 August 1913
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Robert Regardon Duffy	Olive Irene Duffy
BDM Match (72%)	Robert Reardon	Olive Joline Duffy
	💍 1913/5318
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Plumber
Age	24	23
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	2 months	7 months
Marriage Place	Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Auckland
Folio	13/4973
Consent
Date of Certificate	11 August 1913
Officiating Minister	Rev. A. Richards

951

11 August 1913

Frank McKenzie Johns
Carlotta Selina Johns

George McKenzie
Carlotta Selina Johns
💍 1913/3454

Bachelor
Spinster

Labourer

32
23

Auckland
Auckland

2 years
3 years

Registrar's Office

13/4504

11 August 1913

Registrar

No	951
Date of Notice	11 August 1913
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Frank McKenzie Johns	Carlotta Selina Johns
BDM Match (70%)	George McKenzie	Carlotta Selina Johns
	💍 1913/3454
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Labourer
Age	32	23
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	2 years	3 years
Marriage Place	Registrar's Office
Folio	13/4504
Consent
Date of Certificate	11 August 1913
Officiating Minister	Registrar

952

11 August 1913

David Williams
Annie Ripley Williams

David McWilliams
Annie Ripley
💍 1913/3455

Bachelor
Spinster

Farmer

37
38

Auckland
Auckland

3 years
5 years

Registrar's Office

13/4505

11 August 1913

Registrar

No	952
Date of Notice	11 August 1913
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	David Williams	Annie Ripley Williams
BDM Match (72%)	David McWilliams	Annie Ripley
	💍 1913/3455
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Farmer
Age	37	38
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	3 years	5 years
Marriage Place	Registrar's Office
Folio	13/4505
Consent
Date of Certificate	11 August 1913
Officiating Minister	Registrar

953

11 August 1913

Gordon Seymour Hopwood
Alice Winifred Hopwood

Gordon Seymour Foote
Alice Winifred Hogwood
💍 1913/5283

Bachelor
Spinster

Farmer

24
27

Auckland
Onehunga

4 years
3 years

St. Peter's Church

13/4889

11 August 1913

Rev. J. Haselden

No	953
Date of Notice	11 August 1913
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Gordon Seymour Hopwood	Alice Winifred Hopwood
BDM Match (86%)	Gordon Seymour Foote	Alice Winifred Hogwood
	💍 1913/5283
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Farmer
Age	24	27
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Onehunga
Length of Residence	4 years	3 years
Marriage Place	St. Peter's Church
Folio	13/4889
Consent
Date of Certificate	11 August 1913
Officiating Minister	Rev. J. Haselden

954

11 August 1913

James Mace Robinson
Agnes Alice Robinson

James Stacey
Agnes Alice Robinson
💍 1913/5315

Widower
Widow

Labourer

33
48

Auckland
Ponsonby

Life
9 months

House of Bridegroom's Father

13/4970

11 August 1913

Rev. R. T. Pascoe

No	954
Date of Notice	11 August 1913
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	James Mace Robinson	Agnes Alice Robinson
BDM Match (71%)	James Stacey	Agnes Alice Robinson
	💍 1913/5315
Condition	Widower	Widow
Profession	Labourer
Age	33	48
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Ponsonby
Length of Residence	Life	9 months
Marriage Place	House of Bridegroom's Father
Folio	13/4970
Consent
Date of Certificate	11 August 1913
Officiating Minister	Rev. R. T. Pascoe

955

11 August 1913

Ernest James Court
Elsie Mary Court

Ernest James Taylor
Elsie May Court
💍 1913/8968

Bachelor
Spinster

Salesman

27
27

Auckland
Ponsonby

10 years
20 years

St. Stephen's Church

13/8478

11 August 1913

Rev. J. Jolly

No	955
Date of Notice	11 August 1913
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Ernest James Court	Elsie Mary Court
BDM Match (81%)	Ernest James Taylor	Elsie May Court
	💍 1913/8968
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Salesman
Age	27	27
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Ponsonby
Length of Residence	10 years	20 years
Marriage Place	St. Stephen's Church
Folio	13/8478
Consent
Date of Certificate	11 August 1913
Officiating Minister	Rev. J. Jolly

956

12 August 1913

Robert Garrett Walker
Ethel Adela Walker

Robert Carruth
Ethel Adela Walker
💍 1913/5296

Bachelor
Spinster

Farmer

35
38

Auckland
Papatoetoe

5 days
5 months

House of Mrs. E. C. Wallace, Remuera

13/4878

12 August 1913

Registrar G. E. Porter

No	956
Date of Notice	12 August 1913
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Robert Garrett Walker	Ethel Adela Walker
BDM Match (76%)	Robert Carruth	Ethel Adela Walker
	💍 1913/5296
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Farmer
Age	35	38
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Papatoetoe
Length of Residence	5 days	5 months
Marriage Place	House of Mrs. E. C. Wallace, Remuera
Folio	13/4878
Consent
Date of Certificate	12 August 1913
Officiating Minister	Registrar G. E. Porter

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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).