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 March 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

371

25 March 1913

Oscar Dell Hewson
Ada Elizabeth Allison Hinder

Oscar Henry Dell
Ada Elizabeth Allison
💍 1913/726

Bachelor
Spinster

Commercial Traveller

30
22

Auckland
Auckland

1 year
9 months

Reformed Office

13/182

25 March 1913

Registrar

No	371
Date of Notice	25 March 1913
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Oscar Dell Hewson	Ada Elizabeth Allison Hinder
BDM Match (61%)	Oscar Henry Dell	Ada Elizabeth Allison
	💍 1913/726
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Commercial Traveller
Age	30	22
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	1 year	9 months
Marriage Place	Reformed Office
Folio	13/182
Consent
Date of Certificate	25 March 1913
Officiating Minister	Registrar

372

25 March 1913

Samuel Joseph Marsh
Mary Duffy

Samuel Joseph Marsh
May Duffy
💍 1913/2375

Bachelor
Spinster

Coach Builder

26
22

Auckland
Auckland

4 1/2 years
4 years

Congregational Church, Edinburgh St

13/1942

25 March 1913

Pastor J. Lock

No	372
Date of Notice	25 March 1913
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Samuel Joseph Marsh	Mary Duffy
BDM Match (95%)	Samuel Joseph Marsh	May Duffy
	💍 1913/2375
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Coach Builder
Age	26	22
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	4 1/2 years	4 years
Marriage Place	Congregational Church, Edinburgh St
Folio	13/1942
Consent
Date of Certificate	25 March 1913
Officiating Minister	Pastor J. Lock

373

25 March 1913

Leo Bertram Johns
Alison May Napier

Leo Bertram Johns
Alison May Napier
💍 1913/4678

Bachelor
Spinster

Hairdresser

29
18

Auckland
Auckland

9 months
5 years

House of Mr J. W. Lehmann, Takapuna

13/4256

Father

25 March 1913

Rev. J. Furlong

No	373
Date of Notice	25 March 1913
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Leo Bertram Johns	Alison May Napier
	💍 1913/4678
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Hairdresser
Age	29	18
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	9 months	5 years
Marriage Place	House of Mr J. W. Lehmann, Takapuna
Folio	13/4256
Consent	Father
Date of Certificate	25 March 1913
Officiating Minister	Rev. J. Furlong

374

25 March 1913

Walter Holland Reynolds
Alice Elizabeth Piper

Walter Holland Reynolds
Alice Elizabeth Piper
💍 1913/4444

Bachelor
Spinster

Farmer

39
37

Auckland
Auckland

5 years
3 months

St. Andrews Church

13/4070

25 March 1913

Rev. A. Murray

No	374
Date of Notice	25 March 1913
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Walter Holland Reynolds	Alice Elizabeth Piper
	💍 1913/4444
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Farmer
Age	39	37
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	5 years	3 months
Marriage Place	St. Andrews Church
Folio	13/4070
Consent
Date of Certificate	25 March 1913
Officiating Minister	Rev. A. Murray

375

26 March 1913

Wilfred Adlington Smith
Alicia Ann Smith

Bachelor
Spinster

Farmer

30
24

Auckland
Auckland

3 years
1 year

The Church of the Holy Sepulchre

13/571

26 March 1913

Rev. A. Richards

No	375
Date of Notice	26 March 1913
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Wilfred Adlington Smith	Alicia Ann Smith
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Farmer
Age	30	24
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	3 years	1 year
Marriage Place	The Church of the Holy Sepulchre
Folio	13/571
Consent
Date of Certificate	26 March 1913
Officiating Minister	Rev. A. Richards

376

26 March 1913

Alfred Horace White
Amy Charlotte Webb

Alfred Horace White
Amy Charlotte Webb
💍 1913/727

Bachelor
Spinster

Gas Worker

27
27

Auckland
Auckland

5 months
6 months

Reformed Office

13/83

26 March 1913

Registrar

No	376
Date of Notice	26 March 1913
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Alfred Horace White	Amy Charlotte Webb
	💍 1913/727
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Gas Worker
Age	27	27
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	5 months	6 months
Marriage Place	Reformed Office
Folio	13/83
Consent
Date of Certificate	26 March 1913
Officiating Minister	Registrar

377

26 March 1913

Wilmot Samuel Downey Prittie
Ellen Looker

Wihurst Samuel Downey Prittie
Ellen Looker
💍 1913/2897

Bachelor
Spinster

Mariner

26
30

Auckland
Onehunga

6 months
9 months

Presbyterian Church

13/2667

26 March 1913

Rev. D. Scott

No	377
Date of Notice	26 March 1913
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Wilmot Samuel Downey Prittie	Ellen Looker
BDM Match (93%)	Wihurst Samuel Downey Prittie	Ellen Looker
	💍 1913/2897
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Mariner
Age	26	30
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Onehunga
Length of Residence	6 months	9 months
Marriage Place	Presbyterian Church
Folio	13/2667
Consent
Date of Certificate	26 March 1913
Officiating Minister	Rev. D. Scott

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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).