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

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

14 January 1913

Leonard French
Emmalene Ribble

Leonard French Broadmore
Emmalene Gribble
💍 1913/1165

Bachelor
Spinster

Manager

28
25

Auckland
Auckland

3 years
5 years

Epiphany Church

13/599

14 January 1913

Rev. R. E. Hush

No	64
Date of Notice	14 January 1913
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Leonard French	Emmalene Ribble
BDM Match (73%)	Leonard French Broadmore	Emmalene Gribble
	💍 1913/1165
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Manager
Age	28	25
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	3 years	5 years
Marriage Place	Epiphany Church
Folio	13/599
Consent
Date of Certificate	14 January 1913
Officiating Minister	Rev. R. E. Hush

14 January 1913

Louis Joseph Sinclair
Jessie Kathleen Mead

Louis Joseph Sinclair
Jessie Kathleen McLeod
💍 1913/956

Bachelor
Spinster

Foreman

22
26

Auckland
Auckland

6 years
3 years

Methodist Parsonage, Raffon Road

13/388

14 January 1913

Rev. F. Bond

No	65
Date of Notice	14 January 1913
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Louis Joseph Sinclair	Jessie Kathleen Mead
BDM Match (93%)	Louis Joseph Sinclair	Jessie Kathleen McLeod
	💍 1913/956
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Foreman
Age	22	26
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	6 years	3 years
Marriage Place	Methodist Parsonage, Raffon Road
Folio	13/388
Consent
Date of Certificate	14 January 1913
Officiating Minister	Rev. F. Bond

14 January 1913

David Hela Mathews
Ellen Louisa Winder

David Heta Matthews
Ellen Louisa Winder
💍 1913/1045

Bachelor
Spinster

Fitter

21
21

Auckland
Auckland

8 years
8 years

Methodist Church

13/429

14 January 1913

Rev. R. E. Ellam

No	66
Date of Notice	14 January 1913
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	David Hela Mathews	Ellen Louisa Winder
BDM Match (95%)	David Heta Matthews	Ellen Louisa Winder
	💍 1913/1045
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Fitter
Age	21	21
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	8 years	8 years
Marriage Place	Methodist Church
Folio	13/429
Consent
Date of Certificate	14 January 1913
Officiating Minister	Rev. R. E. Ellam

14 January 1913

Philip Walter Barton
Evelyn Rina Tanner

Philip Walker
Evelyn Nina Barton
💍 1913/1065

Widower
Spinster

Baker

29
25

Auckland
Auckland

10 months
9 months

St. James Church

13/472

14 January 1913

Rev. R. L. Walker

No	67
Date of Notice	14 January 1913
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Philip Walter Barton	Evelyn Rina Tanner
BDM Match (63%)	Philip Walker	Evelyn Nina Barton
	💍 1913/1065
Condition	Widower	Spinster
Profession	Baker
Age	29	25
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	10 months	9 months
Marriage Place	St. James Church
Folio	13/472
Consent
Date of Certificate	14 January 1913
Officiating Minister	Rev. R. L. Walker

15 January 1913

Joseph Bell
Elizabeth Simpson

Joseph Bell
Elizabeth Sturgeon
💍 1913/637

Bachelor
Spinster

Labourer

20
22

Auckland
Auckland

3 years
10 years

Registrar's Office

13/17

30 January 1913

Registrar

No	68
Date of Notice	15 January 1913
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Joseph Bell	Elizabeth Simpson
BDM Match (86%)	Joseph Bell	Elizabeth Sturgeon
	💍 1913/637
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Labourer
Age	20	22
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	3 years	10 years
Marriage Place	Registrar's Office
Folio	13/17
Consent
Date of Certificate	30 January 1913
Officiating Minister	Registrar

15 January 1913

Stanley Thomas Pervase
Anne Margaret Gallagher

Bachelor
Spinster

Clerk

22
21

Auckland
Auckland

7 years
10 years

Congregational Church, Beresford Street

15 January 1913

Rev. R. Mitchell

No	69
Date of Notice	15 January 1913
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Stanley Thomas Pervase	Anne Margaret Gallagher
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Clerk
Age	22	21
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	7 years	10 years
Marriage Place	Congregational Church, Beresford Street
Folio
Consent
Date of Certificate	15 January 1913
Officiating Minister	Rev. R. Mitchell

15 January 1913

George Oswald Keith Priest
Annie Gertrude Jackson

George Oswald Keith Guest
Annie Gertrude Jackson
💍 1913/1072

Bachelor
Spinster

Grocer

26
33

Auckland
Northcote

4 years
26 years

Methodist Church

13/456

15 January 1913

Rev. J. D. Jury

No	70
Date of Notice	15 January 1913
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	George Oswald Keith Priest	Annie Gertrude Jackson
BDM Match (94%)	George Oswald Keith Guest	Annie Gertrude Jackson
	💍 1913/1072
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Grocer
Age	26	33
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Northcote
Length of Residence	4 years	26 years
Marriage Place	Methodist Church
Folio	13/456
Consent
Date of Certificate	15 January 1913
Officiating Minister	Rev. J. D. Jury

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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).