Intentions to Marry, 1913 Hawke's Bay, Wellington, Marlborough, Nelson, Westland

Reference: Registrar-General of Births, Deaths and Marriages, Notices of intention to marry, Series 8937, R2840452, 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 Wellington Quarter ending 30 September 1913 Registrar Gilbert Graham Hodgkins

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

556

26 July 1913

Charles Patrick King
Florence Mary Sumner

Charles Patrick Hing
Florence Mary Turner
💍 1913/4940

Bachelor
Spinster

Blacksmith

27
20

Wellington
Wellington

13 weeks
13 weeks

Registrar's office, Wellington

13/4592

John Michell Sumner, Father

26 July 1913

Registrar

No	556
Date of Notice	26 July 1913
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Charles Patrick King	Florence Mary Sumner
BDM Match (93%)	Charles Patrick Hing	Florence Mary Turner
	💍 1913/4940
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Blacksmith
Age	27	20
Dwelling Place	Wellington	Wellington
Length of Residence	13 weeks	13 weeks
Marriage Place	Registrar's office, Wellington
Folio	13/4592
Consent	John Michell Sumner, Father
Date of Certificate	26 July 1913
Officiating Minister	Registrar

557

28 July 1913

James Adams Jones
Maud Evelyn Roskruge

James Adams Jones
Maud Evelyn Roskruge
💍 1913/4941

Bachelor
Spinster

Railway Clerk

24
25

Wellington
Wellington

22 days
5 years

Registrar's office, Wellington

13/4593

1 August 1913

Registrar

No	557
Date of Notice	28 July 1913
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	James Adams Jones	Maud Evelyn Roskruge
	💍 1913/4941
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Railway Clerk
Age	24	25
Dwelling Place	Wellington	Wellington
Length of Residence	22 days	5 years
Marriage Place	Registrar's office, Wellington
Folio	13/4593
Consent
Date of Certificate	1 August 1913
Officiating Minister	Registrar

558

28 July 1913

David Alexander Mills
Ermina Constance Annie Holt-Harris

David Alexander Mills
Ermina Constance Annie Holt Harris
💍 1913/6821

Bachelor
Spinster

Labourer

27
18

Wellington
Wellington

27 years
18 years

New Century Hall, Kent Terrace, Wellington

13/625

Clarence Edward Holt-Harris, Father

28 July 1913

Mr W. McLean

No	558
Date of Notice	28 July 1913
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	David Alexander Mills	Ermina Constance Annie Holt-Harris
BDM Match (99%)	David Alexander Mills	Ermina Constance Annie Holt Harris
	💍 1913/6821
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Labourer
Age	27	18
Dwelling Place	Wellington	Wellington
Length of Residence	27 years	18 years
Marriage Place	New Century Hall, Kent Terrace, Wellington
Folio	13/625
Consent	Clarence Edward Holt-Harris, Father
Date of Certificate	28 July 1913
Officiating Minister	Mr W. McLean

559

28 July 1913

John Stalker
Zoe Barber

John Stalker
Zoe Barber
💍 1913/5635

Bachelor
Spinster

Seedsman

32
26

Pelone
Pelone

3 days
Life

St. Augustine's Church, Pelone

13/5317

28 July 1913

Rev E. B. Stephenson

No	559
Date of Notice	28 July 1913
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	John Stalker	Zoe Barber
	💍 1913/5635
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Seedsman
Age	32	26
Dwelling Place	Pelone	Pelone
Length of Residence	3 days	Life
Marriage Place	St. Augustine's Church, Pelone
Folio	13/5317
Consent
Date of Certificate	28 July 1913
Officiating Minister	Rev E. B. Stephenson

560

29 July 1913

Charles Andrew Condie
Adelaide Maud McNab

Charles Andrew Condie
Adelaide Maud McNab
💍 1913/6302

Bachelor
Spinster

Telegraphist

23
23

Wellington
Wellington

3 days
10 weeks

Residence of Mr Simpson, 29 Borthwick Terrace, Wellington

13/5893

29 July 1913

Rev J. G. Smith

No	560
Date of Notice	29 July 1913
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Charles Andrew Condie	Adelaide Maud McNab
	💍 1913/6302
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Telegraphist
Age	23	23
Dwelling Place	Wellington	Wellington
Length of Residence	3 days	10 weeks
Marriage Place	Residence of Mr Simpson, 29 Borthwick Terrace, Wellington
Folio	13/5893
Consent
Date of Certificate	29 July 1913
Officiating Minister	Rev J. G. Smith

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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).