Intentions to Marry, 1914 Auckland, Taranaki

Reference: Registrar-General of Births, Deaths and Marriages, Notices of intention to marry, Series 8937, R2840454, Archives New Zealand Te Rua Mahara o te Kāwanatanga, Wellington

1914 is bound in three volumes - Auckland, Taranaki (1914a), Wellington, Hawke's Bay, Marlborough, Nelson, Westland (1914b), and Canterbury, Otago, Southland, Chatham Islands (1914c).

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District of Auckland Quarter ending 31 March 1914 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

9 January 1914

Arthur Ripley Harvey
Frances Emily Harvey

Arthur Henry Ripley
Frances Emily Harvey
💍 1914/9275

Bachelor
Spinster

Contractor

24
20

Auckland
Auckland

18 months
3 years

Methodist Mission Hall, East Auckland

4371

Thomas William Harvey, father

9 January 1914

Rev. R. B. Pomell

No	29
Date of Notice	9 January 1914
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Arthur Ripley Harvey	Frances Emily Harvey
BDM Match (78%)	Arthur Henry Ripley	Frances Emily Harvey
	💍 1914/9275
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Contractor
Age	24	20
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	18 months	3 years
Marriage Place	Methodist Mission Hall, East Auckland
Folio	4371
Consent	Thomas William Harvey, father
Date of Certificate	9 January 1914
Officiating Minister	Rev. R. B. Pomell

9 January 1914

Frederick Ward
Alice Mary Hamilton

Frederick Henry Ward
Alice Mary Hamilton
💍 1914/9345

Bachelor
Spinster

Carrier

25
20

Auckland
Auckland

3 years
1 year 10 months

St. Paul's Church, Hamilton

4339

Archibald Hamilton, father

9 January 1914

Rev. C. A. B. Watson

No	30
Date of Notice	9 January 1914
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Frederick Ward	Alice Mary Hamilton
BDM Match (85%)	Frederick Henry Ward	Alice Mary Hamilton
	💍 1914/9345
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Carrier
Age	25	20
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	3 years	1 year 10 months
Marriage Place	St. Paul's Church, Hamilton
Folio	4339
Consent	Archibald Hamilton, father
Date of Certificate	9 January 1914
Officiating Minister	Rev. C. A. B. Watson

9 January 1914

Tom Rudolph Parker
Wilhelmina Ellis

Tom Rudolph Carter
Wilhelmina Ellis
💍 1914/6629

Bachelor
Spinster

Post Office Sorter

29
24

Auckland
Auckland

28 years
10 months

St. Andrew's Church, Auckland

482

9 January 1914

Rev. A. A. Murray

No	31
Date of Notice	9 January 1914
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Tom Rudolph Parker	Wilhelmina Ellis
BDM Match (94%)	Tom Rudolph Carter	Wilhelmina Ellis
	💍 1914/6629
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Post Office Sorter
Age	29	24
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	28 years	10 months
Marriage Place	St. Andrew's Church, Auckland
Folio	482
Consent
Date of Certificate	9 January 1914
Officiating Minister	Rev. A. A. Murray

9 January 1914

Frank Vincent Pankell
Ellen Mary Wright

Frank Vincent Boundy Cantell
Ellen Mary Wright
💍 1914/426

Bachelor
Spinster

Mill Hand

27
32

Auckland
Auckland

Life
18 months

Registrar's Office, Auckland

117

9 January 1914

Registrar

No	32
Date of Notice	9 January 1914
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Frank Vincent Pankell	Ellen Mary Wright
BDM Match (84%)	Frank Vincent Boundy Cantell	Ellen Mary Wright
	💍 1914/426
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Mill Hand
Age	27	32
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	Life	18 months
Marriage Place	Registrar's Office, Auckland
Folio	117
Consent
Date of Certificate	9 January 1914
Officiating Minister	Registrar

9 January 1914

James McPherson
Matilda Humes

James McPherson
Matilda Munns
💍 1914/598

Widower
Spinster

Bootmaker

39
38

Auckland
Auckland

8 years
2 months

Home of the Ellingway, Edendale

538

9 January 1914

Rev. H. L. Halsher

No	33
Date of Notice	9 January 1914
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	James McPherson	Matilda Humes
BDM Match (88%)	James McPherson	Matilda Munns
	💍 1914/598
Condition	Widower	Spinster
Profession	Bootmaker
Age	39	38
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	8 years	2 months
Marriage Place	Home of the Ellingway, Edendale
Folio	538
Consent
Date of Certificate	9 January 1914
Officiating Minister	Rev. H. L. Halsher

9 January 1914

Nathaniel Alexander Cunningham
Annie Jane Penlington

Nathaniel Alexander Suckling
Annie Jane Glenny Conyngham
💍 1914/427

Bachelor
Spinster

Chemist

26
23

Auckland
Auckland

2 years
5 years

Registrar's Office, Auckland

118

9 January 1914

Registrar

No	34
Date of Notice	9 January 1914
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Nathaniel Alexander Cunningham	Annie Jane Penlington
BDM Match (66%)	Nathaniel Alexander Suckling	Annie Jane Glenny Conyngham
	💍 1914/427
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Chemist
Age	26	23
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	2 years	5 years
Marriage Place	Registrar's Office, Auckland
Folio	118
Consent
Date of Certificate	9 January 1914
Officiating Minister	Registrar

9 January 1914

Edward Fitzgerald McMurdo
Florence Muriel McMurdo

Edward Fitzgerald McMurdo
Florence Muriel McMurdo
💍 1914/428

Bachelor
Spinster

Farmer

23
21

Auckland
Auckland

3 days
3 days

Registrar's Office, Auckland

119

9 January 1914

Registrar

No	35
Date of Notice	9 January 1914
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Edward Fitzgerald McMurdo	Florence Muriel McMurdo
	💍 1914/428
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Farmer
Age	23	21
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	3 days	3 days
Marriage Place	Registrar's Office, Auckland
Folio	119
Consent
Date of Certificate	9 January 1914
Officiating Minister	Registrar

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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).