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

15 January 1914

Salvatore Amoretti
Manfare Scott

Bachelor
Spinster

Confectioner

23
19

Auckland
Auckland

6 years

Registrar's Office

125

Mother

15 January 1914

Registrar

No	57
Date of Notice	15 January 1914
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Salvatore Amoretti	Manfare Scott
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Confectioner
Age	23	19
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	6 years
Marriage Place	Registrar's Office
Folio	125
Consent	Mother
Date of Certificate	15 January 1914
Officiating Minister	Registrar

15 January 1914

William Moncur Johnston
Sarah Vokins

William Ernest Mosley
Sarah Erskine
💍 1914/7427

Bachelor
Spinster

Blacksmith

26
27

Auckland
Parnell

29 years
Life

Knox Church

563

15 January 1914

Rev. D. Inglis

No	58
Date of Notice	15 January 1914
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	William Moncur Johnston	Sarah Vokins
BDM Match (61%)	William Ernest Mosley	Sarah Erskine
	💍 1914/7427
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Blacksmith
Age	26	27
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Parnell
Length of Residence	29 years	Life
Marriage Place	Knox Church
Folio	563
Consent
Date of Certificate	15 January 1914
Officiating Minister	Rev. D. Inglis

15 January 1914

Leonard Albert Branshall
Ethel Mary Nealis

Leonard Albert Marshall
Ethel Mary Nealis
💍 1914/443

Bachelor
Spinster

Labourer

26
25

Auckland
Auckland

Life
Life

Registrar's Office

126

15 January 1914

Registrar

No	59
Date of Notice	15 January 1914
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Leonard Albert Branshall	Ethel Mary Nealis
BDM Match (94%)	Leonard Albert Marshall	Ethel Mary Nealis
	💍 1914/443
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Labourer
Age	26	25
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	Life	Life
Marriage Place	Registrar's Office
Folio	126
Consent
Date of Certificate	15 January 1914
Officiating Minister	Registrar

15 January 1914

John Sellingham Ross
Mary Jane Amber

John Bellingham
Mary Jane Ross
💍 1914/454

Bachelor
Spinster

Farmer

35
19

Auckland
Auckland

30 years
9 years

Registrar's Office

127

William Ross, father

15 January 1914

Registrar

No	60
Date of Notice	15 January 1914
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	John Sellingham Ross	Mary Jane Amber
BDM Match (68%)	John Bellingham	Mary Jane Ross
	💍 1914/454
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Farmer
Age	35	19
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	30 years	9 years
Marriage Place	Registrar's Office
Folio	127
Consent	William Ross, father
Date of Certificate	15 January 1914
Officiating Minister	Registrar

16 January 1914

Alexander McDonald
Elizabeth Mary Silva

Alexander McDonald
Elizabeth Mary Silva
💍 1914/6701

Bachelor
Spinster

Plumber

33
31

Auckland
Parnell

5 years
2 years

Hope of Bride

556

Mother

16 January 1914

Rev. J. Patterson

No	61
Date of Notice	16 January 1914
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Alexander McDonald	Elizabeth Mary Silva
	💍 1914/6701
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Plumber
Age	33	31
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Parnell
Length of Residence	5 years	2 years
Marriage Place	Hope of Bride
Folio	556
Consent	Mother
Date of Certificate	16 January 1914
Officiating Minister	Rev. J. Patterson

16 January 1914

Crowther Macknell
Hilda Florence White

Crowther Mackrell Culpin
Hilda Florence White
💍 1914/56

Bachelor
Spinster

Plumber

27
24

Auckland
Auckland

2 years
11 months

St. Paul's Church

4340

16 January 1914

Rev. C. A. B. Watson

No	62
Date of Notice	16 January 1914
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Crowther Macknell	Hilda Florence White
BDM Match (83%)	Crowther Mackrell Culpin	Hilda Florence White
	💍 1914/56
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Plumber
Age	27	24
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	2 years	11 months
Marriage Place	St. Paul's Church
Folio	4340
Consent
Date of Certificate	16 January 1914
Officiating Minister	Rev. C. A. B. Watson

16 January 1914

Henry Osinga Graham
Margaret Jane Graham

Henry Osman
Margaret Jane Graham
💍 1914/461

Bachelor
Spinster

Labourer

30
38

Auckland
Auckland

3 years
26 years

Registrar's Office

128

16 January 1914

Registrar

No	63
Date of Notice	16 January 1914
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Henry Osinga Graham	Margaret Jane Graham
BDM Match (74%)	Henry Osman	Margaret Jane Graham
	💍 1914/461
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Labourer
Age	30	38
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	3 years	26 years
Marriage Place	Registrar's Office
Folio	128
Consent
Date of Certificate	16 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).