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

114

28 January 1914

Francis Grant Gourl
Hilda Roberta Pill

Francis Cyril Burberry
Hilda Roberta Gibb
💍 1914/6693

Bachelor
Spinster

Clerk

26
18

Auckland
Auckland

life
10 months

Home of Bride's Father, Pinch St.

573

William Darman, father

28 January 1914

Rev. C. P. Harrison

No	114
Date of Notice	28 January 1914
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Francis Grant Gourl	Hilda Roberta Pill
BDM Match (64%)	Francis Cyril Burberry	Hilda Roberta Gibb
	💍 1914/6693
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Clerk
Age	26	18
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	life	10 months
Marriage Place	Home of Bride's Father, Pinch St.
Folio	573
Consent	William Darman, father
Date of Certificate	28 January 1914
Officiating Minister	Rev. C. P. Harrison

115

28 January 1914

Charles James Keenan Williams
Effie Millett

Charles James Heenan Williams
Effie Millett
💍 1914/6751

Bachelor
Spinster

Clerk

23
17

Auckland
Auckland

life
7 months

Church of the Assumption, Onehunga

586

Maurice Millett, father

28 January 1914

Rev. R. T. Mahoney

No	115
Date of Notice	28 January 1914
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Charles James Keenan Williams	Effie Millett
BDM Match (98%)	Charles James Heenan Williams	Effie Millett
	💍 1914/6751
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Clerk
Age	23	17
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	life	7 months
Marriage Place	Church of the Assumption, Onehunga
Folio	586
Consent	Maurice Millett, father
Date of Certificate	28 January 1914
Officiating Minister	Rev. R. T. Mahoney

116

30 January 1914

Victor Jean Prengnel
Evelyn Gertrude Halham

Victor Jean Creugnet
Evelyn Gertrude Balham
💍 1914/446

Bachelor
Spinster

Farmer

43
33

Auckland
Auckland

4 years
2 years

Registrar's Office

137

30 January 1914

Registrar

No	116
Date of Notice	30 January 1914
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Victor Jean Prengnel	Evelyn Gertrude Halham
BDM Match (90%)	Victor Jean Creugnet	Evelyn Gertrude Balham
	💍 1914/446
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Farmer
Age	43	33
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	4 years	2 years
Marriage Place	Registrar's Office
Folio	137
Consent
Date of Certificate	30 January 1914
Officiating Minister	Registrar

117

30 January 1914

Lawrence Peter Ryan
Mary Dodson

Lawrence Peter Ryan
Mary Dodgson
💍 1914/9099

Bachelor
Spinster

Foreman N.Z.R.

23
20

Auckland
Auckland

2 years
life

Church of the Sacred Heart, Ponsonby

4270

Joseph Dodson, father

30 January 1914

Rev. M. Edge

No	117
Date of Notice	30 January 1914
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Lawrence Peter Ryan	Mary Dodson
BDM Match (96%)	Lawrence Peter Ryan	Mary Dodgson
	💍 1914/9099
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Foreman N.Z.R.
Age	23	20
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	2 years	life
Marriage Place	Church of the Sacred Heart, Ponsonby
Folio	4270
Consent	Joseph Dodson, father
Date of Certificate	30 January 1914
Officiating Minister	Rev. M. Edge

118

30 January 1914

Lawrence Henry Lane
Edith Martha Constance Hamilton

Lawrence Henry Lane
Edith Agatha Constance Hamilton
💍 1914/6731

Bachelor
Spinster

Police Constable

28
20

Auckland
Auckland

6 months
10 years

Holy Trinity Church, Devonport

579

30 January 1914

Rev. D. W. Young

No	118
Date of Notice	30 January 1914
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Lawrence Henry Lane	Edith Martha Constance Hamilton
BDM Match (95%)	Lawrence Henry Lane	Edith Agatha Constance Hamilton
	💍 1914/6731
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Police Constable
Age	28	20
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	6 months	10 years
Marriage Place	Holy Trinity Church, Devonport
Folio	579
Consent
Date of Certificate	30 January 1914
Officiating Minister	Rev. D. W. Young

119

30 January 1914

Arthur Frederick Bartley
Elsie Elphina Osbaldiston

Arthur Frederick Bartley
Elsie Elphine Osbaldiston
💍 1914/6742

Bachelor
Spinster

Grocer

26
25

Auckland
Auckland

9 years
3 years

Holy Trinity Church, Devonport

580

30 January 1914

Rev. D. W. Young

No	119
Date of Notice	30 January 1914
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Arthur Frederick Bartley	Elsie Elphina Osbaldiston
BDM Match (98%)	Arthur Frederick Bartley	Elsie Elphine Osbaldiston
	💍 1914/6742
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Grocer
Age	26	25
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	9 years	3 years
Marriage Place	Holy Trinity Church, Devonport
Folio	580
Consent
Date of Certificate	30 January 1914
Officiating Minister	Rev. D. W. Young

120

30 January 1914

William Vernon Ashton
Edith Emily Webb

William Vernon Ashton
Edith Emily Webb
💍 1914/6746

Bachelor
Spinster

Commercial Traveller

25
28

Auckland
Auckland

life
life

Home of Bride's Father, 9 Kew North Rd

581

30 January 1914

Rev. R. B. Powell

No	120
Date of Notice	30 January 1914
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	William Vernon Ashton	Edith Emily Webb
	💍 1914/6746
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Commercial Traveller
Age	25	28
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	life	life
Marriage Place	Home of Bride's Father, 9 Kew North Rd
Folio	581
Consent
Date of Certificate	30 January 1914
Officiating Minister	Rev. R. B. Powell

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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).