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).

Page 047

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

264

2 March 1914

Archibald McAlister
Kate Coombs

Archibald McAlister
Kate Cooney
💍 1914/504

Bachelor
Spinster

Labourer

37
30

Auckland
Auckland

4 years
4 years

Registrar's Office, Auckland

177

2 March 1914

Registrar

No	264
Date of Notice	2 March 1914
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Archibald McAlister	Kate Coombs
BDM Match (86%)	Archibald McAlister	Kate Cooney
	💍 1914/504
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Labourer
Age	37	30
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	4 years	4 years
Marriage Place	Registrar's Office, Auckland
Folio	177
Consent
Date of Certificate	2 March 1914
Officiating Minister	Registrar

265

2 March 1914

Frederick Snow Gilbert
Eliza Winifred Turner

Frederic Guilbert Brown
Eliza Winifred Turner
💍 1914/8863

Bachelor
Spinster

Seaman

26
26

Auckland
Onehunga

13 months
4 years

St. Peter's Church

2812

2 March 1914

Rev. J. Bissett

No	265
Date of Notice	2 March 1914
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Frederick Snow Gilbert	Eliza Winifred Turner
BDM Match (72%)	Frederic Guilbert Brown	Eliza Winifred Turner
	💍 1914/8863
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Seaman
Age	26	26
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Onehunga
Length of Residence	13 months	4 years
Marriage Place	St. Peter's Church
Folio	2812
Consent
Date of Certificate	2 March 1914
Officiating Minister	Rev. J. Bissett

266

2 March 1914

George Walter Hinton
Edith Mary Pigg

George Woller Bindon
Edith Mary Shugg
💍 1914/6765

Bachelor
Spinster

Labourer

23
24

Auckland
Auckland

6 months
Life

Rutland Mission Hall, Albert St.

620

2 March 1914

Rev. J. Bissett

No	266
Date of Notice	2 March 1914
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	George Walter Hinton	Edith Mary Pigg
BDM Match (81%)	George Woller Bindon	Edith Mary Shugg
	💍 1914/6765
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Labourer
Age	23	24
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	6 months	Life
Marriage Place	Rutland Mission Hall, Albert St.
Folio	620
Consent
Date of Certificate	2 March 1914
Officiating Minister	Rev. J. Bissett

267

3 March 1914

Sydney Broberg
Eva Annie McEvoy

Sydney Broberg
Eva Annie McEvoy
💍 1914/6763

Bachelor
Spinster

Carpenter

31
27

Auckland
Auckland

16 months
4 years

Congregational Church, Edinburgh St., Newton

619

3 March 1914

Rev. A. Neave

No	267
Date of Notice	3 March 1914
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Sydney Broberg	Eva Annie McEvoy
	💍 1914/6763
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Carpenter
Age	31	27
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	16 months	4 years
Marriage Place	Congregational Church, Edinburgh St., Newton
Folio	619
Consent
Date of Certificate	3 March 1914
Officiating Minister	Rev. A. Neave

268

3 March 1914

Hedley Avenell Taylor
Gladys Irene Rash

Hedley Avenall Taylor
Gladys Irene Nash
💍 1914/6642

Bachelor
Spinster

Furnisher

25
24

Auckland
Remuera

1 year 9 months
6 months

St. Aidan's Church

425

3 March 1914

Rev. J. Harvie

No	268
Date of Notice	3 March 1914
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Hedley Avenell Taylor	Gladys Irene Rash
BDM Match (95%)	Hedley Avenall Taylor	Gladys Irene Nash
	💍 1914/6642
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Furnisher
Age	25	24
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Remuera
Length of Residence	1 year 9 months	6 months
Marriage Place	St. Aidan's Church
Folio	425
Consent
Date of Certificate	3 March 1914
Officiating Minister	Rev. J. Harvie

269

3 March 1914

John Orme May
Ruby Hall

John Orme
May Hall
💍 1914/511

Bachelor
Spinster

Railway Foreman

26
26

Auckland
Auckland

9 years
5 years

Registrar's Office

178

3 March 1914

Registrar

No	269
Date of Notice	3 March 1914
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	John Orme May	Ruby Hall
BDM Match (68%)	John Orme	May Hall
	💍 1914/511
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Railway Foreman
Age	26	26
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	9 years	5 years
Marriage Place	Registrar's Office
Folio	178
Consent
Date of Certificate	3 March 1914
Officiating Minister	Registrar

270

4 March 1914

John Fisher
Beatrice Hemmingway

John Fisher
Beatrice Hemmingway
💍 1914/6807

Bachelor
Spinster

Miner

26
21

Auckland
Remuera

3 years
4 years

St. Mark's Church

512

4 March 1914

Rev. R. Seatter

No	270
Date of Notice	4 March 1914
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	John Fisher	Beatrice Hemmingway
	💍 1914/6807
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Miner
Age	26	21
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Remuera
Length of Residence	3 years	4 years
Marriage Place	St. Mark's Church
Folio	512
Consent
Date of Certificate	4 March 1914
Officiating Minister	Rev. R. Seatter

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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).