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 30 June 1914 Registrar Queyon

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

926

2 June 1914

Alfred Joel Granton
Blanche Agnes Walker

Alfred Joel Cranton
Blanche Agnes Walker
💍 1914/5583

Bachelor
Spinster

Farmer

36
32

Auckland
Auckland

3 years
3 months

All Saints Church, Ponsonby

14/2973

2 June 1914

Rev. A. J. Greenwood, Anglican

No	926
Date of Notice	2 June 1914
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Alfred Joel Granton	Blanche Agnes Walker
BDM Match (97%)	Alfred Joel Cranton	Blanche Agnes Walker
	💍 1914/5583
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Farmer
Age	36	32
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	3 years	3 months
Marriage Place	All Saints Church, Ponsonby
Folio	14/2973
Consent
Date of Certificate	2 June 1914
Officiating Minister	Rev. A. J. Greenwood, Anglican

927

2 June 1914

George Immon Slacker
Blanche Eva Sergeant

George Tuman Blacker
Blanche Eva Sergeant
💍 1914/5582

Bachelor
Spinster

Grocer

28
29

Auckland
Auckland

3 years
5 months

All Saints Church, Ponsonby

14/2972

2 June 1914

Rev. A. J. Greenwood, Anglican

No	927
Date of Notice	2 June 1914
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	George Immon Slacker	Blanche Eva Sergeant
BDM Match (90%)	George Tuman Blacker	Blanche Eva Sergeant
	💍 1914/5582
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Grocer
Age	28	29
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	3 years	5 months
Marriage Place	All Saints Church, Ponsonby
Folio	14/2972
Consent
Date of Certificate	2 June 1914
Officiating Minister	Rev. A. J. Greenwood, Anglican

928

4 June 1914

Charles Augustus Paul
Edith Adelton Brown

Charles Augustus Paul
Edith Skelton Brown
💍 1914/5622

Bachelor
Spinster

Brick Vendor

25
22

Auckland
Auckland

20 years
9 years

Methodist Church, East St, Newton

14/3008

4 June 1914

Rev. R. B. Somell, Methodist

No	928
Date of Notice	4 June 1914
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Charles Augustus Paul	Edith Adelton Brown
BDM Match (95%)	Charles Augustus Paul	Edith Skelton Brown
	💍 1914/5622
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Brick Vendor
Age	25	22
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	20 years	9 years
Marriage Place	Methodist Church, East St, Newton
Folio	14/3008
Consent
Date of Certificate	4 June 1914
Officiating Minister	Rev. R. B. Somell, Methodist

929

4 June 1914

William Thomas Boggs
Ethel Mary Magann

William Thomas Robins Boggs
Ethel May Morgan
💍 1914/5560

Bachelor
Spinster

Accountant

28
34

Auckland
Auckland

Life
Life

All Saints Church, Ponsonby

14/2995

4 June 1914

Rev. A. J. Greenwood, Anglican

No	929
Date of Notice	4 June 1914
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	William Thomas Boggs	Ethel Mary Magann
BDM Match (75%)	William Thomas Robins Boggs	Ethel May Morgan
	💍 1914/5560
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Accountant
Age	28	34
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	Life	Life
Marriage Place	All Saints Church, Ponsonby
Folio	14/2995
Consent
Date of Certificate	4 June 1914
Officiating Minister	Rev. A. J. Greenwood, Anglican

930

4 June 1914

Cecil Podfellow Farrelly
Margaret McCormack

Cecil Goodfellow Farrelly
Margaret McCormack
💍 1914/5442

Bachelor
Spinster

Driver

32
34

Auckland
Auckland

3 years
3 months

St. Patrick's Cathedral, Parnell

14/2771

4 June 1914

Rev. P. MacMurray, Anglican

No	930
Date of Notice	4 June 1914
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Cecil Podfellow Farrelly	Margaret McCormack
BDM Match (96%)	Cecil Goodfellow Farrelly	Margaret McCormack
	💍 1914/5442
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Driver
Age	32	34
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	3 years	3 months
Marriage Place	St. Patrick's Cathedral, Parnell
Folio	14/2771
Consent
Date of Certificate	4 June 1914
Officiating Minister	Rev. P. MacMurray, Anglican

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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).