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 159

District of Auckland Quarter ending 30 September 1914 Registrar [illegible]

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

951

25 July 1914

Stanley Vere Simmonds
Dorothy Young

Stanley Ven Simmonds
Dorothy Young
💍 1914/1476

Bachelor
Spinster

Salesman

24
17

Auckland
Auckland

4 years
4 years

Anglican Church, Ponsonby

14/5145

Amy Rule, mother

25 July 1914

Rev. P. Hamilton, Anglican

No	951
Date of Notice	25 July 1914
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Stanley Vere Simmonds	Dorothy Young
BDM Match (95%)	Stanley Ven Simmonds	Dorothy Young
	💍 1914/1476
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Salesman
Age	24	17
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	4 years	4 years
Marriage Place	Anglican Church, Ponsonby
Folio	14/5145
Consent	Amy Rule, mother
Date of Certificate	25 July 1914
Officiating Minister	Rev. P. Hamilton, Anglican

952

25 July 1914

Clifton Roy Rattray
Kathleen Hazel Courtney

Clifton Roy Wolner
Kathleen Hazel Courtney
💍 1914/1196

Bachelor
Spinster

Chemist

28
22

Auckland
Auckland

8 years
20 months

Registrar's Office, Auckland

14/4891

25 July 1914

Registrar

No	952
Date of Notice	25 July 1914
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Clifton Roy Rattray	Kathleen Hazel Courtney
BDM Match (82%)	Clifton Roy Wolner	Kathleen Hazel Courtney
	💍 1914/1196
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Chemist
Age	28	22
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	8 years	20 months
Marriage Place	Registrar's Office, Auckland
Folio	14/4891
Consent
Date of Certificate	25 July 1914
Officiating Minister	Registrar

953

25 July 1914

Henry Alfred Stone
Ivy Constance Dowsett

Henry Alfred Stone
Ivy Constance Dowsett
💍 1914/1424

Bachelor
Spinster

Labourer

27
22

Auckland
Auckland

6 years
6 months

Roman Catholic Church, Onehunga

14/5094

25 July 1914

Very Rev. W. H. Mahoney, Roman Catholic

No	953
Date of Notice	25 July 1914
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Henry Alfred Stone	Ivy Constance Dowsett
	💍 1914/1424
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Labourer
Age	27	22
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	6 years	6 months
Marriage Place	Roman Catholic Church, Onehunga
Folio	14/5094
Consent
Date of Certificate	25 July 1914
Officiating Minister	Very Rev. W. H. Mahoney, Roman Catholic

954

27 July 1914

Charles Albert Summers
Margaret Prouting

Charles Albert Burness
Margaret Prouting
💍 1914/1453

Bachelor
Spinster

Planter

30
21

Auckland
Auckland

4 years
4 years 2 months

St. Alban's Church, Dominion Road, Mt. Eden

14/5122

27 July 1914

Rev. H. S. Wingfield, Anglican

No	954
Date of Notice	27 July 1914
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Charles Albert Summers	Margaret Prouting
BDM Match (91%)	Charles Albert Burness	Margaret Prouting
	💍 1914/1453
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Planter
Age	30	21
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	4 years	4 years 2 months
Marriage Place	St. Alban's Church, Dominion Road, Mt. Eden
Folio	14/5122
Consent
Date of Certificate	27 July 1914
Officiating Minister	Rev. H. S. Wingfield, Anglican

955

27 July 1914

Gordon Edward Lamb
Agnes Reid

Gordon Edward Lamb
Agnes Reid
💍 1914/1432

Bachelor
Spinster

Clerk, Auctioneer

21
20

Auckland
Auckland

11 years
6 years

St. Barnabas Church, Mt. Eden

14/5080

Samuel Reid, father

27 July 1914

Rev. E. McFarland, Anglican

No	955
Date of Notice	27 July 1914
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Gordon Edward Lamb	Agnes Reid
	💍 1914/1432
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Clerk, Auctioneer
Age	21	20
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	11 years	6 years
Marriage Place	St. Barnabas Church, Mt. Eden
Folio	14/5080
Consent	Samuel Reid, father
Date of Certificate	27 July 1914
Officiating Minister	Rev. E. McFarland, 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).