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 329

District of Cambridge Quarter ending 31 March 1914 Registrar A. D. Clemett

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

2 January 1914

Jos Vernon Richard
Ruth Blanchard

Joseph Vernon Richards
Ruth Blanchard
💍 1914/6945

Bachelor
Spinster

Storeman
Domestic Duties

33
22

Cambridge
Cambridge

8 years
8 years

St Andrews Anglican Church Cambridge

14/904

2 January 1914

C. Mortimer Jones

No	1
Date of Notice	2 January 1914
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Jos Vernon Richard	Ruth Blanchard
BDM Match (91%)	Joseph Vernon Richards	Ruth Blanchard
	💍 1914/6945
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Storeman	Domestic Duties
Age	33	22
Dwelling Place	Cambridge	Cambridge
Length of Residence	8 years	8 years
Marriage Place	St Andrews Anglican Church Cambridge
Folio	14/904
Consent
Date of Certificate	2 January 1914
Officiating Minister	C. Mortimer Jones

3 January 1914

Chas Fredk Reinhold Rugro
Margery Hilda Moolins

Bachelor
Spinster

Ironmonger
Typist

29
22

Cambridge
Cambridge

29 years
5 years

St Andrews Church Cambridge

14/903

3 January 1914

C. Mortimer Jones

No	2
Date of Notice	3 January 1914
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Chas Fredk Reinhold Rugro	Margery Hilda Moolins
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Ironmonger	Typist
Age	29	22
Dwelling Place	Cambridge	Cambridge
Length of Residence	29 years	5 years
Marriage Place	St Andrews Church Cambridge
Folio	14/903
Consent
Date of Certificate	3 January 1914
Officiating Minister	C. Mortimer Jones

7 January 1914

Thomas William Hodgson
Elizabeth Ross Young

Thomas William Hodgson
Elizabeth Ross Young
💍 1914/8097

Bachelor
Spinster

Miner
Domestic Duties

22
23

Maungatautari
Maungatautari

17 Months
3 years

Presbyterian Church Cambridge

14/1662

7 January 1914

J. W. Gow

No	3
Date of Notice	7 January 1914
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Thomas William Hodgson	Elizabeth Ross Young
	💍 1914/8097
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Miner	Domestic Duties
Age	22	23
Dwelling Place	Maungatautari	Maungatautari
Length of Residence	17 Months	3 years
Marriage Place	Presbyterian Church Cambridge
Folio	14/1662
Consent
Date of Certificate	7 January 1914
Officiating Minister	J. W. Gow

12 January 1914

Alfred Ernest McIndoe
Eliza Christina Reed

Alfred Ernest McIndoe
Eliza Christina Reed
💍 1914/6947

Bachelor
Spinster

Blacksmith
Tailoress

23
21

Leamington
Cambridge

6 months
6 months

Private House of Jno McIndoe Leamington

14/906

7 January 1914

Levi Green

No	4
Date of Notice	12 January 1914
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Alfred Ernest McIndoe	Eliza Christina Reed
	💍 1914/6947
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Blacksmith	Tailoress
Age	23	21
Dwelling Place	Leamington	Cambridge
Length of Residence	6 months	6 months
Marriage Place	Private House of Jno McIndoe Leamington
Folio	14/906
Consent
Date of Certificate	7 January 1914
Officiating Minister	Levi Green

19 February 1914

Fredk James Saxby
Louise Alice Shee

Frederick James Saxby
Louise Alice Shee
💍 1914/6946

Bachelor
Spinster

Land Estate Agent
Domestic Duties

29
30

Hamilton
Tekowhai

4 years
6 weeks

Wesleyan Parsonage Cambridge

14/905

19 February 1914

Thos Trestrail

No	5
Date of Notice	19 February 1914
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Fredk James Saxby	Louise Alice Shee
BDM Match (91%)	Frederick James Saxby	Louise Alice Shee
	💍 1914/6946
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Land Estate Agent	Domestic Duties
Age	29	30
Dwelling Place	Hamilton	Tekowhai
Length of Residence	4 years	6 weeks
Marriage Place	Wesleyan Parsonage Cambridge
Folio	14/905
Consent
Date of Certificate	19 February 1914
Officiating Minister	Thos Trestrail

18 March 1914

Arthur Jas Butler Bell
Esther Samuels

Arthur James Buttler Bell
Esther Samuels
💍 1914/6512

Bachelor
Spinster

Farmer
Household Duties

37
20

Ohura
Ohura

10 years
8 years

Registrar's Office Cambridge

14/312

S. Samuels, Father

18 March 1914

R. C. Nixon, Deputy Registrar

No	6
Date of Notice	18 March 1914
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Arthur Jas Butler Bell	Esther Samuels
BDM Match (94%)	Arthur James Buttler Bell	Esther Samuels
	💍 1914/6512
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Farmer	Household Duties
Age	37	20
Dwelling Place	Ohura	Ohura
Length of Residence	10 years	8 years
Marriage Place	Registrar's Office Cambridge
Folio	14/312
Consent	S. Samuels, Father
Date of Certificate	18 March 1914
Officiating Minister	R. C. Nixon, Deputy Registrar

23 March 1914

Ernest Lewis Goodwin
Violet Hilda Morse

Ernest Lewis Goodwin
Violet Hilda Morse
💍 1914/8466

Bachelor
Spinster

Farmer

24
24

Cambridge
Cambridge

2 years
2 years

St Andrews Anglican Church Cambridge

14/2160

23 March 1914

Archdeacon Willis

No	7
Date of Notice	23 March 1914
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Ernest Lewis Goodwin	Violet Hilda Morse
	💍 1914/8466
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Farmer
Age	24	24
Dwelling Place	Cambridge	Cambridge
Length of Residence	2 years	2 years
Marriage Place	St Andrews Anglican Church Cambridge
Folio	14/2160
Consent
Date of Certificate	23 March 1914
Officiating Minister	Archdeacon Willis

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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).