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 723

District of Rotorua Quarter ending 30 June 1914 Registrar C. M. Roberts

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

1 April 1914

John Sidney Thornton Lockwood
Martha Killgour

John Sidney Thornton Lockwood
Martha Killgour
💍 1914/7701

Bachelor
Spinster

Labourer
Domestic

23
27

Rotorua
Rotorua

3 years
2 years

Residence of Killgour, Ranolf Street, Rotorua

2241

1 April 1914

Rev. David Hird

No	10
Date of Notice	1 April 1914
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	John Sidney Thornton Lockwood	Martha Killgour
	💍 1914/7701
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Labourer	Domestic
Age	23	27
Dwelling Place	Rotorua	Rotorua
Length of Residence	3 years	2 years
Marriage Place	Residence of Killgour, Ranolf Street, Rotorua
Folio	2241
Consent
Date of Certificate	1 April 1914
Officiating Minister	Rev. David Hird

1 April 1914

William Henry Sheffield
Harriet Mabel Lockwood

William Henry Sheffield
Harriet Mabel Lockwood
💍 1914/7702

Bachelor
Spinster

Railway Employee
Domestic

22
24

Rotorua
Rotorua

2 years
2 1/2 years

Residence of Killgour, Ranolf Street, Rotorua

2242

1 April 1914

Rev. David Hird

No	11
Date of Notice	1 April 1914
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	William Henry Sheffield	Harriet Mabel Lockwood
	💍 1914/7702
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Railway Employee	Domestic
Age	22	24
Dwelling Place	Rotorua	Rotorua
Length of Residence	2 years	2 1/2 years
Marriage Place	Residence of Killgour, Ranolf Street, Rotorua
Folio	2242
Consent
Date of Certificate	1 April 1914
Officiating Minister	Rev. David Hird

4 April 1914

Mikaere Heretaunga
Peteramira Pomaku

Mikaere Heretaunga
Peteranira Pomaku
💍 1914/196

Bachelor
Spinster

Labourer
Domestic

27
28

Ngapuna
Ngapuna

10 years
16 days

Roman Catholic Church at Ngapuna

4 April 1914

Rev. Father A. Lightheart

No	12
Date of Notice	4 April 1914
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Mikaere Heretaunga	Peteramira Pomaku
BDM Match (97%)	Mikaere Heretaunga	Peteranira Pomaku
	💍 1914/196
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Labourer	Domestic
Age	27	28
Dwelling Place	Ngapuna	Ngapuna
Length of Residence	10 years	16 days
Marriage Place	Roman Catholic Church at Ngapuna
Folio
Consent
Date of Certificate	4 April 1914
Officiating Minister	Rev. Father A. Lightheart

7 April 1914

James Henry Leslie Allen
Catherine Paretio Swinton

James Henry Leslie Allen
Catherine Paretio Swinton
💍 1914/7703

Bachelor
Spinster

Sheepfarmer
Housekeeper

29
24

Rotorua
Rotorua

3 days
4 days

St. Luke's Anglican Church, Haupapa Street, Rotorua

2243

7 April 1914

Rev. Frederick Augustus Bennett

No	13
Date of Notice	7 April 1914
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	James Henry Leslie Allen	Catherine Paretio Swinton
	💍 1914/7703
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Sheepfarmer	Housekeeper
Age	29	24
Dwelling Place	Rotorua	Rotorua
Length of Residence	3 days	4 days
Marriage Place	St. Luke's Anglican Church, Haupapa Street, Rotorua
Folio	2243
Consent
Date of Certificate	7 April 1914
Officiating Minister	Rev. Frederick Augustus Bennett

7 April 1914

Jonathan Thomas Tanner
Lily Maria Young

Jonathan Thomas Tanner
Lily Maria Young
💍 1914/5765

Benjamin Charles Baxter
Lily Maud Young
💍 1914/1505

Bachelor
Spinster

Farmer
Domestic Duties

33
33

Rotorua
Rotorua

8 years
4 years

St. Luke's Anglican Church, Haupapa Street, Rotorua

3224

7 April 1914

Archdeacon Chas. A. Tisdall

No	14
Date of Notice	7 April 1914
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Jonathan Thomas Tanner	Lily Maria Young
	💍 1914/5765
BDM Match (60%)	Benjamin Charles Baxter	Lily Maud Young
	💍 1914/1505
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Farmer	Domestic Duties
Age	33	33
Dwelling Place	Rotorua	Rotorua
Length of Residence	8 years	4 years
Marriage Place	St. Luke's Anglican Church, Haupapa Street, Rotorua
Folio	3224
Consent
Date of Certificate	7 April 1914
Officiating Minister	Archdeacon Chas. A. Tisdall

9 April 1914

Colvin Stewart Algie
Alice Victoria Elizabeth Corlett

Colvin Stewart Algie
Alice Victoria Elizabeth Corlett
💍 1914/5766

Bachelor
Spinster

Teacher
Domestic Duties

26
26

Rotorua
Rotorua

5 years
26 years

St. Luke's Anglican Church, Haupapa Street, Rotorua

3225

9 April 1914

Archdeacon Chas. A. Tisdall

No	15
Date of Notice	9 April 1914
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Colvin Stewart Algie	Alice Victoria Elizabeth Corlett
	💍 1914/5766
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Teacher	Domestic Duties
Age	26	26
Dwelling Place	Rotorua	Rotorua
Length of Residence	5 years	26 years
Marriage Place	St. Luke's Anglican Church, Haupapa Street, Rotorua
Folio	3225
Consent
Date of Certificate	9 April 1914
Officiating Minister	Archdeacon Chas. A. Tisdall

16 April 1914

John Binks
Eleanor Maud Mayes

John Binks
Eleanor Maud Mayes
💍 1914/5999

Bachelor
Spinster

Cabinet Maker
Domestic

29
25

Rotorua
Rotorua

3 1/2 years
26 years

St. Luke's Anglican Church, Haupapa Street, Rotorua

3226

16 April 1914

Archdeacon Chas. A. Tisdall

No	16
Date of Notice	16 April 1914
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	John Binks	Eleanor Maud Mayes
	💍 1914/5999
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Cabinet Maker	Domestic
Age	29	25
Dwelling Place	Rotorua	Rotorua
Length of Residence	3 1/2 years	26 years
Marriage Place	St. Luke's Anglican Church, Haupapa Street, Rotorua
Folio	3226
Consent
Date of Certificate	16 April 1914
Officiating Minister	Archdeacon Chas. A. Tisdall

20 April 1914

Louis Nicholas
Elsie Browne

Bachelor
Spinster

Cook
Waitress

26
18

Rotorua
Rotorua

5 years
5 years

Registrar's Office, Courthouse, Rotorua

See attached

No	17
Date of Notice	20 April 1914
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Louis Nicholas	Elsie Browne
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Cook	Waitress
Age	26	18
Dwelling Place	Rotorua	Rotorua
Length of Residence	5 years	5 years
Marriage Place	Registrar's Office, Courthouse, Rotorua
Folio
Consent	See attached
Date of Certificate
Officiating Minister

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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).