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 400

District of Gisborne Quarter ending 31 December 1914 Registrar H. E. Hill

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

175

18 November 1914

Archie Herbert Doust
Edna Dorothy Marian Gibson Hill

Archie Herbert Donst
Edna Dorothy Marian Gibson Hill
💍 1914/3710

Bachelor
Spinster

Station Manager
Domestic duties

31
23

Puketoro Station, Waipiro Bay
Kaiteratahi, Poverty Bay

5 years
5 months

Church of England, Waipiro Bay

7565

18 November 1914

George Digby Wilson, Church of England

No	175
Date of Notice	18 November 1914
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Archie Herbert Doust	Edna Dorothy Marian Gibson Hill
BDM Match (98%)	Archie Herbert Donst	Edna Dorothy Marian Gibson Hill
	💍 1914/3710
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Station Manager	Domestic duties
Age	31	23
Dwelling Place	Puketoro Station, Waipiro Bay	Kaiteratahi, Poverty Bay
Length of Residence	5 years	5 months
Marriage Place	Church of England, Waipiro Bay
Folio	7565
Consent
Date of Certificate	18 November 1914
Officiating Minister	George Digby Wilson, Church of England

176

21 November 1914

Henry Nicol
Louisa Houlden

Henry Nicol
Louise Houlden
💍 1914/3346

Widower
Spinster

Farmer
Housekeeper

64
33

Patutahi
Patutahi, Poverty Bay

35 years
Life

The Office of the Registrar of Marriages, Gisborne

7226

21 November 1914

Henry Ewart Hill, Registrar of Marriages, Gisborne

No	176
Date of Notice	21 November 1914
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Henry Nicol	Louisa Houlden
BDM Match (96%)	Henry Nicol	Louise Houlden
	💍 1914/3346
Condition	Widower	Spinster
Profession	Farmer	Housekeeper
Age	64	33
Dwelling Place	Patutahi	Patutahi, Poverty Bay
Length of Residence	35 years	Life
Marriage Place	The Office of the Registrar of Marriages, Gisborne
Folio	7226
Consent
Date of Certificate	21 November 1914
Officiating Minister	Henry Ewart Hill, Registrar of Marriages, Gisborne

177

22 November 1914

William Pera Aperahama
Millicent Louise Gerard

William Pera Aperahama
Millicent Louise Gerard
💍 1914/3347

Bachelor
Spinster

Station-hand
Domestic duties

21
19

Te Hau, Whatatutu, Poverty Bay
Te Karaka

about 4 years
about 2 years

The Office of the Registrar of Marriages, Gisborne

7227

No one in the Dominion authorised to consent

7 December 1914

Henry Ewart Hill, Registrar of Marriages, Gisborne

No	177
Date of Notice	22 November 1914
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	William Pera Aperahama	Millicent Louise Gerard
	💍 1914/3347
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Station-hand	Domestic duties
Age	21	19
Dwelling Place	Te Hau, Whatatutu, Poverty Bay	Te Karaka
Length of Residence	about 4 years	about 2 years
Marriage Place	The Office of the Registrar of Marriages, Gisborne
Folio	7227
Consent	No one in the Dominion authorised to consent
Date of Certificate	7 December 1914
Officiating Minister	Henry Ewart Hill, Registrar of Marriages, Gisborne

178

23 November 1914

Edwin Costain
Katie Lilian Thinton

Edwin Costain
Katie Lilian Hinton
💍 1914/3349

Bachelor
Spinster

Labourer
Domestic servant

29
23

Wharekopae, Poverty Bay
Wharekopae

7 months
6 months

The Office of the Registrar of Marriages, Gisborne

7228

23 November 1914

Henry Ewart Hill, Registrar of Marriages, Gisborne

No	178
Date of Notice	23 November 1914
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Edwin Costain	Katie Lilian Thinton
BDM Match (95%)	Edwin Costain	Katie Lilian Hinton
	💍 1914/3349
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Labourer	Domestic servant
Age	29	23
Dwelling Place	Wharekopae, Poverty Bay	Wharekopae
Length of Residence	7 months	6 months
Marriage Place	The Office of the Registrar of Marriages, Gisborne
Folio	7228
Consent
Date of Certificate	23 November 1914
Officiating Minister	Henry Ewart Hill, Registrar of Marriages, Gisborne

179

24 November 1914

Wallace Jones
Sarah Wells

Wallace Jones
Sarah Wells
💍 1914/3339

Bachelor
Spinster

Shepherd
Cook

34
24

Lanburn, Waimata
Waimata, Gisborne

3 years
8 months

Private residence of Mrs. Jepsen, Awapuni Road

7218

24 November 1914

Robert Raine, Methodist Minister, Gisborne

No	179
Date of Notice	24 November 1914
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Wallace Jones	Sarah Wells
	💍 1914/3339
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Shepherd	Cook
Age	34	24
Dwelling Place	Lanburn, Waimata	Waimata, Gisborne
Length of Residence	3 years	8 months
Marriage Place	Private residence of Mrs. Jepsen, Awapuni Road
Folio	7218
Consent
Date of Certificate	24 November 1914
Officiating Minister	Robert Raine, Methodist Minister, Gisborne

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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).