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 386

District of Gisborne Quarter ending 30 September 1914 Registrar W. G. Wile

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

114

16 July 1914

Thomas Edwin Childrette
Ann Wood

Thomas Edwin Hildreth
Ann Wood
💍 1914/1099

Bachelor
Spinster

Telephone Wireman
Waitress

22
23

Gisborne
Gisborne

3 weeks
4 days

Wesley Parsonage, Bright Street, Gisborne

4792

16 July 1914

Rev Robert Ranie, Methodist Minister

No	114
Date of Notice	16 July 1914
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Thomas Edwin Childrette	Ann Wood
BDM Match (91%)	Thomas Edwin Hildreth	Ann Wood
	💍 1914/1099
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Telephone Wireman	Waitress
Age	22	23
Dwelling Place	Gisborne	Gisborne
Length of Residence	3 weeks	4 days
Marriage Place	Wesley Parsonage, Bright Street, Gisborne
Folio	4792
Consent
Date of Certificate	16 July 1914
Officiating Minister	Rev Robert Ranie, Methodist Minister

115

21 July 1914

Stanley Percy Archibald
Ada Fryer

Stanley Percy Archibald
Ada Fryer
💍 1914/2979

Bachelor
Spinster

Storeman
Shop Assistant

21
19

Gisborne
Poverty Bay, Gisborne

2 1/2 years
3 years

Holy Trinity Church, Gisborne

6583

Herbert Fryer (father)

21 July 1914

Rev Leslie Dawson, Thomas Church of England

No	115
Date of Notice	21 July 1914
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Stanley Percy Archibald	Ada Fryer
	💍 1914/2979
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Storeman	Shop Assistant
Age	21	19
Dwelling Place	Gisborne	Poverty Bay, Gisborne
Length of Residence	2 1/2 years	3 years
Marriage Place	Holy Trinity Church, Gisborne
Folio	6583
Consent	Herbert Fryer (father)
Date of Certificate	21 July 1914
Officiating Minister	Rev Leslie Dawson, Thomas Church of England

116

22 July 1914

William Henry Payne
Ethel Mary Fromm

William Henry Payne
Ethel Mary Fromm
💍 1914/2981

Bachelor
Spinster

Company Manager
Bookseller

27
24

Gisborne
Kaiti, Gisborne

4 days
10 years

Holy Trinity Church, Gisborne

6585

22 July 1914

Rev Leslie Dawson, Thomas Church of England

No	116
Date of Notice	22 July 1914
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	William Henry Payne	Ethel Mary Fromm
	💍 1914/2981
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Company Manager	Bookseller
Age	27	24
Dwelling Place	Gisborne	Kaiti, Gisborne
Length of Residence	4 days	10 years
Marriage Place	Holy Trinity Church, Gisborne
Folio	6585
Consent
Date of Certificate	22 July 1914
Officiating Minister	Rev Leslie Dawson, Thomas Church of England

117

21 July 1914

Ernle Beaven Borham
Violet Alice Barrow

Emile Beven Borham
Violet Alice Barran
💍 1914/2980

Bachelor
Spinster

Bookkeeper
Domestic Duties

22
23

Gisborne
Gisborne

3 years
1 year

Holy Trinity Church, Gisborne

6584

21 July 1914

Rev Frederick William Chatterton (Church of England)

No	117
Date of Notice	21 July 1914
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Ernle Beaven Borham	Violet Alice Barrow
BDM Match (87%)	Emile Beven Borham	Violet Alice Barran
	💍 1914/2980
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Bookkeeper	Domestic Duties
Age	22	23
Dwelling Place	Gisborne	Gisborne
Length of Residence	3 years	1 year
Marriage Place	Holy Trinity Church, Gisborne
Folio	6584
Consent
Date of Certificate	21 July 1914
Officiating Minister	Rev Frederick William Chatterton (Church of England)

118

1 August 1914

John Heugler
Florence East

John Henyler
Florence East
💍 1914/2601

Bachelor
Spinster

Plumber
Domestic Servant

31
23

Gisborne
Residence of the Bride's Parents, 483 Childers Road, Gisborne

31 years

6329

1 August 1914

Rev Percy John Wainwright (Baptist Minister)

No	118
Date of Notice	1 August 1914
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	John Heugler	Florence East
BDM Match (92%)	John Henyler	Florence East
	💍 1914/2601
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Plumber	Domestic Servant
Age	31	23
Dwelling Place	Gisborne	Residence of the Bride's Parents, 483 Childers Road, Gisborne
Length of Residence	31 years
Marriage Place
Folio	6329
Consent
Date of Certificate	1 August 1914
Officiating Minister	Rev Percy John Wainwright (Baptist 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).