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).

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District of Auckland Quarter ending 30 June 1914 Registrar Thomas Culpan

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

463

9 April 1914

Percy Stoddart Brown
Muriel Olive Behof

Percy Stoddart Brown
Muriel Olive Seehof
💍 1914/8883

Bachelor
Spinster

Solicitor

26
21

Auckland
Auckland

3 years
1 year 6 months

Methodist Church, Pitt St

14/2808

9 April 1914

Rev. W. Ready

No	463
Date of Notice	9 April 1914
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Percy Stoddart Brown	Muriel Olive Behof
BDM Match (95%)	Percy Stoddart Brown	Muriel Olive Seehof
	💍 1914/8883
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Solicitor
Age	26	21
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	3 years	1 year 6 months
Marriage Place	Methodist Church, Pitt St
Folio	14/2808
Consent
Date of Certificate	9 April 1914
Officiating Minister	Rev. W. Ready

464

9 April 1914

James Mitchell Marjory
Beaton

Bachelor
Spinster

Carpenter

26
23

Auckland
Auckland

1 year 7 months
from overseas

St. Stephen's Manse, Ponsonby

14/4263

9 April 1914

Rev. L. Folly

No	464
Date of Notice	9 April 1914
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	James Mitchell Marjory	Beaton
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Carpenter
Age	26	23
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	1 year 7 months	from overseas
Marriage Place	St. Stephen's Manse, Ponsonby
Folio	14/4263
Consent
Date of Certificate	9 April 1914
Officiating Minister	Rev. L. Folly

465

9 April 1914

Louis Edward Mitchell
Mary Louisa Norman

Louis Edwin Mitchell
Mary Louisa Norman
💍 1914/7879

Bachelor
Spinster

Clerk

25
21

Auckland
Auckland

2 years 9 months
2 years 9 months

St. Barnabas Church, Mt. Eden

14/2846

9 April 1914

Rev. E. McFarland

No	465
Date of Notice	9 April 1914
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Louis Edward Mitchell	Mary Louisa Norman
BDM Match (93%)	Louis Edwin Mitchell	Mary Louisa Norman
	💍 1914/7879
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Clerk
Age	25	21
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	2 years 9 months	2 years 9 months
Marriage Place	St. Barnabas Church, Mt. Eden
Folio	14/2846
Consent
Date of Certificate	9 April 1914
Officiating Minister	Rev. E. McFarland

466

9 April 1914

Stanley Smith Davies
Mary Martha Davies

Stanley Smith
Mary Martha Davies
💍 1914/680

Bachelor
Spinster

Clerk

26
22

Auckland
Auckland

1 year 9 months
5 years

Registrar's Office, Auckland

14/2626

9 April 1914

Registrar

No	466
Date of Notice	9 April 1914
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Stanley Smith Davies	Mary Martha Davies
BDM Match (83%)	Stanley Smith	Mary Martha Davies
	💍 1914/680
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Clerk
Age	26	22
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	1 year 9 months	5 years
Marriage Place	Registrar's Office, Auckland
Folio	14/2626
Consent
Date of Certificate	9 April 1914
Officiating Minister	Registrar

467

9 April 1914

Irwin Wilson Storey
Vera Mary Burgess

Irwin Wilson Storey
Vera Mary Burgess
💍 1914/7890

Bachelor
Spinster

Accountant

30
21

Auckland
Auckland

6 years
Life

Holy Trinity Church, Devonport

14/2833

9 April 1914

Rev. L. Cubitt

No	467
Date of Notice	9 April 1914
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Irwin Wilson Storey	Vera Mary Burgess
	💍 1914/7890
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Accountant
Age	30	21
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	6 years	Life
Marriage Place	Holy Trinity Church, Devonport
Folio	14/2833
Consent
Date of Certificate	9 April 1914
Officiating Minister	Rev. L. Cubitt

468

9 April 1914

Sydney Francis Thorpe
Charlotte Ann Smith

Sydney Francis George Murphy
Charlotte Ann Smith
💍 1914/1392

Bachelor
Spinster

Farmer

27
28

Auckland
Auckland

1 year 7 months
3 years

Home of Bridegroom's Mother, Remuera Avenue, Kingsland

14/5062

9 April 1914

Rev. A. R. Jecks

No	468
Date of Notice	9 April 1914
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Sydney Francis Thorpe	Charlotte Ann Smith
BDM Match (82%)	Sydney Francis George Murphy	Charlotte Ann Smith
	💍 1914/1392
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Farmer
Age	27	28
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	1 year 7 months	3 years
Marriage Place	Home of Bridegroom's Mother, Remuera Avenue, Kingsland
Folio	14/5062
Consent
Date of Certificate	9 April 1914
Officiating Minister	Rev. A. R. Jecks

469

9 April 1914

Samuel Dillimore Morgan
Clara Morgan

Samuel Dillimore
Clara Morgan
💍 1914/687

Widower
Spinster

Miner

50
29

Auckland
Auckland

3 years
6 days

Registrar's Office, Auckland

14/2627

9 April 1914

Registrar

No	469
Date of Notice	9 April 1914
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Samuel Dillimore Morgan	Clara Morgan
BDM Match (85%)	Samuel Dillimore	Clara Morgan
	💍 1914/687
Condition	Widower	Spinster
Profession	Miner
Age	50	29
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	3 years	6 days
Marriage Place	Registrar's Office, Auckland
Folio	14/2627
Consent
Date of Certificate	9 April 1914
Officiating Minister	Registrar

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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).