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 31 March 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

188

16 February 1914

John William English
Margaret Manley Sherridan

John William English
Margaret Manley Sheridan
💍 1914/6601

Bachelor
Spinster

Hotel Manager

30
35

Auckland
Auckland

1 year
30 years

St. Patrick's Cathedral

405

16 February 1914

Ri. Rev. M. J. Brodie

No	188
Date of Notice	16 February 1914
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	John William English	Margaret Manley Sherridan
BDM Match (98%)	John William English	Margaret Manley Sheridan
	💍 1914/6601
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Hotel Manager
Age	30	35
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	1 year	30 years
Marriage Place	St. Patrick's Cathedral
Folio	405
Consent
Date of Certificate	16 February 1914
Officiating Minister	Ri. Rev. M. J. Brodie

189

16 February 1914

William John Ralph
Jemima Ada Lloyd

William John Ralph
Jemima Ada Lloyd
💍 1914/459

Bachelor
Divorced

Labourer

33
32

Auckland
Auckland

1 year
15 months

Registrar's Office

149

16 February 1914

Registrar

No	189
Date of Notice	16 February 1914
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	William John Ralph	Jemima Ada Lloyd
	💍 1914/459
Condition	Bachelor	Divorced
Profession	Labourer
Age	33	32
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	1 year	15 months
Marriage Place	Registrar's Office
Folio	149
Consent
Date of Certificate	16 February 1914
Officiating Minister	Registrar

190

16 February 1914

Frederick Alfred William Green
Violetta Dorothy McGarry

Frederick Alfred William Green
Violetta Dorothy McGarry
💍 1914/6600

Bachelor
Spinster

Plumber

23
21

Auckland
Auckland

1 year
8 years

St. Patrick's Cathedral

404

16 February 1914

Rev. W. J. Ormond

No	190
Date of Notice	16 February 1914
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Frederick Alfred William Green	Violetta Dorothy McGarry
	💍 1914/6600
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Plumber
Age	23	21
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	1 year	8 years
Marriage Place	St. Patrick's Cathedral
Folio	404
Consent
Date of Certificate	16 February 1914
Officiating Minister	Rev. W. J. Ormond

191

16 February 1914

James Stewart Marshall
Clara Mabel Lavinia McCarthy

James Stewart Marshall
Clara Mabel Lavinia McCarthy
💍 1914/460

Bachelor
Spinster

Labourer

28
27

Auckland
Auckland

4 years
2 years

Registrar's Office

150

16 February 1914

Registrar

No	191
Date of Notice	16 February 1914
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	James Stewart Marshall	Clara Mabel Lavinia McCarthy
	💍 1914/460
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Labourer
Age	28	27
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	4 years	2 years
Marriage Place	Registrar's Office
Folio	150
Consent
Date of Certificate	16 February 1914
Officiating Minister	Registrar

192

16 February 1914

John Alfred Marson
Elizabeth Philip Taylor

John Alfred Masson
Elizabeth Taylor Philip
💍 1914/6760

Bachelor
Spinster

Timber worker

36
26

Auckland
Auckland

4 years
8 years

Church of Christ, Ponsonby Road

616

16 February 1914

Mr. A. F. Turner

No	192
Date of Notice	16 February 1914
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	John Alfred Marson	Elizabeth Philip Taylor
BDM Match (75%)	John Alfred Masson	Elizabeth Taylor Philip
	💍 1914/6760
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Timber worker
Age	36	26
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	4 years	8 years
Marriage Place	Church of Christ, Ponsonby Road
Folio	616
Consent
Date of Certificate	16 February 1914
Officiating Minister	Mr. A. F. Turner

193

16 February 1914

Ernest Brooke
Amy Isabel Balmain

Ernest Brooke
Amy Isabel Balmain
💍 1914/468

Widower
Spinster

Commercial Traveller

45
40

Auckland
Auckland

6 years
3 years

Registrar's Office

151

16 February 1914

Registrar

No	193
Date of Notice	16 February 1914
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Ernest Brooke	Amy Isabel Balmain
	💍 1914/468
Condition	Widower	Spinster
Profession	Commercial Traveller
Age	45	40
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	6 years	3 years
Marriage Place	Registrar's Office
Folio	151
Consent
Date of Certificate	16 February 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).