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

9 January 1914

Alexander Coleman Mack
Mabel Weir

Alexander Coleman
Mabel Weir
💍 1914/6456

Bachelor
Spinster

Carpenter

31
30

Auckland
Auckland

40 days
40 days

Residence of Rev. D. McColl, Bay View Rd, Takapuna

553

9 January 1914

Rev. D. McColl

No	36
Date of Notice	9 January 1914
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Alexander Coleman Mack	Mabel Weir
BDM Match (89%)	Alexander Coleman	Mabel Weir
	💍 1914/6456
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Carpenter
Age	31	30
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	40 days	40 days
Marriage Place	Residence of Rev. D. McColl, Bay View Rd, Takapuna
Folio	553
Consent
Date of Certificate	9 January 1914
Officiating Minister	Rev. D. McColl

10 January 1914

James Hall Black
Agnes Drysdale Black

James Hall
Agnes Drysdale Black
💍 1914/467

Bachelor
Spinster

Rabbiter

33
25

Auckland
Auckland

3 days
3 days

Registrar's Office

134

10 January 1914

Registrar

No	37
Date of Notice	10 January 1914
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	James Hall Black	Agnes Drysdale Black
BDM Match (81%)	James Hall	Agnes Drysdale Black
	💍 1914/467
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Rabbiter
Age	33	25
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	3 days	3 days
Marriage Place	Registrar's Office
Folio	134
Consent
Date of Certificate	10 January 1914
Officiating Minister	Registrar

10 January 1914

Neil Mark Brown
Emmie Mary Veronica Buckley

Cecil Mark Brown
Emmie Mary Veronica Buckley
💍 1914/6702

Bachelor
Spinster

Stonemason

26
28

Auckland
Auckland

4 months
4 months

Baptist Church, Richmond

557

10 January 1914

Rev. J. Ings

No	38
Date of Notice	10 January 1914
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Neil Mark Brown	Emmie Mary Veronica Buckley
BDM Match (94%)	Cecil Mark Brown	Emmie Mary Veronica Buckley
	💍 1914/6702
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Stonemason
Age	26	28
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	4 months	4 months
Marriage Place	Baptist Church, Richmond
Folio	557
Consent
Date of Certificate	10 January 1914
Officiating Minister	Rev. J. Ings

10 January 1914

Charles Frederick Collins
Ivy Harrop

Charles Frederick Collins
Ivy Harvey
💍 1914/9276

Bachelor
Spinster

Maker

28
24

Auckland
Auckland

9 months
3 months

Methodist Mission Hall, 3 East St, Auckland

4372

10 January 1914

Rev. R. J. Snell

No	39
Date of Notice	10 January 1914
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Charles Frederick Collins	Ivy Harrop
BDM Match (85%)	Charles Frederick Collins	Ivy Harvey
	💍 1914/9276
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Maker
Age	28	24
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	9 months	3 months
Marriage Place	Methodist Mission Hall, 3 East St, Auckland
Folio	4372
Consent
Date of Certificate	10 January 1914
Officiating Minister	Rev. R. J. Snell

12 January 1914

George Henry Coulan
Emilie Martha Saprall

George Henry Coulan
Emilie Martha Bagnall
💍 1914/601

Widower
Spinster

Post Office Employee

25
28

Auckland
Auckland

3 days
12 months

St. John's Church, Donsonby

541

12 January 1914

Rev. R. A. Burley

No	40
Date of Notice	12 January 1914
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	George Henry Coulan	Emilie Martha Saprall
BDM Match (93%)	George Henry Coulan	Emilie Martha Bagnall
	💍 1914/601
Condition	Widower	Spinster
Profession	Post Office Employee
Age	25	28
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	3 days	12 months
Marriage Place	St. John's Church, Donsonby
Folio	541
Consent
Date of Certificate	12 January 1914
Officiating Minister	Rev. R. A. Burley

12 January 1914

Frederick Arthur Payne
Ethel Elizabeth Tambury

Frederick Arthur Pyke
Ethel Elizabeth Bambery
💍 1914/430

Bachelor
Divorced

Publisher

25
24

Auckland
Auckland

11 months
15 months

Registrar's Office

120

12 January 1914

Registrar

No	41
Date of Notice	12 January 1914
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Frederick Arthur Payne	Ethel Elizabeth Tambury
BDM Match (91%)	Frederick Arthur Pyke	Ethel Elizabeth Bambery
	💍 1914/430
Condition	Bachelor	Divorced
Profession	Publisher
Age	25	24
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	11 months	15 months
Marriage Place	Registrar's Office
Folio	120
Consent
Date of Certificate	12 January 1914
Officiating Minister	Registrar

12 January 1914

James Radstone Patterson
Alice Maud Edmondson

James Gladstone Patterson
Alice May Edmundsen
💍 1914/6630

Bachelor
Spinster

Tailor

21
20

Auckland
Auckland

18 months
18 months

House of Bride's Father, 35 Sussex St, Ponsonby

483

Henry Edmondson, Father

12 January 1914

Rev. W. Ready

No	42
Date of Notice	12 January 1914
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	James Radstone Patterson	Alice Maud Edmondson
BDM Match (86%)	James Gladstone Patterson	Alice May Edmundsen
	💍 1914/6630
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Tailor
Age	21	20
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	18 months	18 months
Marriage Place	House of Bride's Father, 35 Sussex St, Ponsonby
Folio	483
Consent	Henry Edmondson, Father
Date of Certificate	12 January 1914
Officiating Minister	Rev. W. Ready

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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).