Intentions to Marry, 1914 Wellington, Hawkes Bay, Marlborough, Nelson, Westland

Reference: Registrar-General of Births, Deaths and Marriages, Notices of intention to marry, Series 8937, R2840455, 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 1075

District of Hastings Quarter ending 31 March 1914 Registrar Robert Braithwaite

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

2 January 1914

Thomas Young
Eva Brombow Kooss

Thomas Young
Eva Brombow Moss
💍 1914/6895

Bachelor
Spinster

Tailor
Tailoress

31
25

Hastings
Hastings

6 years
20 years

Presbyterian Church Hastings

728

2 January 1914

Rev. P. Ramsay

No	1
Date of Notice	2 January 1914
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Thomas Young	Eva Brombow Kooss
BDM Match (94%)	Thomas Young	Eva Brombow Moss
	💍 1914/6895
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Tailor	Tailoress
Age	31	25
Dwelling Place	Hastings	Hastings
Length of Residence	6 years	20 years
Marriage Place	Presbyterian Church Hastings
Folio	728
Consent
Date of Certificate	2 January 1914
Officiating Minister	Rev. P. Ramsay

3 January 1914

Edward Malcolm Langley
Lilian Moore

Edward Malcolm Langley
Lilian Moore
💍 1914/6894

Bachelor
Spinster

Telegraphist
Domestic

24
24

Hastings
Hastings

4 years
18 years

Presbyterian Church Hastings

727

3 January 1914

Rev. P. Ramsay

No	2
Date of Notice	3 January 1914
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Edward Malcolm Langley	Lilian Moore
	💍 1914/6894
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Telegraphist	Domestic
Age	24	24
Dwelling Place	Hastings	Hastings
Length of Residence	4 years	18 years
Marriage Place	Presbyterian Church Hastings
Folio	727
Consent
Date of Certificate	3 January 1914
Officiating Minister	Rev. P. Ramsay

6 January 1914

William Broadbent
Mary Maude Lawrence

William Broadbent
Mary Maude Lawrence
💍 1914/6899

Bachelor
Spinster

Motor Engineer
Domestic

24
22

Hastings
Hastings

2 years
2 years

Presbyterian Church Hastings

732

6 January 1914

Rev. P. Ramsay

No	3
Date of Notice	6 January 1914
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	William Broadbent	Mary Maude Lawrence
	💍 1914/6899
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Motor Engineer	Domestic
Age	24	22
Dwelling Place	Hastings	Hastings
Length of Residence	2 years	2 years
Marriage Place	Presbyterian Church Hastings
Folio	732
Consent
Date of Certificate	6 January 1914
Officiating Minister	Rev. P. Ramsay

14 January 1914

Herbert Bomford Hughes
Ruby May Lascelles

Herbert Benford Hughes
Ruby May Lascelles
💍 1914/7014

Bachelor
Spinster

Baptist Minister
Domestic duties

33
25

Hastings
Hastings

4 years
3 years

Baptist Church Hastings

720

14 January 1914

Rev. J. G. Hughes

No	4
Date of Notice	14 January 1914
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Herbert Bomford Hughes	Ruby May Lascelles
BDM Match (95%)	Herbert Benford Hughes	Ruby May Lascelles
	💍 1914/7014
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Baptist Minister	Domestic duties
Age	33	25
Dwelling Place	Hastings	Hastings
Length of Residence	4 years	3 years
Marriage Place	Baptist Church Hastings
Folio	720
Consent
Date of Certificate	14 January 1914
Officiating Minister	Rev. J. G. Hughes

19 January 1914

Robert Wishart Garrioch
Eleanor Hamilton

Robert Wishart Garrioch
Eleanor Hamilton
💍 1914/6896

Bachelor
Spinster

Tailor
Costumier

42
35

Hastings
Hastings

10 days
11 months

Presbyterian Church Hastings

729

19 January 1914

Rev. P. Ramsay

No	5
Date of Notice	19 January 1914
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Robert Wishart Garrioch	Eleanor Hamilton
	💍 1914/6896
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Tailor	Costumier
Age	42	35
Dwelling Place	Hastings	Hastings
Length of Residence	10 days	11 months
Marriage Place	Presbyterian Church Hastings
Folio	729
Consent
Date of Certificate	19 January 1914
Officiating Minister	Rev. P. Ramsay

21 January 1914

Percy Ellis Loach
Florence Louisa Harman

Percy Ellis Loach
Florence Louisa Harman
💍 1914/7015

Bachelor
Spinster

Plumber
Domestic duties

22
22

Hastings
Hastings

6 years
20 years

Wesleyan Church Hastings

721

21 January 1914

Rev. J. J. Wallis

No	6
Date of Notice	21 January 1914
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Percy Ellis Loach	Florence Louisa Harman
	💍 1914/7015
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Plumber	Domestic duties
Age	22	22
Dwelling Place	Hastings	Hastings
Length of Residence	6 years	20 years
Marriage Place	Wesleyan Church Hastings
Folio	721
Consent
Date of Certificate	21 January 1914
Officiating Minister	Rev. J. J. Wallis

23 January 1914

Thomas Leece Lister
Emily Ruth Cunningham

Thomas Leece Lister
Emily Ruth Cunningham
💍 1914/9001

Bachelor
Spinster

Carpenter
Domestic

26
28

Clive
Whakatu

26 years
13 years

In Mr. Charles Cunningham's House Whakatu

4070

23 January 1914

Rev. R. Waugh

No	7
Date of Notice	23 January 1914
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Thomas Leece Lister	Emily Ruth Cunningham
	💍 1914/9001
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Carpenter	Domestic
Age	26	28
Dwelling Place	Clive	Whakatu
Length of Residence	26 years	13 years
Marriage Place	In Mr. Charles Cunningham's House Whakatu
Folio	4070
Consent
Date of Certificate	23 January 1914
Officiating Minister	Rev. R. Waugh

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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).