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 1267

District of Feilding Quarter ending 31 March 1914 Registrar Chas C. Halloney

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

7 January 1914

William Barford Williamson
Phoebe Wenham

William Basford Williamson
Phoebe Wenham
💍 1914/7279

Bachelor
Spinster

Barman

29
25

Feilding
Feilding

3 years
25 years

Presbyterian manse Feilding

1140

7 January 1914

Rev. P. B. Fraser

No	1
Date of Notice	7 January 1914
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	William Barford Williamson	Phoebe Wenham
BDM Match (98%)	William Basford Williamson	Phoebe Wenham
	💍 1914/7279
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Barman
Age	29	25
Dwelling Place	Feilding	Feilding
Length of Residence	3 years	25 years
Marriage Place	Presbyterian manse Feilding
Folio	1140
Consent
Date of Certificate	7 January 1914
Officiating Minister	Rev. P. B. Fraser

10 January 1914

Basil Brennand
Eleanor Woodford Long

Basil Brennand
Eleanor Woodford Long
💍 1914/7280

Bachelor
Spinster

Teacher

30
38

Feilding
Feilding

6 days
10 years

Church of England Feilding

1141

10 January 1914

Rev. H. W. Klingender

No	2
Date of Notice	10 January 1914
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Basil Brennand	Eleanor Woodford Long
	💍 1914/7280
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Teacher
Age	30	38
Dwelling Place	Feilding	Feilding
Length of Residence	6 days	10 years
Marriage Place	Church of England Feilding
Folio	1141
Consent
Date of Certificate	10 January 1914
Officiating Minister	Rev. H. W. Klingender

21 January 1914

John Wilfred Frank Morris
Mary Anne Margaret Wood

John Wilfrid Frank Morris
Mary Anne Margaret Wood
💍 1914/7282

Bachelor
Spinster

Music Teacher
Music Teacher

29
24

Feilding
Feilding

6 months
3 years

Presbyterian Church Feilding

1143

21 January 1914

Rev. Geo. Budd

No	3
Date of Notice	21 January 1914
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	John Wilfred Frank Morris	Mary Anne Margaret Wood
BDM Match (98%)	John Wilfrid Frank Morris	Mary Anne Margaret Wood
	💍 1914/7282
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Music Teacher	Music Teacher
Age	29	24
Dwelling Place	Feilding	Feilding
Length of Residence	6 months	3 years
Marriage Place	Presbyterian Church Feilding
Folio	1143
Consent
Date of Certificate	21 January 1914
Officiating Minister	Rev. Geo. Budd

22 January 1914

Barkley Edward Durrant
Stella Victoria Aitkenhead

Bartley Edward Durrant
Stella Victoria Aitkenhead
💍 1914/7283

Bachelor
Spinster

Mechanic

31
28

Feilding
Feilding

4 years
8 years

Primitive Methodist Church Feilding

1144

22 January 1914

Rev. Herbert Daniel

No	4
Date of Notice	22 January 1914
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Barkley Edward Durrant	Stella Victoria Aitkenhead
BDM Match (98%)	Bartley Edward Durrant	Stella Victoria Aitkenhead
	💍 1914/7283
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Mechanic
Age	31	28
Dwelling Place	Feilding	Feilding
Length of Residence	4 years	8 years
Marriage Place	Primitive Methodist Church Feilding
Folio	1144
Consent
Date of Certificate	22 January 1914
Officiating Minister	Rev. Herbert Daniel

24 January 1914

John Hanley Smith
Harriett Paulina Watson

John Hanley Smith
Harriett Paulina Watson
💍 1914/7281

Bachelor
Spinster

Labourer

31
33

Feilding
Feilding

3 months
5 months

Residence of Rev. P. B. Fraser Kildonan Feilding

1142

24 January 1914

Rev. P. B. Fraser

No	5
Date of Notice	24 January 1914
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	John Hanley Smith	Harriett Paulina Watson
	💍 1914/7281
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Labourer
Age	31	33
Dwelling Place	Feilding	Feilding
Length of Residence	3 months	5 months
Marriage Place	Residence of Rev. P. B. Fraser Kildonan Feilding
Folio	1142
Consent
Date of Certificate	24 January 1914
Officiating Minister	Rev. P. B. Fraser

24 January 1914

Ernest Lansdown Perry
Dorothy Stanley Pirani

Ernest Lansdown Perry
Dorothy Stanley Pirani
💍 1914/7284

Bachelor
Spinster

Motor Agent

34
22

Feilding
Feilding

6 months
1 year

Church of England Feilding

1145

24 January 1914

Rev. A. S. Innes Jones

No	6
Date of Notice	24 January 1914
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Ernest Lansdown Perry	Dorothy Stanley Pirani
	💍 1914/7284
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Motor Agent
Age	34	22
Dwelling Place	Feilding	Feilding
Length of Residence	6 months	1 year
Marriage Place	Church of England Feilding
Folio	1145
Consent
Date of Certificate	24 January 1914
Officiating Minister	Rev. A. S. Innes Jones

5 February 1914

Carl Joseph Wilhelm Schenkemeyer
Johanna Elizabeth Horrigan

Carl Joseph Wilhelm Schenkerneyer
Johanna Elizabeth Horrigan
💍 1914/7285

Bachelor
Spinster

Labourer
Domestic

28
29

Feilding
Feilding

3 days
2 weeks

Presbyterian manse Feilding

1146

5 February 1914

Rev. Geo. Budd

No	7
Date of Notice	5 February 1914
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Carl Joseph Wilhelm Schenkemeyer	Johanna Elizabeth Horrigan
BDM Match (97%)	Carl Joseph Wilhelm Schenkerneyer	Johanna Elizabeth Horrigan
	💍 1914/7285
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Labourer	Domestic
Age	28	29
Dwelling Place	Feilding	Feilding
Length of Residence	3 days	2 weeks
Marriage Place	Presbyterian manse Feilding
Folio	1146
Consent
Date of Certificate	5 February 1914
Officiating Minister	Rev. Geo. Budd

14 February 1914

Robert Anderson
Ellen Mary Duggan

Robert Anderson
Ellen Mary Duggan
💍 1914/7286

Bachelor
Spinster

Farm labourer

29
28

Feilding
Feilding

1 week
1 week

Roman Catholic Church Feilding

1147

14 February 1914

Father M. Dwyer

No	8
Date of Notice	14 February 1914
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Robert Anderson	Ellen Mary Duggan
	💍 1914/7286
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Farm labourer
Age	29	28
Dwelling Place	Feilding	Feilding
Length of Residence	1 week	1 week
Marriage Place	Roman Catholic Church Feilding
Folio	1147
Consent
Date of Certificate	14 February 1914
Officiating Minister	Father M. Dwyer

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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).