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 1668

District of Wellington Quarter ending 30 September 1914 Registrar Joseph Lissant Palethorpe

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

621

30 July 1914

Henry Maurice Barnett
Kathleen Buller Beale

Henry Maurice Barnett
Kathleen Butler Beale
💍 1914/2013

Bachelor
Spinster

Merchant

40
20

Wellington
Wellington

2 years
20 years

Registrar's office Wellington

5712

Emma Grace Beale, Mother

30 July 1914

Deputy Registrar

No	621
Date of Notice	30 July 1914
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Henry Maurice Barnett	Kathleen Buller Beale
BDM Match (98%)	Henry Maurice Barnett	Kathleen Butler Beale
	💍 1914/2013
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Merchant
Age	40	20
Dwelling Place	Wellington	Wellington
Length of Residence	2 years	20 years
Marriage Place	Registrar's office Wellington
Folio	5712
Consent	Emma Grace Beale, Mother
Date of Certificate	30 July 1914
Officiating Minister	Deputy Registrar

622

30 July 1914

Percy Thomson
Alice Louisa Wilcox

Percy Thomson
Alice Louisa Wilcox
💍 1914/2014

Bachelor
Spinster

Commercial Traveller

24
22

Wellington
Wellington

3 weeks
4 weeks

Registrar's office Wellington

5713

30 July 1914

Deputy Registrar

No	622
Date of Notice	30 July 1914
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Percy Thomson	Alice Louisa Wilcox
	💍 1914/2014
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Commercial Traveller
Age	24	22
Dwelling Place	Wellington	Wellington
Length of Residence	3 weeks	4 weeks
Marriage Place	Registrar's office Wellington
Folio	5713
Consent
Date of Certificate	30 July 1914
Officiating Minister	Deputy Registrar

623

30 July 1914

Edward Lawrence Waugh
Hilda Violet Sophia Price

Edward Lawrence Waugh
Hilda Violet Sophia Price
💍 1914/2220

Bachelor
Spinster

Assistant Publishing Clerk

22
19

Wellington
Wellington

Life
16 years

Baptist Church Vivian Street Wellington

5901

Martha Louisa Morris, mother

30 July 1914

Rev. A. S. Brainsby

No	623
Date of Notice	30 July 1914
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Edward Lawrence Waugh	Hilda Violet Sophia Price
	💍 1914/2220
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Assistant Publishing Clerk
Age	22	19
Dwelling Place	Wellington	Wellington
Length of Residence	Life	16 years
Marriage Place	Baptist Church Vivian Street Wellington
Folio	5901
Consent	Martha Louisa Morris, mother
Date of Certificate	30 July 1914
Officiating Minister	Rev. A. S. Brainsby

624

30 July 1914

Walter Daines
Lillian Beatrice Bell

Walter Daines
Lilian Beatrice Bell
💍 1914/1995

Bachelor
Spinster

Clerk

32
25

Wellington
Wellington

10 years
25 years

St Marks Church, Wellington

5694

30 July 1914

Rev. C. F. Askew

No	624
Date of Notice	30 July 1914
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Walter Daines	Lillian Beatrice Bell
BDM Match (98%)	Walter Daines	Lilian Beatrice Bell
	💍 1914/1995
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Clerk
Age	32	25
Dwelling Place	Wellington	Wellington
Length of Residence	10 years	25 years
Marriage Place	St Marks Church, Wellington
Folio	5694
Consent
Date of Certificate	30 July 1914
Officiating Minister	Rev. C. F. Askew

625

30 July 1914

Ngan Gee
Gon Lee

Ngan Gee
Gin Lee
💍 1914/2066

Bachelor
Spinster

Fruiterer

40
21

Wellington
Wellington

16 years (From Canton, China)
1 day

Residence of Ngan Gee 69 Constable St Wellington

5790

30 July 1914

Rev. J. K. Elliott

No	625
Date of Notice	30 July 1914
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Ngan Gee	Gon Lee
BDM Match (93%)	Ngan Gee	Gin Lee
	💍 1914/2066
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Fruiterer
Age	40	21
Dwelling Place	Wellington	Wellington
Length of Residence	16 years (From Canton, China)	1 day
Marriage Place	Residence of Ngan Gee 69 Constable St Wellington
Folio	5790
Consent
Date of Certificate	30 July 1914
Officiating Minister	Rev. J. K. Elliott

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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).