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 1098

District of Napier Quarter ending 30 June 1914 Registrar William Buchanan

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

8 April 1914

Roland Stead Morrissey
Mary Hogan

Roland Stead Morrissey
Mary Hogan
💍 1914/7829

Bachelor
Spinster

Seaman
Servant

26
25

Port Ahuriri
Napier

14 years
2 years

St. Patrick's Church, Napier

2469

8 April 1914

Rev. Father O'Sullivan

No	54
Date of Notice	8 April 1914
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Roland Stead Morrissey	Mary Hogan
	💍 1914/7829
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Seaman	Servant
Age	26	25
Dwelling Place	Port Ahuriri	Napier
Length of Residence	14 years	2 years
Marriage Place	St. Patrick's Church, Napier
Folio	2469
Consent
Date of Certificate	8 April 1914
Officiating Minister	Rev. Father O'Sullivan

9 April 1914

John Patrick Tohill
Mary Therese O'Reilly

John Patrick Tohill
Mary Theresa O'Reilly
💍 1914/2892

Bachelor
Spinster

Tramway Conductor
Tailoress

28
27

Napier
Taradale

5 years
27 years

Catholic Church, Meeanee

6719

9 April 1914

Rev. Father Goggan

No	55
Date of Notice	9 April 1914
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	John Patrick Tohill	Mary Therese O'Reilly
BDM Match (98%)	John Patrick Tohill	Mary Theresa O'Reilly
	💍 1914/2892
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Tramway Conductor	Tailoress
Age	28	27
Dwelling Place	Napier	Taradale
Length of Residence	5 years	27 years
Marriage Place	Catholic Church, Meeanee
Folio	6719
Consent
Date of Certificate	9 April 1914
Officiating Minister	Rev. Father Goggan

9 April 1914

Thomas Cagney
Lulu Florence Moreland

Thomas Cagney
Lulu Florence Moreland
💍 1914/7831

Bachelor
Spinster

Government Surveyor
Domestic Duties

30
24

Napier
Napier

10 years
24 years

St. Patrick's Church, Napier

2470

9 April 1914

Rev. Father O'Connor

No	56
Date of Notice	9 April 1914
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Thomas Cagney	Lulu Florence Moreland
	💍 1914/7831
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Government Surveyor	Domestic Duties
Age	30	24
Dwelling Place	Napier	Napier
Length of Residence	10 years	24 years
Marriage Place	St. Patrick's Church, Napier
Folio	2470
Consent
Date of Certificate	9 April 1914
Officiating Minister	Rev. Father O'Connor

14 April 1914

George Edward Staines Daniell
Matilda Nevill

George Edward Staines Daniell
Matilda Nevill
💍 1914/2927

Bachelor
Spinster

Farmer
Domestic Duties

38
28

Napier
Napier

3 days
24 years

St. John's Cathedral, Napier

6755

14 April 1914

Rev. Canon Mayne

No	57
Date of Notice	14 April 1914
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	George Edward Staines Daniell	Matilda Nevill
	💍 1914/2927
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Farmer	Domestic Duties
Age	38	28
Dwelling Place	Napier	Napier
Length of Residence	3 days	24 years
Marriage Place	St. John's Cathedral, Napier
Folio	6755
Consent
Date of Certificate	14 April 1914
Officiating Minister	Rev. Canon Mayne

14 April 1914

Stephen Abraham Russell
Pearl Ena Maud Cheer

Stephen Abraham Russell
Pearl Eva Maud Cheer
💍 1914/5949

Bachelor
Spinster

Storeman
Dressmaker

28
19

Clive
Clive

6 months
19 years

House of Mr. Russell, Clive

3502

William Cheer, Father

14 April 1914

Rev. P. Ramsay

No	58
Date of Notice	14 April 1914
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Stephen Abraham Russell	Pearl Ena Maud Cheer
BDM Match (98%)	Stephen Abraham Russell	Pearl Eva Maud Cheer
	💍 1914/5949
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Storeman	Dressmaker
Age	28	19
Dwelling Place	Clive	Clive
Length of Residence	6 months	19 years
Marriage Place	House of Mr. Russell, Clive
Folio	3502
Consent	William Cheer, Father
Date of Certificate	14 April 1914
Officiating Minister	Rev. P. Ramsay

15 April 1914

Thomas Godfrey Price
Alice Treve McHardy

Thomas Godfrey Price
Alice Neve McHardy
💍 1914/2928

Bachelor
Spinster

Farmer
Domestic Duties

26
20

Napier
Napier

3 days
3 days

St. John's Cathedral, Napier

6756

Leslie Harling McHardy, Father

15 April 1914

Rev. F. B. Telling-Simcox

No	59
Date of Notice	15 April 1914
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Thomas Godfrey Price	Alice Treve McHardy
BDM Match (95%)	Thomas Godfrey Price	Alice Neve McHardy
	💍 1914/2928
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Farmer	Domestic Duties
Age	26	20
Dwelling Place	Napier	Napier
Length of Residence	3 days	3 days
Marriage Place	St. John's Cathedral, Napier
Folio	6756
Consent	Leslie Harling McHardy, Father
Date of Certificate	15 April 1914
Officiating Minister	Rev. F. B. Telling-Simcox

15 April 1914

Cyril Victor Thomas Beegan
Gertrude Mann

Cyril Victor Thomas Beegan
Gertrude Mann
💍 1914/8684

Bachelor
Spinster

Waiter
Housemaid

23
31

Napier
Napier

1 month
1 week

House of Rev. J. A. Asher, Napier

2430

15 April 1914

Rev. J. A. Asher

No	60
Date of Notice	15 April 1914
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Cyril Victor Thomas Beegan	Gertrude Mann
	💍 1914/8684
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Waiter	Housemaid
Age	23	31
Dwelling Place	Napier	Napier
Length of Residence	1 month	1 week
Marriage Place	House of Rev. J. A. Asher, Napier
Folio	2430
Consent
Date of Certificate	15 April 1914
Officiating Minister	Rev. J. A. Asher

16 April 1914

Charles James Morris
Kathleen Freeman

Charles James Morris
Kathleen Freeman
💍 1914/7832

Bachelor
Spinster

Tailor
Domestic Duties

35
22

Hastings
Napier

2 years
22 years

St. Patrick's Church, Napier

2471

16 April 1914

Rev. Father O'Connor

No	61
Date of Notice	16 April 1914
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Charles James Morris	Kathleen Freeman
	💍 1914/7832
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Tailor	Domestic Duties
Age	35	22
Dwelling Place	Hastings	Napier
Length of Residence	2 years	22 years
Marriage Place	St. Patrick's Church, Napier
Folio	2471
Consent
Date of Certificate	16 April 1914
Officiating Minister	Rev. Father O'Connor

17 April 1914

Ernest Rudolph Lovell
Eva Beaumont Sims

Ernest Rudolph Lovell
Eva Beaumont Sims
💍 1914/8685

Bachelor
Spinster

Motor Mechanic
Factory Hand

18
18

Napier
Napier

14 years
15 months

House of Walter William Sims, Napier

2431

Mark Lovell, Father; Walter William Sims, Father

17 April 1914

Rev. A. Hodge

No	62
Date of Notice	17 April 1914
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Ernest Rudolph Lovell	Eva Beaumont Sims
	💍 1914/8685
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Motor Mechanic	Factory Hand
Age	18	18
Dwelling Place	Napier	Napier
Length of Residence	14 years	15 months
Marriage Place	House of Walter William Sims, Napier
Folio	2431
Consent	Mark Lovell, Father; Walter William Sims, Father
Date of Certificate	17 April 1914
Officiating Minister	Rev. A. Hodge

17 April 1914

Bartholomew McGrath
Margaret McGregor

Bartholomew McGrath
Margaret McGregor
💍 1914/2929

Widower
Spinster

Private Hotelkeeper
Domestic Duties

46
24

Napier
Napier

7 years
2 years

St. John's Cathedral, Napier

6757

17 April 1914

Rev. Canon Mayne

No	63
Date of Notice	17 April 1914
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Bartholomew McGrath	Margaret McGregor
	💍 1914/2929
Condition	Widower	Spinster
Profession	Private Hotelkeeper	Domestic Duties
Age	46	24
Dwelling Place	Napier	Napier
Length of Residence	7 years	2 years
Marriage Place	St. John's Cathedral, Napier
Folio	6757
Consent
Date of Certificate	17 April 1914
Officiating Minister	Rev. Canon Mayne

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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).