Intentions to Marry, 1915 Albertland to Hamilton

Reference: Registrar-General of Births, Deaths and Marriages, Notices of intention to marry, Series 8937, R2840457, Archives New Zealand Te Rua Mahara o te Kāwanatanga, Wellington

1915 is bound in six volumes (a to f) with continuous page numbers. Each volume contains a different set of districts, going from north to south.

1915a contains pages 1-518, covering districts from Albertland to Hamilton

Page 0031

District of Auckland Quarter ending 31 March 1915 Registrar E. Livermone

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

111

27 January 1915

James Leaning
Ivy Trevis Shaw

James Leaning
Ivy Trevis Shaw
💍 1915/301

Bachelor
Spinster

Sugar drier

22
18

Auckland
Life Auckland

17 yrs

Registrar's Office

George William Shaw, Father.

27 January 1915

Deputy Registrar

No	111
Date of Notice	27 January 1915
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	James Leaning	Ivy Trevis Shaw
	💍 1915/301
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Sugar drier
Age	22	18
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Life Auckland
Length of Residence	17 yrs
Marriage Place	Registrar's Office
Folio	26
Consent	George William Shaw, Father.
Date of Certificate	27 January 1915
Officiating Minister	Deputy Registrar

112

27 January 1915

John Stanley Carr
Nellie Rhoda Dixon

John Stanley Carr
Nellie Rhoda Dixon
💍 1915/312

Bachelor
Divorced

Oil Engine Driver

26
27

Auckland
Auckland

7 days
7 days

Registrar's Office

27 January 1915

Deputy Registrar

No	112
Date of Notice	27 January 1915
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	John Stanley Carr	Nellie Rhoda Dixon
	💍 1915/312
Condition	Bachelor	Divorced
Profession	Oil Engine Driver
Age	26	27
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	7 days	7 days
Marriage Place	Registrar's Office
Folio	27
Consent
Date of Certificate	27 January 1915
Officiating Minister	Deputy Registrar

113

27 January 1915

James Donaldson-Edward
Margaret Lydia Boles.

James Donaldson-Edward
Margaret Lydia Boles
💍 1915/7636

Bachelor
Spinster

Photographic Dealer

27
20

Auckland
Auckland

3 days
15 yrs

Residence of Bride's Mother 57 Packville Street Grey Lynn

554

Catherine Boles mother

27 January 1915

Rev. N. Turner methodist.

No	113
Date of Notice	27 January 1915
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	James Donaldson-Edward	Margaret Lydia Boles.
BDM Match (98%)	James Donaldson-Edward	Margaret Lydia Boles
	💍 1915/7636
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Photographic Dealer
Age	27	20
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	3 days	15 yrs
Marriage Place	Residence of Bride's Mother 57 Packville Street Grey Lynn
Folio	554
Consent	Catherine Boles mother
Date of Certificate	27 January 1915
Officiating Minister	Rev. N. Turner methodist.

114

27 January 1915

Samuel Ashby Burt
Margaret Potter

Samuel Ashby Bush
Margaret Potter
💍 1915/8482

Bachelor
Spinster

Settler

44
38

Auckland
Auckland

37 yrs
Life

St. Luke's Church Remuera

508

27 January 1915

Rev. G. B. Munro Presbyterian

No	114
Date of Notice	27 January 1915
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Samuel Ashby Burt	Margaret Potter
BDM Match (94%)	Samuel Ashby Bush	Margaret Potter
	💍 1915/8482
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Settler
Age	44	38
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	37 yrs	Life
Marriage Place	St. Luke's Church Remuera
Folio	508
Consent
Date of Certificate	27 January 1915
Officiating Minister	Rev. G. B. Munro Presbyterian

115

27 January 1915

Robert Harry McLeod
Ruby Violet Margareta O'Kane.

Robert Harry McLeod
Ruby Violet Margaretta O'Kane
💍 1915/319

Bachelor
Divorced

Advertising Contractor

30
24

Auckland
Auckland

2 yrs
1 yr.

Registrar's Office

27 January 1915

Deputy Registrar

No	115
Date of Notice	27 January 1915
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Robert Harry McLeod	Ruby Violet Margareta O'Kane.
BDM Match (97%)	Robert Harry McLeod	Ruby Violet Margaretta O'Kane
	💍 1915/319
Condition	Bachelor	Divorced
Profession	Advertising Contractor
Age	30	24
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	2 yrs	1 yr.
Marriage Place	Registrar's Office
Folio	28
Consent
Date of Certificate	27 January 1915
Officiating Minister	Deputy Registrar

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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).