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 323

District of Auckland Quarter ending 31 December 1915 Registrar E. Wilson

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

1551

23 November 1915

Robert William Discon
Helen Dewar

Robert William Dixon
Helen Dewar
💍 1915/5506

Bachelor
Spinster

Draughtsman

31
31

Auckland
Auckland

2 years
2 years

St Andrews Church Auckland

15/7798

23 November 1915

Rev. A. A. Burns, Presbyterian

No	1551
Date of Notice	23 November 1915
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Robert William Discon	Helen Dewar
BDM Match (95%)	Robert William Dixon	Helen Dewar
	💍 1915/5506
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Draughtsman
Age	31	31
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	2 years	2 years
Marriage Place	St Andrews Church Auckland
Folio	15/7798
Consent
Date of Certificate	23 November 1915
Officiating Minister	Rev. A. A. Burns, Presbyterian

1552

23 November 1915

Alfred Arthur Lloyd Davidson
Amelia Katherine Houp

Alfred Arthur Lloyd Davidson
Myrtle Katherine Thorp
💍 1915/5464

Bachelor
Spinster

Brewing Machinist

19
19

Auckland
Auckland

3 years
4 years

St Matthews Church Auckland

15/7799

Amelia Auice Davidson, Mother Joseph Ebenezer Houp, Father

23 November 1915

Rev. J. G. Calder, Anglican

No	1552
Date of Notice	23 November 1915
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Alfred Arthur Lloyd Davidson	Amelia Katherine Houp
BDM Match (80%)	Alfred Arthur Lloyd Davidson	Myrtle Katherine Thorp
	💍 1915/5464
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Brewing Machinist
Age	19	19
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	3 years	4 years
Marriage Place	St Matthews Church Auckland
Folio	15/7799
Consent	Amelia Auice Davidson, Mother Joseph Ebenezer Houp, Father
Date of Certificate	23 November 1915
Officiating Minister	Rev. J. G. Calder, Anglican

1553

23 November 1915

Richard Frederick Evans
Ethel Maude Sophia Barr

Richard Frederick Evans
Ethel Maud Sophia Bau
💍 1915/5475

Bachelor
Spinster

Tailor's Clerk

27
22

Auckland
Auckland

9 years
life

Home of Brides Father

15/7800

23 November 1915

Rev. A. R. Jecks, Anglican

No	1553
Date of Notice	23 November 1915
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Richard Frederick Evans	Ethel Maude Sophia Barr
BDM Match (94%)	Richard Frederick Evans	Ethel Maud Sophia Bau
	💍 1915/5475
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Tailor's Clerk
Age	27	22
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	9 years	life
Marriage Place	Home of Brides Father
Folio	15/7800
Consent
Date of Certificate	23 November 1915
Officiating Minister	Rev. A. R. Jecks, Anglican

1554

23 November 1915

Percy Selwyn Reid
Iwi Viria Hunt

George Selwyn Reid
Ivi Viria Hunt
💍 1915/5482

Bachelor
Spinster

Clerk

30
28

Auckland
Auckland

10 years
14 years

St Albans Church Dominion Rd Mt Eden

15/7801

23 November 1915

Rev. A. S. Winfield, Anglican

No	1554
Date of Notice	23 November 1915
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Percy Selwyn Reid	Iwi Viria Hunt
BDM Match (85%)	George Selwyn Reid	Ivi Viria Hunt
	💍 1915/5482
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Clerk
Age	30	28
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	10 years	14 years
Marriage Place	St Albans Church Dominion Rd Mt Eden
Folio	15/7801
Consent
Date of Certificate	23 November 1915
Officiating Minister	Rev. A. S. Winfield, Anglican

1555

24 November 1915

Frederick Raming
Florence Harriett Berry

Frederick Channing
Florence Harriett Berry
💍 1915/695

Bachelor
Spinster

Hairdresser

28
28

Auckland
Auckland

3 years
2 years

Registrar's Office Auckland

15/6948

24 November 1915

Repton

No	1555
Date of Notice	24 November 1915
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Frederick Raming	Florence Harriett Berry
BDM Match (89%)	Frederick Channing	Florence Harriett Berry
	💍 1915/695
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Hairdresser
Age	28	28
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	3 years	2 years
Marriage Place	Registrar's Office Auckland
Folio	15/6948
Consent
Date of Certificate	24 November 1915
Officiating Minister	Repton

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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).