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 016

District of Auckland Quarter ending 31 March 1915 Registrar E Sivermore

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

11 January 1915

Gerald Ayhmer Denton
Harriett Millicent Hollis

Gerald Aylmer Fenton
Harriett Millicent Hollis
💍 1915/8545

Bachelor
Spinster

Accountant

31
24

Auckland
Auckland

4 yrs
3 yrs

Holy Trinity Church Devonport

627

11 January 1915

Rev. J. H. Young, Anglican.

No	36
Date of Notice	11 January 1915
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Gerald Ayhmer Denton	Harriett Millicent Hollis
BDM Match (95%)	Gerald Aylmer Fenton	Harriett Millicent Hollis
	💍 1915/8545
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Accountant
Age	31	24
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	4 yrs	3 yrs
Marriage Place	Holy Trinity Church Devonport
Folio	627
Consent
Date of Certificate	11 January 1915
Officiating Minister	Rev. J. H. Young, Anglican.

12 January 1915

Arthur Berwick Harwood Cope
Ida Marian Hay

Arthur Berwick Harwood Cope
Ida Marian Hay
💍 1915/8529

Bachelor
Spinster

Schoolmaster

38
33

Auckland
Auckland

1 week
5½ yrs

St. Andrew's Church

605

12 January 1915

Rev. A. A. Murray, Presbyterian.

No	37
Date of Notice	12 January 1915
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Arthur Berwick Harwood Cope	Ida Marian Hay
	💍 1915/8529
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Schoolmaster
Age	38	33
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	1 week	5½ yrs
Marriage Place	St. Andrew's Church
Folio	605
Consent
Date of Certificate	12 January 1915
Officiating Minister	Rev. A. A. Murray, Presbyterian.

12 January 1915

Frank Oscar Pope
Isobel Trina Manisty.

Frank Oscar Pope
Isobel Mina Manisty
💍 1915/7638

Bachelor
Spinster

Dentist

34
27

Auckland
Auckland

6 yrs
6 yrs

Holy Trinity Church Devonport

556

12 January 1915

Rev. H. H. Bedford, Anglican.

No	38
Date of Notice	12 January 1915
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Frank Oscar Pope	Isobel Trina Manisty.
BDM Match (93%)	Frank Oscar Pope	Isobel Mina Manisty
	💍 1915/7638
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Dentist
Age	34	27
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	6 yrs	6 yrs
Marriage Place	Holy Trinity Church Devonport
Folio	556
Consent
Date of Certificate	12 January 1915
Officiating Minister	Rev. H. H. Bedford, Anglican.

12 January 1915

Albert Heich Bollin
Johanna Margaret M'Donnell.

Albert Heich Collin
Johanna Margaret McDonnell
💍 1915/8450

Bachelor
Spinster

Engineer's Draughbmen
Draughtsman

34
34

Auckland
Auckland

4 days
1 month

St Patricks Cathedral

449

12 January 1915

Rt. Rev. M. J. Brodie, Roman Catholic.

No	39
Date of Notice	12 January 1915
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Albert Heich Bollin	Johanna Margaret M'Donnell.
BDM Match (94%)	Albert Heich Collin	Johanna Margaret McDonnell
	💍 1915/8450
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Engineer's Draughbmen	Draughtsman
Age	34	34
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	4 days	1 month
Marriage Place	St Patricks Cathedral
Folio	449
Consent
Date of Certificate	12 January 1915
Officiating Minister	Rt. Rev. M. J. Brodie, Roman Catholic.

12 January 1915

Hubert James Cooper.
Edith Margaret Aspden.

Hubert James Cooper
Edith Margaret Aspden
💍 1915/8493

Bachelor
Spinster

School Teacher.

22
21

Auckland
Auckland

2½ yrs
2½ yrs

Presbyterian Church, Mt. Albert

593

12 January 1915

Rev. G. B. Inglio, Presbyterian

No	40
Date of Notice	12 January 1915
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Hubert James Cooper.	Edith Margaret Aspden.
BDM Match (95%)	Hubert James Cooper	Edith Margaret Aspden
	💍 1915/8493
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	School Teacher.
Age	22	21
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	2½ yrs	2½ yrs
Marriage Place	Presbyterian Church, Mt. Albert
Folio	593
Consent
Date of Certificate	12 January 1915
Officiating Minister	Rev. G. B. Inglio, Presbyterian

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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).