Intentions to Marry, 1915 Mauriceville to Wellington

Reference: Registrar-General of Births, Deaths and Marriages, Notices of intention to marry, Series 8937, R2840460, 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.

1915d contains pages 1501-1972, covering districts from Mauriceville to Wellington

Page 1699

District of Wellington Quarter ending 31 March 1915 Registrar G. G. Hodgkins

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

4 January 1915

Vincent Mason
Maud Lilian Machon

Vincent Mason
Maud Lilian Machon
💍 1915/8255

Bachelor
Spinster

Carpenter

24
29

Wellington
Wellington

4 days
4 days

St Pauls Pro-Cathedral Wellington

256

4 January 1915

Rev. A. M. Johnson

No	1
Date of Notice	4 January 1915
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Vincent Mason	Maud Lilian Machon
	💍 1915/8255
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Carpenter
Age	24	29
Dwelling Place	Wellington	Wellington
Length of Residence	4 days	4 days
Marriage Place	St Pauls Pro-Cathedral Wellington
Folio	256
Consent
Date of Certificate	4 January 1915
Officiating Minister	Rev. A. M. Johnson

4 January 1915

John William Henry Hall
Lilyan Percival Lambert

John William Henry Wall
Lilian Percival Lambert
💍 1915/8267

Bachelor
Spinster

Builder

36
38

Wellington
Wellington

14 days
36 years

Baptist Church Brooklyn

367

4 January 1915

Rev. W. H. Hinton

No	2
Date of Notice	4 January 1915
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	John William Henry Hall	Lilyan Percival Lambert
BDM Match (96%)	John William Henry Wall	Lilian Percival Lambert
	💍 1915/8267
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Builder
Age	36	38
Dwelling Place	Wellington	Wellington
Length of Residence	14 days	36 years
Marriage Place	Baptist Church Brooklyn
Folio	367
Consent
Date of Certificate	4 January 1915
Officiating Minister	Rev. W. H. Hinton

4 January 1915

John William Talbot
Elvina Florence Queree

John William Talbot
Elvina Florence Queree
💍 1915/8272

Bachelor
Spinster

Hospital Attendant

40
27

Wellington
Wellington

14 years
3 weeks

Salvation Army Hall Constable street Wellington

371

4 January 1915

Lieut-Col. A. E. Powley

No	3
Date of Notice	4 January 1915
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	John William Talbot	Elvina Florence Queree
	💍 1915/8272
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Hospital Attendant
Age	40	27
Dwelling Place	Wellington	Wellington
Length of Residence	14 years	3 weeks
Marriage Place	Salvation Army Hall Constable street Wellington
Folio	371
Consent
Date of Certificate	4 January 1915
Officiating Minister	Lieut-Col. A. E. Powley

5 January 1915

Archibald Macdonald
Esther Mary Bell

Archibald MacIntyre
Esther Mary Bell
💍 1915/8266

Bachelor
Spinster

Farmer

28
26

Wellington
Wellington

4 days
4 days

Residence of Mr A. H. Newton 62 Bowen Street Wellington

366

5 January 1915

Rev. J. G. Smith

No	4
Date of Notice	5 January 1915
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Archibald Macdonald	Esther Mary Bell
BDM Match (84%)	Archibald MacIntyre	Esther Mary Bell
	💍 1915/8266
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Farmer
Age	28	26
Dwelling Place	Wellington	Wellington
Length of Residence	4 days	4 days
Marriage Place	Residence of Mr A. H. Newton 62 Bowen Street Wellington
Folio	366
Consent
Date of Certificate	5 January 1915
Officiating Minister	Rev. J. G. Smith

5 January 1915

Raymond Francis Miles Atkinson
Lillah Selby Tancred

Raymond Francis Miles Atkinson
Zillah Selby Tancred
💍 1915/8256

Bachelor
Spinster

Actor

26
21

Wellington
Wellington

10 days
6 months

St Pauls Pro-Cathedral Wellington

257

5 January 1915

Rev. A. M. Johnson

No	5
Date of Notice	5 January 1915
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Raymond Francis Miles Atkinson	Lillah Selby Tancred
BDM Match (98%)	Raymond Francis Miles Atkinson	Zillah Selby Tancred
	💍 1915/8256
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Actor
Age	26	21
Dwelling Place	Wellington	Wellington
Length of Residence	10 days	6 months
Marriage Place	St Pauls Pro-Cathedral Wellington
Folio	257
Consent
Date of Certificate	5 January 1915
Officiating Minister	Rev. A. M. Johnson

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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).