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 1827

District of Wellington Quarter ending 30 September 1915 Registrar J. P. E. Stanhope

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

628

22 July 1915

Alexander Pirie
Olive Bernadine Johns

Alexander Pirie
Olive Bernadine Johns
💍 1915/14692

Bachelor
Spinster

Indent Agent

38
30

Wellington
Wellington

13 years
6 years

St. Peters Church Wellington

5824

22 July 1915

Archdn Harper

No	628
Date of Notice	22 July 1915
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Alexander Pirie	Olive Bernadine Johns
	💍 1915/14692
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Indent Agent
Age	38	30
Dwelling Place	Wellington	Wellington
Length of Residence	13 years	6 years
Marriage Place	St. Peters Church Wellington
Folio	5824
Consent
Date of Certificate	22 July 1915
Officiating Minister	Archdn Harper

629

22 July 1915

Cecil Charles Baker
Hannah Harvey

Cecil Charles Baker
Hannah Harvey
💍 1915/14693

Bachelor
Spinster

Surveyor's Assistant

25
31

Trentham
Wellington

4 months
7 weeks

Kent Terrace Presbyterian Church Wellington

5825

22 July 1915

Rev. J. Kennedy Elliott

No	629
Date of Notice	22 July 1915
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Cecil Charles Baker	Hannah Harvey
	💍 1915/14693
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Surveyor's Assistant
Age	25	31
Dwelling Place	Trentham	Wellington
Length of Residence	4 months	7 weeks
Marriage Place	Kent Terrace Presbyterian Church Wellington
Folio	5825
Consent
Date of Certificate	22 July 1915
Officiating Minister	Rev. J. Kennedy Elliott

630

23 July 1915

Richard Park
Lillian Stewart

Richard Park
Lilian Stewart
💍 1915/3643

Bachelor
Spinster

Salesman

24
20

Wellington
Island Bay

4 years
19 years

St. Hilda's Church Island Bay

5826

Charlotte Stewart, mother

23 July 1915

Rev. G. T. Castle

No	630
Date of Notice	23 July 1915
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Richard Park	Lillian Stewart
BDM Match (97%)	Richard Park	Lilian Stewart
	💍 1915/3643
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Salesman
Age	24	20
Dwelling Place	Wellington	Island Bay
Length of Residence	4 years	19 years
Marriage Place	St. Hilda's Church Island Bay
Folio	5826
Consent	Charlotte Stewart, mother
Date of Certificate	23 July 1915
Officiating Minister	Rev. G. T. Castle

631

23 July 1915

John Miller Thwaites
Johan Susan Moncrieff

John Millar Thwaites
Johan Susan Moncreiff
💍 1915/3654

Bachelor
Spinster

Ironmonger

24
26

Wellington
Wellington

2 1/2 years
3 years

Presbyterian Church Brooklyn

5827

23 July 1915

Rev. B. Hutson

No	631
Date of Notice	23 July 1915
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	John Miller Thwaites	Johan Susan Moncrieff
BDM Match (93%)	John Millar Thwaites	Johan Susan Moncreiff
	💍 1915/3654
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Ironmonger
Age	24	26
Dwelling Place	Wellington	Wellington
Length of Residence	2 1/2 years	3 years
Marriage Place	Presbyterian Church Brooklyn
Folio	5827
Consent
Date of Certificate	23 July 1915
Officiating Minister	Rev. B. Hutson

632

24 July 1915

Reginald Jackson
Christina Wilson Adams

Reginald Jackson
Christina Wilson Adams
💍 1915/3661

Bachelor
Spinster

Telephone Linesman

25
21

Wellington
Wellington

2 years
18 months

Presbyterian Manse Pirie Street Wellington

5828

24 July 1915

Rev. J. Kennedy Elliott

No	632
Date of Notice	24 July 1915
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Reginald Jackson	Christina Wilson Adams
	💍 1915/3661
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Telephone Linesman
Age	25	21
Dwelling Place	Wellington	Wellington
Length of Residence	2 years	18 months
Marriage Place	Presbyterian Manse Pirie Street Wellington
Folio	5828
Consent
Date of Certificate	24 July 1915
Officiating Minister	Rev. J. Kennedy Elliott

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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).