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 1947

District of Wellington Quarter ending 31 December 1915 Registrar J. A. Panthorpe

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

1226

14 December 1915

Stephen Maundrell Hobbs
Lilianne Eva D'Oyly

Stephen Maurdrell Hobbs
Lilianne Eva D'Ogly
💍 1915/5146

Bachelor
Spinster

Public Accountant

28
31

Wellington
Wellington

3 days
10 years

St. Paul's Pro-cathedral Wellington

7464

14 December 1915

Rev. J. Hobbs

No	1226
Date of Notice	14 December 1915
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Stephen Maundrell Hobbs	Lilianne Eva D'Oyly
BDM Match (95%)	Stephen Maurdrell Hobbs	Lilianne Eva D'Ogly
	💍 1915/5146
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Public Accountant
Age	28	31
Dwelling Place	Wellington	Wellington
Length of Residence	3 days	10 years
Marriage Place	St. Paul's Pro-cathedral Wellington
Folio	7464
Consent
Date of Certificate	14 December 1915
Officiating Minister	Rev. J. Hobbs

1227

14 December 1915

James Thomas Kinvig
Frances Jones Evans

James Thomas Kerring
Frances Jones Evans
💍 1915/5147

Widower, 16 June 1913
Spinster

Civil Servant

43
28

Wellington
Wellington

8 years
3 years

St. James' Church Wellington

7465

14 December 1915

Rev. W. Shirer

No	1227
Date of Notice	14 December 1915
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	James Thomas Kinvig	Frances Jones Evans
BDM Match (90%)	James Thomas Kerring	Frances Jones Evans
	💍 1915/5147
Condition	Widower, 16 June 1913	Spinster
Profession	Civil Servant
Age	43	28
Dwelling Place	Wellington	Wellington
Length of Residence	8 years	3 years
Marriage Place	St. James' Church Wellington
Folio	7465
Consent
Date of Certificate	14 December 1915
Officiating Minister	Rev. W. Shirer

1228

14 December 1915

Kameron Gordon Johnston
Audrey Theodora Gibson

Cameron Gordon Johnston
Audrey Theodore Gibson
💍 1915/5124

Bachelor
Spinster

Mechanical Engineer

23
21

Trentham
Wellington

9 months
5 weeks

St. John's Church Wellington

7466

14 December 1915

Rev. J. Gibb

No	1228
Date of Notice	14 December 1915
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Kameron Gordon Johnston	Audrey Theodora Gibson
BDM Match (96%)	Cameron Gordon Johnston	Audrey Theodore Gibson
	💍 1915/5124
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Mechanical Engineer
Age	23	21
Dwelling Place	Trentham	Wellington
Length of Residence	9 months	5 weeks
Marriage Place	St. John's Church Wellington
Folio	7466
Consent
Date of Certificate	14 December 1915
Officiating Minister	Rev. J. Gibb

1229

14 December 1915

Charles Samuel Sidney Barnett
Emily Amelia Hastings

Charles Samuel Sidney Barnett
Emily Amelia Hastings
💍 1915/4796

Bachelor
Spinster

Labourer

40
30

Wellington
Wellington

life
28 years

Registrar's Office Wellington

7087

14 December 1915

Deputy Registrar

No	1229
Date of Notice	14 December 1915
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Charles Samuel Sidney Barnett	Emily Amelia Hastings
	💍 1915/4796
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Labourer
Age	40	30
Dwelling Place	Wellington	Wellington
Length of Residence	life	28 years
Marriage Place	Registrar's Office Wellington
Folio	7087
Consent
Date of Certificate	14 December 1915
Officiating Minister	Deputy Registrar

1230

14 December 1915

Rafael Badia-Gomez
Margaret Marion Piper

Rafael Badia-Gomer
Margaret Marion Piper
💍 1915/5125

Bachelor
Spinster

Seaman

26
20

Wellington
Wellington

2 years
20 years

Methodist Manse, 21 Hankey Street Wellington

7467

Lillian Piper mother

14 December 1915

Rev. G. S. Smith

No	1230
Date of Notice	14 December 1915
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Rafael Badia-Gomez	Margaret Marion Piper
BDM Match (97%)	Rafael Badia-Gomer	Margaret Marion Piper
	💍 1915/5125
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Seaman
Age	26	20
Dwelling Place	Wellington	Wellington
Length of Residence	2 years	20 years
Marriage Place	Methodist Manse, 21 Hankey Street Wellington
Folio	7467
Consent	Lillian Piper mother
Date of Certificate	14 December 1915
Officiating Minister	Rev. G. S. Smith

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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).