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 1814

District of Wellington Quarter ending 30 September 1915 Registrar J. H. L. Thorpe

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

563

2 July 1915

John Dunlop
Mary Ann Isabel Marchant

John Dunlop
Mary Ann Isabel Marchant
💍 1915/3638

Bachelor
Spinster

Fellmonger

29
25

Petone
Petone

3 years
5 years

Congregational manse, Alicetown, Lower Hutt

5780

2 July 1915

Rev. J. G. Gibson

No	563
Date of Notice	2 July 1915
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	John Dunlop	Mary Ann Isabel Marchant
	💍 1915/3638
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Fellmonger
Age	29	25
Dwelling Place	Petone	Petone
Length of Residence	3 years	5 years
Marriage Place	Congregational manse, Alicetown, Lower Hutt
Folio	5780
Consent
Date of Certificate	2 July 1915
Officiating Minister	Rev. J. G. Gibson

564

3 July 1915

George William Thompson
Mary Hoare

George William Thompson
Mary Hoare
💍 1915/14498

Bachelor
Spinster

Railway Porter

21
21

Wellington
Wellington

6 months
21 years

Registrar's Office, Wellington

4532

3 July 1915

Deputy Registrar

No	564
Date of Notice	3 July 1915
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	George William Thompson	Mary Hoare
	💍 1915/14498
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Railway Porter
Age	21	21
Dwelling Place	Wellington	Wellington
Length of Residence	6 months	21 years
Marriage Place	Registrar's Office, Wellington
Folio	4532
Consent
Date of Certificate	3 July 1915
Officiating Minister	Deputy Registrar

565

3 July 1915

Philip John Freer Hill
Kathleen Mary Scotland

Philip John Freer Hill
Kathleen Mary Scollard
💍 1915/3639

Bachelor
Spinster

Accountant

33
26

Wellington
Wellington

3 days
1 month

St. Mary of the Angels Church, Wellington

5781

3 July 1915

Rev. A. Venning

No	565
Date of Notice	3 July 1915
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Philip John Freer Hill	Kathleen Mary Scotland
BDM Match (95%)	Philip John Freer Hill	Kathleen Mary Scollard
	💍 1915/3639
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Accountant
Age	33	26
Dwelling Place	Wellington	Wellington
Length of Residence	3 days	1 month
Marriage Place	St. Mary of the Angels Church, Wellington
Folio	5781
Consent
Date of Certificate	3 July 1915
Officiating Minister	Rev. A. Venning

566

5 July 1915

Albert Arthur Gordon Penn
Margaret Florence Walker

Albert Arthur Gordon Pimm
Margaret Florence Walker
💍 1915/3640

Bachelor
Spinster

Warehouse Salesman

28
26

Wellington
Wellington

7 months
5 months

Wesley Church, Taranaki Street, Wellington

5782

5 July 1915

Rev. J. G. Chapman

No	566
Date of Notice	5 July 1915
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Albert Arthur Gordon Penn	Margaret Florence Walker
BDM Match (94%)	Albert Arthur Gordon Pimm	Margaret Florence Walker
	💍 1915/3640
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Warehouse Salesman
Age	28	26
Dwelling Place	Wellington	Wellington
Length of Residence	7 months	5 months
Marriage Place	Wesley Church, Taranaki Street, Wellington
Folio	5782
Consent
Date of Certificate	5 July 1915
Officiating Minister	Rev. J. G. Chapman

567

5 July 1915

John Croft
Mary Matilda Overend

John Croft
Mary Matilda Overend
💍 1915/3641

Bachelor
Spinster

Engineer

35
40

Petone
Wellington

14 years
40 years

Residence of Mr. E. J. Sale, 10 Oriental Terrace, Wellington

5783

5 July 1915

Rev. J. G. Chapman

No	567
Date of Notice	5 July 1915
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	John Croft	Mary Matilda Overend
	💍 1915/3641
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Engineer
Age	35	40
Dwelling Place	Petone	Wellington
Length of Residence	14 years	40 years
Marriage Place	Residence of Mr. E. J. Sale, 10 Oriental Terrace, Wellington
Folio	5783
Consent
Date of Certificate	5 July 1915
Officiating Minister	Rev. J. G. Chapman

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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).