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 1806

District of Wellington Quarter ending 30 June 1915 Registrar T. K. 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

526

21 June 1915

Albert George Skinner
Jean Dempsey McCallum

Albert George Skinner
Jean Demsey McCallum
💍 1915/3549

Bachelor
Spinster

Motor Tyre Maker

25
25

Wellington
Wellington

1 year
1 year

St. Peter's Church, Wellington

5714

21 June 1915

Rev. Archdn Harper

No	526
Date of Notice	21 June 1915
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Albert George Skinner	Jean Dempsey McCallum
BDM Match (98%)	Albert George Skinner	Jean Demsey McCallum
	💍 1915/3549
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Motor Tyre Maker
Age	25	25
Dwelling Place	Wellington	Wellington
Length of Residence	1 year	1 year
Marriage Place	St. Peter's Church, Wellington
Folio	5714
Consent
Date of Certificate	21 June 1915
Officiating Minister	Rev. Archdn Harper

527

21 June 1915

Maximilian Gandar
Doris Ruth Barker

Maximilian Gandar
Doris Ruth Harper
💍 1915/786

Bachelor
Spinster

Surveyor

32
21

Wellington
Wellington

10 years
21 years

St. John's Church, Wellington

2822

21 June 1915

Rev. J. Gibb

No	527
Date of Notice	21 June 1915
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Maximilian Gandar	Doris Ruth Barker
BDM Match (94%)	Maximilian Gandar	Doris Ruth Harper
	💍 1915/786
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Surveyor
Age	32	21
Dwelling Place	Wellington	Wellington
Length of Residence	10 years	21 years
Marriage Place	St. John's Church, Wellington
Folio	2822
Consent
Date of Certificate	21 June 1915
Officiating Minister	Rev. J. Gibb

528

22 June 1915

George Hadfield Baucher
Alma Biggs

George Harold Baucke
Alma Biggs
💍 1915/10201

Bachelor
Spinster

Blacksmith

24
19

Wellington
Wellington

5 days
5 weeks

Church of Christ, Vivian Street, Wellington

2907

Matthew Henry Biggs, father

22 June 1915

Mr. W. Phillips

No	528
Date of Notice	22 June 1915
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	George Hadfield Baucher	Alma Biggs
BDM Match (87%)	George Harold Baucke	Alma Biggs
	💍 1915/10201
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Blacksmith
Age	24	19
Dwelling Place	Wellington	Wellington
Length of Residence	5 days	5 weeks
Marriage Place	Church of Christ, Vivian Street, Wellington
Folio	2907
Consent	Matthew Henry Biggs, father
Date of Certificate	22 June 1915
Officiating Minister	Mr. W. Phillips

529

22 June 1915

John Whitworth Russell
Mary Alice Anderson

John Whitworth Russell
Mary Alice Anderson
💍 1915/4517

Bachelor
Spinster

School teacher

24
24

Wellington
Wanganui

2 years
10 years

St. John's Church, Wellington

6742

22 June 1915

Rev. W. G. Williams

No	529
Date of Notice	22 June 1915
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	John Whitworth Russell	Mary Alice Anderson
	💍 1915/4517
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	School teacher
Age	24	24
Dwelling Place	Wellington	Wanganui
Length of Residence	2 years	10 years
Marriage Place	St. John's Church, Wellington
Folio	6742
Consent
Date of Certificate	22 June 1915
Officiating Minister	Rev. W. G. Williams

530

22 June 1915

Ivor Hazell
Mabel May Watts

Ivor Hazell
Mabel May Watts
💍 1915/872

Widower 16 December 1904
Spinster

Joiner

53
24

Wellington
Wellington

5 years
3 months

Residence of Rev. B. R. Weston, 240 Rintoul Street, Wellington

2902

22 June 1915

Rev. B. R. Weston

No	530
Date of Notice	22 June 1915
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Ivor Hazell	Mabel May Watts
	💍 1915/872
Condition	Widower 16 December 1904	Spinster
Profession	Joiner
Age	53	24
Dwelling Place	Wellington	Wellington
Length of Residence	5 years	3 months
Marriage Place	Residence of Rev. B. R. Weston, 240 Rintoul Street, Wellington
Folio	2902
Consent
Date of Certificate	22 June 1915
Officiating Minister	Rev. B. R. Weston

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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).