Intentions to Marry, 1915 Kaikoura to Rakaia

Reference: Registrar-General of Births, Deaths and Marriages, Notices of intention to marry, Series 8937, R2840461, 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.

1915e contains pages 1973-2618, covering districts from Kaikoura to Rakaia

Page 2177

District of Waimea South Quarter ending 30 June 1915 Registrar Eliab Baigent

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

6 April 1915

Clifford Baily
Alice Mary Faulkner

Clifford Baily
Alice May Faulkner
💍 1915/2822

Bachelor
Spinster

Independent means
Domestic

36
38

Wakefield
Wakefield

3 days
20 years

St Johns Church, Wakefield

15/4905

6 April 1915

John R. Dart, Church of England

No	9
Date of Notice	6 April 1915
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Clifford Baily	Alice Mary Faulkner
BDM Match (97%)	Clifford Baily	Alice May Faulkner
	💍 1915/2822
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Independent means	Domestic
Age	36	38
Dwelling Place	Wakefield	Wakefield
Length of Residence	3 days	20 years
Marriage Place	St Johns Church, Wakefield
Folio	15/4905
Consent
Date of Certificate	6 April 1915
Officiating Minister	John R. Dart, Church of England

29 April 1915

Claude George Wells
Cora Dawn Kellogg

Claude George Wells
Cora Saxon Kelling
💍 1915/2823

Bachelor
Spinster

Farmer
Teacher

25
22

Wakefield
Wakefield

3 days
2 months

St Johns Church, Wakefield

15/4906

29 April 1915

John R. Dart, Church of England

No	10
Date of Notice	29 April 1915
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Claude George Wells	Cora Dawn Kellogg
BDM Match (86%)	Claude George Wells	Cora Saxon Kelling
	💍 1915/2823
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Farmer	Teacher
Age	25	22
Dwelling Place	Wakefield	Wakefield
Length of Residence	3 days	2 months
Marriage Place	St Johns Church, Wakefield
Folio	15/4906
Consent
Date of Certificate	29 April 1915
Officiating Minister	John R. Dart, Church of England

31 May 1915

Harold Hende
Alice May Gill

Harold Hende
Alice May Gill
💍 1915/2077

Bachelor
Spinster

Farmer
Housekeeper

31
22

Redwood's Valley
Redwood's Valley

3 days
22 years

Residence of Frederick Gill, Redwood's Valley

15/3929

31 May 1915

A. J. Carr, Church of England

No	11
Date of Notice	31 May 1915
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Harold Hende	Alice May Gill
	💍 1915/2077
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Farmer	Housekeeper
Age	31	22
Dwelling Place	Redwood's Valley	Redwood's Valley
Length of Residence	3 days	22 years
Marriage Place	Residence of Frederick Gill, Redwood's Valley
Folio	15/3929
Consent
Date of Certificate	31 May 1915
Officiating Minister	A. J. Carr, Church of England

1 June 1915

Walter Edward Sixtus
Olive Langman

Walter Edward Sixtus
Olive Langman
💍 1915/2076

Bachelor
Spinster

Farmer
Domestic duties

31
30

Thorpe
Thorpe

9 months
30 years

Registrar's Office, Wakefield

15/3928

1 June 1915

Eliab Baigent, Registrar of Marriages

No	12
Date of Notice	1 June 1915
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Walter Edward Sixtus	Olive Langman
	💍 1915/2076
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Farmer	Domestic duties
Age	31	30
Dwelling Place	Thorpe	Thorpe
Length of Residence	9 months	30 years
Marriage Place	Registrar's Office, Wakefield
Folio	15/3928
Consent
Date of Certificate	1 June 1915
Officiating Minister	Eliab Baigent, Registrar of Marriages

22 June 1915

Edward Avery Burn
Annie Alexa Banks

Edward Avery Burn
Annie Alexa Banks
💍 1915/2696

Bachelor
Spinster

Motor car proprietor
Domestic duties

23
23

Belgrove
Belgrove

3 days
22 years

St Lukes Church, Foxhill

15/4755

22 June 1915

John R. Dart, Church of England

No	13
Date of Notice	22 June 1915
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Edward Avery Burn	Annie Alexa Banks
	💍 1915/2696
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Motor car proprietor	Domestic duties
Age	23	23
Dwelling Place	Belgrove	Belgrove
Length of Residence	3 days	22 years
Marriage Place	St Lukes Church, Foxhill
Folio	15/4755
Consent
Date of Certificate	22 June 1915
Officiating Minister	John R. Dart, Church of England

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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).