Intentions to Marry, 1916 Albertland to Hamilton

Reference: Registrar-General of Births, Deaths and Marriages, Notices of intention to marry, Series 8937, R2840463, Archives New Zealand Te Rua Mahara o te Kāwanatanga, Wellington

1916 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.

1916a contains pages 1-418, covering districts from Albertland to Hamilton

Page 267

District of Auckland Quarter ending 31 December 1916 Registrar A. W. E. Moore

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

1026

2 October 1916

Thomas Andrew Tangney
Winnifred Kathleen Ferguson

Thomas Andrew Tangney
Winnifred Kathleen Ferguson
💍 1916/1887

Bachelor
Spinster

Carpenter

29
17

Auckland
Auckland

4 years
10 years

House of Bride's Mother 70 Customs St West Auckland

6657

Sarah Kidd formerly Ferguson Mother

2 October 1916

Rev H. E. Bellhouse Methodist

No	1026
Date of Notice	2 October 1916
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Thomas Andrew Tangney	Winnifred Kathleen Ferguson
	💍 1916/1887
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Carpenter
Age	29	17
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	4 years	10 years
Marriage Place	House of Bride's Mother 70 Customs St West Auckland
Folio	6657
Consent	Sarah Kidd formerly Ferguson Mother
Date of Certificate	2 October 1916
Officiating Minister	Rev H. E. Bellhouse Methodist

1027

3 October 1916

Horace Davies McCullough
Ada Mary Hawke

Horace Haines McCullough
Ada May Hawke
💍 1916/2329

Bachelor
Spinster

Insurance manager

27
23

Auckland
Auckland

15 years
20 years

House of Mr Kneebone Mountain Rd Epsom

7295

3 October 1916

Rev W. J. Murphy Roman Catholic

No	1027
Date of Notice	3 October 1916
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Horace Davies McCullough	Ada Mary Hawke
BDM Match (90%)	Horace Haines McCullough	Ada May Hawke
	💍 1916/2329
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Insurance manager
Age	27	23
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	15 years	20 years
Marriage Place	House of Mr Kneebone Mountain Rd Epsom
Folio	7295
Consent
Date of Certificate	3 October 1916
Officiating Minister	Rev W. J. Murphy Roman Catholic

1028

3 October 1916

Frank Lawrence Sutton
Pearl Isabella Knaggs

Frank Lawrence Sutton
Grace Isabella Knaggs
💍 1916/1888

Bachelor
Spinster

Engineer

24
21

Auckland
Auckland

1 week
2 weeks

St Aidan's Church Remuera

6658

3 October 1916

Rev A Fowler Anglican

No	1028
Date of Notice	3 October 1916
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Frank Lawrence Sutton	Pearl Isabella Knaggs
BDM Match (91%)	Frank Lawrence Sutton	Grace Isabella Knaggs
	💍 1916/1888
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Engineer
Age	24	21
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	1 week	2 weeks
Marriage Place	St Aidan's Church Remuera
Folio	6658
Consent
Date of Certificate	3 October 1916
Officiating Minister	Rev A Fowler Anglican

1029

3 October 1916

John Henry Doile
Louisa Marshall Platt

John Henry Poile
Louisa Marshall Platt
💍 1916/1889

Bachelor
Spinster

Carpenter

35
37

Auckland
Auckland

20 years
32 years

Residence of Mr W Morgan Penrose Auckland

6659

3 October 1916

Rev C. C. Harrison Methodist

No	1029
Date of Notice	3 October 1916
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	John Henry Doile	Louisa Marshall Platt
BDM Match (97%)	John Henry Poile	Louisa Marshall Platt
	💍 1916/1889
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Carpenter
Age	35	37
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	20 years	32 years
Marriage Place	Residence of Mr W Morgan Penrose Auckland
Folio	6659
Consent
Date of Certificate	3 October 1916
Officiating Minister	Rev C. C. Harrison Methodist

1030

4 October 1916

Richard Cleaver
Vera Muriel Preen

Richard Cleaver
Vera Muriel Green
💍 1916/1866

Bachelor
Spinster

Compositor

35
26

Auckland
Auckland

1 year
life

St John's Church Ponsonby

6660

4 October 1916

Rev H. E. Bellhouse Methodist

No	1030
Date of Notice	4 October 1916
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Richard Cleaver	Vera Muriel Preen
BDM Match (97%)	Richard Cleaver	Vera Muriel Green
	💍 1916/1866
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Compositor
Age	35	26
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	1 year	life
Marriage Place	St John's Church Ponsonby
Folio	6660
Consent
Date of Certificate	4 October 1916
Officiating Minister	Rev H. E. Bellhouse Methodist

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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).