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 144

District of Auckland Quarter ending 30 June 1916 Registrar D. Swanson

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

666

13 June 1916

Arthur George Emil
Emilie Ruthven

Divorced
Spinster

Hairdresser

32
36

Auckland
Auckland

32 years
2 1/2 years

Registrar's Office

2814

13 June 1916

Registrar

No	666
Date of Notice	13 June 1916
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Arthur George Emil	Emilie Ruthven
Condition	Divorced	Spinster
Profession	Hairdresser
Age	32	36
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	32 years	2 1/2 years
Marriage Place	Registrar's Office
Folio	2814
Consent
Date of Certificate	13 June 1916
Officiating Minister	Registrar

667

13 June 1916

Timothy Felix Curran
Mary Margaret Weaver

Timothy Felix Curran
Mary Margaret Meaney
💍 1916/5940

Bachelor
Spinster

Railway Employee

26
26

Auckland
Auckland

3 weeks
9 months

St Joseph's Church

3101

Remuera

13 June 1916

Rev. P. O'Malley, Roman Catholic

No	667
Date of Notice	13 June 1916
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Timothy Felix Curran	Mary Margaret Weaver
BDM Match (93%)	Timothy Felix Curran	Mary Margaret Meaney
	💍 1916/5940
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Railway Employee
Age	26	26
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	3 weeks	9 months
Marriage Place	St Joseph's Church
Folio	3101
Consent	Remuera
Date of Certificate	13 June 1916
Officiating Minister	Rev. P. O'Malley, Roman Catholic

668

13 June 1916

Trevor Allison Lansbury
Nellie Evangeline Margaret Campbell

Trevor Allison Sansbury
Nellie Evangeline Margaret Campbell
💍 1916/5815

Bachelor
Spinster

Soldier

21
22

Auckland
Auckland

3 days
3 days

St Andrew's Church

3091

13 June 1916

Rev. A. A. Murray, Presbyterian

No	668
Date of Notice	13 June 1916
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Trevor Allison Lansbury	Nellie Evangeline Margaret Campbell
BDM Match (98%)	Trevor Allison Sansbury	Nellie Evangeline Margaret Campbell
	💍 1916/5815
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Soldier
Age	21	22
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	3 days	3 days
Marriage Place	St Andrew's Church
Folio	3091
Consent
Date of Certificate	13 June 1916
Officiating Minister	Rev. A. A. Murray, Presbyterian

669

14 June 1916

Alister Norman McLellan
Margaret McLellan

Alister Norman McLellan
Margaret McMillan
💍 1916/5816

Bachelor
Spinster

Draughtsman

30
21

Auckland
Auckland

2 weeks
12 years

House of Father, 18 New Bond St., Kingsland

3092

14 June 1916

Rev. J. M. Saunders, Presbyterian

No	669
Date of Notice	14 June 1916
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Alister Norman McLellan	Margaret McLellan
BDM Match (94%)	Alister Norman McLellan	Margaret McMillan
	💍 1916/5816
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Draughtsman
Age	30	21
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	2 weeks	12 years
Marriage Place	House of Father, 18 New Bond St., Kingsland
Folio	3092
Consent
Date of Certificate	14 June 1916
Officiating Minister	Rev. J. M. Saunders, Presbyterian

670

14 June 1916

Leonard Soon
Elizabeth Jane Reid

Leonard Boon
Elizabeth Jessie Reid
💍 1916/5817

Bachelor
Spinster

Farmer

34
23

Auckland
Auckland

6 weeks
18 months

St. David's Church, Auckland

3093

14 June 1916

Rev. J. M. Saunders, Presbyterian

No	670
Date of Notice	14 June 1916
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Leonard Soon	Elizabeth Jane Reid
BDM Match (86%)	Leonard Boon	Elizabeth Jessie Reid
	💍 1916/5817
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Farmer
Age	34	23
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	6 weeks	18 months
Marriage Place	St. David's Church, Auckland
Folio	3093
Consent
Date of Certificate	14 June 1916
Officiating Minister	Rev. J. M. Saunders, Presbyterian

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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).