Intentions to Marry, 1916 Helensville to Whangaroa

Reference: Registrar-General of Births, Deaths and Marriages, Notices of intention to marry, Series 8937, R2840464, 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.

1916b contains pages 419-930, covering districts from Helensville to Whangaroa

Page 700

District of Pukekohe Quarter ending 31 December 1916 Registrar R. Martin

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 November 1916

Taki Tureiti Shaka
Adelaide Douglas

Taki Tureiti Ihaka
Adelaide Douglas
💍 1916/2504

Bachelor
Spinster

Railway employee
Domestic

18
23

Tuakau
Rotorua

4 months
21 years

Office of the Registrar of Marriages Rotorua

7395

Ngapepa Shaka mother

6 November 1916

Registrar of Marriages Rotorua

No	24
Date of Notice	6 November 1916
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Taki Tureiti Shaka	Adelaide Douglas
BDM Match (97%)	Taki Tureiti Ihaka	Adelaide Douglas
	💍 1916/2504
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Railway employee	Domestic
Age	18	23
Dwelling Place	Tuakau	Rotorua
Length of Residence	4 months	21 years
Marriage Place	Office of the Registrar of Marriages Rotorua
Folio	7395
Consent	Ngapepa Shaka mother
Date of Certificate	6 November 1916
Officiating Minister	Registrar of Marriages Rotorua

9 November 1916

Alfred Henry Turner
Hilda Logan Hyde

Alfred Henry Turner
Hilda Logan Hyde
💍 1916/839

Bachelor
Spinster

Storeman
Domestic

34
22

Tuakau
Kingsland

30 years
3 months

Methodist Church Dominion Road Auckland

6758

9 November 1916

Rev P.R. Paris Methodist

No	25
Date of Notice	9 November 1916
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Alfred Henry Turner	Hilda Logan Hyde
	💍 1916/839
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Storeman	Domestic
Age	34	22
Dwelling Place	Tuakau	Kingsland
Length of Residence	30 years	3 months
Marriage Place	Methodist Church Dominion Road Auckland
Folio	6758
Consent
Date of Certificate	9 November 1916
Officiating Minister	Rev P.R. Paris Methodist

17 November 1916

Charles Fauntleroy Harrison
Christina Zettwitz

Charles Fauntleroy Harrison
Christina Zettivitz
💍 1916/2521

Bachelor
Spinster

Photoplaywright
Artist

25
39

Pukekawa
Pukekawa

10 months
6 years

Presbyterian Manse Tuakau

7388

17 November 1916

Rev. W. Butterworth Presbyterian

No	26
Date of Notice	17 November 1916
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Charles Fauntleroy Harrison	Christina Zettwitz
BDM Match (95%)	Charles Fauntleroy Harrison	Christina Zettivitz
	💍 1916/2521
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Photoplaywright	Artist
Age	25	39
Dwelling Place	Pukekawa	Pukekawa
Length of Residence	10 months	6 years
Marriage Place	Presbyterian Manse Tuakau
Folio	7388
Consent
Date of Certificate	17 November 1916
Officiating Minister	Rev. W. Butterworth Presbyterian

22 December 1916

Adam Madill
Gladys Margaret Sawyer

Adam Madill
Gladys Margaret Sawyer
💍 1916/2520

Bachelor
Spinster

Farmer
Clerk

30
25

Bombay
Auckland

5 years
4 months

St Peters Church Bombay

7387

22 December 1916

Rev C.A. Vaughan Church of England

No	27
Date of Notice	22 December 1916
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Adam Madill	Gladys Margaret Sawyer
	💍 1916/2520
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Farmer	Clerk
Age	30	25
Dwelling Place	Bombay	Auckland
Length of Residence	5 years	4 months
Marriage Place	St Peters Church Bombay
Folio	7387
Consent
Date of Certificate	22 December 1916
Officiating Minister	Rev C.A. Vaughan Church of England

27 December 1916

Alfred Connolly
Ivy Grimmond Rowe

Alfred Connolly
Ivy Grimmond Rowe
💍 1917/107

Bachelor
Spinster

Soldier
Domestic

25
18

Tuakau
Tuakau

7 days
11 months

St Johns Church Tuakau

George Rowe Father

27 December 1916

Rev. L. Foulkes Church of England

No	28
Date of Notice	27 December 1916
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Alfred Connolly	Ivy Grimmond Rowe
	💍 1917/107
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Soldier	Domestic
Age	25	18
Dwelling Place	Tuakau	Tuakau
Length of Residence	7 days	11 months
Marriage Place	St Johns Church Tuakau
Folio	91
Consent	George Rowe Father
Date of Certificate	27 December 1916
Officiating Minister	Rev. L. Foulkes 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).