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 799

District of Te Kuiti Quarter ending 30 June 1916 Registrar Raymund Oakley

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

8 April 1916

Sydney Wallace Goddard
Rosina Verginie Mary Mora

Sydney Wallace Goddard
Rosina Virginnie Mary Mora
💍 1916/6108

Bachelor
Spinster

Employee New Zealand Railways
Domestic Duties

20
20

Te Kuiti
Te Kuiti

2 years
4 years

Roman Catholic Church Te Kuiti

3575

Wallace Goddard Father, Peter Bernard Mora Father

8 April 1916

Rev Father R P Finn Catholic Roman

No	5
Date of Notice	8 April 1916
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Sydney Wallace Goddard	Rosina Verginie Mary Mora
BDM Match (96%)	Sydney Wallace Goddard	Rosina Virginnie Mary Mora
	💍 1916/6108
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Employee New Zealand Railways	Domestic Duties
Age	20	20
Dwelling Place	Te Kuiti	Te Kuiti
Length of Residence	2 years	4 years
Marriage Place	Roman Catholic Church Te Kuiti
Folio	3575
Consent	Wallace Goddard Father, Peter Bernard Mora Father
Date of Certificate	8 April 1916
Officiating Minister	Rev Father R P Finn Catholic Roman

20 April 1916

Frederick James Curtis
Nellie Grace Kendall

Frederick James Curtis
Nellie Grace Kendall
💍 1916/6106

Bachelor
Spinster

Butcher
Domestic Duties

20
18

Te Kuiti
Te Kuiti

3 months
4 months

Residence Mr J E Smith King St Te Kuiti

3573

J F Curtis Father, T Kendall Father

20 April 1916

Rev John Harris Methodist

No	6
Date of Notice	20 April 1916
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Frederick James Curtis	Nellie Grace Kendall
	💍 1916/6106
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Butcher	Domestic Duties
Age	20	18
Dwelling Place	Te Kuiti	Te Kuiti
Length of Residence	3 months	4 months
Marriage Place	Residence Mr J E Smith King St Te Kuiti
Folio	3573
Consent	J F Curtis Father, T Kendall Father
Date of Certificate	20 April 1916
Officiating Minister	Rev John Harris Methodist

22 April 1916

Graham Clement Bartley
Eileen Frances Johnston

Graham Clement Bartley
Eileen Frances Johnston
💍 1916/5685

Bachelor
Spinster

Farmer
Domestic Duties

28
27

Hangatiki
Auckland

6 years
27 years

Residence Mr W H O Johnston Victoria Avenue Auckland Remuera

2981

22 April 1916

Rev A A Murray Presbyterian

No	7
Date of Notice	22 April 1916
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Graham Clement Bartley	Eileen Frances Johnston
	💍 1916/5685
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Farmer	Domestic Duties
Age	28	27
Dwelling Place	Hangatiki	Auckland
Length of Residence	6 years	27 years
Marriage Place	Residence Mr W H O Johnston Victoria Avenue Auckland Remuera
Folio	2981
Consent
Date of Certificate	22 April 1916
Officiating Minister	Rev A A Murray Presbyterian

22 April 1916

Harold Houghton
Kathleen Mary Hobson

Harold Houghton
Kathleen Mary Hobson
💍 1916/6107

Bachelor
Spinster

Farmer
Domestic Duties

30
20

Pio Pio
Pio Pio

11 years
4 years

Residence Mr C Hobson Pio Pio

3574

C B Hobson Father

22 April 1916

Rev N W Smyth Church of England

No	8
Date of Notice	22 April 1916
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Harold Houghton	Kathleen Mary Hobson
	💍 1916/6107
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Farmer	Domestic Duties
Age	30	20
Dwelling Place	Pio Pio	Pio Pio
Length of Residence	11 years	4 years
Marriage Place	Residence Mr C Hobson Pio Pio
Folio	3574
Consent	C B Hobson Father
Date of Certificate	22 April 1916
Officiating Minister	Rev N W Smyth Church of England

29 May 1916

Philip Alfred William Hyde
Sarah Lorimer

Philip Alfred William Hyde
Sarah Lorimer
💍 1916/5673

Bachelor
Spinster

Farmer
Domestic Duties

25
31

Te Kuiti
Te Kuiti

3 years
3 years

Residence Mr W G Menzies Te Kuiti

2976

29 May 1916

Rev Robert Ashton Presbyterian

No	9
Date of Notice	29 May 1916
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Philip Alfred William Hyde	Sarah Lorimer
	💍 1916/5673
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Farmer	Domestic Duties
Age	25	31
Dwelling Place	Te Kuiti	Te Kuiti
Length of Residence	3 years	3 years
Marriage Place	Residence Mr W G Menzies Te Kuiti
Folio	2976
Consent
Date of Certificate	29 May 1916
Officiating Minister	Rev Robert Ashton 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).