Intentions to Marry, 1916 Aria to Masterton

Reference: Registrar-General of Births, Deaths and Marriages, Notices of intention to marry, Series 8937, R2840465, 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.

1916c contains pages 931-1380, covering districts from Aria to Masterton

Page 1305

District of Feilding Quarter ending 30 September 1916 Registrar E. S. Sharp

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

5 July 1916

Leonard Frank Pearce
Annie Mason

Leonard Frank Pearce
Annie Mason
💍 1916/8170

Widower
Widow

Farmer

47
43

Makino
Makino

2 years
2 years

Presbyterian Church, Feilding

5859

5 July 1916

Rev. Thomas Miller, Presbyterian

No	37
Date of Notice	5 July 1916
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Leonard Frank Pearce	Annie Mason
	💍 1916/8170
Condition	Widower	Widow
Profession	Farmer
Age	47	43
Dwelling Place	Makino	Makino
Length of Residence	2 years	2 years
Marriage Place	Presbyterian Church, Feilding
Folio	5859
Consent
Date of Certificate	5 July 1916
Officiating Minister	Rev. Thomas Miller, Presbyterian

12 July 1916

Robert Jessop
Annie Florence McLeod

Robert Jessop
Annie Florence McLeod
💍 1916/8169

Bachelor
Spinster

Farm Labourer
Dressmaker

21
19

Feilding
Feilding

3 days
19 years

Roman Catholic Church, Feilding

5858

Annie McLeod, mother

12 July 1916

Rev. M. O'Dwyer, Roman Catholic

No	38
Date of Notice	12 July 1916
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Robert Jessop	Annie Florence McLeod
	💍 1916/8169
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Farm Labourer	Dressmaker
Age	21	19
Dwelling Place	Feilding	Feilding
Length of Residence	3 days	19 years
Marriage Place	Roman Catholic Church, Feilding
Folio	5858
Consent	Annie McLeod, mother
Date of Certificate	12 July 1916
Officiating Minister	Rev. M. O'Dwyer, Roman Catholic

14 July 1916

Spencer Allan Knight Smith
Katherine Sarah Thompson

Spencer Allan Knight Smith
Katherine Sarah Thompson
💍 1916/8148

Bachelor
Spinster

Engineer
Domestic Duties

27
26

Feilding
Feilding

27 years
26 years

Residence of Fairfield Thompson, Feilding

5861

14 July 1916

Rev. Thomas Miller, Presbyterian

No	39
Date of Notice	14 July 1916
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Spencer Allan Knight Smith	Katherine Sarah Thompson
	💍 1916/8148
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Engineer	Domestic Duties
Age	27	26
Dwelling Place	Feilding	Feilding
Length of Residence	27 years	26 years
Marriage Place	Residence of Fairfield Thompson, Feilding
Folio	5861
Consent
Date of Certificate	14 July 1916
Officiating Minister	Rev. Thomas Miller, Presbyterian

24 July 1916

Thomas Stoneley
Hannah Agnew

Thomas Stoneley
Hannah Agnew
💍 1916/8168

Bachelor
Spinster

Labourer
Domestic Servant

24
23

Feilding
Feilding

5 years
2 years

Residence Rev. T. Miller, Feilding

5857

24 July 1916

Rev. Thomas Miller, Presbyterian

No	40
Date of Notice	24 July 1916
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Thomas Stoneley	Hannah Agnew
	💍 1916/8168
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Labourer	Domestic Servant
Age	24	23
Dwelling Place	Feilding	Feilding
Length of Residence	5 years	2 years
Marriage Place	Residence Rev. T. Miller, Feilding
Folio	5857
Consent
Date of Certificate	24 July 1916
Officiating Minister	Rev. Thomas Miller, Presbyterian

25 July 1916

Charles William Hepburn Robson
Christina McConachie

Charles William Hepburn Robson
Christina McConachie
💍 1916/8157

Bachelor
Spinster

Cycle and Motor Importer
Domestic Duties

29
23

Feilding
Feilding

5 years
4 years

York House, Fergusson St, Feilding

5852

25 July 1916

Rev. Evan George Evans

No	41
Date of Notice	25 July 1916
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Charles William Hepburn Robson	Christina McConachie
	💍 1916/8157
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Cycle and Motor Importer	Domestic Duties
Age	29	23
Dwelling Place	Feilding	Feilding
Length of Residence	5 years	4 years
Marriage Place	York House, Fergusson St, Feilding
Folio	5852
Consent
Date of Certificate	25 July 1916
Officiating Minister	Rev. Evan George Evans

25 July 1916

Thomas Shallcross Jackson
Frances Brook

Thomas Shallcross Jackson
Frances Brook
💍 1916/14570

Widower
Spinster

Bricklayer
Housekeeper

57
48

Feilding
Feilding

4 days
4 days

Office of Registrar

5860

25 July 1916

E. S. Sharp, Registrar

No	42
Date of Notice	25 July 1916
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Thomas Shallcross Jackson	Frances Brook
	💍 1916/14570
Condition	Widower	Spinster
Profession	Bricklayer	Housekeeper
Age	57	48
Dwelling Place	Feilding	Feilding
Length of Residence	4 days	4 days
Marriage Place	Office of Registrar
Folio	5860
Consent
Date of Certificate	25 July 1916
Officiating Minister	E. S. Sharp, Registrar

1 August 1916

Arthur Leonard Wenham
Louisa Ruth Whale

Arthur Leonard Wenham
Louisa Ruth Whale
💍 1916/8167

Bachelor
Spinster

Driver
Domestic Servant

23
17

Feilding
Feilding

23 years
4 days

Presbyterian Church, Feilding

5856

George Whale, Father

1 August 1916

Rev. Thomas Miller, Presbyterian

No	43
Date of Notice	1 August 1916
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Arthur Leonard Wenham	Louisa Ruth Whale
	💍 1916/8167
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Driver	Domestic Servant
Age	23	17
Dwelling Place	Feilding	Feilding
Length of Residence	23 years	4 days
Marriage Place	Presbyterian Church, Feilding
Folio	5856
Consent	George Whale, Father
Date of Certificate	1 August 1916
Officiating Minister	Rev. Thomas Miller, Presbyterian

3 August 1916

Thomas Carmichael
Elizabeth Hanford

Thomas Carmichael
Elizabeth Harford
💍 1916/8165

Bachelor
Spinster

Salvation Army Officer

26
22

Feilding
Feilding

3 days
6 weeks

Salvation Army Hall, Feilding

5854

1 August 1916

Brigadier Andrew Carmichael, Salvation Army Officer

No	44
Date of Notice	3 August 1916
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Thomas Carmichael	Elizabeth Hanford
BDM Match (97%)	Thomas Carmichael	Elizabeth Harford
	💍 1916/8165
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Salvation Army Officer
Age	26	22
Dwelling Place	Feilding	Feilding
Length of Residence	3 days	6 weeks
Marriage Place	Salvation Army Hall, Feilding
Folio	5854
Consent
Date of Certificate	1 August 1916
Officiating Minister	Brigadier Andrew Carmichael, Salvation Army Officer

5 August 1916

Henry William Stacey
Susan Hughes

Henry William Stacey
Susan Hughes
💍 1916/7186

Bachelor
Spinster

Confectioner
Domestic Duties

32
21

Feilding
Wellington

4 years 10 months
None

Church of England, Wellington

4202

5 August 1916

Rev. H. Watson, Anglican, Wellington

No	45
Date of Notice	5 August 1916
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Henry William Stacey	Susan Hughes
	💍 1916/7186
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Confectioner	Domestic Duties
Age	32	21
Dwelling Place	Feilding	Wellington
Length of Residence	4 years 10 months	None
Marriage Place	Church of England, Wellington
Folio	4202
Consent
Date of Certificate	5 August 1916
Officiating Minister	Rev. H. Watson, Anglican, Wellington

7 August 1916

Victor Carl Ansin
Marjory Duncan Storey

Victor Carl Ausin
Marjory Duncan Storrier
💍 1916/8166

Bachelor
Spinster

Farmer
Domestic Duties

26
22

Feilding
Feilding

5 years
5 years

Presbyterian Church, Feilding

5855

9 August 1916

Rev. Thomas Miller, Presbyterian

No	46
Date of Notice	7 August 1916
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Victor Carl Ansin	Marjory Duncan Storey
BDM Match (91%)	Victor Carl Ausin	Marjory Duncan Storrier
	💍 1916/8166
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Farmer	Domestic Duties
Age	26	22
Dwelling Place	Feilding	Feilding
Length of Residence	5 years	5 years
Marriage Place	Presbyterian Church, Feilding
Folio	5855
Consent
Date of Certificate	9 August 1916
Officiating Minister	Rev. Thomas Miller, 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).