Intentions to Marry, 1916 Mauriceville to Wellington

Reference: Registrar-General of Births, Deaths and Marriages, Notices of intention to marry, Series 8937, R2840466, 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.

1916d contains pages 1381-1802, covering districts from Mauriceville to Wellington

Page 1710

District of Wellington Quarter ending 30 September 1916 Registrar J. H. Parkhouse

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

716

18 July 1916

Patrick McKillop
Ruby Healy

Patrick McKillop
Ruby Hay
💍 1916/7200

Bachelor
Spinster

Seaman

29
28

Wellington
Wellington

2 years
6 days

St. Mary of the Angels Church, Wellington

4735

18 July 1916

Rev. J. A. O'Connell

No	716
Date of Notice	18 July 1916
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Patrick McKillop	Ruby Healy
BDM Match (90%)	Patrick McKillop	Ruby Hay
	💍 1916/7200
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Seaman
Age	29	28
Dwelling Place	Wellington	Wellington
Length of Residence	2 years	6 days
Marriage Place	St. Mary of the Angels Church, Wellington
Folio	4735
Consent
Date of Certificate	18 July 1916
Officiating Minister	Rev. J. A. O'Connell

717

18 July 1916

Albert George Holland
Lucy Madeline Winsor Lambert

Albert George Holland
Lucy Madeleine Winter Lambert
💍 1916/7201

Widower 3 March 1915
Spinster

Judge, Native Land Court

41
38

Wellington
Wellington

1 week
15 years

Residence of Mrs F. W. McKenzie, St Andrew Church, Grass St. Wellington

4736

18 July 1916

Rev. J. G. Smith

No	717
Date of Notice	18 July 1916
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Albert George Holland	Lucy Madeline Winsor Lambert
BDM Match (95%)	Albert George Holland	Lucy Madeleine Winter Lambert
	💍 1916/7201
Condition	Widower 3 March 1915	Spinster
Profession	Judge, Native Land Court
Age	41	38
Dwelling Place	Wellington	Wellington
Length of Residence	1 week	15 years
Marriage Place	Residence of Mrs F. W. McKenzie, St Andrew Church, Grass St. Wellington
Folio	4736
Consent
Date of Certificate	18 July 1916
Officiating Minister	Rev. J. G. Smith

718

19 July 1916

Henry Saunders
Evelyn Alice Clarke

Henry Sanders
Evelyn Alice Clarke
💍 1916/7202

Bachelor
Spinster

Contractor

32
32

Wellington
Wellington

13 years
3 days

St. Marks Church, Wellington

4737

19 July 1916

Rev. C. H. Askew

No	718
Date of Notice	19 July 1916
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Henry Saunders	Evelyn Alice Clarke
BDM Match (96%)	Henry Sanders	Evelyn Alice Clarke
	💍 1916/7202
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Contractor
Age	32	32
Dwelling Place	Wellington	Wellington
Length of Residence	13 years	3 days
Marriage Place	St. Marks Church, Wellington
Folio	4737
Consent
Date of Certificate	19 July 1916
Officiating Minister	Rev. C. H. Askew

719

19 July 1916

Charles Ramsay Kinnear
Harriett Gunn

Charles Ramsay Kinnear
Harriett Gunn
💍 1916/7203

Bachelor
Spinster

Warehouseman

26
31

Wellington
Wellington

6 weeks
3 months

Registrar's Office, Wellington

4738

19 July 1916

Deputy Registrar

No	719
Date of Notice	19 July 1916
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Charles Ramsay Kinnear	Harriett Gunn
	💍 1916/7203
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Warehouseman
Age	26	31
Dwelling Place	Wellington	Wellington
Length of Residence	6 weeks	3 months
Marriage Place	Registrar's Office, Wellington
Folio	4738
Consent
Date of Certificate	19 July 1916
Officiating Minister	Deputy Registrar

720

19 July 1916

John Scanlon
Mary Heeney

John Scanlon
Mary Heeney
💍 1916/7204

Bachelor
Spinster

Labourer

28
21

Wellington
Wellington

4 days
3 days

St. Mary of the Angels Church, Wellington

4740

19 July 1916

Rev. J. A. O'Connell

No	720
Date of Notice	19 July 1916
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	John Scanlon	Mary Heeney
	💍 1916/7204
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Labourer
Age	28	21
Dwelling Place	Wellington	Wellington
Length of Residence	4 days	3 days
Marriage Place	St. Mary of the Angels Church, Wellington
Folio	4740
Consent
Date of Certificate	19 July 1916
Officiating Minister	Rev. J. A. O'Connell

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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).