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 1785

District of Wellington Quarter ending 31 December 1916 Registrar J. H. Thorpe

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

1081

13 December 1916

Woolf Black
Minnie Antonoff

Woolf Black
Minnie Antonoff
💍 1917/1165

Widower 16/8/1913
Spinster

Draper
Pianist

43
27

Wellington
Wellington

11 years
4 years

The Synagogue, the Terrace, Wellington

116

13 December 1916

Rev. H. van Staveren

No	1081
Date of Notice	13 December 1916
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Woolf Black	Minnie Antonoff
	💍 1917/1165
Condition	Widower 16/8/1913	Spinster
Profession	Draper	Pianist
Age	43	27
Dwelling Place	Wellington	Wellington
Length of Residence	11 years	4 years
Marriage Place	The Synagogue, the Terrace, Wellington
Folio	116
Consent
Date of Certificate	13 December 1916
Officiating Minister	Rev. H. van Staveren

1082

13 December 1916

Harry William Robinson
Mary Elizabeth Ashley

Harry William Robinson
Mary Elizabeth Ashley
💍 1916/1694

Bachelor
Spinster

Labourer

28
22

Kilbirnie
Kilbirnie

4 years
8 years

All Saints Church Kilbirnie

6563

13 December 1916

Rev. J. H. Sykes

No	1082
Date of Notice	13 December 1916
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Harry William Robinson	Mary Elizabeth Ashley
	💍 1916/1694
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Labourer
Age	28	22
Dwelling Place	Kilbirnie	Kilbirnie
Length of Residence	4 years	8 years
Marriage Place	All Saints Church Kilbirnie
Folio	6563
Consent
Date of Certificate	13 December 1916
Officiating Minister	Rev. J. H. Sykes

1083

13 December 1916

Leonard Wilfred Atkinson
Ethel Larene Tasker

Leonard Wilfred Atkinson
Ethel Idrene Tasker
💍 1916/2028

Bachelor
Spinster

Traveller

32
24

Wellington
Christchurch

1 year
3 years

St John's Church Christchurch

7072

13 December 1916

Rev. P. J. Cocks

No	1083
Date of Notice	13 December 1916
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Leonard Wilfred Atkinson	Ethel Larene Tasker
BDM Match (95%)	Leonard Wilfred Atkinson	Ethel Idrene Tasker
	💍 1916/2028
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Traveller
Age	32	24
Dwelling Place	Wellington	Christchurch
Length of Residence	1 year	3 years
Marriage Place	St John's Church Christchurch
Folio	7072
Consent
Date of Certificate	13 December 1916
Officiating Minister	Rev. P. J. Cocks

1084

13 December 1916

Alexander Radeski
Ellen Hilda Ingram

Alexander Radeske
Ellen Hilda Ingram
💍 1916/1695

Bachelor
Spinster

Cabinet-maker

38
38

Wellington
Wellington

11 years
1 year

St Paul's Pro Cathedral Wellington

6564

13 December 1916

Rev. A. M. Johnson

No	1084
Date of Notice	13 December 1916
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Alexander Radeski	Ellen Hilda Ingram
BDM Match (97%)	Alexander Radeske	Ellen Hilda Ingram
	💍 1916/1695
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Cabinet-maker
Age	38	38
Dwelling Place	Wellington	Wellington
Length of Residence	11 years	1 year
Marriage Place	St Paul's Pro Cathedral Wellington
Folio	6564
Consent
Date of Certificate	13 December 1916
Officiating Minister	Rev. A. M. Johnson

1085

13 December 1916

William Charles Cooper
Lucy Amelia Partridge

Hilliard Charles Cooper
Lucy Amelia Partridge
💍 1916/1696

Bachelor
Spinster

Soldier

28
26

Fort Dorset
Wellington

20 years
26 years

Residence of Mr. Partridge, 22 Normanby St, Wellington

6565

13 December 1916

Rev. G. E. Hale

No	1085
Date of Notice	13 December 1916
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	William Charles Cooper	Lucy Amelia Partridge
BDM Match (94%)	Hilliard Charles Cooper	Lucy Amelia Partridge
	💍 1916/1696
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Soldier
Age	28	26
Dwelling Place	Fort Dorset	Wellington
Length of Residence	20 years	26 years
Marriage Place	Residence of Mr. Partridge, 22 Normanby St, Wellington
Folio	6565
Consent
Date of Certificate	13 December 1916
Officiating Minister	Rev. G. E. Hale

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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).