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 1778

District of Wellington Quarter ending 31 December 1916 Registrar J. G. L. Hewitt

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

1046

1 December 1916

Leslie Weedon Broughton
Florence Mary Ambler

Leslie Weedon Broughton
Florence May Ambler
💍 1916/1763

Divorced decree absolute 5 Sept 1916
Spinster

Salesman

34
25

Trentham
Trentham

7 months
1 week

Registrar's office WELLINGTON

6534

1 December 1916

Deputy Registrar

No	1046
Date of Notice	1 December 1916
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Leslie Weedon Broughton	Florence Mary Ambler
BDM Match (98%)	Leslie Weedon Broughton	Florence May Ambler
	💍 1916/1763
Condition	Divorced decree absolute 5 Sept 1916	Spinster
Profession	Salesman
Age	34	25
Dwelling Place	Trentham	Trentham
Length of Residence	7 months	1 week
Marriage Place	Registrar's office WELLINGTON
Folio	6534
Consent
Date of Certificate	1 December 1916
Officiating Minister	Deputy Registrar

1047

1 December 1916

Leslie Callander
Flora Alice Collins

Leslie Callander
Flora Alice Collins
💍 1916/1764

Bachelor
Spinster

Soldier

27
21

Trentham
Lower Hutt

3 months
3 months

Presbyterian Church Lower Hutt

6535

1 December 1916

Rev. J. McCaw

No	1047
Date of Notice	1 December 1916
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Leslie Callander	Flora Alice Collins
	💍 1916/1764
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Soldier
Age	27	21
Dwelling Place	Trentham	Lower Hutt
Length of Residence	3 months	3 months
Marriage Place	Presbyterian Church Lower Hutt
Folio	6535
Consent
Date of Certificate	1 December 1916
Officiating Minister	Rev. J. McCaw

1048

1 December 1916

Claude Montefiore Samuel
Grace Flora Morrell Vigis

Claude Montefiore Samuel
Grace Flora Morrell Vizer
💍 1916/1741

Bachelor
Spinster

Soldier

27
21

WELLINGTON
WELLINGTON

6 days
Life

St Peter's Church WELLINGTON

6536

1 December 1916

Rev. H. Watson

No	1048
Date of Notice	1 December 1916
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Claude Montefiore Samuel	Grace Flora Morrell Vigis
BDM Match (94%)	Claude Montefiore Samuel	Grace Flora Morrell Vizer
	💍 1916/1741
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Soldier
Age	27	21
Dwelling Place	WELLINGTON	WELLINGTON
Length of Residence	6 days	Life
Marriage Place	St Peter's Church WELLINGTON
Folio	6536
Consent
Date of Certificate	1 December 1916
Officiating Minister	Rev. H. Watson

1049

1 December 1916

Cyril Francis Renner
Elizabeth Ann Berg

Cyril Francis Renner
Elizabeth Ann Berg
💍 1916/1742

Bachelor
Divorced decree absolute 24/11/16

Compositor

40
45

WELLINGTON
WELLINGTON

3 years
2 years

Kent Terrace Presbyterian Church WELLINGTON

6537

1 December 1916

Rev. J. K. Elliott

No	1049
Date of Notice	1 December 1916
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Cyril Francis Renner	Elizabeth Ann Berg
	💍 1916/1742
Condition	Bachelor	Divorced decree absolute 24/11/16
Profession	Compositor
Age	40	45
Dwelling Place	WELLINGTON	WELLINGTON
Length of Residence	3 years	2 years
Marriage Place	Kent Terrace Presbyterian Church WELLINGTON
Folio	6537
Consent
Date of Certificate	1 December 1916
Officiating Minister	Rev. J. K. Elliott

1050

1 December 1916

Max Robin
Millicent Annie Westwood

Max Robin
Millicent Annie Westwood
💍 1916/1743

Bachelor
Spinster

Soldier

20
19

Featherston
WELLINGTON

5 months
10 months

Methodist manse, 21 Hankey St, WELLINGTON

6538

no person in N.Z. authorized by law to give consent.

15 December 1916

Rev. G. K. Smith

No	1050
Date of Notice	1 December 1916
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Max Robin	Millicent Annie Westwood
	💍 1916/1743
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Soldier
Age	20	19
Dwelling Place	Featherston	WELLINGTON
Length of Residence	5 months	10 months
Marriage Place	Methodist manse, 21 Hankey St, WELLINGTON
Folio	6538
Consent	no person in N.Z. authorized by law to give consent.
Date of Certificate	15 December 1916
Officiating Minister	Rev. G. K. Smith

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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).