Intentions to Marry, 1917 Albertland to Hamilton

Reference: Registrar-General of Births, Deaths and Marriages, Notices of intention to marry, Series 8937, R2840469, Archives New Zealand Te Rua Mahara o te Kāwanatanga, Wellington

1917 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.

1917a contains pages 1-356, covering districts from Albertland to Hamilton

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District of Auckland Quarter ending 31 March 1917 Registrar H. G. R. Pascoe

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

26 January 1917

Douglas Austin Allcock
Nellie Jolly

Douglas Austin Allcock
Nellie Jolly
💍 1917/1018

Bachelor
Spinster

Hairdresser

33
40

Auckland
Auckland

5 years
5 weeks

Church of the Assumption Onehunga

169

26 January 1917

Rt. Rev. W. D. Mahoney, Roman Catholic

No	76
Date of Notice	26 January 1917
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Douglas Austin Allcock	Nellie Jolly
	💍 1917/1018
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Hairdresser
Age	33	40
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	5 years	5 weeks
Marriage Place	Church of the Assumption Onehunga
Folio	169
Consent
Date of Certificate	26 January 1917
Officiating Minister	Rt. Rev. W. D. Mahoney, Roman Catholic

26 January 1917

Charles Thomas Pallett
Louisa Horrox

Charles Thomas Pallett
Louisa Horrod
💍 1917/1020

Widower
Spinster

Contractor

30
28

Auckland
Auckland

9 years
3 years

Registrar's office Auckland

170

26 January 1917

Registrar

No	77
Date of Notice	26 January 1917
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Charles Thomas Pallett	Louisa Horrox
BDM Match (96%)	Charles Thomas Pallett	Louisa Horrod
	💍 1917/1020
Condition	Widower	Spinster
Profession	Contractor
Age	30	28
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	9 years	3 years
Marriage Place	Registrar's office Auckland
Folio	170
Consent
Date of Certificate	26 January 1917
Officiating Minister	Registrar

27 January 1917

Hermann Joseph Pfister
Agnes Elliott Mackenzie

Hermann Joseph Pfister
Agnes Elliott Mackenzie
💍 1917/1021

Bachelor
Spinster

Farmer

36
43

Auckland
Auckland

3 days
10 years

St Andrew's Church Auckland

171

27 January 1917

Rev R. E. Evans, Presbyterian

No	78
Date of Notice	27 January 1917
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Hermann Joseph Pfister	Agnes Elliott Mackenzie
	💍 1917/1021
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Farmer
Age	36	43
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	3 days	10 years
Marriage Place	St Andrew's Church Auckland
Folio	171
Consent
Date of Certificate	27 January 1917
Officiating Minister	Rev R. E. Evans, Presbyterian

30 January 1917

Bruce Jennings Harbutt
Eliza Mary Smith

Bruce Jennings Harbiltt
Eliza Mary Smith
💍 1917/1022

Bachelor
Spinster

Carpenter

24
28

Auckland
Auckland

life
2 years

St Peter's Church Onehunga

172

30 January 1917

Rev F. W. Young

No	79
Date of Notice	30 January 1917
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Bruce Jennings Harbutt	Eliza Mary Smith
BDM Match (96%)	Bruce Jennings Harbiltt	Eliza Mary Smith
	💍 1917/1022
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Carpenter
Age	24	28
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	life	2 years
Marriage Place	St Peter's Church Onehunga
Folio	172
Consent
Date of Certificate	30 January 1917
Officiating Minister	Rev F. W. Young

31 January 1917

Francis Augustine Bolton
Theresa Amelia Patterson

Frances Augustine Bolton
Theresa Amelia Patterson
💍 1917/1023

Bachelor
Spinster

Salesman

22
22

Auckland
Auckland

15 years
life

St Andrew's Manse Auckland

173

31 January 1917

Rev R. E. Evans, Presbyterian

No	80
Date of Notice	31 January 1917
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Francis Augustine Bolton	Theresa Amelia Patterson
BDM Match (98%)	Frances Augustine Bolton	Theresa Amelia Patterson
	💍 1917/1023
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Salesman
Age	22	22
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	15 years	life
Marriage Place	St Andrew's Manse Auckland
Folio	173
Consent
Date of Certificate	31 January 1917
Officiating Minister	Rev R. E. Evans, 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).