Intentions to Marry, 1918 Albertland to Kohukohu

Reference: Registrar-General of Births, Deaths and Marriages, Notices of intention to marry, Series 8937, R2840475, Archives New Zealand Te Rua Mahara o te Kāwanatanga, Wellington

1918 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.

1918a contains pages 1-432, covering districts from Albertland to Kohukohu

Page 009

District of Auckland Quarter ending 31 March 1918 Registrar G. W. Jordan

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

3 January 1918

Robert Frank James
Agnes Milliken

Robert Frank James
Agnes Milliken
💍 1918/921

Bachelor
Spinster

Soldier

35
22

Auckland
Auckland

12 days
3 years

Registrar's Office Auckland

326

3 January 1918

Registrar

No	1
Date of Notice	3 January 1918
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Robert Frank James	Agnes Milliken
	💍 1918/921
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Soldier
Age	35	22
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	12 days	3 years
Marriage Place	Registrar's Office Auckland
Folio	326
Consent
Date of Certificate	3 January 1918
Officiating Minister	Registrar

3 January 1918

Francis Leonard Tilton
Annie Lucilla Medwell

Francis Leonard Hylton
Annie Lucilla Medwell
💍 1918/932

Bachelor
Spinster

Warehouseman

29
21

Auckland
Auckland

5 years
10 years

St John's Church Ponsonby

327

3 January 1918

Rev. R. B. Bellhouse Methodist

No	2
Date of Notice	3 January 1918
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Francis Leonard Tilton	Annie Lucilla Medwell
BDM Match (95%)	Francis Leonard Hylton	Annie Lucilla Medwell
	💍 1918/932
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Warehouseman
Age	29	21
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	5 years	10 years
Marriage Place	St John's Church Ponsonby
Folio	327
Consent
Date of Certificate	3 January 1918
Officiating Minister	Rev. R. B. Bellhouse Methodist

3 January 1918

John Brown
Elizabeth Marsh Plater

John Brown
Elizabeth Marsh Slater
💍 1918/939

John Brown
Meta Irene Penney
💍 1919/286

Bachelor
Spinster

Bushman

50
45

Auckland
Auckland

2 months
4 years

Residence of Mr J. R. Jeffrey, Wallace St, Ponsonby

328

3 January 1918

Rev. J. R. Jeffrey Presbyterian

No	3
Date of Notice	3 January 1918
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	John Brown	Elizabeth Marsh Plater
BDM Match (98%)	John Brown	Elizabeth Marsh Slater
	💍 1918/939
BDM Match (64%)	John Brown	Meta Irene Penney
	💍 1919/286
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Bushman
Age	50	45
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	2 months	4 years
Marriage Place	Residence of Mr J. R. Jeffrey, Wallace St, Ponsonby
Folio	328
Consent
Date of Certificate	3 January 1918
Officiating Minister	Rev. J. R. Jeffrey Presbyterian

3 January 1918

Charles Moore Fulljames
Dora Anne Moss

Charles Moore Fulljames
Dora Annie Moss
💍 1918/940

Bachelor
Spinster

Bushman

31
29

Auckland
Auckland

5 months
15 years

Registrar's Office Auckland

329

3 January 1918

Registrar

No	4
Date of Notice	3 January 1918
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Charles Moore Fulljames	Dora Anne Moss
BDM Match (97%)	Charles Moore Fulljames	Dora Annie Moss
	💍 1918/940
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Bushman
Age	31	29
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	5 months	15 years
Marriage Place	Registrar's Office Auckland
Folio	329
Consent
Date of Certificate	3 January 1918
Officiating Minister	Registrar

3 January 1918

Edwin Robinson
Mary Potters

Edwin Robinson
Mary Collens
💍 1918/941

Edwin Robinson
Annie Mary Blaxland
💍 1918/3461

Widower 29 May 1917
Spinster

Labourer

49
24

Auckland
Auckland

5 years
16 months

House of Pastor Ralph New Lynn

330

3 January 1918

Rev. H. J. Ralph Congregational

No	5
Date of Notice	3 January 1918
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Edwin Robinson	Mary Potters
BDM Match (83%)	Edwin Robinson	Mary Collens
	💍 1918/941
BDM Match (63%)	Edwin Robinson	Annie Mary Blaxland
	💍 1918/3461
Condition	Widower 29 May 1917	Spinster
Profession	Labourer
Age	49	24
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	5 years	16 months
Marriage Place	House of Pastor Ralph New Lynn
Folio	330
Consent
Date of Certificate	3 January 1918
Officiating Minister	Rev. H. J. Ralph Congregational

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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).