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 019

District of Auckland Quarter ending 31 March 1918 Registrar L. W. Evans

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

21 January 1918

Eric Albert Bennetts
Lizzie Horton

Eric Albert Bennetts
Lizzie Horton
💍 1918/946

Bachelor
Divorced 14 March 1917

Journalist

25
31

Auckland
Auckland

13 months
8 years

Registrar's Office Auckland

376

21 January 1918

Registrar

No	51
Date of Notice	21 January 1918
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Eric Albert Bennetts	Lizzie Horton
	💍 1918/946
Condition	Bachelor	Divorced 14 March 1917
Profession	Journalist
Age	25	31
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	13 months	8 years
Marriage Place	Registrar's Office Auckland
Folio	376
Consent
Date of Certificate	21 January 1918
Officiating Minister	Registrar

21 January 1918

Morgan Jarrett
Florence Elina Carlton

Morgan Jarrett
Florence Selina Carlyon
💍 1918/957

Bachelor
Spinster

Fireman N.Z.R.

26
23

Auckland
Auckland

3 years
10 years

Registrar's Office Auckland

377

21 January 1918

Registrar

No	52
Date of Notice	21 January 1918
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Morgan Jarrett	Florence Elina Carlton
BDM Match (94%)	Morgan Jarrett	Florence Selina Carlyon
	💍 1918/957
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Fireman N.Z.R.
Age	26	23
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	3 years	10 years
Marriage Place	Registrar's Office Auckland
Folio	377
Consent
Date of Certificate	21 January 1918
Officiating Minister	Registrar

21 January 1918

Frederick Gilchrist
Dorothy Jarman

Frederick Gilchrist
Dorothy Jarman
💍 1918/962

Bachelor
Spinster

Horse Trainer

23
21

Auckland
Auckland

4 years
2 months

St Matthews Church Auckland

378

21 January 1918

Rev. W. E. Gillam Anglican

No	53
Date of Notice	21 January 1918
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Frederick Gilchrist	Dorothy Jarman
	💍 1918/962
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Horse Trainer
Age	23	21
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	4 years	2 months
Marriage Place	St Matthews Church Auckland
Folio	378
Consent
Date of Certificate	21 January 1918
Officiating Minister	Rev. W. E. Gillam Anglican

21 January 1918

Stephen Keogh
Ruth Gwendolene Walker

Stephen Keogh
Ruth Gwendolyne Walker
💍 1918/963

Widower 8 July 1913
Spinster

Hotel Keeper

52
37

Auckland
Auckland

20 years
Life

St Patrick's Cathedral Auckland

379

21 January 1918

Rev. W. J. Murphy Roman Catholic

No	54
Date of Notice	21 January 1918
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Stephen Keogh	Ruth Gwendolene Walker
BDM Match (98%)	Stephen Keogh	Ruth Gwendolyne Walker
	💍 1918/963
Condition	Widower 8 July 1913	Spinster
Profession	Hotel Keeper
Age	52	37
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	20 years	Life
Marriage Place	St Patrick's Cathedral Auckland
Folio	379
Consent
Date of Certificate	21 January 1918
Officiating Minister	Rev. W. J. Murphy Roman Catholic

21 January 1918

Ernest Erringdale Dickey
Juanita May Turner

Ernest Erringdale Dickey
Juanita May Turner
💍 1918/964

Bachelor
Spinster

Butcher

22
20

Auckland
Auckland

Life
19 years

St Matthews Church Auckland

380

Caroline Jane formerly Turner Mother

21 January 1918

Rev. W. E. Gillam Anglican

No	55
Date of Notice	21 January 1918
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Ernest Erringdale Dickey	Juanita May Turner
	💍 1918/964
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Butcher
Age	22	20
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	Life	19 years
Marriage Place	St Matthews Church Auckland
Folio	380
Consent	Caroline Jane formerly Turner Mother
Date of Certificate	21 January 1918
Officiating Minister	Rev. W. E. Gillam Anglican

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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).