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 283

District of Gisborne Quarter ending 31 March 1918 Registrar H. E. Hill

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

1918

Whare Carroll
Mihi Te Kani

Widower
Spinster

Farmer
Domestic Duties

27
20

Gisborne
Gisborne

Life
Life

The office of the Registrar of Marriages, Gisborne

See attached NOT SO

No	11
Date of Notice	1918
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Whare Carroll	Mihi Te Kani
Condition	Widower	Spinster
Profession	Farmer	Domestic Duties
Age	27	20
Dwelling Place	Gisborne	Gisborne
Length of Residence	Life	Life
Marriage Place	The office of the Registrar of Marriages, Gisborne
Folio
Consent
Date of Certificate	See attached NOT SO
Officiating Minister

1 February 1918

James Boyd Greig
Hilda Muriel Clayton

James Boyd Greig
Hilda Muriel Clayton
💍 1918/471

Bachelor
Spinster

Clerk
Domestic Duties

25
22

Gisborne
Gisborne

7 years
Life

Holy Trinity Church of England, Gisborne

851

1 February 1918

Rev. Archdeacon H. Packe, Church of England

No	12
Date of Notice	1 February 1918
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	James Boyd Greig	Hilda Muriel Clayton
	💍 1918/471
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Clerk	Domestic Duties
Age	25	22
Dwelling Place	Gisborne	Gisborne
Length of Residence	7 years	Life
Marriage Place	Holy Trinity Church of England, Gisborne
Folio	851
Consent
Date of Certificate	1 February 1918
Officiating Minister	Rev. Archdeacon H. Packe, Church of England

1 February 1918

Valentine Bayne
Anne Carnegie Denholm

Valentine Bayne
Anne Carnegie Denholm
💍 1918/472

Bachelor
Spinster

Farmer
Domestic Duties

29
26

Waimata, Gisborne
Waimata, Gisborne

6 years
4 months

The office of the Registrar of Marriages, Gisborne

855

1 February 1918

Registrar of Marriages, Gisborne

No	13
Date of Notice	1 February 1918
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Valentine Bayne	Anne Carnegie Denholm
	💍 1918/472
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Farmer	Domestic Duties
Age	29	26
Dwelling Place	Waimata, Gisborne	Waimata, Gisborne
Length of Residence	6 years	4 months
Marriage Place	The office of the Registrar of Marriages, Gisborne
Folio	855
Consent
Date of Certificate	1 February 1918
Officiating Minister	Registrar of Marriages, Gisborne

2 February 1918

Piripi Waara
Noema Rahina

Piripi Waara
Noema Pahina
💍 1918/473

Bachelor
Spinster

Bushfeller (Returned Soldier)
Home Duties

27
21

(Tolaga Bay) Gisborne
(Tolaga Bay) Gisborne

4 days
4 days

The office of the Registrar of Marriages, Gisborne

856

2 February 1918

Registrar of Marriages, Gisborne

No	14
Date of Notice	2 February 1918
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Piripi Waara	Noema Rahina
BDM Match (96%)	Piripi Waara	Noema Pahina
	💍 1918/473
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Bushfeller (Returned Soldier)	Home Duties
Age	27	21
Dwelling Place	(Tolaga Bay) Gisborne	(Tolaga Bay) Gisborne
Length of Residence	4 days	4 days
Marriage Place	The office of the Registrar of Marriages, Gisborne
Folio	856
Consent
Date of Certificate	2 February 1918
Officiating Minister	Registrar of Marriages, Gisborne

2 February 1918

Arthur Clyde Gambrell
Mabel Annie Day

Arthur Clyde Gambrill
Mabel Annie Day
💍 1918/474

Widower 13/1/1903
Spinster

Pipemaker
Home Duties

53
46

Kaiti, Gisborne
Kaiti, Gisborne

6 years
months

"St Paul's" Church of England, Kaiti, Gisborne

857

2 February 1918

Rev. W. B. Malcolm, Church of England

No	15
Date of Notice	2 February 1918
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Arthur Clyde Gambrell	Mabel Annie Day
BDM Match (98%)	Arthur Clyde Gambrill	Mabel Annie Day
	💍 1918/474
Condition	Widower 13/1/1903	Spinster
Profession	Pipemaker	Home Duties
Age	53	46
Dwelling Place	Kaiti, Gisborne	Kaiti, Gisborne
Length of Residence	6 years	months
Marriage Place	"St Paul's" Church of England, Kaiti, Gisborne
Folio	857
Consent
Date of Certificate	2 February 1918
Officiating Minister	Rev. W. B. Malcolm, Church of England

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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).