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

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District of Auckland Quarter ending 31 March 1918 Registrar S. Watson

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 1918

Norman McKenzie
Margaret Carlyle Burton

Norman McKenzie
Margaret Carlyle Burton
💍 1918/953

Bachelor
Spinster

Farmer

53
37

Auckland
Auckland

30 years
3 months

Residence of Mrs Burton, Panmure Rd. Devonport

391

26 January 1918

Rev Dr McDonald, Presbyterian

No	66
Date of Notice	26 January 1918
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Norman McKenzie	Margaret Carlyle Burton
	💍 1918/953
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Farmer
Age	53	37
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	30 years	3 months
Marriage Place	Residence of Mrs Burton, Panmure Rd. Devonport
Folio	391
Consent
Date of Certificate	26 January 1918
Officiating Minister	Rev Dr McDonald, Presbyterian

26 January 1918

Robert Trispin Hooper
Annie Redpath

Robert Crispin Hooper
Annie Medforth
💍 1918/954

Widower 21 March 1914
Widow 18 June 1917

Stonemason

67
59

Auckland
Auckland

36 years
42 years

Registrar's Office, Auckland

392

26 January 1918

Registrar

No	67
Date of Notice	26 January 1918
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Robert Trispin Hooper	Annie Redpath
BDM Match (83%)	Robert Crispin Hooper	Annie Medforth
	💍 1918/954
Condition	Widower 21 March 1914	Widow 18 June 1917
Profession	Stonemason
Age	67	59
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	36 years	42 years
Marriage Place	Registrar's Office, Auckland
Folio	392
Consent
Date of Certificate	26 January 1918
Officiating Minister	Registrar

26 January 1918

William Angel
Winifred Rey

William Angel
Winifred Grey
💍 1918/955

Bachelor
Spinster

Shearer

25
23

Auckland
Auckland

17 years
1 month

Registrar's Office, Auckland

393

26 January 1918

Registrar

No	68
Date of Notice	26 January 1918
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	William Angel	Winifred Rey
BDM Match (92%)	William Angel	Winifred Grey
	💍 1918/955
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Shearer
Age	25	23
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	17 years	1 month
Marriage Place	Registrar's Office, Auckland
Folio	393
Consent
Date of Certificate	26 January 1918
Officiating Minister	Registrar

26 January 1918

Timothy Stack Hickey
Constance Twomey

Timothy Stock Hickey
Constance Twomey
💍 1918/956

Bachelor
Spinster

Journalist

28
25

Auckland
Auckland

4 days
2 days

All Souls' Church, Devonport

394

26 January 1918

Rev Fr J Furlong, Roman Catholic

No	69
Date of Notice	26 January 1918
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Timothy Stack Hickey	Constance Twomey
BDM Match (98%)	Timothy Stock Hickey	Constance Twomey
	💍 1918/956
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Journalist
Age	28	25
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	4 days	2 days
Marriage Place	All Souls' Church, Devonport
Folio	394
Consent
Date of Certificate	26 January 1918
Officiating Minister	Rev Fr J Furlong, Roman Catholic

29 January 1918

Francis Gordon Johnstone Denner
Nora Quinn

Francis Gordon Johnstone Temm
Nora Quinn
💍 1918/958

Bachelor
Spinster

Railway Clerk

28
24

Auckland
Auckland

5 years
4 years

St Benedict's Church, Auckland

395

29 January 1918

Rt Rev P J Gillan, Roman Catholic

No	70
Date of Notice	29 January 1918
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Francis Gordon Johnstone Denner	Nora Quinn
BDM Match (92%)	Francis Gordon Johnstone Temm	Nora Quinn
	💍 1918/958
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Railway Clerk
Age	28	24
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	5 years	4 years
Marriage Place	St Benedict's Church, Auckland
Folio	395
Consent
Date of Certificate	29 January 1918
Officiating Minister	Rt Rev P J Gillan, Roman Catholic

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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).