Intentions to Marry, 1919 Albertland to Helensville

Reference: Registrar-General of Births, Deaths and Marriages, Notices of intention to marry, Series 8937, R2840481, Archives New Zealand Te Rua Mahara o te Kāwanatanga, Wellington

1919 is bound in seven volumes (a to g) with continuous page numbers. Each volume contains a different set of districts, going from north to south.

1919a contains pages 1-500, covering districts from Albertland to Helensville

Page 015

District of Auckland Quarter ending 31 March 1919 Registrar J. G. Palethorpe

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

10 January 1919

Henry Easton Gault
Ivy Mundy

Henry Easton Garth
Ivy Mundy
💍 1919/4069

Bachelor
Spinster

Clerk

30
25

Auckland
Auckland

10 months
25 years

Registrar's Office, Auckland

333

10 January 1919

Registrar

No	31
Date of Notice	10 January 1919
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Henry Easton Gault	Ivy Mundy
BDM Match (92%)	Henry Easton Garth	Ivy Mundy
	💍 1919/4069
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Clerk
Age	30	25
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	10 months	25 years
Marriage Place	Registrar's Office, Auckland
Folio	333
Consent
Date of Certificate	10 January 1919
Officiating Minister	Registrar

10 January 1919

John Smith Cook
Eva Martin

John Smith Cook
Eva Martin
💍 1919/4070

Divorced Decree Absolute
Spinster

Labourer

24
18

Auckland
Auckland

4 months
3 years

Registrar's Office, Auckland

334

William James Martin, Father

10 January 1919

Registrar

No	32
Date of Notice	10 January 1919
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	John Smith Cook	Eva Martin
	💍 1919/4070
Condition	Divorced Decree Absolute	Spinster
Profession	Labourer
Age	24	18
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	4 months	3 years
Marriage Place	Registrar's Office, Auckland
Folio	334
Consent	William James Martin, Father
Date of Certificate	10 January 1919
Officiating Minister	Registrar

10 January 1919

Samuel Charles Schofield
Hassel Letticia Neal

Samuel Charles Schofield
Hessel Letitia Neal
💍 1919/4047

Bachelor
Spinster

Military Officer

45
26

Auckland
Auckland

18 years
3 days

House of Mr. J. White, 90 Basset Road, Remuera, Auckland

335

10 January 1919

Rev J. J. Mather, Methodist

No	33
Date of Notice	10 January 1919
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Samuel Charles Schofield	Hassel Letticia Neal
BDM Match (93%)	Samuel Charles Schofield	Hessel Letitia Neal
	💍 1919/4047
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Military Officer
Age	45	26
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	18 years	3 days
Marriage Place	House of Mr. J. White, 90 Basset Road, Remuera, Auckland
Folio	335
Consent
Date of Certificate	10 January 1919
Officiating Minister	Rev J. J. Mather, Methodist

10 January 1919

Walter Robert Henry Little
Helene Margaret Freeland

Walter Robert Henry Little
Helene Margaret Freeland
💍 1919/4048

Bachelor
Spinster

Decorative plasterer

24
20

Auckland
Auckland

Life
3 years

Registrar's Office, Auckland

336

John Freeland, Father

10 January 1919

Registrar

No	34
Date of Notice	10 January 1919
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Walter Robert Henry Little	Helene Margaret Freeland
	💍 1919/4048
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Decorative plasterer
Age	24	20
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	Life	3 years
Marriage Place	Registrar's Office, Auckland
Folio	336
Consent	John Freeland, Father
Date of Certificate	10 January 1919
Officiating Minister	Registrar

10 January 1919

William John Kerr
Victoria Frances Jane Wilson

William John Neve
Victoria Frances Jane Wilson
💍 1919/4049

Bachelor
Spinster

Farmer

26
21

Auckland
Auckland

10 months
18 years

Registrar's Office, Auckland

337

10 January 1919

Registrar

No	35
Date of Notice	10 January 1919
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	William John Kerr	Victoria Frances Jane Wilson
BDM Match (91%)	William John Neve	Victoria Frances Jane Wilson
	💍 1919/4049
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Farmer
Age	26	21
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	10 months	18 years
Marriage Place	Registrar's Office, Auckland
Folio	337
Consent
Date of Certificate	10 January 1919
Officiating Minister	Registrar

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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).