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 105

District of Auckland Quarter ending 30 June 1919 Registrar J. Culpan

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

471

2 May 1919

Claude Willmott Knight
Doris Louisa Craig

Claude Willmott Knight
Doris Louisa Craig
💍 1919/2555

Bachelor
Spinster

Commercial Traveller

26
20

Auckland
Auckland

1 year
12 years

Methodist Church Epsom

2388

Ernest Arthur Craig, Father of Bride

2 May 1919

Rev. G. Bond

No	471
Date of Notice	2 May 1919
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Claude Willmott Knight	Doris Louisa Craig
	💍 1919/2555
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Commercial Traveller
Age	26	20
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	1 year	12 years
Marriage Place	Methodist Church Epsom
Folio	2388
Consent	Ernest Arthur Craig, Father of Bride
Date of Certificate	2 May 1919
Officiating Minister	Rev. G. Bond

472

2 May 1919

Victor Rylands Nicholson
Elsie Vera Day

Victor Ryland Nicholson
Elsie Vera Fry
💍 1919/2556

Bachelor
Spinster

Medical practitioner

25
24

Auckland
Auckland

14 months
6 years

St. Mary's Cathedral Parnell

2389

2 May 1919

Archdeacon MacMurray

No	472
Date of Notice	2 May 1919
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Victor Rylands Nicholson	Elsie Vera Day
BDM Match (91%)	Victor Ryland Nicholson	Elsie Vera Fry
	💍 1919/2556
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Medical practitioner
Age	25	24
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	14 months	6 years
Marriage Place	St. Mary's Cathedral Parnell
Folio	2389
Consent
Date of Certificate	2 May 1919
Officiating Minister	Archdeacon MacMurray

473

2 May 1919

Aio Tetuanui Saupo
Caroline Beatrice Mitchell

Aio Tetuanui Taripo
Caroline Beatrice Mitchell
💍 1919/2557

Bachelor
Spinster

Trader

19
18

Auckland
Auckland

2 weeks
15 months

Registrar's Office Auckland

2390

14 days notice (Sec 27)

16 May 1919

Registrar, Auckland

No	473
Date of Notice	2 May 1919
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Aio Tetuanui Saupo	Caroline Beatrice Mitchell
BDM Match (92%)	Aio Tetuanui Taripo	Caroline Beatrice Mitchell
	💍 1919/2557
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Trader
Age	19	18
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	2 weeks	15 months
Marriage Place	Registrar's Office Auckland
Folio	2390
Consent	14 days notice (Sec 27)
Date of Certificate	16 May 1919
Officiating Minister	Registrar, Auckland

474

3 May 1919

Erik Alexander Lund
Jessie Marchbanks

Erik Alexander Lund
Jeanie Marchbank
💍 1919/2558

Bachelor
Widow 21 October 1917

Seaman

40
44

Auckland
Auckland

10 years
13 years

Registrar's Office Auckland

2391

3 May 1919

Registrar, Auckland

No	474
Date of Notice	3 May 1919
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Erik Alexander Lund	Jessie Marchbanks
BDM Match (91%)	Erik Alexander Lund	Jeanie Marchbank
	💍 1919/2558
Condition	Bachelor	Widow 21 October 1917
Profession	Seaman
Age	40	44
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	10 years	13 years
Marriage Place	Registrar's Office Auckland
Folio	2391
Consent
Date of Certificate	3 May 1919
Officiating Minister	Registrar, Auckland

475

5 May 1919

John Turnwald
Margaret Ann Tolhopf

John Turnwald
Margaret Ann Tolhoph
💍 1919/2559

Bachelor
Spinster

Farmer

36
20

Auckland
Auckland

3 days
3 days

St. Patrick's Cathedral Auckland

2392

Martin Tolhopf, Father of Bride

5 May 1919

Rev. M. J. Doherty, Roman Catholic

No	475
Date of Notice	5 May 1919
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	John Turnwald	Margaret Ann Tolhopf
BDM Match (98%)	John Turnwald	Margaret Ann Tolhoph
	💍 1919/2559
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Farmer
Age	36	20
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	3 days	3 days
Marriage Place	St. Patrick's Cathedral Auckland
Folio	2392
Consent	Martin Tolhopf, Father of Bride
Date of Certificate	5 May 1919
Officiating Minister	Rev. M. J. Doherty, 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).