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 463

District of Hamilton Quarter ending 31 March 1919 Registrar R. G. Kirkwood

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

19 February 1919

Stanley Vincent Tyler
Nellie Pretty

Stanley Vincent Tyler
Nellie Pretty
💍 1919/1051

Bachelor
Spinster

Manager
Tailoress

28
25

Hamilton
Hamilton

5 years
1 week

Registrar's Office Hamilton

932

19 February 1919

R. G. Kirkwood, Registrar

No	11
Date of Notice	19 February 1919
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Stanley Vincent Tyler	Nellie Pretty
	💍 1919/1051
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Manager	Tailoress
Age	28	25
Dwelling Place	Hamilton	Hamilton
Length of Residence	5 years	1 week
Marriage Place	Registrar's Office Hamilton
Folio	932
Consent
Date of Certificate	19 February 1919
Officiating Minister	R. G. Kirkwood, Registrar

22 February 1919

Francis William Swetman
Violet Louisa Carroll

Francis William Swetman
Violet Louisa Carroll
💍 1919/1052

Bachelor
Spinster

Farmer
Domestic

20
16

Hamilton
Hamilton

2 years
10 years

Roman Catholic Church Hamilton

933

Francis Thomas Swetman, Father; Norah Theresa Carroll, Mother

22 February 1919

Dean Darby, Roman Catholic

No	12
Date of Notice	22 February 1919
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Francis William Swetman	Violet Louisa Carroll
	💍 1919/1052
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Farmer	Domestic
Age	20	16
Dwelling Place	Hamilton	Hamilton
Length of Residence	2 years	10 years
Marriage Place	Roman Catholic Church Hamilton
Folio	933
Consent	Francis Thomas Swetman, Father; Norah Theresa Carroll, Mother
Date of Certificate	22 February 1919
Officiating Minister	Dean Darby, Roman Catholic

3 March 1919

Gerald Casey
Annabella McKibbin

Gerald Casey
Annobella McKibbin
💍 1919/1053

Bachelor
Spinster

Hairdresser
Clerk

22
22

Hamilton
Hamilton

22 years
4 years

Roman Catholic Church Hamilton

934

3 March 1919

Dean Darby, Roman Catholic

No	13
Date of Notice	3 March 1919
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Gerald Casey	Annabella McKibbin
BDM Match (97%)	Gerald Casey	Annobella McKibbin
	💍 1919/1053
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Hairdresser	Clerk
Age	22	22
Dwelling Place	Hamilton	Hamilton
Length of Residence	22 years	4 years
Marriage Place	Roman Catholic Church Hamilton
Folio	934
Consent
Date of Certificate	3 March 1919
Officiating Minister	Dean Darby, Roman Catholic

5 March 1919

John Roland Foote
Ada Agnes Hickling

John Roland Foote
Ada Agnes Hickling
💍 1919/1030

Bachelor
Spinster

Farmer
Dressmaker

20
23

Hamilton
Hamilton

3 days
3 days

Registrar's Office Hamilton

935

Mary Stewart Foote, Mother

5 March 1919

R. G. Kirkwood, Registrar

No	14
Date of Notice	5 March 1919
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	John Roland Foote	Ada Agnes Hickling
	💍 1919/1030
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Farmer	Dressmaker
Age	20	23
Dwelling Place	Hamilton	Hamilton
Length of Residence	3 days	3 days
Marriage Place	Registrar's Office Hamilton
Folio	935
Consent	Mary Stewart Foote, Mother
Date of Certificate	5 March 1919
Officiating Minister	R. G. Kirkwood, Registrar

7 March 1919

Harold Welch
Jane Martha Alice Jamieson

Harold Welch
Jane Martha Alice Jamieson
💍 1919/1031

Bachelor
Spinster

News Agent
Domestic

32
22

Hamilton
Hamilton

8 years
11 years

Baptist Church Hamilton

936

7 March 1919

H. G. Hercus, Baptist

No	15
Date of Notice	7 March 1919
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Harold Welch	Jane Martha Alice Jamieson
	💍 1919/1031
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	News Agent	Domestic
Age	32	22
Dwelling Place	Hamilton	Hamilton
Length of Residence	8 years	11 years
Marriage Place	Baptist Church Hamilton
Folio	936
Consent
Date of Certificate	7 March 1919
Officiating Minister	H. G. Hercus, Baptist

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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).