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

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District of Auckland Quarter ending 31 March 1919 Registrar J. W. Cook

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

106

31 January 1919

Cecil Nelson Martin
Ethel Dyer

Cecil Nelson Martin
Ethel Dyer
💍 1919/581

Bachelor
Spinster

Shop assistant

30
25

Auckland
Auckland

6 days
6 days

Spiritual Scientists Church, Orange Hall, Karangahape Rd, Auckland

406

31 January 1919

Bro M. Wood Craig, Spiritual Scientist

No	106
Date of Notice	31 January 1919
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Cecil Nelson Martin	Ethel Dyer
	💍 1919/581
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Shop assistant
Age	30	25
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	6 days	6 days
Marriage Place	Spiritual Scientists Church, Orange Hall, Karangahape Rd, Auckland
Folio	406
Consent
Date of Certificate	31 January 1919
Officiating Minister	Bro M. Wood Craig, Spiritual Scientist

107

31 January 1919

Frank Kenneth Grant
Florence Edith Ford

Frank Kenneth Grant
Florence Edith Ford
💍 1919/582

Bachelor
Spinster

Farmer

20
23

Auckland
Auckland

2 weeks
4 weeks

Methodist Church, Epsom

407

Joel Grant, father

31 January 1919

Rev. J. Wrigley, Methodist

No	107
Date of Notice	31 January 1919
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Frank Kenneth Grant	Florence Edith Ford
	💍 1919/582
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Farmer
Age	20	23
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	2 weeks	4 weeks
Marriage Place	Methodist Church, Epsom
Folio	407
Consent	Joel Grant, father
Date of Certificate	31 January 1919
Officiating Minister	Rev. J. Wrigley, Methodist

108

31 January 1919

Victor Harold Vowles
Lily Ann Parish

Victor Harold Vowles
Lily Ann Parish
💍 1919/583

Bachelor
Spinster

Carpenter

29
22

Auckland
Auckland

1 month
2 months

Dwelling of Rev J. J. Newton, Penfield Rd, Birkenhead

408

31 January 1919

Rev. Percy Cooke, Methodist

No	108
Date of Notice	31 January 1919
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Victor Harold Vowles	Lily Ann Parish
	💍 1919/583
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Carpenter
Age	29	22
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	1 month	2 months
Marriage Place	Dwelling of Rev J. J. Newton, Penfield Rd, Birkenhead
Folio	408
Consent
Date of Certificate	31 January 1919
Officiating Minister	Rev. Percy Cooke, Methodist

109

1 February 1919

Bertram Dunphy
Mary Elizabeth South

Bertram Murphy
Mary Elizabeth Booth
💍 1919/772

Bachelor
Spinster

Biscuit-maker

30
28

Auckland
Auckland

life
life

St Patrick's Cathedral, Auckland

597

1 February 1919

Rev J. Brennan, Roman Catholic

No	109
Date of Notice	1 February 1919
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Bertram Dunphy	Mary Elizabeth South
BDM Match (88%)	Bertram Murphy	Mary Elizabeth Booth
	💍 1919/772
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Biscuit-maker
Age	30	28
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	life	life
Marriage Place	St Patrick's Cathedral, Auckland
Folio	597
Consent
Date of Certificate	1 February 1919
Officiating Minister	Rev J. Brennan, Roman Catholic

110

1 February 1919

William George Trail
Marjorie Grace Hopper

William George Ivil
Marjorie Grace Hopper
💍 1919/584

Bachelor
Spinster

Clerk

24
22

Auckland
Auckland

2 years
10 years

St Mary's Cathedral, Parnell

409

1 February 1919

Archdn MacMurray, Anglican

No	110
Date of Notice	1 February 1919
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	William George Trail	Marjorie Grace Hopper
BDM Match (93%)	William George Ivil	Marjorie Grace Hopper
	💍 1919/584
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Clerk
Age	24	22
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	2 years	10 years
Marriage Place	St Mary's Cathedral, Parnell
Folio	409
Consent
Date of Certificate	1 February 1919
Officiating Minister	Archdn MacMurray, Anglican

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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).