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 T. J. Denman

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

20 January 1919

John McWilliam
Mary Emma Rosina Grey

John McWilliam
May Emma Rosina Grey
💍 1919/4079

Bachelor
Spinster

Engineer

34
30

Auckland
Auckland

6 days
5 weeks

St. Mary's Cathedral, Parnell

367

20 January 1919

Rev. G. MacMurray, Anglican

No	66
Date of Notice	20 January 1919
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	John McWilliam	Mary Emma Rosina Grey
BDM Match (98%)	John McWilliam	May Emma Rosina Grey
	💍 1919/4079
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Engineer
Age	34	30
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	6 days	5 weeks
Marriage Place	St. Mary's Cathedral, Parnell
Folio	367
Consent
Date of Certificate	20 January 1919
Officiating Minister	Rev. G. MacMurray, Anglican

20 January 1919

Herbert Stuart Eastgate
Doris Evelyn Bramble

Herbert Stuart Eastgate
Doris Evelyn Bramble
💍 1919/4080

Bachelor
Spinster

Business Manager

32
23

Auckland
Auckland

30 years
5 years

St. Barnabas Church, Mt. Eden, Auckland

368

20 January 1919

Rev. E. J. MacFarland, Anglican

No	67
Date of Notice	20 January 1919
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Herbert Stuart Eastgate	Doris Evelyn Bramble
	💍 1919/4080
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Business Manager
Age	32	23
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	30 years	5 years
Marriage Place	St. Barnabas Church, Mt. Eden, Auckland
Folio	368
Consent
Date of Certificate	20 January 1919
Officiating Minister	Rev. E. J. MacFarland, Anglican

21 January 1919

Edward Henry Matthews
Elsie May Robertson

Edward Henry Matthews
Elsie May Robertson
💍 1919/4081

Bachelor
Spinster

Labourer

29
21

Auckland
Auckland

life
life

St. Matthews Church, Auckland

369

21 January 1919

Rev. J. A. Calder, Anglican

No	68
Date of Notice	21 January 1919
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Edward Henry Matthews	Elsie May Robertson
	💍 1919/4081
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Labourer
Age	29	21
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	life	life
Marriage Place	St. Matthews Church, Auckland
Folio	369
Consent
Date of Certificate	21 January 1919
Officiating Minister	Rev. J. A. Calder, Anglican

21 January 1919

John Phair Hooper
Mary May Gardner

John Phair Hooper
Mary May Gardner
💍 1919/771

Bachelor
Spinster

Labourer

28
31

Auckland
Auckland

3 months
7 months

St. Stephen's Church, Auckland

596

21 January 1919

Rev. J. Jolly, Presbyterian

No	69
Date of Notice	21 January 1919
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	John Phair Hooper	Mary May Gardner
	💍 1919/771
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Labourer
Age	28	31
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	3 months	7 months
Marriage Place	St. Stephen's Church, Auckland
Folio	596
Consent
Date of Certificate	21 January 1919
Officiating Minister	Rev. J. Jolly, Presbyterian

21 January 1919

William Percy Henry Guppy
Beatrice Laura Moore

William Percy Henry Guppy
Beatrice Laura Moore
💍 1919/4083

Bachelor
Spinster

Draper

21
20

Auckland
Auckland

9 months
8 years

Registrar's Office, Auckland

370

Mary Ann Moore, Mother of minor

21 January 1919

Registrar

No	70
Date of Notice	21 January 1919
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	William Percy Henry Guppy	Beatrice Laura Moore
	💍 1919/4083
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Draper
Age	21	20
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Auckland
Length of Residence	9 months	8 years
Marriage Place	Registrar's Office, Auckland
Folio	370
Consent	Mary Ann Moore, Mother of minor
Date of Certificate	21 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).