Intentions to Marry, 1919 Herekino to Wairewa

Reference: Registrar-General of Births, Deaths and Marriages, Notices of intention to marry, Series 8937, R2840482, 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.

1919b contains pages 501-1004, covering districts from Herekino to Wairewa

Page 919

District of Thames Quarter ending 31 December 1919 Registrar H. J. B. Bush

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

23 October 1919

Frank Luscombe Mackechnie Gibson
Elsie May Duncan

Frank Lipscombe MacKechnie Gibson
Elsie May Duncan
💍 1919/8701

Bachelor
Spinster

Postal Official
Domestic Duties

27
22

Thames
Thames

27 years
22 years

Residence of James Duncan, Baillie Street, Thames

8384

23 October 1919

Rev. Milne

No	34
Date of Notice	23 October 1919
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Frank Luscombe Mackechnie Gibson	Elsie May Duncan
BDM Match (95%)	Frank Lipscombe MacKechnie Gibson	Elsie May Duncan
	💍 1919/8701
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Postal Official	Domestic Duties
Age	27	22
Dwelling Place	Thames	Thames
Length of Residence	27 years	22 years
Marriage Place	Residence of James Duncan, Baillie Street, Thames
Folio	8384
Consent
Date of Certificate	23 October 1919
Officiating Minister	Rev. Milne

24 October 1919

Nelson Charles Green
Annie Hardie O'Carroll

Nelson Charles Green
Annie Haidee OCarroll
💍 1919/8702

Bachelor
Spinster

Farmer
Household Duties

23
25

Kopuarahi
Kopuarahi

4 years
5 years

St Francis Church, Thames

8385

24 October 1919

Rev. Father Dignan

No	35
Date of Notice	24 October 1919
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Nelson Charles Green	Annie Hardie O'Carroll
BDM Match (93%)	Nelson Charles Green	Annie Haidee OCarroll
	💍 1919/8702
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Farmer	Household Duties
Age	23	25
Dwelling Place	Kopuarahi	Kopuarahi
Length of Residence	4 years	5 years
Marriage Place	St Francis Church, Thames
Folio	8385
Consent
Date of Certificate	24 October 1919
Officiating Minister	Rev. Father Dignan

29 October 1919

Clarence Leslie Harvey Herrick
Lilian Myra Jamieson

Clarence Leslie Harvey Herrick
Lilian Myra Jamieson
💍 1919/8703

Bachelor
Spinster

Manager Retail Grocery
Domestic Duties

27
21

Thames
Thames

4 days
5 years

St Georges Church, Thames

8386

29 October 1919

Rev. A. J. Beck

No	36
Date of Notice	29 October 1919
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Clarence Leslie Harvey Herrick	Lilian Myra Jamieson
	💍 1919/8703
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Manager Retail Grocery	Domestic Duties
Age	27	21
Dwelling Place	Thames	Thames
Length of Residence	4 days	5 years
Marriage Place	St Georges Church, Thames
Folio	8386
Consent
Date of Certificate	29 October 1919
Officiating Minister	Rev. A. J. Beck

30 October 1919

Harry Riley
Elsie May Addison

Harry Riley
Elsie May Addison
💍 1919/8705

Bachelor
Spinster

Sailor
Domestic Duties

41
33

Thames
Thames

3 days
33 years

St Georges Church, Thames

8388

30 October 1919

Rev. A. J. Beck

No	37
Date of Notice	30 October 1919
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Harry Riley	Elsie May Addison
	💍 1919/8705
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Sailor	Domestic Duties
Age	41	33
Dwelling Place	Thames	Thames
Length of Residence	3 days	33 years
Marriage Place	St Georges Church, Thames
Folio	8388
Consent
Date of Certificate	30 October 1919
Officiating Minister	Rev. A. J. Beck

6 November 1919

Henry John Rolton
Alma Lillian Tetzlaff

Henry John Rolton
Alma Lillian Tetzloff
💍 1919/8704

Bachelor
Spinster

Farmer
Domestic Duties

30
21

Turua
Turua

2 years
2 years

Registrar's Office, Thames

8387

6 November 1919

H. J. B. Bush, Registrar

No	38
Date of Notice	6 November 1919
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Henry John Rolton	Alma Lillian Tetzlaff
BDM Match (98%)	Henry John Rolton	Alma Lillian Tetzloff
	💍 1919/8704
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Farmer	Domestic Duties
Age	30	21
Dwelling Place	Turua	Turua
Length of Residence	2 years	2 years
Marriage Place	Registrar's Office, Thames
Folio	8387
Consent
Date of Certificate	6 November 1919
Officiating Minister	H. J. B. Bush, 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).