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 786

District of Pukekohe Quarter ending 30 September 1919 Registrar H. Walters

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

13 August 1919

George Lyons
Jennie Kathleen Brown

George Lyons
Jennie Kathleen Brown
💍 1919/6053

Bachelor
Spinster

Farmer
Domestic duties

44
27

Maungatawhiri Valley
Pukekohe

44 years
9 years

St Andrews Church Pukekohe

5457

13 August 1919

Rev J. P. Cowie

No	22
Date of Notice	13 August 1919
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	George Lyons	Jennie Kathleen Brown
	💍 1919/6053
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Farmer	Domestic duties
Age	44	27
Dwelling Place	Maungatawhiri Valley	Pukekohe
Length of Residence	44 years	9 years
Marriage Place	St Andrews Church Pukekohe
Folio	5457
Consent
Date of Certificate	13 August 1919
Officiating Minister	Rev J. P. Cowie

13 August 1919

James Alexander Irving
Amelia Louisa Lindner

James Alexander Irving
Amelia Louisa Lindner
💍 1919/6054

Bachelor
Spinster

Carter
Domestic duties

20
21

Tuakau
Tuakau

7 years
6 years

Church of England Tuakau

5458

Florence Mercy Harrison (mother)

13 August 1919

Rev L. Foules

No	23
Date of Notice	13 August 1919
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	James Alexander Irving	Amelia Louisa Lindner
	💍 1919/6054
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Carter	Domestic duties
Age	20	21
Dwelling Place	Tuakau	Tuakau
Length of Residence	7 years	6 years
Marriage Place	Church of England Tuakau
Folio	5458
Consent	Florence Mercy Harrison (mother)
Date of Certificate	13 August 1919
Officiating Minister	Rev L. Foules

18 August 1919

Allan Irwin Fisher
Lillian Gladys Johnson

Allan Muir Fisher
Lillian Gladys Johnston
💍 1919/6055

Widower
Spinster

Farmer
Typist

37
27

Pukekohe
Buckland

3 days
4 years

Anglican Church Buckland

5459

18 August 1919

Rev J. P. Cowie

No	24
Date of Notice	18 August 1919
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Allan Irwin Fisher	Lillian Gladys Johnson
BDM Match (87%)	Allan Muir Fisher	Lillian Gladys Johnston
	💍 1919/6055
Condition	Widower	Spinster
Profession	Farmer	Typist
Age	37	27
Dwelling Place	Pukekohe	Buckland
Length of Residence	3 days	4 years
Marriage Place	Anglican Church Buckland
Folio	5459
Consent
Date of Certificate	18 August 1919
Officiating Minister	Rev J. P. Cowie

11 September 1919

Mathew Henderson Grigg
Dorothy Wilson Henderson

Matthew Henderson Grigg
Dorothy Wilson Henderson
💍 1919/7113

Bachelor
Spinster

Clerk
Music Teacher

26
27

Pukekohe
Frankton Junction

3 months
10 years

Baptist Church Hamilton

6624

11 September 1919

Rev W. Perry

No	25
Date of Notice	11 September 1919
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Mathew Henderson Grigg	Dorothy Wilson Henderson
BDM Match (98%)	Matthew Henderson Grigg	Dorothy Wilson Henderson
	💍 1919/7113
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Clerk	Music Teacher
Age	26	27
Dwelling Place	Pukekohe	Frankton Junction
Length of Residence	3 months	10 years
Marriage Place	Baptist Church Hamilton
Folio	6624
Consent
Date of Certificate	11 September 1919
Officiating Minister	Rev W. Perry

13 September 1919

Maurice Edmund Vernon Wood
Venetta Doris Eckley

Maurice Edmund Vernon Wood
Venetta Doris Eckley
💍 1919/6034

Bachelor
Spinster

Farmer
Domestic duties

24
24

Pukekohe
Pukekohe

3 days
5 months

St Andrews Church Pukekohe

5460

13 September 1919

Rev J. P. Cowie

No	26
Date of Notice	13 September 1919
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Maurice Edmund Vernon Wood	Venetta Doris Eckley
	💍 1919/6034
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Farmer	Domestic duties
Age	24	24
Dwelling Place	Pukekohe	Pukekohe
Length of Residence	3 days	5 months
Marriage Place	St Andrews Church Pukekohe
Folio	5460
Consent
Date of Certificate	13 September 1919
Officiating Minister	Rev J. P. Cowie

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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).