Intentions to Marry, 1919 Whakatane to Mangaweka

Reference: Registrar-General of Births, Deaths and Marriages, Notices of intention to marry, Series 8937, R2840483, 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.

1919c contains pages 1005-1502, covering districts from Whakatane to Mangaweka

Page 1015

District of Whangarei Quarter ending 31 March 1919 Registrar F. Bird

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

6 January 1919

Harding Alexander Hawken
Florence Hilda Parkin

Harding Alexander Hawken
Florence Hilda Parkin
💍 1919/41

Bachelor
Spinster

Farmer
Domestic

27
24

Maunu
Maunu

27 years
3 years

St. John's Church Maunu

1056

6 January 1919

Rev. G. C. Nicholas Church of England Minister

No	1
Date of Notice	6 January 1919
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Harding Alexander Hawken	Florence Hilda Parkin
	💍 1919/41
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Farmer	Domestic
Age	27	24
Dwelling Place	Maunu	Maunu
Length of Residence	27 years	3 years
Marriage Place	St. John's Church Maunu
Folio	1056
Consent
Date of Certificate	6 January 1919
Officiating Minister	Rev. G. C. Nicholas Church of England Minister

6 January 1919

Frank Hill
Jane Fleming

Frank Hill
Jane Fleming
💍 1919/1126

Bachelor
Spinster

Farmer
Domestic

21
22

Whareora
Whareora

7 years
9 years

Registrar's Office Whangarei

1057

6 January 1919

F. Bird Registrar

No	2
Date of Notice	6 January 1919
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Frank Hill	Jane Fleming
	💍 1919/1126
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Farmer	Domestic
Age	21	22
Dwelling Place	Whareora	Whareora
Length of Residence	7 years	9 years
Marriage Place	Registrar's Office Whangarei
Folio	1057
Consent
Date of Certificate	6 January 1919
Officiating Minister	F. Bird Registrar

7 January 1919

Walter Cecil Wilkinson
Marcia Gordon Dallas

Walter Cecil Wilkinson
Marcia Gordon Dallas
💍 1919/1127

Bachelor
Spinster

Farmer
Domestic

20
18

Maungatapere
Maungatapere

6 years
1 year

Residence of W. J. Wilkinson Maungatapere

1058

William Jackson Wilkinson, Elizabeth Dallas

7 January 1919

Rev. J. R. Clark Methodist Minister

No	3
Date of Notice	7 January 1919
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Walter Cecil Wilkinson	Marcia Gordon Dallas
	💍 1919/1127
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Farmer	Domestic
Age	20	18
Dwelling Place	Maungatapere	Maungatapere
Length of Residence	6 years	1 year
Marriage Place	Residence of W. J. Wilkinson Maungatapere
Folio	1058
Consent	William Jackson Wilkinson, Elizabeth Dallas
Date of Certificate	7 January 1919
Officiating Minister	Rev. J. R. Clark Methodist Minister

25 January 1919

George Kohimoha
Mary Rose Bosgrove

George Kohimoka
Mary Rose Cosgrove
💍 1919/1104

Bachelor
Spinster

Railway Employee
Domestic

24
25

Whangarei
Whangarei

24
25

Registrar's Office Whangarei

1059

25 January 1919

F. Bird Registrar

No	4
Date of Notice	25 January 1919
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	George Kohimoha	Mary Rose Bosgrove
BDM Match (94%)	George Kohimoka	Mary Rose Cosgrove
	💍 1919/1104
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Railway Employee	Domestic
Age	24	25
Dwelling Place	Whangarei	Whangarei
Length of Residence	24	25
Marriage Place	Registrar's Office Whangarei
Folio	1059
Consent
Date of Certificate	25 January 1919
Officiating Minister	F. Bird Registrar

3 March 1919

Victor Jeffries
Eva Charlotte Davies

Victor Jeffries
Eva Charlotte Davies
💍 1919/1105

Bachelor
Spinster

Fitter
Domestic

38
21

Whangarei
Whangarei

8 months
8 months

Registrar's Office Whangarei

1060

3 March 1919

P. J. Norwood Deputy Registrar

No	5
Date of Notice	3 March 1919
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Victor Jeffries	Eva Charlotte Davies
	💍 1919/1105
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Fitter	Domestic
Age	38	21
Dwelling Place	Whangarei	Whangarei
Length of Residence	8 months	8 months
Marriage Place	Registrar's Office Whangarei
Folio	1060
Consent
Date of Certificate	3 March 1919
Officiating Minister	P. J. Norwood Deputy 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).