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 1017

District of Whangarei Quarter ending 30 June 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

4 April 1919

Henry Bernard Long
Helena Margaret Tebbutt

Henry Bernard Long
Helena Margaret Tebbutt
💍 1919/1405

Bachelor
Spinster

Farmer
Domestic

27
23

Whangarei
Whangarei

15 years
5 days

Registrars Office Whangarei

3385

4 April 1919

P. J. Norwood, Deputy Registrar

No	7
Date of Notice	4 April 1919
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Henry Bernard Long	Helena Margaret Tebbutt
	💍 1919/1405
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Farmer	Domestic
Age	27	23
Dwelling Place	Whangarei	Whangarei
Length of Residence	15 years	5 days
Marriage Place	Registrars Office Whangarei
Folio	3385
Consent
Date of Certificate	4 April 1919
Officiating Minister	P. J. Norwood, Deputy Registrar

9 April 1919

Viko Waiomio
Eliza Cross

Viko Waiomio
Eliza Cross
💍 1919/1406

Bachelor
Spinster

Bushman
Domestic

23
20

Whangarei
Whangarei

3 days
3 days

Registrars Office Whangarei

3386

Piranga Cross, Father

9 April 1919

F. Bird, Registrar

No	8
Date of Notice	9 April 1919
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Viko Waiomio	Eliza Cross
	💍 1919/1406
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Bushman	Domestic
Age	23	20
Dwelling Place	Whangarei	Whangarei
Length of Residence	3 days	3 days
Marriage Place	Registrars Office Whangarei
Folio	3386
Consent	Piranga Cross, Father
Date of Certificate	9 April 1919
Officiating Minister	F. Bird, Registrar

14 April 1919

James Pitman
Fannie Mackie

James Pitman
Fannie Mackie
💍 1919/1407

Bachelor
Spinster

Soldier
Domestic

22
24

Whangarei
Whangarei

3 years
3 years

Registrars Office Whangarei

3387

14 April 1919

F. Bird, Registrar

No	9
Date of Notice	14 April 1919
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	James Pitman	Fannie Mackie
	💍 1919/1407
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Soldier	Domestic
Age	22	24
Dwelling Place	Whangarei	Whangarei
Length of Residence	3 years	3 years
Marriage Place	Registrars Office Whangarei
Folio	3387
Consent
Date of Certificate	14 April 1919
Officiating Minister	F. Bird, Registrar

15 April 1919

Herbert Allen Branford
Frances Gertrude Snell

Herbert Allen Crawford
Frances Gertrude Snell
💍 1919/1408

Bachelor
Spinster

Farmer
Domestic

30
34

Maungakaramea
Whangarei

30 years
1 year

Church of England, Whangarei

3388

15 April 1919

Rev. G. C. Cruickshank, Church of England Minister

No	10
Date of Notice	15 April 1919
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Herbert Allen Branford	Frances Gertrude Snell
BDM Match (95%)	Herbert Allen Crawford	Frances Gertrude Snell
	💍 1919/1408
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Farmer	Domestic
Age	30	34
Dwelling Place	Maungakaramea	Whangarei
Length of Residence	30 years	1 year
Marriage Place	Church of England, Whangarei
Folio	3388
Consent
Date of Certificate	15 April 1919
Officiating Minister	Rev. G. C. Cruickshank, Church of England Minister

17 April 1919

Albert Henry Gant
Lily Llewellyn Eager

Albert Henry Gaut
Lily Llewellyn Eager
💍 1919/1409

Bachelor
Spinster

School teacher
Domestic

29
25

Whangarei
Whangarei

7 days
12 years

Methodist Church, Whangarei

3389

17 April 1919

Rev. J. R. Clark, Methodist Minister

No	11
Date of Notice	17 April 1919
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Albert Henry Gant	Lily Llewellyn Eager
BDM Match (97%)	Albert Henry Gaut	Lily Llewellyn Eager
	💍 1919/1409
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	School teacher	Domestic
Age	29	25
Dwelling Place	Whangarei	Whangarei
Length of Residence	7 days	12 years
Marriage Place	Methodist Church, Whangarei
Folio	3389
Consent
Date of Certificate	17 April 1919
Officiating Minister	Rev. J. R. Clark, Methodist Minister

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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).