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 1075

District of Inglewood Quarter ending 31 March 1919 Registrar A. Garry

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 January 1919

Douglas Robert-Tyde
Anne Evelyn Henwood

Douglas Robert Gyde
Annie Evelyn Henwood
💍 1919/1938

Widower
Spinster

Farmer
Domestic

31
30

Inglewood
Inglewood

30 years
30 years

Residence of Jane Henwood, Inglewood

1076

4 January 1919

Rev Hardie

No	1
Date of Notice	4 January 1919
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Douglas Robert-Tyde	Anne Evelyn Henwood
BDM Match (92%)	Douglas Robert Gyde	Annie Evelyn Henwood
	💍 1919/1938
Condition	Widower	Spinster
Profession	Farmer	Domestic
Age	31	30
Dwelling Place	Inglewood	Inglewood
Length of Residence	30 years	30 years
Marriage Place	Residence of Jane Henwood, Inglewood
Folio	1076
Consent
Date of Certificate	4 January 1919
Officiating Minister	Rev Hardie

13 January 1919

Norman Orr
Eva Aerdale Pierson

Norman Orr
Eva Aerdale Pierson
💍 1919/1945

Bachelor
Spinster

Labourer
Domestic

27
21

Inglewood
Inglewood

1 week
1 week

Church of England, Inglewood

1077

13 January 1919

Rev Hardie

No	2
Date of Notice	13 January 1919
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Norman Orr	Eva Aerdale Pierson
	💍 1919/1945
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Labourer	Domestic
Age	27	21
Dwelling Place	Inglewood	Inglewood
Length of Residence	1 week	1 week
Marriage Place	Church of England, Inglewood
Folio	1077
Consent
Date of Certificate	13 January 1919
Officiating Minister	Rev Hardie

10 February 1919

John Atley
Margaret Andrews

John Atley
Margaret Andrews
💍 1919/1946

Widower
Spinster

Ganger Railway
Domestic

47
34

Inglewood
Inglewood

9 years
18 months

Roman Catholic Church, Inglewood

1078

10 February 1919

Rev G. Hong

No	3
Date of Notice	10 February 1919
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	John Atley	Margaret Andrews
	💍 1919/1946
Condition	Widower	Spinster
Profession	Ganger Railway	Domestic
Age	47	34
Dwelling Place	Inglewood	Inglewood
Length of Residence	9 years	18 months
Marriage Place	Roman Catholic Church, Inglewood
Folio	1078
Consent
Date of Certificate	10 February 1919
Officiating Minister	Rev G. Hong

12 February 1919

Albert Henry Bennett
Edith Anne Yates

Albert Henry Bennett
Edith Annie Yeates
💍 1919/1947

Bachelor
Spinster

Farmer
Domestic

25
21

Waitoriki
Inglewood

25 years
21 years

Presbyterian Church, Inglewood

1079

12 February 1919

Rev Ireland

No	4
Date of Notice	12 February 1919
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Albert Henry Bennett	Edith Anne Yates
BDM Match (94%)	Albert Henry Bennett	Edith Annie Yeates
	💍 1919/1947
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Farmer	Domestic
Age	25	21
Dwelling Place	Waitoriki	Inglewood
Length of Residence	25 years	21 years
Marriage Place	Presbyterian Church, Inglewood
Folio	1079
Consent
Date of Certificate	12 February 1919
Officiating Minister	Rev Ireland

22 March 1919

Wilfred Richard Braegirdle
Nellie Barrington

Wilfred Richard Bracegirdle
Nellie Carrington
💍 1919/1948

Bachelor
Spinster

Farmer
Domestic

29
20

Kaimata
Kaimata

29 years
4 months

Church of England, Inglewood

1080

H Barrington Father

22 March 1919

Rev Hardie

No	5
Date of Notice	22 March 1919
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Wilfred Richard Braegirdle	Nellie Barrington
BDM Match (95%)	Wilfred Richard Bracegirdle	Nellie Carrington
	💍 1919/1948
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Farmer	Domestic
Age	29	20
Dwelling Place	Kaimata	Kaimata
Length of Residence	29 years	4 months
Marriage Place	Church of England, Inglewood
Folio	1080
Consent	H Barrington Father
Date of Certificate	22 March 1919
Officiating Minister	Rev Hardie

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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).