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 1225

District of Hastings Quarter ending 30 June 1919 Registrar R. Brathwaite

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

1 April 1919

Reginald Carlton Palmer
Lavina Jane Ashman

Reginald Carlton Palmer
Lavinia Jane Ashman
💍 1919/1381

Bachelor
Spinster

Fruit Grower
Domestic Duties

27
23

Havelock North
Havelock North

9 years
12 years

Presbyterian Church, Havelock North

3283

1 April 1919

Rev. R. Waugh

No	22
Date of Notice	1 April 1919
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Reginald Carlton Palmer	Lavina Jane Ashman
BDM Match (97%)	Reginald Carlton Palmer	Lavinia Jane Ashman
	💍 1919/1381
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Fruit Grower	Domestic Duties
Age	27	23
Dwelling Place	Havelock North	Havelock North
Length of Residence	9 years	12 years
Marriage Place	Presbyterian Church, Havelock North
Folio	3283
Consent
Date of Certificate	1 April 1919
Officiating Minister	Rev. R. Waugh

8 April 1919

Leonard Bryant
Nellie Chadwick

Leonard Bryant
Nellie Chadwick
💍 1919/1382

Bachelor
Spinster

Salesman
Draper's Assistant

26
25

Hastings
Hastings

6 years
11 1/2 years

St. Matthew's Church, Hastings

3284

8 April 1919

Rev. J. B. Brocklehurst

No	23
Date of Notice	8 April 1919
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Leonard Bryant	Nellie Chadwick
	💍 1919/1382
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Salesman	Draper's Assistant
Age	26	25
Dwelling Place	Hastings	Hastings
Length of Residence	6 years	11 1/2 years
Marriage Place	St. Matthew's Church, Hastings
Folio	3284
Consent
Date of Certificate	8 April 1919
Officiating Minister	Rev. J. B. Brocklehurst

9 April 1919

Albert Stanley Russell
Charlotte Anne Taylor

Albert Stanley Russell
Charlotte Anne Taylor
💍 1919/1383

Bachelor
Spinster

Grocer
Domestic

26
24

Hastings
Hastings

8 years
8 months

Methodist Church, Hastings

3285

9 April 1919

Rev. M. A. Rugby Pratt

No	24
Date of Notice	9 April 1919
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Albert Stanley Russell	Charlotte Anne Taylor
	💍 1919/1383
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Grocer	Domestic
Age	26	24
Dwelling Place	Hastings	Hastings
Length of Residence	8 years	8 months
Marriage Place	Methodist Church, Hastings
Folio	3285
Consent
Date of Certificate	9 April 1919
Officiating Minister	Rev. M. A. Rugby Pratt

14 April 1919

James Adolph Mossman
Enid Aririni Carrington

James Adolph Mossman
Enid Airini Carrington
💍 1919/1384

Bachelor
Spinster

Carpenter
Domestic Duties

25
21

Hastings
Hastings

4 years
21 years

St. Matthew's Church, Hastings

3286

14 April 1919

Rev. J. B. Brocklehurst

No	25
Date of Notice	14 April 1919
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	James Adolph Mossman	Enid Aririni Carrington
BDM Match (98%)	James Adolph Mossman	Enid Airini Carrington
	💍 1919/1384
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Carpenter	Domestic Duties
Age	25	21
Dwelling Place	Hastings	Hastings
Length of Residence	4 years	21 years
Marriage Place	St. Matthew's Church, Hastings
Folio	3286
Consent
Date of Certificate	14 April 1919
Officiating Minister	Rev. J. B. Brocklehurst

14 April 1919

Frederick Arthur Wells
Henrietta Agusta Canham

Frederick Arthur Wells
Henrietta Agusta Canham
💍 1919/1385

Bachelor
Spinster

Ploughman
Domestic Duties

29
27

Hastings
Hastings

28 years
5 years

Registrar's Office, Hastings

3287

14 April 1919

Robert Brathwaite

No	26
Date of Notice	14 April 1919
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Frederick Arthur Wells	Henrietta Agusta Canham
	💍 1919/1385
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Ploughman	Domestic Duties
Age	29	27
Dwelling Place	Hastings	Hastings
Length of Residence	28 years	5 years
Marriage Place	Registrar's Office, Hastings
Folio	3287
Consent
Date of Certificate	14 April 1919
Officiating Minister	Robert Brathwaite

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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).