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 1227

District of Hastings Quarter ending 30 June 1919 Registrar Robert 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

26 April 1919

Patrick Joseph Parker
Effie Margaret Tombleson

Patrick Joseph Parker
Effie Margaret Tombleson
💍 1919/1396

Bachelor
Spinster

Sheepfarmer
Domestic Duties

37
23

Hastings
Hastings

3 months
16 months

Raupare House, Hastings

3274

26 April 1919

Rev Father Mahoney, Roman Catholic Priest

No	32
Date of Notice	26 April 1919
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Patrick Joseph Parker	Effie Margaret Tombleson
	💍 1919/1396
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Sheepfarmer	Domestic Duties
Age	37	23
Dwelling Place	Hastings	Hastings
Length of Residence	3 months	16 months
Marriage Place	Raupare House, Hastings
Folio	3274
Consent
Date of Certificate	26 April 1919
Officiating Minister	Rev Father Mahoney, Roman Catholic Priest

29 April 1919

Leonard Trevor McLeod
Mary Elizabeth Miller

Leonard Trevor McLeod
Mary Elizabeth Miller
💍 1919/1397

Bachelor
Spinster

Farmer
Domestic

18
16

Hastings
Hastings

3 days
4 days

St Matthew's Church, Hastings

3275

John Cattanach McLeod & John Thomas Miller, Fathers.

29 April 1919

Rev. J. B. Brocklehurst, Anglican Minister

No	33
Date of Notice	29 April 1919
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Leonard Trevor McLeod	Mary Elizabeth Miller
	💍 1919/1397
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Farmer	Domestic
Age	18	16
Dwelling Place	Hastings	Hastings
Length of Residence	3 days	4 days
Marriage Place	St Matthew's Church, Hastings
Folio	3275
Consent	John Cattanach McLeod & John Thomas Miller, Fathers.
Date of Certificate	29 April 1919
Officiating Minister	Rev. J. B. Brocklehurst, Anglican Minister

5 May 1919

Herbert Purse Warnock
Anne Maxton McLaren Morris

Herbert Purse Warnock
Anne Maxton McLaren Morris
💍 1919/1398

Bachelor
Spinster

Soldier
Domestic

28
29

Hastings
Hastings

3 days
3 years

Residence of Mrs Morris, Kaiapo Road, Hastings

3276

5 May 1919

Rev. A. Doull, Presbyterian Minister

No	34
Date of Notice	5 May 1919
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Herbert Purse Warnock	Anne Maxton McLaren Morris
	💍 1919/1398
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Soldier	Domestic
Age	28	29
Dwelling Place	Hastings	Hastings
Length of Residence	3 days	3 years
Marriage Place	Residence of Mrs Morris, Kaiapo Road, Hastings
Folio	3276
Consent
Date of Certificate	5 May 1919
Officiating Minister	Rev. A. Doull, Presbyterian Minister

5 May 1919

John Joseph Keys
Hannah Greene

John Joseph Keys
Hannah Greene
💍 1919/1399

Bachelor
Widow

Farmer
Domestic

51
48

Hastings
Havelock North

10 years
3 months

Registrar's Office, Hastings

3277

5 May 1919

Robert Brathwaite, Registrar

No	35
Date of Notice	5 May 1919
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	John Joseph Keys	Hannah Greene
	💍 1919/1399
Condition	Bachelor	Widow
Profession	Farmer	Domestic
Age	51	48
Dwelling Place	Hastings	Havelock North
Length of Residence	10 years	3 months
Marriage Place	Registrar's Office, Hastings
Folio	3277
Consent
Date of Certificate	5 May 1919
Officiating Minister	Robert Brathwaite, Registrar

7 May 1919

Frank Renwick
Lizzie Grant Smith

Frank Renwick
Lizzie Grant Smith
💍 1919/1400

Bachelor
Spinster

Station Manager
Domestic

33
37

Hastings
Hastings

2 months
1 year

Presbyterian Manse, Hastings

3278

7 May 1919

Rev. P. Ramsay, Presbyterian minister

No	36
Date of Notice	7 May 1919
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Frank Renwick	Lizzie Grant Smith
	💍 1919/1400
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Station Manager	Domestic
Age	33	37
Dwelling Place	Hastings	Hastings
Length of Residence	2 months	1 year
Marriage Place	Presbyterian Manse, Hastings
Folio	3278
Consent
Date of Certificate	7 May 1919
Officiating Minister	Rev. P. Ramsay, Presbyterian 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).