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 1084

District of Inglewood Quarter ending 30 September 1919 Registrar A. Porter

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

28 July 1919

Ernest Bennett Rudberg
Lily Elizabeth Knowles Wheeler

Ernest Bennett Rusling
Lily Elizabeth Knowles Wheeler
💍 1919/6191

Bachelor
Spinster

Labourer
Domestic

33
28

Inglewood
Inglewood

12 years
28 years

Church of England Inglewood

5594

28 July 1919

Rev. Stanton

No	27
Date of Notice	28 July 1919
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Ernest Bennett Rudberg	Lily Elizabeth Knowles Wheeler
BDM Match (91%)	Ernest Bennett Rusling	Lily Elizabeth Knowles Wheeler
	💍 1919/6191
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Labourer	Domestic
Age	33	28
Dwelling Place	Inglewood	Inglewood
Length of Residence	12 years	28 years
Marriage Place	Church of England Inglewood
Folio	5594
Consent
Date of Certificate	28 July 1919
Officiating Minister	Rev. Stanton

30 July 1919

Lionel Bishop
Isabel Anne Burgon

Lionel Bishop
Annie Bunyan
💍 1919/6193

Bachelor
Spinster

Farmer
School Teacher

30
26

Waitui
Waitui

14 years
26 years

Dwelling of P. Bishop Waitui

5595

30 July 1919

Rev. Stanton

No	28
Date of Notice	30 July 1919
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Lionel Bishop	Isabel Anne Burgon
BDM Match (69%)	Lionel Bishop	Annie Bunyan
	💍 1919/6193
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Farmer	School Teacher
Age	30	26
Dwelling Place	Waitui	Waitui
Length of Residence	14 years	26 years
Marriage Place	Dwelling of P. Bishop Waitui
Folio	5595
Consent
Date of Certificate	30 July 1919
Officiating Minister	Rev. Stanton

2 August 1919

George Thomas Chard
Rachel Kate Taylor

George Thomas Chard
Rachel Kate Taylor
💍 1919/6194

Bachelor
Spinster

Farmer
Domestic

27
21

Egmont Village
Egmont Village

27 years
21 years

Church of England Inglewood

5596

2 August 1919

Rev. Stanton

No	29
Date of Notice	2 August 1919
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	George Thomas Chard	Rachel Kate Taylor
	💍 1919/6194
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Farmer	Domestic
Age	27	21
Dwelling Place	Egmont Village	Egmont Village
Length of Residence	27 years	21 years
Marriage Place	Church of England Inglewood
Folio	5596
Consent
Date of Certificate	2 August 1919
Officiating Minister	Rev. Stanton

4 August 1919

Arthur Henry Burt
Edith Horshault

Arthur Henry Burt
Edith Northcott
💍 1919/6195

Bachelor
Spinster

Labourer
Domestic

28
24

Tariki
Tariki

10 years
27 years

Office of the Registrar Inglewood

5597

4 August 1919

W. Harvey

No	30
Date of Notice	4 August 1919
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Arthur Henry Burt	Edith Horshault
BDM Match (83%)	Arthur Henry Burt	Edith Northcott
	💍 1919/6195
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Labourer	Domestic
Age	28	24
Dwelling Place	Tariki	Tariki
Length of Residence	10 years	27 years
Marriage Place	Office of the Registrar Inglewood
Folio	5597
Consent
Date of Certificate	4 August 1919
Officiating Minister	W. Harvey

9 August 1919

Albert Schrieber
Clara May Thomson

Albert Schreiber
Clara May Williamson
💍 1919/6196

Bachelor
Spinster

Farmer
Domestic

37
33

Tarata
Tarata

37 years
6 months

Presbyterian Church Inglewood

5598

9 August 1919

Rev. Innes

No	31
Date of Notice	9 August 1919
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Albert Schrieber	Clara May Thomson
BDM Match (79%)	Albert Schreiber	Clara May Williamson
	💍 1919/6196
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Farmer	Domestic
Age	37	33
Dwelling Place	Tarata	Tarata
Length of Residence	37 years	6 months
Marriage Place	Presbyterian Church Inglewood
Folio	5598
Consent
Date of Certificate	9 August 1919
Officiating Minister	Rev. Innes

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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).