Intentions to Marry, 1919 Martinborough to Wellington

Reference: Registrar-General of Births, Deaths and Marriages, Notices of intention to marry, Series 8937, R2840484, 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.

1919d contains pages 1503-2000, covering districts from Martinborough to Wellington

Page 1769

District of Wellington Quarter ending 31 March 1919 Registrar R. G. Poulton

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

156

4 March 1919

Frederick John Walters
Marion Armit

Frederick John Walters
Marion Armit
💍 1919/460

Widower 13/10/1915
Spinster

Builder

54
37

Wellington
Wellington

30 years
12 years

Baptist Church Vivian Street Wellington

251

4 March 1919

Rev. W. S. Rollings

No	156
Date of Notice	4 March 1919
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Frederick John Walters	Marion Armit
	💍 1919/460
Condition	Widower 13/10/1915	Spinster
Profession	Builder
Age	54	37
Dwelling Place	Wellington	Wellington
Length of Residence	30 years	12 years
Marriage Place	Baptist Church Vivian Street Wellington
Folio	251
Consent
Date of Certificate	4 March 1919
Officiating Minister	Rev. W. S. Rollings

157

5 March 1919

William Leonard Howard
Mary Helen Walsh

William Leonard Howard
Mary Helen Walsh
💍 1919/471

Widower 14/5/1918
Spinster

Labourer

38
39

Petone
Wellington

6 years
20 years

St Mary of all Angels Boulcott Street Wellington

252

5 March 1919

Rev. R. J. Hoare

No	157
Date of Notice	5 March 1919
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	William Leonard Howard	Mary Helen Walsh
	💍 1919/471
Condition	Widower 14/5/1918	Spinster
Profession	Labourer
Age	38	39
Dwelling Place	Petone	Wellington
Length of Residence	6 years	20 years
Marriage Place	St Mary of all Angels Boulcott Street Wellington
Folio	252
Consent
Date of Certificate	5 March 1919
Officiating Minister	Rev. R. J. Hoare

158

5 March 1919

Harold George Henry Wall
Jessie Rose Gooch

Harold George Henry Wall
Jessie Rose Gooch
💍 1919/478

Bachelor
Spinster

Engineer

18
17

Wellington
Wellington

3 1/2 years
4 years

Registrars Office Wellington

253

Henry Wall Father; George James Gooch father

5 March 1919

Dep. Registrar

No	158
Date of Notice	5 March 1919
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Harold George Henry Wall	Jessie Rose Gooch
	💍 1919/478
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Engineer
Age	18	17
Dwelling Place	Wellington	Wellington
Length of Residence	3 1/2 years	4 years
Marriage Place	Registrars Office Wellington
Folio	253
Consent	Henry Wall Father; George James Gooch father
Date of Certificate	5 March 1919
Officiating Minister	Dep. Registrar

159

6 March 1919

Henry William Yeoman
Hilma Margaret Jane Humphrey

Henry William Yeoman
Hilma Margaret Jane Humphrey
💍 1919/479

Widower 3/5/1916
Widow 20/9/1911

Clerk

51
34

Petone
Petone

10 years
25 years

Registrars Office Wellington

254

6 March 1919

Dep. Registrar

No	159
Date of Notice	6 March 1919
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Henry William Yeoman	Hilma Margaret Jane Humphrey
	💍 1919/479
Condition	Widower 3/5/1916	Widow 20/9/1911
Profession	Clerk
Age	51	34
Dwelling Place	Petone	Petone
Length of Residence	10 years	25 years
Marriage Place	Registrars Office Wellington
Folio	254
Consent
Date of Certificate	6 March 1919
Officiating Minister	Dep. Registrar

160

6 March 1919

Angus Mathieson Binnie
Jane Rennie

Angus Mathieson Climie
Jane Rennie
💍 1919/480

Bachelor
Spinster

Missionary

32
25

Upper Hutt
Upper Hutt

10 months
12 months

St Davids Church Upper Hutt

255

6 March 1919

Rev. Jas Mclaur

No	160
Date of Notice	6 March 1919
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Angus Mathieson Binnie	Jane Rennie
BDM Match (91%)	Angus Mathieson Climie	Jane Rennie
	💍 1919/480
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Missionary
Age	32	25
Dwelling Place	Upper Hutt	Upper Hutt
Length of Residence	10 months	12 months
Marriage Place	St Davids Church Upper Hutt
Folio	255
Consent
Date of Certificate	6 March 1919
Officiating Minister	Rev. Jas Mclaur

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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).