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 1783

District of Wellington Quarter ending 31 March 1919 Registrar R. A. 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

226

27 March 1919

Walter Sydney Gravener Paton
Patricia Mary Jean Murdoch

Walter Sydney Gravener Paton
Patricia Mary Jean Murdoch
💍 1919/485

Bachelor
Spinster

Insurance Clerk

30
26

Wellington
Wellington

9 Months
6 Years

St Andrews Church, Wellington

301

27 March 1919

Rev S. R. Orr

No	226
Date of Notice	27 March 1919
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Walter Sydney Gravener Paton	Patricia Mary Jean Murdoch
	💍 1919/485
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Insurance Clerk
Age	30	26
Dwelling Place	Wellington	Wellington
Length of Residence	9 Months	6 Years
Marriage Place	St Andrews Church, Wellington
Folio	301
Consent
Date of Certificate	27 March 1919
Officiating Minister	Rev S. R. Orr

227

27 March 1919

Fosby Gilbert Solly
Annie May Noybourn

Gosby Gilbert Solly
Annie May Wybourn
💍 1919/496

Bachelor
Spinster

Bank Clerk

20
23

Johnsonville
Johnsonville

7 Days
20 Years

Residence of Mr A. J. Noybourn, 20 Railway Terrace, Johnsonville

302

27 March 1919

Rev W. Rowe

No	227
Date of Notice	27 March 1919
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Fosby Gilbert Solly	Annie May Noybourn
BDM Match (92%)	Gosby Gilbert Solly	Annie May Wybourn
	💍 1919/496
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Bank Clerk
Age	20	23
Dwelling Place	Johnsonville	Johnsonville
Length of Residence	7 Days	20 Years
Marriage Place	Residence of Mr A. J. Noybourn, 20 Railway Terrace, Johnsonville
Folio	302
Consent
Date of Certificate	27 March 1919
Officiating Minister	Rev W. Rowe

228

28 March 1919

John Robert Dalgleish
Jessie Duggan McIntosh

John Robert Dalgleish
Jessie Duggan McIntosh
💍 1919/1913

Bachelor
Spinster

Dairyman

19
18

Wellington
Wellington

7 Months
3 Years

Registrars Office, Wellington

1677

Adam Dalgleish Father, James McIntosh Father

28 March 1919

Deputy Registrar

No	228
Date of Notice	28 March 1919
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	John Robert Dalgleish	Jessie Duggan McIntosh
	💍 1919/1913
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Dairyman
Age	19	18
Dwelling Place	Wellington	Wellington
Length of Residence	7 Months	3 Years
Marriage Place	Registrars Office, Wellington
Folio	1677
Consent	Adam Dalgleish Father, James McIntosh Father
Date of Certificate	28 March 1919
Officiating Minister	Deputy Registrar

229

28 March 1919

Thomas Bickford Bartlett
Bessie Louise Trowbridge

Thomas Bickford Bartlett
Bessie Louise Trowbridge
💍 1919/503

Bachelor
Spinster

Rancher

34
32

Wellington
Wellington

4 Years
4 Days

St Johns Presbyterian Manse, Wellington

303

28 March 1919

Rev J. Gibb D.D.

No	229
Date of Notice	28 March 1919
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Thomas Bickford Bartlett	Bessie Louise Trowbridge
	💍 1919/503
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Rancher
Age	34	32
Dwelling Place	Wellington	Wellington
Length of Residence	4 Years	4 Days
Marriage Place	St Johns Presbyterian Manse, Wellington
Folio	303
Consent
Date of Certificate	28 March 1919
Officiating Minister	Rev J. Gibb D.D.

230

31 March 1919

Cecil Hibb Leslie
Sylvia Gladys Hillen

Cecil Gibb Leslie
Sylvia Gladys Hillen
💍 1919/1920

Bachelor
Spinster

Traveller

30
26

Wellington
Wellington

10 days
5 years

St Marks Church, Wellington

1678

31 March 1919

Rev A. T. B. Page

No	230
Date of Notice	31 March 1919
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Cecil Hibb Leslie	Sylvia Gladys Hillen
BDM Match (97%)	Cecil Gibb Leslie	Sylvia Gladys Hillen
	💍 1919/1920
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Traveller
Age	30	26
Dwelling Place	Wellington	Wellington
Length of Residence	10 days	5 years
Marriage Place	St Marks Church, Wellington
Folio	1678
Consent
Date of Certificate	31 March 1919
Officiating Minister	Rev A. T. B. Page

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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).