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 1839

District of Wellington Quarter ending 30 June 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

495

20 June 1919

Albert Robert Morris
Marguerite Clarke

Albert Robert Morris
Marguerite Clarke
💍 1919/2191

Bachelor
Spinster

Painter

30
22

Wellington
Wellington

5 years
7 years

Registrar's Office Wellington

1971

20 June 1919

Deputy Registrar

No	495
Date of Notice	20 June 1919
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Albert Robert Morris	Marguerite Clarke
	💍 1919/2191
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Painter
Age	30	22
Dwelling Place	Wellington	Wellington
Length of Residence	5 years	7 years
Marriage Place	Registrar's Office Wellington
Folio	1971
Consent
Date of Certificate	20 June 1919
Officiating Minister	Deputy Registrar

496

20 June 1919

John Ruere
Ivy Eileen Harris

John Lucre
Ivy Eileen Harris
💍 1919/2192

Divorced Decree Absolute 24/2/1916
Spinster

Chain-man

32
21

Brooklyn
Wellington

2 years
Life

Congregational Church Constable Street Wellington

1972

20 June 1919

Rev. W. A. Evans

No	496
Date of Notice	20 June 1919
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	John Ruere	Ivy Eileen Harris
BDM Match (90%)	John Lucre	Ivy Eileen Harris
	💍 1919/2192
Condition	Divorced Decree Absolute 24/2/1916	Spinster
Profession	Chain-man
Age	32	21
Dwelling Place	Brooklyn	Wellington
Length of Residence	2 years	Life
Marriage Place	Congregational Church Constable Street Wellington
Folio	1972
Consent
Date of Certificate	20 June 1919
Officiating Minister	Rev. W. A. Evans

497

21 June 1919

Sydney Tovey
Fanny Beatrice Garrett

Sydney Tovey
Fanny Beatrice Garrett
💍 1919/2193

Divorced Decree Absolute 18/6/1919
Divorced Decree Absolute 12/6/1919

Glass Inspector

41
35

Kilbirnie
Kilbirnie

8 years
6 years

Registrar's Office Wellington

1973

21 June 1919

Deputy Registrar

No	497
Date of Notice	21 June 1919
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Sydney Tovey	Fanny Beatrice Garrett
	💍 1919/2193
Condition	Divorced Decree Absolute 18/6/1919	Divorced Decree Absolute 12/6/1919
Profession	Glass Inspector
Age	41	35
Dwelling Place	Kilbirnie	Kilbirnie
Length of Residence	8 years	6 years
Marriage Place	Registrar's Office Wellington
Folio	1973
Consent
Date of Certificate	21 June 1919
Officiating Minister	Deputy Registrar

498

21 June 1919

Gavin Telfer
Eileen Marie O'Leary

Gavin Telfer
Eileen Marie O'Leary
💍 1919/2194

Bachelor
Spinster

Driver
Machinist

25
24

Lyall Bay
Wellington

15 months
10 days

St. Mary of the Angels Presbytery Boulcott Street Wellington

1974

21 June 1919

Rev. R. Hoare

No	498
Date of Notice	21 June 1919
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Gavin Telfer	Eileen Marie O'Leary
	💍 1919/2194
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Driver	Machinist
Age	25	24
Dwelling Place	Lyall Bay	Wellington
Length of Residence	15 months	10 days
Marriage Place	St. Mary of the Angels Presbytery Boulcott Street Wellington
Folio	1974
Consent
Date of Certificate	21 June 1919
Officiating Minister	Rev. R. Hoare

499

21 June 1919

Harold Henry Pearman
Dorothy Alberta Gladys Teague

Harold Henry Pearman
Dorothy Alberta Gladys Teague
💍 1919/2153

Bachelor
Spinster

Motor Chauffeur

25
20

Wellington
Wellington

25 years
20 years

Registrar's Office Wellington

1976

14 days notice

5 July 1919

Deputy Registrar

No	499
Date of Notice	21 June 1919
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Harold Henry Pearman	Dorothy Alberta Gladys Teague
	💍 1919/2153
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Motor Chauffeur
Age	25	20
Dwelling Place	Wellington	Wellington
Length of Residence	25 years	20 years
Marriage Place	Registrar's Office Wellington
Folio	1976
Consent	14 days notice
Date of Certificate	5 July 1919
Officiating Minister	Deputy Registrar

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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).