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 1966

District of Wellington Quarter ending 31 December 1919 Registrar R. C. O'Connor

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

1111

2 December 1919

Albert Harold Booth
Edith May Mallows

Albert Harold Booth
Edith May Mallowes
💍 1919/8353

Bachelor
Spinster

Waterside Worker

30
27

Lower Hutt
Lower Hutt

10 years
5 years

St James Church Lower Hutt

7982

2 December 1919

Rev. A. L. Hansell Anglican

No	1111
Date of Notice	2 December 1919
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Albert Harold Booth	Edith May Mallows
BDM Match (97%)	Albert Harold Booth	Edith May Mallowes
	💍 1919/8353
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Waterside Worker
Age	30	27
Dwelling Place	Lower Hutt	Lower Hutt
Length of Residence	10 years	5 years
Marriage Place	St James Church Lower Hutt
Folio	7982
Consent
Date of Certificate	2 December 1919
Officiating Minister	Rev. A. L. Hansell Anglican

1112

2 December 1919

Carl Oscar Anderson Rydkvist
Alice Catherine Hamilton

Bachelor
Spinster

Engineer

39
35

Wellington
Wellington

20 years
34 years

Presbyterian Manse 73 Brougham Street Wellington

2 December 1919

Rev. J. Paterson Presbyterian

No	1112
Date of Notice	2 December 1919
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Carl Oscar Anderson Rydkvist	Alice Catherine Hamilton
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Engineer
Age	39	35
Dwelling Place	Wellington	Wellington
Length of Residence	20 years	34 years
Marriage Place	Presbyterian Manse 73 Brougham Street Wellington
Folio
Consent
Date of Certificate	2 December 1919
Officiating Minister	Rev. J. Paterson Presbyterian

1113

2 December 1919

William James Barnes
Elizabeth Jane Hanson

William James Dix Barnes
Elizabeth Jane Hansen
💍 1919/8330

Bachelor
Spinster

Service Labourer

21
21

Hataitai
Wellington

21 years
14 years

Registrar's Office Wellington

7983

2 December 1919

Registrar

No	1113
Date of Notice	2 December 1919
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	William James Barnes	Elizabeth Jane Hanson
BDM Match (89%)	William James Dix Barnes	Elizabeth Jane Hansen
	💍 1919/8330
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Service Labourer
Age	21	21
Dwelling Place	Hataitai	Wellington
Length of Residence	21 years	14 years
Marriage Place	Registrar's Office Wellington
Folio	7983
Consent
Date of Certificate	2 December 1919
Officiating Minister	Registrar

1114

2 December 1919

Robert Francis Hacker
Margaret Ewing Pollock

Robert Francis Packer
Margaret Ewing Pollock
💍 1919/8331

Bachelor
Spinster

Chauffeur

25
28

Wellington
Wellington

3 days
2 years

St Andrews Church Wellington

7984

2 December 1919

Rev. J. H. McKenzie Presbyterian

No	1114
Date of Notice	2 December 1919
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Robert Francis Hacker	Margaret Ewing Pollock
BDM Match (98%)	Robert Francis Packer	Margaret Ewing Pollock
	💍 1919/8331
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Chauffeur
Age	25	28
Dwelling Place	Wellington	Wellington
Length of Residence	3 days	2 years
Marriage Place	St Andrews Church Wellington
Folio	7984
Consent
Date of Certificate	2 December 1919
Officiating Minister	Rev. J. H. McKenzie Presbyterian

1115

2 December 1919

Reginald Leslie Brown
Kathleen Mary Maloney

Reginald Leslie Brown
Kathleen Mary Maloney
💍 1919/8332

Bachelor
Spinster

Plasterer's Labourer

22
21

Wellington
Wellington

20 months
10 years

St Anne's Church Newtown Wellington

7985

2 December 1919

Rev. E. Kimbell Roman Catholic

No	1115
Date of Notice	2 December 1919
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Reginald Leslie Brown	Kathleen Mary Maloney
	💍 1919/8332
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Plasterer's Labourer
Age	22	21
Dwelling Place	Wellington	Wellington
Length of Residence	20 months	10 years
Marriage Place	St Anne's Church Newtown Wellington
Folio	7985
Consent
Date of Certificate	2 December 1919
Officiating Minister	Rev. E. Kimbell Roman Catholic

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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).