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 1738

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

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

6 January 1919

Percy Linton Hodge
Ethel Lorna Pittar de Lautour

Percy Linton Hodge
Ethel Lorna Pittar de Lantour
💍 1919/379

Bachelor
Spinster

Clerk

27
20

Wellington
Wellington

10 mos.
10 years

St. Peters Church, Wellington

104

Robert Archibald de Lautour, father

6 January 1919

Rev. T. M. Kempthorne

No	6
Date of Notice	6 January 1919
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Percy Linton Hodge	Ethel Lorna Pittar de Lautour
BDM Match (98%)	Percy Linton Hodge	Ethel Lorna Pittar de Lantour
	💍 1919/379
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Clerk
Age	27	20
Dwelling Place	Wellington	Wellington
Length of Residence	10 mos.	10 years
Marriage Place	St. Peters Church, Wellington
Folio	104
Consent	Robert Archibald de Lautour, father
Date of Certificate	6 January 1919
Officiating Minister	Rev. T. M. Kempthorne

7 January 1919

Walter Thomas Calcett
Maud Marion Shaw

Walter Thomas Calcott
Maud Marion Shaw
💍 1919/380

Bachelor
Spinster

Farmer

39
29

Wellington
Wellington

2 weeks
2 weeks

Residence of J. H. Mackenzie, 24 Kelburn Parade, Wellington

105

7 January 1919

J. H. Mackenzie

No	7
Date of Notice	7 January 1919
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Walter Thomas Calcett	Maud Marion Shaw
BDM Match (98%)	Walter Thomas Calcott	Maud Marion Shaw
	💍 1919/380
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Farmer
Age	39	29
Dwelling Place	Wellington	Wellington
Length of Residence	2 weeks	2 weeks
Marriage Place	Residence of J. H. Mackenzie, 24 Kelburn Parade, Wellington
Folio	105
Consent
Date of Certificate	7 January 1919
Officiating Minister	J. H. Mackenzie

7 January 1919

Ralph Thomas Hales
Margaret Moana Taylor

Ralph Thomas Hales
Margaret Moana Taylor
💍 1919/381

Bachelor
Spinster

Farmer

27
26

Wellington
Wellington

5 days
7 years

St Joseph's Church, Buckle Street, Wellington

106

7 January 1919

Rev. D. H. Hurley

No	8
Date of Notice	7 January 1919
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Ralph Thomas Hales	Margaret Moana Taylor
	💍 1919/381
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Farmer
Age	27	26
Dwelling Place	Wellington	Wellington
Length of Residence	5 days	7 years
Marriage Place	St Joseph's Church, Buckle Street, Wellington
Folio	106
Consent
Date of Certificate	7 January 1919
Officiating Minister	Rev. D. H. Hurley

7 January 1919

Frederick Jesse Snelling
Lily Helena Pratt

Frederick Jesse Snelling
Lily Helena Pratt
💍 1919/382

Bachelor
Spinster

Butcher

25
26

Wellington
Wellington

Life
Life

St Mark's Church, Wellington

107

7 January 1919

Rev. C. F. Askew

No	9
Date of Notice	7 January 1919
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Frederick Jesse Snelling	Lily Helena Pratt
	💍 1919/382
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Butcher
Age	25	26
Dwelling Place	Wellington	Wellington
Length of Residence	Life	Life
Marriage Place	St Mark's Church, Wellington
Folio	107
Consent
Date of Certificate	7 January 1919
Officiating Minister	Rev. C. F. Askew

7 January 1919

Percy Andrew Glennie
Ivy Denison

Percy Andrew Glennie
Ivy Denison
💍 1919/383

Bachelor
Spinster

Farmer

33
23

Lower Hutt
Lower Hutt

12 yrs.
10 yrs.

Registrar's Office, Wellington

408

7 January 1919

Deputy Registrar

No	10
Date of Notice	7 January 1919
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Percy Andrew Glennie	Ivy Denison
	💍 1919/383
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Farmer
Age	33	23
Dwelling Place	Lower Hutt	Lower Hutt
Length of Residence	12 yrs.	10 yrs.
Marriage Place	Registrar's Office, Wellington
Folio	408
Consent
Date of Certificate	7 January 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).