Intentions to Marry, 1921 Rangiriri to Whangamomona

Reference: Registrar-General of Births, Deaths and Marriages, Notices of intention to marry, Series 8937, R2840498, Archives New Zealand Te Rua Mahara o te Kāwanatanga, Wellington

1921 is bound in eight volumes (a to h) with continuous page numbers. Each volume contains a different set of districts, going from north to south.

1921c contains pages 885-1316, covering districts from Rangiriri to Whangamomona

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District of Whangarei Quarter ending 31 December 1921 Registrar Frank Bird

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

7 October 1921

John MacKey
Mary Gray

John MacKay
Mary Gray
💍 1921/3811

Bachelor
Spinster

Clerk
Nurse

31
26

Auckland
Whangarei

30 years
4 years

Church of England, Whangarei

9753

7 October 1921

Rev G. C. Cruickshank, Church of England

No	63
Date of Notice	7 October 1921
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	John MacKey	Mary Gray
BDM Match (95%)	John MacKay	Mary Gray
	💍 1921/3811
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Clerk	Nurse
Age	31	26
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Whangarei
Length of Residence	30 years	4 years
Marriage Place	Church of England, Whangarei
Folio	9753
Consent
Date of Certificate	7 October 1921
Officiating Minister	Rev G. C. Cruickshank, Church of England

7 October 1921

Hugh Boscawen Anderson
Marianne Affleck Scott

Hugh Boscawen Anderson
Marianne Affleck Scott
💍 1921/3812

Bachelor
Spinster

Engineer
Domestic

27
27

Whangarei
Whangarei

4 days
4 days

Church of England, Whangarei

9754

7 October 1921

Rev G. C. Cruickshank, Church of England

No	64
Date of Notice	7 October 1921
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Hugh Boscawen Anderson	Marianne Affleck Scott
	💍 1921/3812
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Engineer	Domestic
Age	27	27
Dwelling Place	Whangarei	Whangarei
Length of Residence	4 days	4 days
Marriage Place	Church of England, Whangarei
Folio	9754
Consent
Date of Certificate	7 October 1921
Officiating Minister	Rev G. C. Cruickshank, Church of England

11 October 1921

Oswald Burnett Mann
Annie Caroline Otto

Oswald Burnett Mann
Annie Caroline Otto
💍 1921/3813

Bachelor
Spinster

Taxi proprietor
Domestic

23
21

Whangarei
Whangarei

23 years
3 years

Methodist Church, Whangarei

9755

11 October 1921

Rev W. H. Speer, Methodist

No	65
Date of Notice	11 October 1921
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Oswald Burnett Mann	Annie Caroline Otto
	💍 1921/3813
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Taxi proprietor	Domestic
Age	23	21
Dwelling Place	Whangarei	Whangarei
Length of Residence	23 years	3 years
Marriage Place	Methodist Church, Whangarei
Folio	9755
Consent
Date of Certificate	11 October 1921
Officiating Minister	Rev W. H. Speer, Methodist

14 October 1921

Stanley Alfred Daly
Florence Harriet Shandley

Stanley Alfred Daly
Florence Harriet Shandley
💍 1921/3814

Bachelor
Spinster

Baker
Domestic

23
20

Whangarei
Whangarei

12 months
20 years

Salvation Army Hall, Whangarei

9756

James Shandley, father

14 October 1921

Major E. G. Newby, Salvation Army

No	66
Date of Notice	14 October 1921
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Stanley Alfred Daly	Florence Harriet Shandley
	💍 1921/3814
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Baker	Domestic
Age	23	20
Dwelling Place	Whangarei	Whangarei
Length of Residence	12 months	20 years
Marriage Place	Salvation Army Hall, Whangarei
Folio	9756
Consent	James Shandley, father
Date of Certificate	14 October 1921
Officiating Minister	Major E. G. Newby, Salvation Army

27 October 1921

Jakob Peter Frederick Heismann
Hettie Edwards

Jakob Peter Frederick Leismann
Hettie Edwards
💍 1921/3815

Bachelor
Spinster

Labourer
Domestic

32
27

Onerahi
Onerahi

4 years
27 years

Registrar's Office, Whangarei

9757

27 October 1921

Frank Bird, Registrar

No	67
Date of Notice	27 October 1921
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Jakob Peter Frederick Heismann	Hettie Edwards
BDM Match (98%)	Jakob Peter Frederick Leismann	Hettie Edwards
	💍 1921/3815
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Labourer	Domestic
Age	32	27
Dwelling Place	Onerahi	Onerahi
Length of Residence	4 years	27 years
Marriage Place	Registrar's Office, Whangarei
Folio	9757
Consent
Date of Certificate	27 October 1921
Officiating Minister	Frank Bird, 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).