Intentions to Marry, 1921 Pongaroa to Wellington

Reference: Registrar-General of Births, Deaths and Marriages, Notices of intention to marry, Series 8937, R2840500, 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.

1921e contains pages 1735-2142, covering districts from Pongaroa to Wellington

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District of 30 September 1921 Quarter ending Wellington Registrar R. Q. Simmons

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

751

12 July 1921

Cecil Henry Noble-Campbell
Nancy Ethel Brice

Cecil Henry Noble-Campbell
Nancy Ethel Brice
💍 1921/7626

Bachelor
Spinster

Motor Salesman

28
22

Wellington
Wellington

6 months
14 years

Registrar's Office Wellington

6062

12 July 1921

Deputy Registrar

No	751
Date of Notice	12 July 1921
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Cecil Henry Noble-Campbell	Nancy Ethel Brice
	💍 1921/7626
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Motor Salesman
Age	28	22
Dwelling Place	Wellington	Wellington
Length of Residence	6 months	14 years
Marriage Place	Registrar's Office Wellington
Folio	6062
Consent
Date of Certificate	12 July 1921
Officiating Minister	Deputy Registrar

752

13 July 1921

William Wilfred Bamfield Butterfield
Corella Bertha Robinson

William Wilfred Bamfield Butterfield
Corella Bertha Robinson
💍 1921/7627

Widower
Widow

Grocer

31
42

Wellington
Wellington

10 years
7 years

Registrar's Office Wellington

6063

13 July 1921

Deputy Registrar

No	752
Date of Notice	13 July 1921
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	William Wilfred Bamfield Butterfield	Corella Bertha Robinson
	💍 1921/7627
Condition	Widower	Widow
Profession	Grocer
Age	31	42
Dwelling Place	Wellington	Wellington
Length of Residence	10 years	7 years
Marriage Place	Registrar's Office Wellington
Folio	6063
Consent
Date of Certificate	13 July 1921
Officiating Minister	Deputy Registrar

753

14 July 1921

Harved John Wheaton
Hilda Margaret Anneline Abbott

Harold John Wheaton
Hilda Margaret Annaline Corbett
💍 1921/7628

Bachelor
Spinster

Joiner

34
35

Lower Hutt
Petone

2 years
11 years

St Augustine's Anglican Church

6064

14 July 1921

Rev. N. A. Walke Anglican

No	753
Date of Notice	14 July 1921
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Harved John Wheaton	Hilda Margaret Anneline Abbott
BDM Match (87%)	Harold John Wheaton	Hilda Margaret Annaline Corbett
	💍 1921/7628
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Joiner
Age	34	35
Dwelling Place	Lower Hutt	Petone
Length of Residence	2 years	11 years
Marriage Place	St Augustine's Anglican Church
Folio	6064
Consent
Date of Certificate	14 July 1921
Officiating Minister	Rev. N. A. Walke Anglican

754

14 July 1921

Thomas William Simmonds
Mary Hunt

Thomas William Simmonds
Mary Hunt
💍 1921/7629

Widower
Widow

Printer

38
42

Wellington
Wellington

2 years
9 years

Unitarian Church, Ingestre Street, Wellington

6065

14 July 1921

Rev. M. S. Unitarian

No	754
Date of Notice	14 July 1921
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Thomas William Simmonds	Mary Hunt
	💍 1921/7629
Condition	Widower	Widow
Profession	Printer
Age	38	42
Dwelling Place	Wellington	Wellington
Length of Residence	2 years	9 years
Marriage Place	Unitarian Church, Ingestre Street, Wellington
Folio	6065
Consent
Date of Certificate	14 July 1921
Officiating Minister	Rev. M. S. Unitarian

755

14 July 1921

Cecil Henry Noble-Campbell
Nancy Ethel Noble-Campbell

Cecil Henry Noble-Campbell
Nancy Ethel Noble-Campbell
💍 1921/7630

Previously married
Widow

Motor Salesman

28
22

Wellington
Wellington

6 months
14 years

St Luke's Anglican Church

6066

14 July 1921

Rev. J. E. Jones Anglican

No	755
Date of Notice	14 July 1921
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Cecil Henry Noble-Campbell	Nancy Ethel Noble-Campbell
	💍 1921/7630
Condition	Previously married	Widow
Profession	Motor Salesman
Age	28	22
Dwelling Place	Wellington	Wellington
Length of Residence	6 months	14 years
Marriage Place	St Luke's Anglican Church
Folio	6066
Consent
Date of Certificate	14 July 1921
Officiating Minister	Rev. J. E. Jones Anglican

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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).