Intentions to Marry, 1922 Bay of Islands to Raglan

Reference: Registrar-General of Births, Deaths and Marriages, Notices of intention to marry, Series 8937, R2840505, Archives New Zealand Te Rua Mahara o te Kāwanatanga, Wellington

1922 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.

1922b contains pages 423-876, covering districts from Bay of Islands to Raglan

[NOTE: roughly one-third of the images from this register were too out of focus to use, this will hopefully be rectified soon]

Page 520

District of Hamilton Quarter ending 31 March 1922 Registrar Ferguson

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

24 February 1922

William Starry
Ivy May Jamieson

William Storry
Ivy May Jamieson
💍 1922/1615

Bachelor
Spinster

Grocer

24
24

Hamilton
Hamilton

10 years
14 years

St Johns Methodist Church, Hamilton East

1388

28 February 1922

Rev Ed Olds, Methodist

No	26
Date of Notice	24 February 1922
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	William Starry	Ivy May Jamieson
BDM Match (96%)	William Storry	Ivy May Jamieson
	💍 1922/1615
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Grocer
Age	24	24
Dwelling Place	Hamilton	Hamilton
Length of Residence	10 years	14 years
Marriage Place	St Johns Methodist Church, Hamilton East
Folio	1388
Consent
Date of Certificate	28 February 1922
Officiating Minister	Rev Ed Olds, Methodist

27 February 1922

Frederick William Brown
Myrtle Lena Higgins

Frederick William Brown
Myrtle Lena Higgins
💍 1922/1616

Bachelor
Spinster

Engineer

29
25

Hora Hora
Hamilton

2 years
19 years

First Church, Frankton Junction

1389

27 February 1922

Rev J Burrows, Presbyterian

No	27
Date of Notice	27 February 1922
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Frederick William Brown	Myrtle Lena Higgins
	💍 1922/1616
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Engineer
Age	29	25
Dwelling Place	Hora Hora	Hamilton
Length of Residence	2 years	19 years
Marriage Place	First Church, Frankton Junction
Folio	1389
Consent
Date of Certificate	27 February 1922
Officiating Minister	Rev J Burrows, Presbyterian

27 February 1922

John Lowbridge Bennett
Gladys May Leather

John Lowbridge Bennett
Gladys May Leather
💍 1922/1617

Bachelor
Spinster

Salesman

28
24

Hamilton
Hamilton

2 years
2 years

House of Hopkins, 10 St Winifreds Avenue, Hamilton

1390

27 February 1922

Rev R Mackie, Presbyterian

No	28
Date of Notice	27 February 1922
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	John Lowbridge Bennett	Gladys May Leather
	💍 1922/1617
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Salesman
Age	28	24
Dwelling Place	Hamilton	Hamilton
Length of Residence	2 years	2 years
Marriage Place	House of Hopkins, 10 St Winifreds Avenue, Hamilton
Folio	1390
Consent
Date of Certificate	27 February 1922
Officiating Minister	Rev R Mackie, Presbyterian

1 March 1922

George Ernest William Tremonger
Helen Daisy Smith

George Ernest William Iremonger
Helen Daisy Smith
💍 1922/1618

Bachelor
Spinster

Motor Mechanic

22
21

Hamilton
Te Awamutu

3 days
12 months

Registrar's Office, Hamilton

1391

1 March 1922

Registrar

No	29
Date of Notice	1 March 1922
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	George Ernest William Tremonger	Helen Daisy Smith
BDM Match (98%)	George Ernest William Iremonger	Helen Daisy Smith
	💍 1922/1618
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Motor Mechanic
Age	22	21
Dwelling Place	Hamilton	Te Awamutu
Length of Residence	3 days	12 months
Marriage Place	Registrar's Office, Hamilton
Folio	1391
Consent
Date of Certificate	1 March 1922
Officiating Minister	Registrar

3 March 1922

William Ernest Wood
Irene Winifred Elphich

William Ernest Wood
Irene Winifred Elphick
💍 1922/1619

Bachelor
Spinster

Clerk

27
24

Hamilton
Puheroro

4 years
3 years

Church of England, Cambridge

1392

3 March 1922

Rev C Mortimer-Jones, Anglican

No	30
Date of Notice	3 March 1922
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	William Ernest Wood	Irene Winifred Elphich
BDM Match (98%)	William Ernest Wood	Irene Winifred Elphick
	💍 1922/1619
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Clerk
Age	27	24
Dwelling Place	Hamilton	Puheroro
Length of Residence	4 years	3 years
Marriage Place	Church of England, Cambridge
Folio	1392
Consent
Date of Certificate	3 March 1922
Officiating Minister	Rev C Mortimer-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).