Intentions to Marry, 1922 Rangiriri to Whangamomona

Reference: Registrar-General of Births, Deaths and Marriages, Notices of intention to marry, Series 8937, R2840506, 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.

1922c contains pages 877-1290, covering districts from Rangiriri to Whangamomona

Page 1147

District of Hawera Quarter ending 31 March 1922 Registrar A. W. Mount

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

21 February 1922

Charles Glenn
Edis Lawrance

Bachelor
Spinster

Baker
Domestic Duties

33
26

Hawera
Hawera

2 years
2 years

Presbyterian church, Hawera

1584

21 February 1922

H. B. Gray, Presbyterian

No	11
Date of Notice	21 February 1922
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Charles Glenn	Edis Lawrance
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Baker	Domestic Duties
Age	33	26
Dwelling Place	Hawera	Hawera
Length of Residence	2 years	2 years
Marriage Place	Presbyterian church, Hawera
Folio	1584
Consent
Date of Certificate	21 February 1922
Officiating Minister	H. B. Gray, Presbyterian

24 February 1922

John Tutanha
Flora Arabella Hopkinson

John Tutauha
Flora Arabella Hopkinson
💍 1922/1812

Bachelor
Spinster

Cheese making
Domestic Duties

24
18

Hawera
Hawera

24 years
7 months

Registrar's Office, Hawera

1585

John Hopkinson, father

24 February 1922

Registrar

No	12
Date of Notice	24 February 1922
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	John Tutanha	Flora Arabella Hopkinson
BDM Match (96%)	John Tutauha	Flora Arabella Hopkinson
	💍 1922/1812
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Cheese making	Domestic Duties
Age	24	18
Dwelling Place	Hawera	Hawera
Length of Residence	24 years	7 months
Marriage Place	Registrar's Office, Hawera
Folio	1585
Consent	John Hopkinson, father
Date of Certificate	24 February 1922
Officiating Minister	Registrar

13 March 1922

Archibald Graham
Ellen Elizabeth Clare Maud Bigham

Archieball Graham
Ellen Elizabeth St Clare Maud Bigham
💍 1922/1813

Bachelor
Widow (15-3-1914)

Bootmaker
Domestic Duties

36
46

Hawera
Hawera

1 day
7 years

Presbyterian church, Hawera

1586

13 March 1922

H. B. Gray, Presbyterian

No	13
Date of Notice	13 March 1922
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Archibald Graham	Ellen Elizabeth Clare Maud Bigham
BDM Match (90%)	Archieball Graham	Ellen Elizabeth St Clare Maud Bigham
	💍 1922/1813
Condition	Bachelor	Widow (15-3-1914)
Profession	Bootmaker	Domestic Duties
Age	36	46
Dwelling Place	Hawera	Hawera
Length of Residence	1 day	7 years
Marriage Place	Presbyterian church, Hawera
Folio	1586
Consent
Date of Certificate	13 March 1922
Officiating Minister	H. B. Gray, Presbyterian

24 March 1922

John Pearson Page
Amy Winifred Beamish

John Pearson Page
Amy Winifred Beamish
💍 1922/1814

Bachelor
Spinster

Chemist
Company Secretary

33
35

Auckland
Hawera

33 years
25 years

Church of England, Mokora, Hawera

1587

24 March 1922

R. Franklin, Church of England

No	14
Date of Notice	24 March 1922
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	John Pearson Page	Amy Winifred Beamish
	💍 1922/1814
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Chemist	Company Secretary
Age	33	35
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Hawera
Length of Residence	33 years	25 years
Marriage Place	Church of England, Mokora, Hawera
Folio	1587
Consent
Date of Certificate	24 March 1922
Officiating Minister	R. Franklin, Church of England

27 March 1922

Douglas William Davies
Mary Brew

Douglas William Davies
Mary Brew
💍 1922/1815

Bachelor
Spinster

Labourer
Housemaid

27
22

Hawera
Hawera

4 months
6 months

Residence of Rev H. B. Gray, Argyle Street, Hawera

1588

24 March 1922

H. B. Gray, Presbyterian

No	15
Date of Notice	27 March 1922
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Douglas William Davies	Mary Brew
	💍 1922/1815
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Labourer	Housemaid
Age	27	22
Dwelling Place	Hawera	Hawera
Length of Residence	4 months	6 months
Marriage Place	Residence of Rev H. B. Gray, Argyle Street, Hawera
Folio	1588
Consent
Date of Certificate	24 March 1922
Officiating Minister	H. B. Gray, Presbyterian

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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).