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 992

District of Thames Quarter ending 31 March 1922 Registrar H. R. Bush

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

3 March 1922

Frederick Ernest Herby
Ivy Pearl Jennings

Frederick Ernest Kerby
Ivy Pearl Jennings
💍 1922/1780

Bachelor
Spinster

Salesman
Domestic Duties

20
19

Thames
Thames

20 years
5 years

Dwelling of Mr Herby, Queen Street, Thames

1529

Henry Herby (Father), William Jennings (Father)

3 March 1922

Rev. E. H. Saylor, Church of Christ

No	6
Date of Notice	3 March 1922
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Frederick Ernest Herby	Ivy Pearl Jennings
BDM Match (98%)	Frederick Ernest Kerby	Ivy Pearl Jennings
	💍 1922/1780
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Salesman	Domestic Duties
Age	20	19
Dwelling Place	Thames	Thames
Length of Residence	20 years	5 years
Marriage Place	Dwelling of Mr Herby, Queen Street, Thames
Folio	1529
Consent	Henry Herby (Father), William Jennings (Father)
Date of Certificate	3 March 1922
Officiating Minister	Rev. E. H. Saylor, Church of Christ

4 March 1922

Cyril Allen Reddish
Caroline Reid

Cyril Allen Reddish
Caroline Reid
💍 1922/1781

Bachelor
Spinster

Fisherman
Housemaid

22
20

Thames
Thames

22 years
15 years

Dwelling of William Reddish, Richmond Street, Thames

1530

George Thomas Reid (Father)

4 March 1922

Rev. E. H. Saylor, Church of Christ

No	7
Date of Notice	4 March 1922
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Cyril Allen Reddish	Caroline Reid
	💍 1922/1781
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Fisherman	Housemaid
Age	22	20
Dwelling Place	Thames	Thames
Length of Residence	22 years	15 years
Marriage Place	Dwelling of William Reddish, Richmond Street, Thames
Folio	1530
Consent	George Thomas Reid (Father)
Date of Certificate	4 March 1922
Officiating Minister	Rev. E. H. Saylor, Church of Christ

13 March 1922

Claude Smith
Bertha Perloe

Claude Smith
Bertha Peploe
💍 1922/1782

Widower (Date of decease of wife 26.2.1920)
Spinster

Bushman
Tailoress

35
26

Thames
Thames

3 days
26 years

Residence of George Perloe, Karaka Road, Thames

1531

13 March 1922

Rev. A. Mitchell, Methodist

No	8
Date of Notice	13 March 1922
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Claude Smith	Bertha Perloe
BDM Match (96%)	Claude Smith	Bertha Peploe
	💍 1922/1782
Condition	Widower (Date of decease of wife 26.2.1920)	Spinster
Profession	Bushman	Tailoress
Age	35	26
Dwelling Place	Thames	Thames
Length of Residence	3 days	26 years
Marriage Place	Residence of George Perloe, Karaka Road, Thames
Folio	1531
Consent
Date of Certificate	13 March 1922
Officiating Minister	Rev. A. Mitchell, Methodist

16 March 1922

Henry Augustus Joyce
Marie De Beauvoir Bleudou

Henry Augustus Joyce
Maria De Beauvior Clendon
💍 1922/1783

Bachelor
Spinster

Civil Servant
Domestic Duties

35
27

Auckland
Thames

1 day
27 years

St Georges Church, Thames

1532

16 March 1922

Rev. Beck, Church of England

No	9
Date of Notice	16 March 1922
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Henry Augustus Joyce	Marie De Beauvoir Bleudou
BDM Match (88%)	Henry Augustus Joyce	Maria De Beauvior Clendon
	💍 1922/1783
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Civil Servant	Domestic Duties
Age	35	27
Dwelling Place	Auckland	Thames
Length of Residence	1 day	27 years
Marriage Place	St Georges Church, Thames
Folio	1532
Consent
Date of Certificate	16 March 1922
Officiating Minister	Rev. Beck, Church of England

16 March 1922

Charles Alfred Brack
Pearl Gladys Breakwell

Charles Alfred Craft
Pearl Gladys Breakwell
💍 1922/1784

Bachelor
Spinster

Carpenter
Domestic Duties

21
20

Thames
Thames

3 months
3 months

Office of Registrar of Marriages, Thames

1533

Harry Breakwell (Father)

16 March 1922

H. R. Bush, Registrar of Marriages

No	10
Date of Notice	16 March 1922
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Charles Alfred Brack	Pearl Gladys Breakwell
BDM Match (93%)	Charles Alfred Craft	Pearl Gladys Breakwell
	💍 1922/1784
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Carpenter	Domestic Duties
Age	21	20
Dwelling Place	Thames	Thames
Length of Residence	3 months	3 months
Marriage Place	Office of Registrar of Marriages, Thames
Folio	1533
Consent	Harry Breakwell (Father)
Date of Certificate	16 March 1922
Officiating Minister	H. R. Bush, Registrar of Marriages

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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).