Intentions to Marry, 1922 Pongaroa to Wellington

Reference: Registrar-General of Births, Deaths and Marriages, Notices of intention to marry, Series 8937, R2840508, 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.

1922e contains pages 1691-2058, covering districts from Pongaroa to Wellington

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District of Wellington Quarter ending 31 December 1922 Registrar J. P. Leithorpe

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

903

2 October 1922

Robert Rowland Cappock
Mary Grant

Robert Rowland Coppock
Mary Grant
💍 1922/8491

Bachelor
Spinster

Importer

28
37

Wellington
Wellington

14 years
1 year

Residence of Mr. H. A. Grant, 94 Tiber Street, Island Bay

7558

2 October 1922

Rev. J. M. Thomson, Presbyterian

No	903
Date of Notice	2 October 1922
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Robert Rowland Cappock	Mary Grant
BDM Match (98%)	Robert Rowland Coppock	Mary Grant
	💍 1922/8491
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Importer
Age	28	37
Dwelling Place	Wellington	Wellington
Length of Residence	14 years	1 year
Marriage Place	Residence of Mr. H. A. Grant, 94 Tiber Street, Island Bay
Folio	7558
Consent
Date of Certificate	2 October 1922
Officiating Minister	Rev. J. M. Thomson, Presbyterian

904

2 October 1922

Thomas James Howard
Olive Adelaide Laing

Thomas James Howard
Olive Adelaide Laing
💍 1922/8492

Bachelor
Spinster

Railway Shunter

35
23

Kaiwarra
Petone

3 months
3 days

Residence of G. Parkinson, 74 Hutt Road, Petone

7559

2 October 1922

Rev. P. Quealy, Roman Catholic

No	904
Date of Notice	2 October 1922
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Thomas James Howard	Olive Adelaide Laing
	💍 1922/8492
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Railway Shunter
Age	35	23
Dwelling Place	Kaiwarra	Petone
Length of Residence	3 months	3 days
Marriage Place	Residence of G. Parkinson, 74 Hutt Road, Petone
Folio	7559
Consent
Date of Certificate	2 October 1922
Officiating Minister	Rev. P. Quealy, Roman Catholic

905

2 October 1922

Owen Wilder Bamfield
Elsie May Kathleen Howlett

Owen Wilder Bamfield
Elsie May Kathleen Howlett
💍 1922/8469

Bachelor
Spinster

Civil Servant

28
23

Wellington
Wellington

12 years
7 years

St. Pauls Pro-Cathedral, Wellington

7560

2 October 1922

Rev. A. M. Johnson, Anglican

No	905
Date of Notice	2 October 1922
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Owen Wilder Bamfield	Elsie May Kathleen Howlett
	💍 1922/8469
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Civil Servant
Age	28	23
Dwelling Place	Wellington	Wellington
Length of Residence	12 years	7 years
Marriage Place	St. Pauls Pro-Cathedral, Wellington
Folio	7560
Consent
Date of Certificate	2 October 1922
Officiating Minister	Rev. A. M. Johnson, Anglican

906

3 October 1922

James Alsford
Rachel Louisa Garlick

James Alsford
Rachel Louisa Garlick
💍 1922/8470

Bachelor
Spinster

Labourer

21
17

Wellington
Wellington

1 month
4 months

The Basilica, Hill Street, Wellington

7561

Nellie Garlick, mother, guardian

3 October 1922

Rev. J. Spillane, Roman Catholic

No	906
Date of Notice	3 October 1922
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	James Alsford	Rachel Louisa Garlick
	💍 1922/8470
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Labourer
Age	21	17
Dwelling Place	Wellington	Wellington
Length of Residence	1 month	4 months
Marriage Place	The Basilica, Hill Street, Wellington
Folio	7561
Consent	Nellie Garlick, mother, guardian
Date of Certificate	3 October 1922
Officiating Minister	Rev. J. Spillane, Roman Catholic

907

3 October 1922

Peter Allen Smith
Myrtle Grace Knight

Peter Allen Smith
Myrtle Grace Knight
💍 1922/8471

Bachelor
Spinster

Farmer

32
25

Wellington
Petone

3 days
4 years

Church of St. Peter and St. Paul, Lower Hutt

7562

3 October 1922

Rev. J. J. Lane, Roman Catholic

No	907
Date of Notice	3 October 1922
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Peter Allen Smith	Myrtle Grace Knight
	💍 1922/8471
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Farmer
Age	32	25
Dwelling Place	Wellington	Petone
Length of Residence	3 days	4 years
Marriage Place	Church of St. Peter and St. Paul, Lower Hutt
Folio	7562
Consent
Date of Certificate	3 October 1922
Officiating Minister	Rev. J. J. Lane, Roman Catholic

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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).