Intentions to Marry, 1925 Rangiriri to Whangamomona

Reference: Registrar-General of Births, Deaths and Marriages, Notices of intention to marry, Series 8937, R2840530, Archives New Zealand Te Rua Mahara o te Kāwanatanga, Wellington

1925 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.

1925c contains pages 925-1356, covering districts from Rangiriri to Whangamomona

Page 1219

District of Inglewood Quarter ending 30 June 1925 Registrar A. D. Porteous

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

4 April 1925

Eric Theodore Scanlon
Gladys Dennis

Eric Theodore Scanlon
Gladys Dennis
💍 1925/4045

Bachelor
Spinster

Labourer
Domestic Duties

21
17

New Plymouth
Inglewood

1 month
17 years

Registrar's Office, Inglewood

4272

Annie Florence Mitchell (formerly Dennis), Mother

4 April 1925

A. D. Porteous, Registrar

No	4
Date of Notice	4 April 1925
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Eric Theodore Scanlon	Gladys Dennis
	💍 1925/4045
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Labourer	Domestic Duties
Age	21	17
Dwelling Place	New Plymouth	Inglewood
Length of Residence	1 month	17 years
Marriage Place	Registrar's Office, Inglewood
Folio	4272
Consent	Annie Florence Mitchell (formerly Dennis), Mother
Date of Certificate	4 April 1925
Officiating Minister	A. D. Porteous, Registrar

18 April 1925

John Roy Earp
Florence Hodger

John Roy Earp
Florence Hodges
💍 1925/4046

Bachelor
Spinster

Farmer
Domestic Duties

25
23

New Plymouth
Inglewood

25 years
23 years

Residence of Farmer Hodger, Inglewood

4273

18 April 1925

H. C. Orchard, Methodist

No	5
Date of Notice	18 April 1925
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	John Roy Earp	Florence Hodger
BDM Match (97%)	John Roy Earp	Florence Hodges
	💍 1925/4046
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Farmer	Domestic Duties
Age	25	23
Dwelling Place	New Plymouth	Inglewood
Length of Residence	25 years	23 years
Marriage Place	Residence of Farmer Hodger, Inglewood
Folio	4273
Consent
Date of Certificate	18 April 1925
Officiating Minister	H. C. Orchard, Methodist

27 April 1925

Thomas O'Brien
Evangeline Mary Alvis

Thomas O'Brien
Evangeline Mary Alvis
💍 1925/4047

Bachelor
Spinster

Labourer
Domestic Duties

29
17

Inglewood
Inglewood

2 years
17 years

Church of England, Inglewood

4274

Samuel Henry Alvis, Father

27 April 1925

Horace Lindsey, Church of England

No	6
Date of Notice	27 April 1925
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Thomas O'Brien	Evangeline Mary Alvis
	💍 1925/4047
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Labourer	Domestic Duties
Age	29	17
Dwelling Place	Inglewood	Inglewood
Length of Residence	2 years	17 years
Marriage Place	Church of England, Inglewood
Folio	4274
Consent	Samuel Henry Alvis, Father
Date of Certificate	27 April 1925
Officiating Minister	Horace Lindsey, Church of England

8 May 1925

Ernest Ray Banks
Marion Alice Weston

Ernest Roy Coutts
Marion Alice Weston
💍 1925/4048

Bachelor
Spinster

Land Clerk
Domestic Duties

27
24

Inglewood
Okoke

5 years
5 years

Methodist Church, Inglewood

4275

8 May 1925

N. C. Orchard, Methodist

No	7
Date of Notice	8 May 1925
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Ernest Ray Banks	Marion Alice Weston
BDM Match (82%)	Ernest Roy Coutts	Marion Alice Weston
	💍 1925/4048
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Land Clerk	Domestic Duties
Age	27	24
Dwelling Place	Inglewood	Okoke
Length of Residence	5 years	5 years
Marriage Place	Methodist Church, Inglewood
Folio	4275
Consent
Date of Certificate	8 May 1925
Officiating Minister	N. C. Orchard, Methodist

16 May 1925

Walter Edward Oakley
Wairoa Augusta Peters

Walter Edward Oakley
Mavis Augusta Peters
💍 1925/4457

Bachelor
Spinster

Labourer
Domestic Duties

26
18

Kaimiro
Kaimiro

2 years
18 years

Church of England, Inglewood

4276

Walter Harry Peters, Father

16 May 1925

Horace Lindsey, Church of England

No	8
Date of Notice	16 May 1925
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Walter Edward Oakley	Wairoa Augusta Peters
BDM Match (88%)	Walter Edward Oakley	Mavis Augusta Peters
	💍 1925/4457
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Labourer	Domestic Duties
Age	26	18
Dwelling Place	Kaimiro	Kaimiro
Length of Residence	2 years	18 years
Marriage Place	Church of England, Inglewood
Folio	4276
Consent	Walter Harry Peters, Father
Date of Certificate	16 May 1925
Officiating Minister	Horace Lindsey, Church of England

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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).

Primary digitisation of registers between 1855 and 1925 is now complete. Our digitisation volunteers are now working on verifying the currently digitised pages against printed district/page indexes, to identify pages which may have been missed or out of focus. These pages can be re-imaged as required.

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.

How can I help?

You can sign up to correct errors in the transcribed records and match ITMs with registered marriages.

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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).