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 1342

District of Waitara Quarter ending 30 June 1925 Registrar F. W. Barnard

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

12 June 1925

Cyril Sinclair Carmichael
Elsie May Oliver

Cyril Sinclair Carmichael
Elsie May Oliver
💍 1925/4582

Bachelor
Spinster

Farmer
Domestic duties

23
20

Tikorangi
Waitara

5 years
20 years

Church of England, Tikorangi

4387

Charles Oliver, father

12 June 1925

Rev G. H. Gavin, Church of England

No	11
Date of Notice	12 June 1925
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Cyril Sinclair Carmichael	Elsie May Oliver
	💍 1925/4582
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Farmer	Domestic duties
Age	23	20
Dwelling Place	Tikorangi	Waitara
Length of Residence	5 years	20 years
Marriage Place	Church of England, Tikorangi
Folio	4387
Consent	Charles Oliver, father
Date of Certificate	12 June 1925
Officiating Minister	Rev G. H. Gavin, Church of England

17 June 1925

Albert Earlston Rowe
Doris Emily Arms

Albert Earlston Rowe
Doris Emily Arms
💍 1925/4583

Bachelor
Spinster

Farmer
Domestic duties

23
20

Huirangi
Huirangi

23 years
5 years

Presbyterian church, Waitara

4388

Albert John Arms, father

17 June 1925

Mr E. H. Kedgley, Presbyterian

No	12
Date of Notice	17 June 1925
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Albert Earlston Rowe	Doris Emily Arms
	💍 1925/4583
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Farmer	Domestic duties
Age	23	20
Dwelling Place	Huirangi	Huirangi
Length of Residence	23 years	5 years
Marriage Place	Presbyterian church, Waitara
Folio	4388
Consent	Albert John Arms, father
Date of Certificate	17 June 1925
Officiating Minister	Mr E. H. Kedgley, Presbyterian

20 June 1925

John Arthur Jeffries
Myrtle Agnes Langman

John Arthur Jeffries
Myrtle Agnes Langman
💍 1925/4584

Bachelor
Spinster

Farmer
Waitress

23
25

Tikorangi
Waitara

4 years
14 years

Roman Catholic church at Waitara

4389

20 June 1925

Rev P. J. Minogue, Roman Catholic

No	13
Date of Notice	20 June 1925
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	John Arthur Jeffries	Myrtle Agnes Langman
	💍 1925/4584
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Farmer	Waitress
Age	23	25
Dwelling Place	Tikorangi	Waitara
Length of Residence	4 years	14 years
Marriage Place	Roman Catholic church at Waitara
Folio	4389
Consent
Date of Certificate	20 June 1925
Officiating Minister	Rev P. J. Minogue, Roman Catholic

22 June 1925

Charles Napoleon Kingstone
Eileen Baker

Charles Napoleon Kingstone
Eileen Baker
💍 1925/4585

Bachelor
Spinster

Clerk
Domestic duties

29
23

New Plymouth
Waitara

4 years
23 years

Presbyterian Church at Waitara

4390

22 June 1925

Mr E. H. Kedgley, Presbyterian

No	14
Date of Notice	22 June 1925
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Charles Napoleon Kingstone	Eileen Baker
	💍 1925/4585
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Clerk	Domestic duties
Age	29	23
Dwelling Place	New Plymouth	Waitara
Length of Residence	4 years	23 years
Marriage Place	Presbyterian Church at Waitara
Folio	4390
Consent
Date of Certificate	22 June 1925
Officiating Minister	Mr E. H. Kedgley, Presbyterian

27 June 1925

Alfred Charles Jevill
Ida Maud Bolton

Alfred Charles Terrill
Ida Maud Boulton
💍 1925/4586

Bachelor
Spinster

Labourer
Domestic duties

20
25

Motunui
Motunui

20 years
4 months

Registrars Office Waitara

4391

27 June 1925

F. W. Barnard, Registrar

No	15
Date of Notice	27 June 1925
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Alfred Charles Jevill	Ida Maud Bolton
BDM Match (90%)	Alfred Charles Terrill	Ida Maud Boulton
	💍 1925/4586
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Labourer	Domestic duties
Age	20	25
Dwelling Place	Motunui	Motunui
Length of Residence	20 years	4 months
Marriage Place	Registrars Office Waitara
Folio	4391
Consent
Date of Certificate	27 June 1925
Officiating Minister	F. W. Barnard, Registrar

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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).