Intentions to Marry, 1925 Pongaroa to Wellington

Reference: Registrar-General of Births, Deaths and Marriages, Notices of intention to marry, Series 8937, R2840532, 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.

1925e contains pages 1785-2176, covering districts from Pongaroa to Wellington

Page 1921

District of Wellington Quarter ending 31 March 1925 Registrar A. H. Gilthorpe

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

20 January 1925

Lawrence George Edward Perkins
Mary Harris

Lawrence George Edward Perkins
Mary Harris Cation
💍 1925/96

Bachelor
Spinster

Plasterer

23
22

Lower Hutt
Lower Hutt

15 years
2 years

Presbyterian Church, Kent Terrace, Wellington

730

20 January 1925

J. Baird, Presbyterian

No	61
Date of Notice	20 January 1925
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Lawrence George Edward Perkins	Mary Harris
BDM Match (81%)	Lawrence George Edward Perkins	Mary Harris Cation
	💍 1925/96
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Plasterer
Age	23	22
Dwelling Place	Lower Hutt	Lower Hutt
Length of Residence	15 years	2 years
Marriage Place	Presbyterian Church, Kent Terrace, Wellington
Folio	730
Consent
Date of Certificate	20 January 1925
Officiating Minister	J. Baird, Presbyterian

21 January 1925

George Cameron Gregory
Gladys Elsie Frith

George Cameron Gregory
Gladys Elsie Frith
💍 1925/97

Bachelor
Spinster

Biograph Operator

26
26

Wellington
Wellington

8 years
16 years

Presbyterian Church, Kent Terrace, Wellington

731

21 January 1925

J. Baird, Presbyterian

No	62
Date of Notice	21 January 1925
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	George Cameron Gregory	Gladys Elsie Frith
	💍 1925/97
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Biograph Operator
Age	26	26
Dwelling Place	Wellington	Wellington
Length of Residence	8 years	16 years
Marriage Place	Presbyterian Church, Kent Terrace, Wellington
Folio	731
Consent
Date of Certificate	21 January 1925
Officiating Minister	J. Baird, Presbyterian

21 January 1925

George Atkinson Hudson
Areta Alexandra May

George Atkinson Hudson
Areta Alexandra May
💍 1925/98

Bachelor
Spinster

Bank Clerk

32
21

Khandallah
Khandallah

1 year
life

St. Barnabas Church, Khandallah

732

21 January 1925

C. H. Isaacson, Anglican

No	63
Date of Notice	21 January 1925
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	George Atkinson Hudson	Areta Alexandra May
	💍 1925/98
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Bank Clerk
Age	32	21
Dwelling Place	Khandallah	Khandallah
Length of Residence	1 year	life
Marriage Place	St. Barnabas Church, Khandallah
Folio	732
Consent
Date of Certificate	21 January 1925
Officiating Minister	C. H. Isaacson, Anglican

21 January 1925

William Walker Hounslow
Ilene Myrtle Stuart-Forbes

William Walter Hounslow
Ilene Myrtle Stuart-Forbes
💍 1925/99

Divorced decree absolute 19/9/1924
Spinster

Cabinet maker

40
23

Wellington
Wellington

22 years
3 years

Registrar's Office, Wellington

733

21 January 1925

Registrar

No	64
Date of Notice	21 January 1925
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	William Walker Hounslow	Ilene Myrtle Stuart-Forbes
BDM Match (98%)	William Walter Hounslow	Ilene Myrtle Stuart-Forbes
	💍 1925/99
Condition	Divorced decree absolute 19/9/1924	Spinster
Profession	Cabinet maker
Age	40	23
Dwelling Place	Wellington	Wellington
Length of Residence	22 years	3 years
Marriage Place	Registrar's Office, Wellington
Folio	733
Consent
Date of Certificate	21 January 1925
Officiating Minister	Registrar

21 January 1925

Samuel Arthur Frank Agar
Alma Yulina Elliott

Samuel Arthur Frank Agar
Alma Yulina Elliott
💍 1925/100

Bachelor
Spinster

Horse Owner

29
28

Petone
Lower Hutt

2 weeks
2 weeks

St. James Church, Lower Hutt

734

21 January 1925

Ah. Hansell, Anglican

No	65
Date of Notice	21 January 1925
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Samuel Arthur Frank Agar	Alma Yulina Elliott
	💍 1925/100
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Horse Owner
Age	29	28
Dwelling Place	Petone	Lower Hutt
Length of Residence	2 weeks	2 weeks
Marriage Place	St. James Church, Lower Hutt
Folio	734
Consent
Date of Certificate	21 January 1925
Officiating Minister	Ah. Hansell, Anglican

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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).