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

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District of Wellington Quarter ending 30 June 1925 Registrar H. R. Thorpe

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

571

29 May 1925

John Dixon
Mary Frances Cridland-Butcher

John Dixon Box
Mary Frances Girling-Butcher
💍 1925/3404

Divorced (decree absolute 27/5/1925)
Spinster

Musician

47
28

Wellington
Wellington

4 years
1 year

Residence of Mrs J. Stahle, 11 Grass Street, Oriental Bay

2801

29 May 1925

J. Baird, Presbyterian

No	571
Date of Notice	29 May 1925
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	John Dixon	Mary Frances Cridland-Butcher
BDM Match (77%)	John Dixon Box	Mary Frances Girling-Butcher
	💍 1925/3404
Condition	Divorced (decree absolute 27/5/1925)	Spinster
Profession	Musician
Age	47	28
Dwelling Place	Wellington	Wellington
Length of Residence	4 years	1 year
Marriage Place	Residence of Mrs J. Stahle, 11 Grass Street, Oriental Bay
Folio	2801
Consent
Date of Certificate	29 May 1925
Officiating Minister	J. Baird, Presbyterian

572

29 May 1925

Alfred Albert Taylor
Agnes Mary Smith

Alfred Albert Taylor
Agnes Mary Smith
💍 1925/3415

Bachelor
Spinster

Labourer

28
27

Wellington
Wellington

5 months
1 year

Salvation Army Citadel, Vivian St, Wellington

2802

29 May 1925

H. C. Goffin, Salvation Army

No	572
Date of Notice	29 May 1925
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Alfred Albert Taylor	Agnes Mary Smith
	💍 1925/3415
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Labourer
Age	28	27
Dwelling Place	Wellington	Wellington
Length of Residence	5 months	1 year
Marriage Place	Salvation Army Citadel, Vivian St, Wellington
Folio	2802
Consent
Date of Certificate	29 May 1925
Officiating Minister	H. C. Goffin, Salvation Army

573

30 May 1925

Percy Felix Green
Laura Phyllis Andrews

Percy Felix Green
Laura Phyllis Andrews
💍 1925/5524

Bachelor
Spinster

Engine Driver

38
29

Wellington
Wellington

1 day
17 years

Methodist Church, Hataitai, Wellington

5343

30 May 1925

L. Eaton, Methodist

No	573
Date of Notice	30 May 1925
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Percy Felix Green	Laura Phyllis Andrews
	💍 1925/5524
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Engine Driver
Age	38	29
Dwelling Place	Wellington	Wellington
Length of Residence	1 day	17 years
Marriage Place	Methodist Church, Hataitai, Wellington
Folio	5343
Consent
Date of Certificate	30 May 1925
Officiating Minister	L. Eaton, Methodist

574

30 May 1925

Paulus Olsen
Thelma Alice Barrett

Paulus Olsen Sabo
Thelma Alice Barrett
💍 1925/3421

Bachelor
Spinster

Taxi Proprietor

37
19

Wellington
Wellington

15 years
Life

Registrar's Office, Wellington

2803

Alice Mary Barrett, mother

30 May 1925

Registrar

No	574
Date of Notice	30 May 1925
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Paulus Olsen	Thelma Alice Barrett
BDM Match (85%)	Paulus Olsen Sabo	Thelma Alice Barrett
	💍 1925/3421
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Taxi Proprietor
Age	37	19
Dwelling Place	Wellington	Wellington
Length of Residence	15 years	Life
Marriage Place	Registrar's Office, Wellington
Folio	2803
Consent	Alice Mary Barrett, mother
Date of Certificate	30 May 1925
Officiating Minister	Registrar

575

1 June 1925

Mazzini Pescini
Doris Isobel Howse

Mazzini Pescini
Doris Isobel Howse
💍 1925/3422

Bachelor
Spinster

Gardener

34
26

Wellington
Wellington

30 years
20 years

St. Andrew's Church, The Terrace, Wellington

2804

1 June 1925

W. Shirer, Presbyterian

No	575
Date of Notice	1 June 1925
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Mazzini Pescini	Doris Isobel Howse
	💍 1925/3422
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Gardener
Age	34	26
Dwelling Place	Wellington	Wellington
Length of Residence	30 years	20 years
Marriage Place	St. Andrew's Church, The Terrace, Wellington
Folio	2804
Consent
Date of Certificate	1 June 1925
Officiating Minister	W. Shirer, Presbyterian

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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).