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 1938

District of Wellington Quarter ending 31 March 1925 Registrar F. H. 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

146

10 February 1925

Charles Edwin Frampton
Edith Ada Lister

Charles Edwin Frampton
Edith Ada Lister
💍 1925/130

Bachelor
Spinster

Sheep farmer

24
21

Wellington
Wellington

3 days
3 days

St. Mark's Church, Wellington

815

10 February 1925

H. K. Fry, Anglican

No	146
Date of Notice	10 February 1925
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Charles Edwin Frampton	Edith Ada Lister
	💍 1925/130
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Sheep farmer
Age	24	21
Dwelling Place	Wellington	Wellington
Length of Residence	3 days	3 days
Marriage Place	St. Mark's Church, Wellington
Folio	815
Consent
Date of Certificate	10 February 1925
Officiating Minister	H. K. Fry, Anglican

147

10 February 1925

Samuel Campbell
Euphemia Allen (known as Euphemia Knowsley)

Samuel Campbell
Euphemia Knowsley
💍 1925/131

Bachelor
Spinster

Customs Agent

27
25

Wellington
Wellington

Life
13 years

Presbyterian Church, Kent Terrace, Wellington

816

10 February 1925

J. Baird, Presbyterian

No	147
Date of Notice	10 February 1925
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Samuel Campbell	Euphemia Allen (known as Euphemia Knowsley)
BDM Match (70%)	Samuel Campbell	Euphemia Knowsley
	💍 1925/131
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Customs Agent
Age	27	25
Dwelling Place	Wellington	Wellington
Length of Residence	Life	13 years
Marriage Place	Presbyterian Church, Kent Terrace, Wellington
Folio	816
Consent
Date of Certificate	10 February 1925
Officiating Minister	J. Baird, Presbyterian

148

10 February 1925

James Cotter
Catherine Mary Counchan

James Cotter
Catherine Mary Counihan
💍 1925/132

Bachelor
Spinster

Letter Carrier

30
30

Wellington
Wellington

Life
11 years

St. Mary of the Angels Church, Boulcott Street, Wellington

817

10 February 1925

M. A. Murphy, Roman Catholic

No	148
Date of Notice	10 February 1925
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	James Cotter	Catherine Mary Counchan
BDM Match (98%)	James Cotter	Catherine Mary Counihan
	💍 1925/132
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Letter Carrier
Age	30	30
Dwelling Place	Wellington	Wellington
Length of Residence	Life	11 years
Marriage Place	St. Mary of the Angels Church, Boulcott Street, Wellington
Folio	817
Consent
Date of Certificate	10 February 1925
Officiating Minister	M. A. Murphy, Roman Catholic

149

10 February 1925

Edley Richard Hicks Palmer
Vera Allison Braid

Edley Richard Hicks Palmer
Vera Allison Braid
💍 1925/133

Bachelor
Spinster

Railway Employee

20
21

Wellington
Wellington

2 years
Life

St. Mark's Church, Wellington

818

Richard Palmer, father

10 February 1925

H. K. Fry, Anglican

No	149
Date of Notice	10 February 1925
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Edley Richard Hicks Palmer	Vera Allison Braid
	💍 1925/133
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Railway Employee
Age	20	21
Dwelling Place	Wellington	Wellington
Length of Residence	2 years	Life
Marriage Place	St. Mark's Church, Wellington
Folio	818
Consent	Richard Palmer, father
Date of Certificate	10 February 1925
Officiating Minister	H. K. Fry, Anglican

150

10 February 1925

Albert Edward James
Mary Elizabeth Johnstone

Albert Edward James
Mary Elizabeth Johnstone
💍 1925/134

Divorced Decree Absolute 4/3/1920
Spinster

Clerk

45
46

Wellington
Wellington

5 years
7 years

Registrar's Office, Wellington

819

10 February 1925

Registrar

No	150
Date of Notice	10 February 1925
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Albert Edward James	Mary Elizabeth Johnstone
	💍 1925/134
Condition	Divorced Decree Absolute 4/3/1920	Spinster
Profession	Clerk
Age	45	46
Dwelling Place	Wellington	Wellington
Length of Residence	5 years	7 years
Marriage Place	Registrar's Office, Wellington
Folio	819
Consent
Date of Certificate	10 February 1925
Officiating Minister	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).