The Birth and Baptism of Clark Gibson – 1867

On 16 Oct 1823, Clark Gibson, son of John Gibson and Sarah Waters, was born. He was baptized in the Wesleyan Methodist Congregation, Circuit of Saint Armand on 13 Jun 1867.

The Birth and Baptismal Record of Clark Gibson – 1867

SOURCE: Gabriel Drouin, comp. Drouin Collection. Montréal, Québec, Canada: Institut Généalogique Drouin. Wesleyan Methodist Congregation, Circuit of Saint Armand, Missisquoi County, Province of Québec, Dominion of Canada, 1867. Birth and Baptismal Record of Clark Gibson, verso folio 9.

Click on the image above to enlarge it. Click on the link for a PDF copy of the Birth and Baptismal Record of Clark Gibson. The record reads:

Baptism of Clark Gibson

     Clark son of John Gibson of the parish of
St. George District of Bedford farmer and
of Sarah his wife was born on the sixteenth of
October one thousand eight hundred and
twenty three and was baptized on the thirteenth
day of June one thousand eight hun=
dred and sixty-seven in the presence of
the subscribing witnesses by me.
JWEaton                          J. Armstrong
[Lyndo?] Smith                      Minister

This record can be found as image 10/13 in the Quebec Vital and Church Records (Drouin Collection), 1621-1967 on Ancestry.com in the records for St-Armand (Methodist Church) 1867. The record appears on verso folio 9 (the back of folio 9).

This particular record is from the civil transcript of the circuit record. Clark was baptized when he was 43 years old.

Clark Gibson, son of John Gibson and Sarah Waters, would later marry Maryette Olds, daughter of Willard Olds and Hannah Eliza Shults, whose birth and baptismal record I showed yesterday

I could not read the first name of the second witness.

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