On 02 Feb 1867, Cora Captolia Symms, daughter of William Symms and Loretta Fidelia Olds, was born. On 06 May 1880, she was baptized in the Church of England at Philipsburg at the Parish of St. Armand West, Philipsburg, Missisquoi County, Province of Québec, Dominion of Canada.
The Birth and Baptismal Record of Cora Captolia Symms – 1880
SOURCE: Gabriel Drouin, comp. Drouin Collection. Montréal, Québec, Canada: Institut Généalogique Drouin. Church of England at Philipsburg at the Parish of St. Armand West, Philipsburg, Missisquoi County, Province of Québec, Dominion of Canada, 1880. Birth and Baptismal Record of Cora Captolia Symms, recto folio 8.
Click on the image above to enlarge it. Click on the link for a PDF copy of the Birth and Baptismal Record of Cora Captolia Symms. The record reads:
folio eight
On this sixth day of May
A.D. eighteen hundred and
eighty – Cora Captolia daughter
of William Symms of the
Pariah of St Armand West
and of his wife Loretta
Fidelia Olds born the second
 of February A.D. Eighteen hundred
and sixty-seven was baptized
in the presence of subscribing
witnesses by me
         [signed] Wm Westover
                         Officiating Minister
[signed] [V.E.Gestimer?]
[signed] M. A. Whitwell
This record can be found as image 8/25 in the Quebec Vital and Church Records (Drouin Collection), 1621-1967 on Ancestry.com in the records for Philipsburg (Anglican Church) 1880. The record appears on recto folio 8 (the front of folio 8).
Copyright © 2008 by Stephen J. Danko
FYI: William Symms, his wife Loretta F. Olds and a William Symms born Aug. 11, 1876, died May 20th 1891 are all buried at the Philipsburg Protestant Cemetery.
Thanks, Barbara!
The William Symms born 1876 is the son of William Symms and Loretta F. Olds. I’ll post his Birth and Baptismal Record on Thursday.
Steve
Thanks for the Symms info. William Symms Sr. was my 2C3R. I do need information on the family that remained in Canada. The ones who came to the US I’ve covered thoroughly.
Cora Symms is my great grandmother. She was married to Levi Maskell. do you have any information on the Maskell side