On 11 Aug 1876, William Arther Symms, son of William Symms and Loretta Fidelia Olds, was born. On 06 May 1880, he 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 William Arther 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 William Arther Symms, recto folio 10.
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folio ten
On this sixth day of May
A.D. Eighteen hundred & eighty –
William Arther son of William
Symms of the Parish of St-
 Armand West and of his wife
Loretta Fidelia Olds born the
eleventh of August – eighteen
hundred and seventy six A.D.
was baptized in the presence
of subscribing witnesses by me
         [signed] Wm Westover
                         Minister Officiating
[signed] [V.E.Gestimer?]
[signed] M. A. Whitwell
This record can be found as image 10/25 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 10 (the front of folio 10).
This record records the baptism of the William Symms, born in 1876, whose death and burial was mentioned yesterday in a comment by Barbara P. Thanks, Barbara!
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