On 07 Nov 1857, William Symms and Loretta Fidelia Olds (daughter of Willard Olds and Hannah Elizabeth Shults) were married in the Wesleyan Methodist Congregation of the Circuit of St. Armands, Missisquoi County, Canada East, Province of Canada.
The Marriage Record of William Symms and Loretta Fidelia Olds – 1857
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 Lillian Bertha Symms, recto folio 11.
Click on the image above to enlarge it. Click on the link for a PDF copy of the Marriage Record of William Symms and Loretta Fidelia Olds – 1857. The record reads:
                         folio twelve
           Marriage
William Symms Junr. of Philipsburg in the
Seignory of St. Armand County of Mississquoi
and District of Montreal Bachelor Wheelright
and Loretta Phidelia Olds, of the same place
Were Married by license on the Seventh
day of November in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight Hundred and fifty seven
in presence of the Subscribing Witnesses
         by me [signed] Francis Hurt
                                     MinisterWitnesses { [signed] William Symms
                    [signed] Loretta F OldsWitnesses { [signed] R W Morgan
                    [signed] Mary Ann Symm
This record can be found as image 12/18 in the Quebec Vital and Church Records (Drouin Collection), 1621-1967 on Ancestry.com in the records for St-Armand (Methodist Church) 1857. The record appears on recto folio 12 (the front of folio 12).
This record can also be found as image 9/12 in the Quebec Vital and Church Records (Drouin Collection), 1621-1967 on Ancestry.com in the records for Clarenceville (Methodist Church) 1858. The record appears on recto folio 12 (the front of folio 12). The record does not appear to belong in the Clarenceville records. It seems that Ancestry.com duplicated part of the St-Armand (Methodist Church) records at the beginning of the Clarenceville records in error.
The text of this document lists the bride’s name as Loretta Phidelia Olds, but she signs it as Loreta F Olds. Her birth and baptismal record provided her name as Loretta Fidelia Olds, and that is the spelling I have used in my database.
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