{"id":2651,"date":"2008-06-19T00:01:49","date_gmt":"2008-06-19T07:01:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/19\/the-birth-and-baptism-of-william-arther-symms-1880\/"},"modified":"2016-05-25T09:41:40","modified_gmt":"2016-05-25T16:41:40","slug":"the-birth-and-baptism-of-william-arther-symms-1880","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/2651","title":{"rendered":"The Birth and Baptism of William Arther Symms – 1880"},"content":{"rendered":"

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 Qu\u00e9bec, Dominion of Canada.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/a><\/p>\n

The Birth and Baptismal Record of William Arther Symms – 1880<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

SOURCE: Gabriel Drouin, comp. Drouin Collection. Montr\u00e9al, Qu\u00e9bec, Canada: Institut G\u00e9n\u00e9alogique Drouin. Church of England at Philipsburg at the Parish of St. Armand West, Philipsburg, Missisquoi County, Province of Qu\u00e9bec, Dominion of Canada, 1880. Birth and Baptismal Record of William Arther Symms, recto folio 10.<\/p>\n

Click on the image above to enlarge it. Click on the link for a PDF copy of the Birth and Baptismal Record of William Arther Symms<\/a>. The record reads:<\/p>\n

folio ten<\/p>\n

On this sixth day of May
\nA.D. Eighteen hundred & eighty –
\nWilliam Arther son of William
\nSymms of the Parish of St-
\n\u00c2\u00a0Armand West and of his wife
\nLoretta Fidelia Olds born the
\neleventh of August – eighteen
\nhundred and seventy six A.D.
\nwas baptized in the presence
\nof subscribing witnesses by me
\n\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 [signed] Wm Westover
\n\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Minister Officiating
\n[signed] [V.E.Gestimer?]
\n[signed] M. A. Whitwell<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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).<\/p>\n

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!<\/p>\n

Copyright \u00a9 2008 by Stephen J. Danko<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 Qu\u00e9bec, Dominion of Canada. Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[105,139],"tags":[260],"class_list":["post-2651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-olds","category-symms","tag-quebec"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pyBfX-GL","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2651"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19800,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2651\/revisions\/19800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}