{"id":2655,"date":"2008-06-20T00:01:07","date_gmt":"2008-06-20T07:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/20\/the-birth-and-baptism-of-louisa-may-symms-1880\/"},"modified":"2011-02-21T15:38:04","modified_gmt":"2011-02-21T23:38:04","slug":"the-birth-and-baptism-of-louisa-may-symms-1880","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/2655","title":{"rendered":"The Birth and Baptism of Louisa May Symms – 1880"},"content":{"rendered":"

On 12 Jan 1872, Louisa May 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 Qu\u00e9bec, Dominion of Canada.<\/p>\n

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The Birth and Baptismal Record of Louisa May 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 Louisa May Symms, recto folio 9.<\/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 Louisa May Symms<\/a>. The record reads:<\/p>\n

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On this sixth day of May
\nA.D. Eighteen hundred and
\neighty – Louisa May daughter
\nof William Symms of the
\nParish of St Armand West
\nand of his wife Loretta Fidelia
\nOlds born the twelth of January
\neighteen hundred and seventy-
\ntwo A.D. was baptized in
\nthe presence of subscribing
\nwitnesses by me
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[signed] [V.E.Gestimer?]
\n[signed] M. A. Whitwell<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This record can be found as image 9\/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 9 (the front of folio 9).<\/p>\n

The Birth and Baptismal Records of Loretta Fidelia Olds and her children Cora Captolia Symms, Louisa May Symms, and William Arther Symms, all occur sequentially in the records for the Anglican Church in Philipsburg. All were baptized on the same day in 1880, and all baptisms were witnessed by the same two people.<\/p>\n

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

On 12 Jan 1872, Louisa May 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 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-2655","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-GP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2655","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=2655"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13172,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2655\/revisions\/13172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}