{"id":2661,"date":"2008-06-21T00:01:19","date_gmt":"2008-06-21T07:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/21\/the-birth-and-baptism-of-lillian-bertha-symms-1880\/"},"modified":"2016-05-25T09:41:40","modified_gmt":"2016-05-25T16:41:40","slug":"the-birth-and-baptism-of-lillian-bertha-symms-1880","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/2661","title":{"rendered":"The Birth and Baptism of Lillian Bertha Symms – 1880"},"content":{"rendered":"

On 11 Aug 1876, Lillian Bertha 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

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

The Birth and Baptismal Record of Lillian Bertha 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 Lillian Bertha Symms, recto folio 11.<\/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 Lillian Bertha Symms<\/a>. The record reads:<\/p>\n

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On this sixth day of May A.D.
\neighteen hundred and eighty
\nLillian Bertha daughter of
\nWilliam Symms of the Parish
\nof St Armand West and of his
\nwife Loretta Fidelia Olds born
\nthe eleventh of August eighteen
\nhundred and seventy six A D.
\nwas baptized in the presence
\nof subscribing witnesses 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 11\/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 11 (the front of folio 11).<\/p>\n

Lillian Bertha Symms was baptized on the same day as her mother, brother, and two sisters.<\/p>\n

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

On 11 Aug 1876, Lillian Bertha 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-2661","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-GV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2661","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=2661"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19801,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2661\/revisions\/19801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}