A Collection of Miscellaneous Flamborough Birth and Baptismal Records

WEFHS December 23, 2022

Originally Published in Heritage Happenings, October 1996
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During the Summer months while cleaning out boxes of oddments, a small collection of early birth and baptismal records for East and West Flamborough were found. Many of them had been extracted from an early volume of the Ontario Historical Society Papers and Records and are now published as a Heritage Paper in the hope that they will be of interest to those involved with local genealogy. The original sources of these records are included for the benefit of researchers.

Extracted from Baptisms performed by Rev. Ralph Leeming in the Gore and London Districts of Upper Canada

MARY GREEN, born 19 December 1794, Grimsby, Upper Canada.
LUCY GREEN, born 3 September 1796, Grimsby, Upper Canada.
MERCY GREEN, born 2 September 1798, Grimsby, Upper Canada.
MARGARET GREEN, born 10 August 1800, Grimsby, Upper Canada.
WILLIAM GREEN, born 25 February 1802, Grimsby, Upper Canada.
JAMES GREEN, born 20 February 1802, Grimsby, Upper Canada.
JOHN GREEN, born 5 July 1805, Upper Canada.
PETER GREEN, born 22 January 1807, West Flamborough Twp., Upper Canada.
ELIZABETH GREEN, born 15 January 1809, West Flamborough Twp., Upper Canada.
SAMUEL GREEN, born 23 September 1810, West Flamborough Twp., Upper Canada.
NANCY GREEN, born 14 June 1812, West Flamborough Twp., Upper Canada.
All children of Samuel Green and Margaret Gordon of Greensville.

CHARLES VAN EVERY, born 2 September 1797, son of David Van Every and Sarah.

JOHN VAN EVERY, born 27 April 1815, son of William Van Every and Mary.

MARY CAREY, born 21 April 1816, daughter of Baptiste Carey and Ann, Servant to James Crooks Esq., West Flamborough.

MARGARET FRASER LOCKWOOD, born 1 January 1816, daughter of ? Lockwood, Schoolmaster, West Flamboro’ and Elizabeth.

JANE VANE EVERY, daughter of John VAN EVERY and Lucy. Born 29 May 1816.

All these children were baptized on 4 February 1817 in Greensville, West Flamborough Township.

ROBERT PILKINGTON CROOKS, born 3 August 1817 in West Flamborough Twp., son of James Crooks, Merchant and Jane Cummings.
Baptized 31 August 1817.

From the Gore Gazette: Monday 13 April 1829.

? COULSON, born 11 April 1829 at Flamboro, an unnamed son to Mr. and Mrs. W. Coulson who did not survive the day.

From The Christian Guardian, Toronto: 26 March 1831.

RANSOM S. GRIFFIN, born 21 March 1831, a son to Absalom Griffin and his wife Harriet of East Flamborough Twp.

From The Christian Guardian, Toronto: 4 June 1831.

ELEANOR REBECCA GRIFFIN, born 1 June 1831, a daughter for E. C. Griffin of Waterdown.

From the Niagara Gleaner: 18 January 1832.

? APPLEGARTH, born ? February 1832, a son for Mr. William Applegarth and his wife of East Flamborough Twp.

Extracted from Baptisms performed by Rev. John Miller, Parish Records of St. John’s Anglican Church, Ancaster 1830-1838.

LAURA ALLISON KIRBY, born 29 August 1829.
ELIAS KIRBY, born 27 November 1830.
Children of Andrew Todd Kirby and Sarah Ann of West Flamborough.
Baptized Sunday, 6 February 1831, Village of Dundas.

JAMES MILLS, born 20 January 1828.
SAMUEL MILLS, born 5 July 1830.
Sons of James Mills and Sarah of West Flamborough.
Baptized 11 July 1831, Village of Guelph.

JAMES FRANCIS MACKLEM, born 11 December 183?, son of James and Harriet Maria Macklem of Blenheim Twp.

SOPHIA KIRBY, born 2 April 1832, daughter of Andrew Todd Kirby and his wife Sarah Ann of West Flamborough Twp.
Both children baptized 9 February 1833, West Flamborough Twp.

GEORGE MORRIS, born 10 July 1833, son of John and Elizabeth Morris of East Flamborough Township.
Baptized 28 October 1833.

LUCRETIA PAGE, born 13 August 1834, daughter of Dr. Dunmore Page and his wife Anne. (A black man and a white woman)
Baptized 19 September 1834, West Flamborough Twp.

DOCTOR DUNMORE PAGE, born 25 December 1805, son of Edward Page of West Flamborough Township and his wife Lucy. (A black man)
Baptized 21 September 1834, Barton Township.

HENRY KIRBY, born 25 February 1834.
ANDREW KIRBY, born 15 November 1835.
Both sons of Andrew Todd Kirby and his wife Sarah Ann.
Baptized 25 February 1836, West Flamborough Twp.

SARAH BROWN, born 8 August 1836, daughter of William Brown and Sarah of West Flamborough Twp.
Baptized Sunday 29 January 1837 at the Parsonage House, Ancaster.
Sponsors: Henry Smart, Joan Smart, Sarah March.

ROBERT BERRY COULSON/COULSTON, born 8 March 1836, son of Henry Coulson/Coulston and his wife Mary of West Flamborough Twp.
Baptized 25 June 1837 at the home of his parents.