REYNOLDS HISTORICAL GENEALOGY COLLECTION 
Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2010 with funding from Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center

VITAL STATISTICS OF SEYMOUR, CONN. COMPILED BY W.C. SHARPE 

"RECORD" PRINT. SEYMOUR, CONN. 1883 

Births, Baptisms, Marriages & Deaths through 1883

Transcribed by Dave Swerdfeger

INTRODUCTION

This volume is in part the result of a necessity for a complete and convenient index of the town records of births, marriages and deaths, a necessity which became apparent whenever there was occasion to look up a family record either for legal or genealogical purposes. The former volume, (The History of Seymour), contained the genealogies of such families, bearing names which had long been represented among the freeholders of the territory represented, as were then available in the time at the disposal of the compiler. That work is now so effectually supplemented in these pages as to render the extension of those genealogies an easy matter, besides giving the records of hundreds of families not mentioned there. These pages have been compiled entirely from original records, commencing with the authorized records of the town, including so much as could be found in the parish records, the inscriptions in the cemeteries before the incorporation of the town, and such othersonrces as were found reliable. More than one thousand family names are given, and over five thousand individual names are indexed, with more than ten thousand references. It is hardly possible that the transcription of so many names, dates and ages has been done entirely without error, but it is confidently believed that the errors are few and that the copy is in many respects more nearly perfect than some of the originals. In explanation of this statement it should be said that the records bear evidence in some places of having been copied from the original certificates by some one unfamiliar with time names, many of them being so misspelled as to be unrecognizable, and in copying for these pages the errors have been corrected as far as practicable. For instance, a name plainly written as McCavity is found to represent McCarthy, Ruchel for Buchele, Monwhiler for Manweiler, Arriah for Amelia, Donoper for Donahue. Mullerday for Mulready, Evangeline and Leila for Charlotte, M.J. for Ida J., &c. But no such correction was made without a certainty as to the right. In the list of deaths, from the town records the place of birth and residence it time of death is given when other than Seymour, and also the occupation, when stated in the original entry. Previous to 1869 the relationship of deceased persons was not recorded by the registrar. In reprinting the records the spelling has usually been followed, with exceptions aforesaid, but in indexing different names known to refer to the same person or family are indexed as one; for instance: Fanny, Fannie and Frances; and the names Kinney, Kinny and Kenney are copied as found on a row of tombstones, but are indexed alike. Many inquiries were sent out, and the responses received, and the family records copied furnished data for the insertion of many of the names that were lacking. Some names will be missed which may at first thought be expected to he found in the following pages, but it should be remembered that they are a record only of what has occurred here, that parties married in other towns will find their marriages recorded only in the town where the ceremony was performed. Births and deaths have not always been recorded by the parties cognizant of the facts, and in one case the sudden death of a physician prevented returns which would otherwise doubtless have been made. With these brief explanations the work is respectfully submitted to a discriminating public. SEYMOUR, FEBRUARY 15th, 1883.

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