Title: Page from Featherstone Lake Osler's Baptismal Register, showing William Osler and William Thompson Banting
Location: Simcoe (Ont. : County)
Date: 1849
Physical Description: image.photograph.black and white
12.0 x 19.4 including borders
Image Number: CUS_031-022_P
Description: A photograph of the Rev. Featherstone Osler's baptismal register, showing a record of William Osler's birth on July 12, 1849, and his baptism on August 19, 1849. Also listed are the birth (March 31, 1849) and baptism (July 3, 1849) of William Thompson Banting, the father of Sir Frederick Banting, one of the discoverers of insulin.
Other surnames listed in the register include Griffiths, Brawley, Nixon, Ellis, Piper, McAdam, Jeff, Walker, and Coburn.
Places listed in the register include Tecumseth parish, West Gwillimbury parish, Bradford, Barrie, and Essa township, all in Simcoe County, Ontario.
Notes: Baptismal register of the Rev. F. L. Osler. Showing Banting's father entered March 31st 1849 & Sir Wm. Osler, on same page, July 12th. W.W.F. From Maude Abbott's Box of "Osler letters" (transcribed from back of photo)
Subject Baptisms 1840-1850
Subject Baptismal records
Subject Registers of births, etc.
Subject Osler, Featherstone Lake, 1805-1895
Subject Simcoe (Ont. : County)
Publisher: Osler Library of the History of Medicine, McGill University
is Part Of: Cushing Collection
Image Is Related To: Back


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