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I do not, suggest thut thesis considurations will explain the actual 

 iX'sultH observed in this family, but I do maintain that they are points 

 which should be taken into account. 



The following are the particulars I have been able to gather 

 respecting the individual mend)ers. Excejit in one instance V, 2, 

 the inhei'itance has occurred thmugh the mali' members of the liimily, 

 the females having in the great majority of instances remained single. 



Generation I. 



No. 1. This was John Sinims, the earliest member of the family 

 now traceable. He was an organist. He had a musical wife. They 

 had ten children, every one of whom had musical ability of ,a high order. 



Generation II. 



No. 1. Bishop Simms, organist at thi.' Church of St Philij), 

 Birmingham (now the Cathedral Church), tor al)out forty years. 



No. 2. James, organist at Bromsgrove Church for forty-four years, 

 and also at Chaddesley, Worcester. 



No. 3. Samuel, organist at St Thomas's Church, Stourbridge, for 

 fifty years. He was one of the finest players of the time. He died 

 sometime before 1860. His wife " belonged to a musical family." 



No. 4. Henry, organist at a church near Stourbridge. 



No. 5. Jesse, organist at the parish church of Handsworth. 



No. 6. Edward, organist at Ashbourne, Derbyshire. 



No. 7. George Frederick, " held musical appointments." 



No. 8. Francis or Frank, musical, but not a professional oiganist. 



Nos. 9 and 10 were musical. 



Generation III. 



No. 1. John Sinmis, succeeded his father as organist. He had two 

 brothers, one of whom died young: the other was "chef" to the Duke 

 of Fife and " was probably not musical." Nothing is known about the 

 mother. 



No. 2. Arthur, organist. He married Miss Shore of Wrexham, 

 who was not musical. 



He was born in 1839 at Birmingham. In 1874 obtained the degree 

 of Mus. Bac, Oxford : 1875-80, organist St Mary's Cathedral, Glasgow : 

 then for seven years organist and choir master at Forest School, 

 Walthamstow : afterwards at Chard and Hythe. The obituary notice 

 in the Church Times describes him as "a Saint." 



