Daniel Sandalio Haviland Ossandón

"There is some confusion in the written record of his baptism where he is recorded as "Samuel Avilan de ocho meses". The age aligns with the age given in personal correspondence of the boy's father as the age of Daniel Sandalio Haviland. But the name Samuel is the name of this baby's elder brother, born August 1828, who was dead by the end of 1830. (Avilan is one of several interesting spellings of the anglophone name Haviland applied by the registrars who, evidently, received only orally the names and dates they were given, wrote down what they thought they heard and who had insufficient (for this purpose) experience of spoken English.) We can speculate that perhaps the boys were both baptised at the same time, and the record thereof became garbled in transmission to the registrar." (sacado del documento denominado "The Genealogy of Samuel Fros Haviland 1798-1858 Who went to Chile.")