The parish register of St. Mary's Newington, London, shows that Babbage was baptised on 6 January 1792, supporting a birth year of 1791.

Wall painting of Thomas Becket's martyrdom painted in the 1330s in the parish church of St Peter ad Vincula, South Newington # Wall paintings | St Peter ad Vincula, South Newington, Oxfordshire

In 1899 the Metropolitan Borough of Stoke Newington was formed out of the greater part of the parish of that name.

The resulting boundaries seem rather anomalous now ; the entire eastern side of Stoke Newington High Street and beyond, including Stoke Newington Common, were included in the next door Metropolitan Borough of Hackney, but in fact this area was then part of the parish of Hackney – not Stoke Newington – and much of it would have been regarded as being in Shacklewell at the time.

Tracking east from here and past the two Church of England parish churches, both called Saint Mary's ( Stoke Newington strangely decided to retain the old one, unusual in a London parish ), leads to Abney Park Cemetery, one of the most splendid and enlightened of Victorian London cemeteries.

Unusually, Stoke Newington retains two parish churches.

Two notable exceptions are the classically grand parish church of West Hackney, St James's, on Stoke Newington Road, which dated from 1824, and St Faith's, a Victorian Gothic church by William Burges.

In 1712, the meetinghouse was erected and the parish set off, named Newington for an English village, whose residents sent the bell for the meetinghouse.

However, the parish was called ' St Mary, Newington '.

* St. Mary's New Church, Stoke Newington ( parish )

Anna Eliza Kempe was born in the parish of Newington, Surrey, on 25 Dec. 1790, to John Kempe, bullion porter in the Mint, and Ann, daughter of James Arrow of Westminster.

The church mentioned in the story is based on St Mary's " Old " Church, the original parish church of Stoke Newington.

Clissold Park Café is at the late-18th century villa ; the spire of Stoke Newington ( parish ) | St Mary's Church, Stoke Newington can been seen in the background.

Berrick Salome's boundary was extended in 1993 to include the whole of Roke and Rokemarsh ( previously largely in Benson parish ) and Berrick Prior ( previously part of the parish of Newington ).

The Domesday Book of 1086 records that the parish was worth £ 5 a year, compared with £ 30 and £ 15 respectively for the neighbouring parishes of Bensingtone ( Benson ) and Neutone ( Newington ).

This transaction swelled the neighbouring parish of Newington which was a peculiar of the Archbishop of Canterbury.

In July 1645 he moved from the rural western counties to the London area, as Colonel Alexander Popham, the patron of St. Mary ’ s parish, brought him east to the tiny town of Stoke Newington, in Middlesex county, outside London proper.

Farmland in St Buryan parish looking south towards the English channel | sea

With the ecclesiastical parishes of St Fagan's ( Trecynon ) and Aberaman carved out of the ancient parish, Aberdare had 12 Anglican churches and one Roman Catholic church, built in 1866 in Monk Street near the site of a cell attached to Penrhys monastery, and at one time had over 50 Nonconformist chapels.

The nearby St John the Baptist Church of the same parish was originally built in the 13th century, with some of the original architecture still intact.

Also of the same parish is St. Matthew's Church ( 1891 ), Abernant.

Also in this parish is St. Joseph's church, Cwmaman.

Neighbouring St Fillan's Church is one of the best-preserved medieval parish churches in Scotland, dating largely to the 12th century.

* The city of Franklin, the parish seat of St. Mary Parish in south Louisiana

Bolventor parish was established in 1846 ( before that date the village was in St Neot parish ) but has now been merged with Altarnun.

Daniel Foe ( his original name ) was probably born in the parish of St. Giles Cripplegate, London.

In 1696 he ran a tile and brick factory in what is now Tilbury, Essex and living in the parish of Chadwell St Mary.

The property, located in the parish of St Botolphs, was known as the Great Garden of Christchurch and had formerly belonged to Magdalene College, Cambridge.

He died six days later, of unknown causes, at King's Place, Hackney, and was buried on 6 July in the parish church of St. Augustine.

Yale died on July 8, 1721 in London, England, but was buried in the churchyard of the parish church of St. Giles in Wrexham, Wales.

Henry IV restored the charter granted to Gibraltar in 1310 and took two additional measures: the lands previously belonging to Algeciras ( destroyed in 1369 ) were granted to Gibraltar ; and the status of collegiate church was solicited from the pope Pius II and granted to the parish church of Saint Mary the Crowned (), now the Cathedral of St. Mary the Crowned, on the site of the old main Moorish Mosque.

Fedon and his troops controlled all of Grenada except the parish of St George's, the seat of government, between March 1795 and June 1796.

The dock areas outside of London and the parish of St Giles in the Fields, where poor workers crowded into ill-kept structures, were the first areas struck by the plague.

It is in the West St Leonards ward, stretching into the parish of Crowhurst.

The house featured in the image of Kings Head St to the left, is unique in the town and is an example of a sailmaker's house, thought to have been built circa 1600. Notable public buildings, all later, include the parish church of St. Nicholas ( 1821 ) in a restrained Gothic style, with many original furnishings including a ( somewhat altered ) organ of the same date in the west end gallery, and the Guildhall of 1769, the only Grade I listed building in Harwich.

Parts of the parish of St Clement in the south were previously below sea-level but the construction of a seawall and infilling of low land has probably left only a few pockets of land below mean sea level.

Until at least 1444 he lived in Strasbourg, most likely in the St. Arbogast parish.

The parish church of St. Mary the Virgin has Norman origins, and features a font from around 1200.

It is generally believed that Nicholas Breakspear was born at Breakspear Farm in the parish of Abbots Langley in Hertfordshire and received his early education at the Abbey School, St Albans ( St Albans School ).

Between 1500 and 1503 he carved an altar, now lost, for the parish church of Schwaz, Tyrol of the " Assumption of Mary ".

It depicts the six corporate acts of mercy — feeding the hungry, giving drink to the thirsty, clothing the naked, sheltering the homeless, visiting prisoners and the sick, and the inscription reads: " This window is sacred to the memory of Mary Anning of this parish, who died 9 March AD 1847 and is erected by the vicar and some members of the Geological Society of London in commemoration of her usefulness in furthering the science of geology, as also of her benevolence of heart and integrity of life.

Nevil Maskelyne is buried in the churchyard of St Mary the Virgin, the parish church of the village of Purton, Wiltshire, England.

Church Street and The Lammas house some Georgian and Victorian properties clustered around the parish church of St Mary.

Various villages claim to be the inspiration for Ambridge: Ambridge's public house, The Bull, is modelled on The Old Bull in Inkberrow, whereas Hanbury's St Mary the Virgin is often used as a stand-in for Ambridge's parish church, St Stephen's.

* French general Charles-François Dumouriez ( 1739 – 1823 ) is buried at St. Mary the Virgin parish church.

* Singer Dusty Springfield ( 1939 – 1999 ) has a gravesite and marker in the grounds of St Mary the Virgin parish church.

Danaher, angry that Sean outbid him for the Thornton land adjacent to his property, initially refuses to sanction the marriage until several town locals, including the parish priest, conspire to trick him into believing that the wealthy Widow Tillane ( Mildred Natwick ) wants to marry him, but only if Mary Kate is no longer living in the house.

The Abbey of the Blessed Virgin Mary at Tewkesbury, in the English county of Gloucestershire, is the second largest parish church in the country and a former Benedictine monastery.

The Priory Church of Saint Mary, Bushmead, commonly called Bushmead Priory, was a monastic foundation for Augustinian Canons, located at Bushmead ( a Hamlet in Staploe parish ) in the County of Bedfordshire in England.

* St. Mary and St. Melor parish church, Amesbury, Wiltshire: restoration, 1853

* St. Mary the Virgin parish church, Castle Eaton, Wiltshire: restoration, 1861 – 63

* Saint Mary at Stoke parish church, Ipswich, Suffolk, 1872

* St. Mary Magdalene parish church, Winterbourne Monkton, Wiltshire: rebuilding, 1878

* Ottery St. Mary parish church, Devon: south transept refurbishment and marble font

St Mary's parish was the birthplace of Mary Ball Washington, mother of George Washington.

Mary Ball Washington, mother of George Washington, was born in the parish of St Mary's.

The church of St Mary the Blessed Virgin Church, built in 1080, in Addington village was once the only church when it was the centre of a larger parish then incorporating Shirley.

The ancient parish church of St Mary the Virgin was largely rebuilt in the 17th Century.