The Madron parish register records ‘ Humphry Davy, son of Robert Davy, baptized at Penzance, January 22nd, 1779 .’ Robert Davy was a wood carver at Penzance, who pursued his art more for enjoyment than for profit.

Gwynn ’ s dating of the custom to the eighteenth century rested on the assumption that it must have disappeared before these elderly interviewees were born, and on his misreading of the baptism register of the parish of Llansanffraid Glyn Ceiriog.

The registration of her birth was delayed for several days to avoid her being numbered 13 in the parish register.

His entry in the parish burial register does not mention his origins, parents, or relatives.

The parish register books of St. Peter's Parish show that Nicholas Gentry's daughter was baptized in the church in 1687.

It appears on the first page of the Køng churchbook ( parish register ) in 1687 at the baptism of Jeppe, son of Simon Ibsen of Glamsberg.

Robert Chamber's " Book of Days " ( 1868 ) gives an alternative birth date of 14 July, and Hunter is recorded as always celebrating his birthday on the 14th rather than the 13 July shown in the parish register of the town of his birth.

The earliest parish register is from 1591.

The townsfolk supported the Parliamentarians but gentry and clergy were for the old order, so that when Charles I of England was executed in 1649 the minister, Alexander Gregory, wrote on behalf of the gentry in the parish register, " O England what did ' st thou do, the 30th of this month ".

Surprisingly, the village records omit any mention this event, and the parish register of 1645 makes absolutely no mention to the battle, with the vicar only recording one birth in the parish on the day of the battle.

He founded the Swedish system of public personal register, ordering his parsons to file comments on every person in the parish.

In the entry in the parish register he is described as a " stranger ," which, however, implies nothing more than that he belonged to another parish.

In London, he resided in the parish of St. Botolph's Aldgate ; three of his children named in the parish register appear to have died before adulthood.

" The elder Francks were sufficiently reconciled to the marriage that they attended the ceremony and signed the register at what had become César's parish church, Notre-Dame-de-Lorette.

The first entry in the parish register referring to the town as Aspatria in preference to the name Aspatrick or Aspatricke appears in 1712.

Since 1837, the proof of a marriage has been by a marriage certificate, issued at the ceremony ; before then, it was by the recording of the marriage in a parish register.

* The first register book of the parish church of Elstree, 1655-1757, Translated by Arthur R. T. Eales, publisher: pr. by Coombes, 1914, 76 pages.

In the burial register of the parish of Chatham it is recorded, " Phineas Pett, Esqe.

She was at one time thought to have been identical with a Dorothy Jeffrey or Jeffery whose burial is recorded in the Paul parish register but this has been doubted ( however the Oxford DNB ( 2004 ) does accept the identification ).

No burial of Dorothy Pentreath is recorded, but it has been argued that this appears in the parish register under the name of Dolly Jeffery, which is suggested to be the surname of her son's father.

A " Newbell-ile " at Middleton Wood End is mentioned in the Rothwell parish register for 1762.

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 ).