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Assumption, Illinois

He gave the name Assumption to his venture, in honor of his former Louisiana Parish.


A Ver-o-Mar

A 2012 law merged the parish with neighbouring Amorim and Terroso, becoming the northern parish of the city of Póvoa de Varzim, known as União das Freguesias de Aver-o-Mar, Amorim e Terroso.

Ahascragh

RTÉ's award winning show Don't Feed the Gondolas presented by Sean Moncrieff, satirised small village Ireland at the end of each show, choosing Ahascragh and the fictional "Head of the Parish Co-mit-tea" Monica Loolly as its instrument.

Aspall

Aspall, Suffolk, a village and civil parish in the Mid Suffolk district of Suffolk, England

Ayot

Ayot St Lawrence, a village and parish, residence of George Bernard Shaw

Ballyhide

There are two clubs in the parish, Graiguecullen GAA and Killeshin GAA and Ballyhide residents usually elect to play for one or the other.

Baltimore, County Cork

The local GAA club is Ilen Rovers, which was formed in 1973 and consists of the surrounding parish and that of Lisheen and Kilcoe.

Blackheath, West Midlands

The parish of St Paul was established in 1865 as a distinct entity from that of Rowley Regis and the new church consecrated in 1869.

Bonaventure Giffard

He was the second son of Andrew Giffard of Chillington, in the parish of Brewood, Staffordshire, by Catherine, daughter of Sir Walter Leveson, was born at Wolverhampton in 1642.

Bredenbury, Saskatchewan

It may be of relevance that there is a small parish and village called Bredenbury in the English county of Herefordshire.

Butlers Cross

It is located south of the main parish, on the crossroads between the road from Ellesborough to Little Kimble, and the road from Terrick to Chequers.

Buttercrambe with Bossall

The parish is near Stamford Bridge, and contains Buttercrambe and Bossall.

Casa del Niño Jesus de Pagbilao

Dennis M. Imperial, P.C. the newly assigned parish priest of the St. Catherine of Alexandria became the new director of CNJP with Mrs. Marcelita M. Martinez, as school principal.

Caversfield

The ancient Roman road between Alchester and Towcester, now the A4421, forms the eastern boundary of the parish.

Churchover

Within the parish boundaries is Coton House: A mansion house dating from 1787, now used as a business training school.

County Borough of Warley

This was united as the civil parish of Warley in 1884, but later divided between the boroughs of Oldbury and Smethwick (Warley Woods).

Crawley Development Corporation

Electricity provision was the responsibility of parish councils and local electricity providers such as SEEBOARD, but the Development Corporation set up a committee to bring them all together and ensure the town's needs were met efficiently.

Crichton, Midlothian

To the west of the village is the 15th-century parish church, formerly a collegiate church, established by William Crichton, 1st Lord Crichton, who served as Lord Chancellor of Scotland from 1439 to 1453.

Entradas

Entradas is a Portuguese town/parish within the boundaries of the municipality of Castro Verde, in the southern Alentejo region.

Euxton Parish Church

There is a commonality between the appearance of Euxton Parish Church and the oldest parts of neighbouring 14th-century church in Eccleston.

Harry Entwistle

He migrated to Australia in 1988 and continued his parish and prison ministry in the Diocese of Perth of the Anglican Church of Australia.

High Abbotside

The Parochial Parish includes the settlements and areas of Hawes, Appersett, Gayle, North Yorkshire and Burtersett as part of the Hawes & High Abbotside Parish Council.

Hole-in-the-Wall, Herefordshire

It is some five miles to the north of the town of Ross-on-Wye and part of the parish of Foy — the village of Foy, a mile to the west, is accessible by a footbridge over the Wye, built in 1919 by David Rowell & Co..

Holy Name of Jesus Catholic School

The children of HNJ parish attended Ascension School, which opened in September 1961, staffed by the Irish Sisters of Mercy, from Ardee, Ireland.

Joe Gladwin

He was baptised on 28 January 1906 at Mount Carmel RC Church, Ordsall and educated at the parish school.

Johannes Haw

He was chaplain in the parish of Our Lady in Koblenz, vicar in Holz in Heusweiler (Saar) and later parish priest in Wintersdorf in Ralingen on the Sauer.

John Hepworth

From 1977 to 1978 he was the assistant priest in the Colac parish and, from 1978 to 1980, was the rector of the South Ballarat parish based in Sebastopol.

Kilmadock

Kilmadock parish (Scottish Gaelic Cille Mo Dog), containing the settlements of Doune, Deanston, Buchany, Drumvaich, and Delvorich, is situated in Stirling council area, Scotland, and is on the southern border of the former county of Perthshire.

Leudwinus

He is the patron saint of Mettlach parish and his relics are carried by procession at the annual Pentecost celebration through the town.

Loughlynch

Loughlynch or Lough Lynch is a townland in the parish of Billy, County Antrim, Northern Ireland.

Louisiana Highway 69

The road connects Iberville Parish with areas along the Atchafalya Swamp in Assumption and St. Mary Parish.

Markyate Priory

The priory of Markyate was founded in 1145, in a wood which was then part of the parish of Caddington, and belonged to the Dean and Chapter of St Paul's Cathedral, London.

Matthäus Günther

Rattenberg—Parish Church of St. Virgil (ceiling frescoes and fresco in the sacristy) (1736)

Ober Kostenz

The Evangelical parish of Ober Kostenz, to which Schwarzen also belonged, merged in 1978 with the parish of Todenroth, while at the same time Kludenbach and Metzenhausen passed to Ober Kostenz.

Pascal Delannoy

Delannoy then served in a parish in Roubaix for two years, after which he was made responsible for diocesan activities in independent sites (1991–1999), and in 1997 was also named the Dean of the urban district of Roubaix and of Bailleul.

Postal codes in Jamaica

Although Kingston, the country's capital, along with part of the parish of St Andrew, was already subdivided into postal zones, these were not incorporated into the new codes.

Riccarton, Ayrshire

A pre-reformation Riccarton parish church stood in the centre of the old burial ground; first noted, as a chapel, in 1229, sub-ordinate to the church of Dundonald.

Roads Committee

In Jersey, the Roads Committee (French: Comité des Chemins) is the highway authority for Parish roads in each Parish.

Roman Catholic Diocese of Rotterdam

#Parish of Saint Thomas (Parochie H. Thomas), Alphen aan den Rijn, Hazerswoude-Dorp, Hazerswoude-Rijndijk

Schottenkirche, Vienna

Noted film director Fritz Lang was born in the parish and baptized in the Schottenkirche.

Shottesbrooke

The Roman 'Camlet Way' between St Albans and Silchester would have crossed the parish at some point and the name 'Cold Harbour' indicates there was an inn or other stopping place nearby.

St Paul's Church, Camden Square

It and its parish are part of the St Pancras team of parishes, which also includes St Pancras Old Church, St Michael's Church, Camden Town, and St Mary's Church, Somers Town.

Stoke Hammond

The Disney family, apparently related to the illustrator Walt Disney, was also at one time an influential family in the parish.

Terry Drainey

In 1991, upon leaving Africa, Drainey returned to the Salford diocese where he was appointed parish priest at the church of the Holy Cross, Patricroft, Eccles in Salford, where he served for the next six years prior to being appointed spiritual director to the Royal English College at Valladolid in 1997.

Thomas and Ann Borrow

In 1757 he married Anne Ault of Loughborough and came into the use of £4,000 and lands and property in Litchurch and the parish of St Peters.

Throwley

The Parish church is St Michaels and All Angels which is built of flint, inside are monuments to the Harris and Sondes families.

Üxheim

The parish of Niederehe is made up of the centres of Kerpen with Loogh, Heyroth and Niederehe.

Walton, Somerset

There is no evidence in the parish registers or other documents pertaining to Walton to support the popular notion the family of William Henry Smith the founder of W H Smith came from Walton.

Werner projection

Stab-Werner refers to two originators: Johannes Werner (1466–1528), a parish priest in Nuremberg, refined and promoted this projection that had been developed earlier by Johannes Stabius (Stab) of Vienna around 1500.

West Caister

For the purposes of local government, the parish falls within the district of Great Yarmouth.

Yealands

Yealand Redmayne, a village and civil parish in the English county of Lancashire


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