This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/DIB.2ACE/364.1.1 Message Board Post: Not sure where you live but in the US there are no civil parishes, There are only counties or towns/townships within a county. Any parishes will be religious, usually Catholic or Episcopalian.