This is my great-great-grandmothers line, she was Mary Jane BABINGTON (above) from Coningsby, Lincolnshire (some seven miles southwest of where we live here in Horncastle.) This is the lineage that I had no information on at all, when I started on this line in 1999. We found out that her parents were from right here in Horncastle, and had actually married in the same church as Paul and I had in 1998 (how curious is this!). This is mentioned in the publication HORNCASTLE THEN AND NOW, also mentioning the stained glass window dedicated to cousins of this family, which I will explain in a moment. We found that my gggg grandfather James was a printer in the High Street of Horncastle, and he and his partner BOULTON published the registers of the Coningsby parish at the time of the birth of Mary Jane.

One of the brothers of James was Edward, who we would now call the 'black sheep of the family'; he was sent to Van Diemens Land Australia (herein referred to as VDL) and his family followed at a later date. The records of his demeanours will be shown on a page I am currently working on and his descendants will be shown in the page of BABINGTONS OF AUSTRALIA (also being worked on at the moment). Edwards son, also called Edward (they love confusing us don't they!), did not go to VDL, he stayed in Horncastle, on East Street and was a bank manager. After he and his wife passed away his daughter Lucy had a stained glass window (above image) dedicated to them and a number of their children at the CHURCH OF EASE, TRINITY CHURCH here in Horncastle, actually nearly opposite the house where they lived. However the Church is now a Tourist Information Centre, and is open from early May to September. The Stained Glass Window is to the left hand side as you go in, (i.e. it is the West window) you can't fail to miss it! It was so nice to show 'cousins' Lois and John Kennett from Australia round there in April 2000 and their eyes lit up as they saw it. We also showed them Benniworth, Old Bolingbroke, Mareham-le-Fen and Revesby which have connections to the Babingtons of Lincolnshire. Click on the image above to go to a page about the window.

Below is the basic lineage I have traced so far and we are back as far as Christopher (born 1645-65), his father as shown in the Wills as John BABINGTON living in Benniworth passing away in 1670. According to the 'Pedigree of Babington Family' by M.D.Babington in 1813 and G T Clark in 1888, it states, 'Descended from either Ferdinando or Cornelius'.  Ferdinando came from Yiewdley, Middlesex, b1594, and has three sons Ferdinand(o), Cornelius and John.  There is a Ferdinand(o) and an Anne having a John baptised 8th October 1640 at Bulwell, Nottinghamshire.  There is also a John BABINGTON passing away in Benniworth in 1648, (however, since the handwriting was so bad to decipher, it may not have been a BABINGTON at all in the Bishops Transcripts).       

Since I am stuck on this lineage, I have been working on the other BABINGTONs of neighbouring counties, and helping distant 'cousin's with their BABINGTON lineages (a page on this is being worked on but is not ready at this time). With luck I may be able to make more progress as the parish records are kept at the Lincolnshire Archives, however, the Bishop Transcripts of 1582+ are difficult to read, the handwriting is even worse than that of a doctor's!I have shown below a brief lineage of the BABINGTONs of Lincolnshire and how it links to my own line, note this file is still being worked on and being indexed so it may be updated at a future time. 

BRIEF LINEAGE (updated July 2001)John BABINGTON died 1670.
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Christopher BABINGTON born 1655 (hard to decipher on the Bishop Transcripts) d1710 his first marriage was to Edna (circa 1678) and his second marriage was to,  Mary WOODS on 13th January 1699.
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    Christopher BABINGTON born 1691 in Benniworth, died 1740, married approx 1719  Elizabeth (Old Bolingbroke, Nr Spilsby, Lincs)
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       Christopher BABINGTON born 1724 in Old Bolingbroke, died 1811 at 87 years, his first wife was Anne WHITE he married her at Withcall in 1742, his second marriage was to Elizabeth OGALSBY in 1743 she passed away in 1752 and he married as his third wife Susannah WILSON around 1760.  Was the Schoolmaster at Old Bolingbroke.
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            James BABINGTON born 1771 in Old Bolingbroke,  married(!) Felicia  (Horncastle, Lincs)
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                Henry BABINGTON born 1815 in Horncastle, married 27th June 1837 at St Marys Church, Horncastle; Helen HOWDEN (Horncastle, Lincs)
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                    Mary Jane BABINGTON born 1845 in Coningsby, Lincs; married Harry LAWSON (see LAWSON page)
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                        Minnie LAWSON married Frederick Charles TALBOT (see TALBOTpage)
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                      Rose Helen Howden TALBOT married John Henry 'Jack'; BUTLIN (see BUTLINpage)
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                       Margaret Rose BUTLIN married Derek Edwin KENDALL (see KENDALL page)
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                           Lorraine Margaret KENDALL b1964 married 1998 Paul L MONEY (see MONEYpage)
                           Paul Derek KENDALL b1965