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Infant burials & Parish registers
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KathleenBell | Report | 10 Nov 2015 16:48 |
My husband's baby brother (12 hours old) was buried in a coffin with someone else in the 1940's but the burial WAS recorded in the church records as was the name of the 2 year old girl he was buried with. We found the records at the County Records Office. |
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Julie | Report | 10 Nov 2015 14:28 |
wisechild - I was already familiar with the concept of burying an infant with an unconnected adult, but I can't immediately see why it follows that the burial wouldn't be recorded. I am not aware that historically there was any requirement to keep a record of where anyone was buried, simply who was buried. Hence the fact that several churches have carried out surveys to record not simply who is buried, but where. |
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Kay???? | Report | 10 Nov 2015 13:42 |
Look for a person being buried with the same time scale as the childs death,this can range from the same day or within the same week, |
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wisechild | Report | 10 Nov 2015 13:15 |
When children died very young, it was common practise to put them into a coffin with an adult who was being buried (often a stranger), therefore avoiding the cost of paying for a funeral. |
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Julie | Report | 10 Nov 2015 12:38 |
Hi Potty, |
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Potty | Report | 10 Nov 2015 12:02 |
The Baptisms register for our local church has a gap of 20 years. When Civil Registration came in, the Minister stopped recording them! |
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Julie | Report | 10 Nov 2015 11:09 |
I am not sure if this is a common problem. I have come across several instances where couples have baptisms recorded giving a child the same name as an earlier baptism - yes I am aware that it was commonplace to give a child the name of a deceased earlier child. However, the issue is that in several cases I can't find a burial record for the earlier child of the same name. I am aware that infants were sometimes buried in the same grave as adults, but that wouldn't in theory prevent the burial being recorded. I am also well aware that the registers were only as complete as the person keeping them ( and still are, as my father found the 2 most recent burials missing from the register for the small village where he lives). Is this a problems others are coming across? Is there a particular reason anyone is aware of, other than poor record keeping? |