Genealogy Chat

Its a council cemetery and there isn't a head stone for either of them. I do know one of the council workers there and he has a list of the plots saying who is buried in them. I do remember a few of my relatives having young children put in with them who are not related, but I'm sure he never mentioned more than three people in one grave, which would be two adults and a young child normally.
Hope he's not busy tommorrow!

Thanks everyone

Meg

Another reason could be they didnt buy the grave.I have relatives dating back then who are buried in the local cemetery in common graves, these were for people who could not afford to buy a plot.Contact the cemetery and they can tell you who owns the plots

I used to be on a town burial committee that ran the cemetery. Usually graves took 3 people, more recently 2, (although it depended on the depth of the plot) but you had to buy the exclusive rights of burial for a plot to ensure that no one else was buried there. If the grave was marked with a headstone then the occupant had bought this right.

We had one grave with a brother and sister marked on the gravestone but many years before she had been buried two graves away from the headstone in an unmarked grave with two other people unrelated.

Thanks Shirley and Sam.

I agree with Shirley, my grandparents died within 2 weeks of each other and after my grandad had been buried, the grave was reopened with no bother a week later for the burial of my grandmother.
Sam x

maybe the family bought a double plot but it was side by side rather than two in the same plot. its not usually a problem to reopen a grave if it has the facility for more burials.

Probably no explanation as to why, but though I'd ask anyway.

If a husband died and was buried, would his plot have to be left a certain amount of time before his wife could be buried with him.

The reason I ask is he died 10/2/1908 buried 13/2/1908, his wife died 21/2/1908 buried 25/2/1908, they are not buried together but next door but one.

Thanks

Meg