Genealogy Chat

Can any one explain why people should be buried in unconcecrated ground? It was explained to me that paupers would be buried as such,yet many of my relatives who were poor, but not paupers are in unconcecrated graves,yet one g.g.g.uncle who was a pauper and died in an asylum is buried in concecrated ground.Please help!


thanks

Lynne

I know that suicides were buried either in unconsecrated ground or on the (I think) north side of the church yard. Not sure when that practice stopped though.

Could be because of suicide or not of that faith or the fact that being poor meant a shared burial plot outside of church grounds.

I was always led to believe that someone who hadn't been christened/baptized could not be buried in consecrated ground.
Although I don't know where I know that from

Ann

Suicides were always buried in unconsecrated ground.

Dont know about those that had not been baptized or christined, years ago.

My Aunt who was born in 1904 and died 1944, was not baptized, but she was buried in consecrated ground.

I have a number of relatives with "consecrated - no" against their burial records. I think it is from not being C of E. They were buried in cemetries and if you weren't C of E then you were non conformist.

I have a friend, an elderly gentleman who said his wife gave birth to a still born baby and wanted it buried in the local churchyard. The vicar said the baby had to be buried in unconsecrated ground so it was buried outside the churchyard. Irene

Apparently consecrated ground was for members of the Church of England

Unconsecrated was for Christians of other denominations, other faiths or no faith.

I have a number in unconsecrated graves, what I believe they did was consecrate the ground after a certain number of burials.

You might find this helpful or interesting

http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/Burial

My Gt Grandfather commited Suicide, yet he was buried in consecrated ground

Linda. x

My mums cousin commited suicide during WW2 and she had to be buried in unconsecrated ground and the funeral had to take place after 4pm after the consecrated area of the grounds was closed for the day.

Sandra