Genealogy Chat

I have just received a copy of a page of BMD from a church records for the baptism of some rellies. Also on this page were the following entries......... INTERRED...A bastard child of Eleanor Simpson, Traveller. BURRIED...A child of Abraham Paternoster and his wife Elizabeth. Why the use of the two different words with the same meaning??? Were the children unnamed because they died prior to baptism, or were they stillborn? Both entries were on the same day and the writing is in the same hand. The date of the record is 1812.

I think you bury a body and inter ashes? I'd like to know now!

The definition of interred:- buried: placed in a grave. The definition of buried:- placed in a grave. Both mean exactly the same. Kath. x

Thanks Kath.....I was looking it up but couldn't really find a difference! All I know is that ashes are interred into the ground as opposed to buried. Perhaps clergy/funeral directors have a specific useage of words!

The word 'interred' is used on all the cemetery records I have, whether for burials or cremations. However in 1812, there wouldn't have been any cremations, so whoever wrote out the records must have just felt like using different words for some unknown reason. Kath. x

I'm only guessing here, but I suspect there was a subtle difference. Burial, I THINK, might suggest 'with the full rites of the burial service' Interred MIGHT suggest 'buried without the Rites etc', as would have been normal for an unbaptised, illegitimate child in those days - often buried (or interred!) at the edge of the graveyard as a kindness. OC

OC, Thanks, your idea seems very likely. Kathlyn