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Funerals in 1800s?
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MrsBucketBouquet | Report | 8 Mar 2005 15:00 |
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How did they afford to bury a relative back in those days? I wonder how much a funeral cost. I dont suppose they had insurances? Gerri x |
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Mary | Report | 8 Mar 2005 15:50 |
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Yes, they did have some sort of insurance in those days. I have an ancestor who was an insurance agent for burials on the 1851 census. A lot of children died before their fifth birthday so they would immediatly start paying a halfpenny or a penny a week to the agent, just in case their child died. Funerals in those days were nothing like those of to-day. The biggest expense was the plot, the grave digger and then the Minister. If you didn't have any money, then they would put you in a paupers grave but your name was always recorded in the cemetery records as well as the grave number. Mary |
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MrsBucketBouquet | Report | 8 Mar 2005 15:53 |
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Thats amazing! thanks for that info. I have just found the church in Dudley where my favorite rellie maybe burried. He died in 1876 aged 45. Heres hoping that B&Q isnt sitting on top of him lol Gerri x |
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Mary | Report | 8 Mar 2005 16:04 |
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If you do find a B&Q on top of him, then the burial records would have been deposited somewhere. Try the main cemetery for Dudley who my have them, failing that, try the main Record Office. Hope you find him where he was originally put. Mary |
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