Hi Dianne, Having read all the emails on this subject, especially this section of Terry's: '.. Plenary Council of the Roman catholic church in Sydney in 1885 the setting apart of an unconsecrated portion of the cemetery separated by a fence or wall for the purpose of '....the burial of infants who die without baptism, and of others, who according to the canonical enactments are deprived of ecclesiastical burials' i.e. those who marry outside the church, those who suicide.' I wonder if Caroline was one who married outside the church and had a death-bed confession, repenting of that marriage, therefore being able to be buried by a priest, but if the marriage was not annulled, still needing to be buried as an excommunicant. I would be interested to see who is interred in that grave or neighbouring ones - a child, her husband if he was Anglican, her parents if she converted to Catholicism? Do you have her marriage, and children's BDM details? That could answer lots of questions. Rosalyn Hi I have a death certificate for a Caroline Sullivan, died 1896. It states that the place of burial was the Church of England Cemetery Waverley and the minister was a George P Birch Roman Catholic. I have looked up George P Birch in the Sands Directory and he is listed as Rev G P Birch (R.C) Albert St Wollahra. Can anyone suggest why a person buried in the Church of England section in a cemetery would have a Catholic minister perform the ceremony? Keen to hear your ideas and if anyone else has found this in their family Thankyou. Regards, Dianne Myers ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to AUS-NSW-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message