Bill I don't know about rights but the daughter of my great aunt died when reasonably young and she was buried in the paddock about 200 metres from my aunt's homestead. We have actually been there and they used the route iron cot to surround the grave. My dad use to say so the "foxes could not dig the baby up". Nice on Dad Cheers, Sheelagh Wiles > On 2 Jul 2016, at 2:22 PM, Bill Webster via <aus-sagen@rootsweb.com> wrote: > > I have been doing some Scottish research and mention was made of people > being baptised well into adulthood because ministers (in this case a bishop) > made visits to such remote regions very infrequently. > > This made me wonder about remote SA deaths. If someone died and was buried, > might their burial rites be performed whenever the minister visited, no > matter how much later? > > And then, would it get written up by that minister in his register? Anyone > have examples of this? > > Thank you > Bill > > AUS-SAGEN Archives are here: > http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index/AUS-SAGEN/ > > Websites of Interest on our Blog: > http://aus-sagen-genealogy-websites.blogspot.com/ > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to AUS-SAGEN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message