Hi Everyone Normally in NSW the person who owns a grave has the authority to say who will be buried in that grave. So maybe the funeral directors bought some graves and then offered them to various families to cut down the costs to them? Charmaine -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of nola k Sent: Friday, 10 October 2008 6:00 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [AUSTRALIA-CEMETERIES] Common Graves Hi All Thanks Carmel for your comments re common graves but maybe someone can clarify something for me. I have always been led to believe that "common graves" were essentially "pauper" graves paid for by either the government or charitable organisations. The multiple burials that I referred to in my previous note were actually privately arranged by funeral directors and the deceased families in order to reduce but not eliminate costs and therefore I believed them to be in a different catergory to "common graves". I hope someone can clarify this for me. Kind regards, Nola Violet Town Make the switch to the world's best email. Get Yahoo!7 Mail! http://au.yahoo.com/y7mail ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message