Hi Julia, That sounds like an interesting book that you mentioned by Vicar Hammond - is it available to read anywhere? Thanks for a great website, Lorna > > 1. Re: Knuckey & Halls - burial in the church (jwmos99@msn.com) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2010 00:53:11 -0500 > From: <jwmos99@msn.com> > Subject: Re: [CORNISH-GEN] Knuckey & Halls - burial in the church > To: <cornish-gen@rootsweb.com> > Message-ID: <COL111-W37386BBD9E8F477C80ECF9A9AA0@phx.gbl> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > > Hi All - > > At least in St. Austell's Holy Trinity, whoever paid the going rate (at one point, 3s.4d.) could be buried in the church, so whether one was included was based on ability to pay, rather than social prominence. In one year, 35 people were thusly buried. The vestry raised the rate eventually to GBP50, in an effort to deter such requests - and finally had to remove all the bodies because the structure was weakened!! (It didn't help to have clay wagons, carrying up to 4 tons, rumbling past day and night.) > > This information came from a book written in 1897 by the Vicar (Hammond) who loved the old records, and was afraid they'd be lost if he didn't record them. > > Cheers, > > Julia > > Julia Mosman, OPC for St.Austell,Charlestown, and Treverbyn > > Website at http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~staustell > > W. Briton newspaper transcripts at http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~wbritonad > > Please visit the OPC website at http://cornwall-opc.org > > > From: Catherine Frendo <catherinefrendo@hotmail.com> > > Subject: [CORNISH-GEN] Jane Duncalf nee Knuckey (1600's) > > As she was buried in the church does that mean that she came from a notable family. Were the Duncalfs an important family or was Jane a descendant of an important family? Jane was the daughter of Christopher Knuckey and Ann Halls. > > > > > > Cheers, > > Catherine > > Sydney, Australia > > > > ------------------------------ > > To contact the CORNISH-GEN list administrator, send an email to > CORNISH-GEN-admin@rootsweb.com. > > To post a message to the CORNISH-GEN mailing list, send an email to CORNISH-GEN@rootsweb.com. > > __________________________________________________________ > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to CORNISH-GEN-request@rootsweb.com > with the word "unsubscribe" without the quotes in the subject and the body of the > email with no additional text. > > > End of CORNISH-GEN Digest, Vol 5, Issue 298 > *******************************************