Peter - I believe if they were not members of the Church of England, St Stephen-in-Brannel they could not be buried in the area reservered for C of E church members. Rita Bone Kopp OPC St Stephen in Brannel and St Mewan Subject: CORNISH-GEN Digest, Vol 9, Issue 209 Today's Topics: 1. Unconsecrated ground (Peter Relph) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2014 15:02:15 +1000 From: "Peter Relph" <peter@relph.org> Subject: [CORNISH-GEN] Unconsecrated ground To: <cornish-gen@rootsweb.com> Message-ID: <77B20A6FEBA04C3482E9357B8FDBF749@LeaderPC> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" I have a general query for all you knowledgable folks. I have a cousin and his wife who were both buried in "unconsecrated plots" in St Stephen in Brannel, and I'm curious as to what sort of circumstances might have caused them to warrant such literally unceremonious treatment. Mary EMMETT nee TIPPETT was buried 19 Apr 1916 in St Stephen in Brannel, from a transcription of Cemetery records courtesy John Evans in the OPC database. Husband James Trewhella EMMETT was likewise buried in Stephen in Brannel 9 Nov 1912, same source. There is no record that I can see in the Stephen in Brannel church registers for either burial. So as well as asking why it might have happened, also would the church have been any part in the burial? If not then who, the Union? Did they have civil funerals? Probably unrelated but of interest, they had a daughter Elizabeth Jane EMMETT who appears to have had five children born out of wedlock between 1893 and 1902, the first three raised by Mary & James and the last two in a foster family in Bodmin, I'd think that this was just a little unusual. Peter Relph __________________________________________________________ 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 9, Issue 209 *******************************************