I gather that it wasn't the Anglican church being exclusive but the others wanting their own space that might have been the case in this instance, I apologise for thinking ill of the established church :-) Peter -----Original Message----- From: Nivard Ovington [mailto:ovington.one@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, 27 September 2014 5:51 PM To: Peter Relph; cornish-gen@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [CORNISH-GEN] Unconsecrated ground Hi Peter The good folk of the C of E wouldn't want their nice clean grave yard sullied by those 'orrible Catholics and the like would they :-) There was usually a section of the graveyard unconsecrated for the other religions I think it was until about 1880 that only burials conducted by a C of E minister could take place in consecrated ground Nivard Ovington in Cornwall (UK) On 27/09/2014 08:38, Peter Relph wrote: > Thank you Nivard and Diane, I didn't think it would be that simple. I'd have > thought that all people of the Christian persuasion would have been > eligible. > > Peter