There certainly was a social cachet in being buried in the church. This reminds me of the supposed epitaph:     'Here lie I at the church door,     Here lie I because I'm poor.     The further in, the more you pay     Here lie I, as warm as they'. This does rebound on us ancestor-hunters as, when churches were remodelled (in my case, St Mary's Truro becoming the cathedral), bones were transferred willy-nilly and we have no markers to look for. Stephen >________________________________ > From: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] >Sent: Sunday, 13 January 2013, 9:00 >Subject: CORNISH-GEN Digest, Vol 8, Issue 14 > >3. Burials in the C. of E. registers,    marked with C or Church, >      etc. (Julia Mosman) >  >