----- Original Message ----- From: "Julia Mosman" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]>; <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, January 12, 2013 9:10 PM Subject: [CORNISH-GEN] Burials in the C. of E. registers,marked with C or Church, etc. > > > Hello All - > . > Recently a researcher asked about the "C" found next to burials in the St. > Austell burial register (late 1600's, early 1700's). According to Canon > Hammond, in his 1897 book, that designated people buried within the church > walls, or floor. The cost was relatively low, so even non-parishioners > were buried in that manner. The price was raised twice to discourage > people, without seeming to work. Eventually, all such burials were banned, > as they greatly weakened the church building.(In a later remodeling, the > bones were removed & the building shored up.) > . > According to John Evans, OPC,in St Stephen in Brannel the first entry > appears to be on 19 Oct 1736, when the Burial Register records that the > deceased was "buried in the church". There are then another 14 burials, > similarly noted in the Register, the last one being in 1755. In Roche, the > first such entry appears in the Register on 26 Jun 1710 and there are then > another 7 up to 1716, all of them noted in the Register. There is then a > gap until 1725 when another burial has the notation "chancell". There is > then another gap until 1734, when a spate of burials in the church began. > From then until 1779 there are no less than 93 such burials, the majority > noted in the Register as "buried in the church", but sometimes "buried in > the chancel" and on 2 occasions "buried in the parson's chancel". > . > Terry Moyle, OPC, says "Church" was noted in early St. Keverne registers, > as well. > . > so be on the watch for those designations, and if anyone has questions > about various church records, or practices, be sure to ask the relevant > OPC for that parish; you may be surprised at the answer! > . > (For newbies, the Online Parish Clerks are glad to help everyone with > questions for Free!) > . > Cheers, > . > Julia M. > . > West Briton Transcriptions, 1836-1856 at > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~wbritonad > St. Austell Area History and Genealogy at > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~staustell > Cornwall OPC at http://cornwall-opc.org > ------------------------------- > Listmom: [email protected] or [email protected] > > Visit the OPC (Online Parish Clerk) web page for transcription information > http://www.cornwall-opc.org/ > ------------------------------- > 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 >