Hi Bev. London as we all know is a parallel universe so what they do there is rarely anything like what we do in the country ........if my parish priest in 1750 wrote buried John Brown it would mean he buried him in the graveyard of the church , not 10 miles away or in a municipal cemetary , it would mean just what he wrote. And when they ran out of burial space round the church they would have either donated glebe land or bought land close by which would have been the extention to the churchyard. Same words would apply surely . life is hard . soften it with a cat \\\=^..^=/// ----- Original Message ----- From: "B. Edmonds" <beverley@yourisp.com.au> To: <DEVON@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2014 12:58 AM Subject: [DEV] Recording burials > Morning List, > > For years I have wanted to ask this, but it is one of those > questions........................... > > How does everyone record a place of burial if the exact churchyard is not > known? > > Generally Family Tree Programs have spots for > Died > Buried > > For instance, if the burial is noted in a Parish Church PR, does it > necessarily mean they were buried there? In London, if a burial is listed > in > St Mary Fulham in 1857, would the child be buried there, or would just > the > service be held there, and the child be taken elsewhere to be buried? > > I have just started entering in Buried [place in my program] as... Service > at St Mary Fulham, which then covers the fact that the child might just > not > be buried at that Church but in another cemetery. > > Where I live, no churches have a burial ground [unless in the country > side], there is just one major cemetery and a crematorium. > > In the past, I have always just put the place of burial in the Church of > the > place the entry was found, which I know is not strictly correct unless > there > is a tombstone to prove it [or a Sexton's Book], but how else does one get > around this? > > Bev > > > ------------------------------------------ > The DEVON-L mailing list is co-sponsored by GENUKI/Devon > ( http://genuki.cs.ncl.ac.uk/DEV/ ) > and > the Devon FHS (http://www.devonfhs.org.uk/ ) > List archive for Devon can be found at > http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index/DEVON/ > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > DEVON-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message >