I agree. I once asked an elderly uncle, who would have known, if he knew of a register of any sort for the local cemetery which belonged to the congregational chapel. He was quite sure that there had been one once but had no idea of its then likely whereabouts. He theorised that when the last keeper died the book could have been thrown out with the 'rubbish' by who ever cleared the deceased's house out. He was also sure such a book wouldn't have ben kept at the chapel itself for security/continuity - it just didn't happen that way. We have to accept that our priorities as genealogists/descendants weren't shared by those who 'were there' as it were. Gareth Genuki Wales http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/wal/ Gareth's Help Page http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ukwales2/hicks.html Cwmgors a'r Waun http://freepages.history.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cwmgors/Waun.html -----Original Message----- From: Aidan Jones Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2012 2:00 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Dyfed] Non-conformist burial grounds in Pembrokeshire? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Roy Davies" <@gmail.com> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2012 10:36 PM Subject: [Dyfed] Non-conformist burial grounds in Pembrokeshire? > Does anyone know if there is a comprehensive (or at least reasonably > full) list of Non-Conformist burial grounds in Pembrokeshire with the > dates that they were in use? If such a list exists is there an index > to it? Taking the question a stage further, it's probably worth noting that there was no statutory obligation on most nonconformist congregations to maintain any registers at all. For a lot of burial grounds in the early days it should not automatically be assumed that a register of burials ever existed - let alone that it will have survived. AJ