The newspaper article did not say what was to happen before a grave was reused. From a social historians point of view the issue is much bigger than just each individual grave. Cemeteries are important social documents that can be read to tell you a lot about a community. If they are to be reused they must be recorded properly. I do not just mean the transcription of headstones. I mean a full mapping and photographic survey that records all the headstones, the vacant spaces (no headstone) the plants, the stone or shell arrangements ect. The monumental masons, the stone the head stones were made of etc.(in the past week there as been a historian in America looking for the spread of headstone made from a particular type of very fine grained stone. A second burial in a grave has been an established practice in Australia for some time and it is governed by regulations related to time elapsed and depth. Usually the second burial is either a descendant of the first burial or it is a resident of the same institution. I would be very interested to know if someone in Cambridge could tell me want sort of recording, retention of heads stone etc will take place if graves are to be reused and resold. Elizabeth Roberts Sydney Australia Today's Topics: 1. Re: Look Up Request (Paula Patterson) 2. Gov't Plans to re-use graves?? (Tony Pottrell) 3. Re: Look Up Request (julia robinson) 4. Re: Gov't Plans to re-use graves?? (Gen Mail 2) 5. Re: Gov't Plans to re-use graves?? (Chris Graves) 6. Re: Gov't Plans to re-use graves?? (Tony Pottrell) 7. Re: Gov't Plans to re-use graves?? (Gen Mail 2) 8. Ann Serjeant (Fay) ----------------------------------------------------------------------
Hi Elizabeth I am a historian in Blacktown NSW and have just finished a database on a cemetery located in my local area. I thought you maybe interested to find out that we have a number of headstones in the cemetery that have an elderly lady's burial inscribed on them giving only details on the lady. Yet on going through the plot book there are at least three I have come across that mention a newborn or stillborn baby placed in the coffin with said woman the child is from another family not related as far I I can tell(no name given) who could not pay for a burial. It would have been so much easier for researchers if the childs parents surname could have been entered on the records. I thought this would interest you as I found it intriguing.Have you by chance come across this unusual proceedure at all in your family research? Regards Hazel ----- Original Message ----- From: "Elizabeth Roberts" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2007 7:51 PM Subject: [ENG-CAMS] re Reuse of cemetries plots. > > > The newspaper article did not say what was to happen before a grave was > reused. From a social historians point of view the issue is much bigger than > just each individual grave. Cemeteries are important social documents that > can be read to tell you a lot about a community. If they are to be reused > they must be recorded properly. I do not just mean the transcription of > headstones. I mean a full mapping and photographic survey that records all > the headstones, the vacant spaces (no headstone) the plants, the stone or > shell arrangements ect. The monumental masons, the stone the head stones > were made of etc.(in the past week there as been a historian in America > looking for the spread of headstone made from a particular type of very fine > grained stone. > A second burial in a grave has been an established practice in Australia for > some time and it is governed by regulations related to time elapsed and > depth. Usually the second burial is either a descendant of the first burial > or it is a resident of the same institution. I would be very interested to > know if someone in Cambridge could tell me want sort of recording, retention > of heads stone etc will take place if graves are to be reused and resold. > Elizabeth Roberts Sydney Australia > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: Look Up Request (Paula Patterson) > 2. Gov't Plans to re-use graves?? (Tony Pottrell) > 3. Re: Look Up Request (julia robinson) > 4. Re: Gov't Plans to re-use graves?? (Gen Mail 2) > 5. Re: Gov't Plans to re-use graves?? (Chris Graves) > 6. Re: Gov't Plans to re-use graves?? (Tony Pottrell) > 7. Re: Gov't Plans to re-use graves?? (Gen Mail 2) > 8. Ann Serjeant (Fay) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > > ------------------------------- > 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 > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.5.472 / Virus Database: 269.8.9/834 - Release Date: 5/06/2007 2:38 PM > >