> Hi Josie > > Its a tragedy about the graves. At the moment after 100 yrs the land used as > a burial site can be redeveloped. I have experience of gravestones being > broken up and used to build a new church, they didn't seek permission from > relatives because the graves were a couple of hundred years old. > > Sacrilege! > > Lucille If anyone has had the experience of having to arrange a funeral, buy a burial plot, keep the certificates of burial etc., they should read the rules and regulations which come with the documents. There is usually a right to burial clause which gives the time limit in which the purchaser has any rights over the plot. 100 years is unusally generous, 70 years is more usual, but some are shorter timespans. My parents are buried separately, because they died 20 years apart and distance made it impractical for them to be buried together. I have the right to be buried in either grave according to the documents, but any family rights over the plot will run out during their grandchildren's lifetime. The cemetary officers can only deal with the legal owner of the "rights" of the plot, at their last known address. Mary George