podnsod wrote: > Also, just because the parish register has a burial entry at a particular > church it didn't mean that the burial was at that church, unless of course > the family had a "vault/family plot". As local church burial grounds began > to fill "public" cemeteries were established. If the burial is in the burial register, then it took place at that church. If the *death* was elsewhere and the deceased was brought back for burial, then there is usually a note in the burial register to that effect, but not always. As ever, how much additional information you get is dependent on the vicar or whoever filled in the register which wouldn't necessarily have been at the time but maybe a week or month after the event or even longer afterwards. I believe that, apart from churchyards becoming full, there were health concerns which prompted the opening of cemeteries which happened from around 1860 onwards.