I beg to differ. The parish registers of St Margaret's Barking Essex (of which is my main parish of interest) has many entries for burials holding the service at the Church but the burial taking place in the Rippleside Cemetery. The entries in the pr's have a notation under the entries that reads -buried/interred in the N.C - translated to New Cemetery, which was Rippleside about 8 miles away. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Anne Peat" <anne.peat@bigwindows.demon.co.uk> To: "podnsod" <podnsod@comcast.net> Cc: <Essex-UK@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, August 24, 2008 8:24 AM Subject: Re: [Ess] REGISTER ENTRIES & CERTIFICATES [wasRe: Birth BaptismMarriage William Hyde KNAPP] > > On 24 Aug 2008, at 13:19, 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. >> >> > > No. > Parish Burial registers will only contain entries of people ( or ashes) > buried in the churchyard. > > If a funeral service is held at a church followed by burial in a public > cemetery, then the funeral service will be noted in the service register, > but the burial will be noted in the burial register of the cemetery - > quite separate from the church's one. > > Anne