Apologies. I was speaking from my experience as a Parish Secretary in a parish where the churchyard was closed for burials but there was a facility for burial of ashes. The only entries in the burials register there were for burial of ashes. Also from my current experience of officiating at funerals local churches and cemeteries and crematoria, where I sign a service register for the service in church and the burials register at the cemetery for the burial of the body or of ashes. I have never come across an instance in this area ( Hertfordshire) where burials elsewhere are entered in the parish burial register. I can only assume that the 'new cemetery' in the areas you and podnsod describe was considered an extension of the churchyard, and was under the care and control of the parish church ( I know the parish church where I worked was still responsible for the insurance for the cemetery chapel in the oldest of the local cemeteries in the 1970s, so this seems to have been the case at one time here). When the local authorities took over care and control of the cemeteries, then they would have separate burial registers. Anne On 24 Aug 2008, at 16:15, Jenny De Angelis wrote: > Anne wrote :- >>>> 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.<< > > Sorry Anne but I beg to differ with you. I have 4 people buried in > the same family grave in a cemetery in a town in the North East of > England where each burial service was carried out in the Parish > church round the corner from where the family lived. > > The burial service in each case is noted in the Parish Register of > burials and not in any other kind of register. The first of these 4 > burials took place in 1862 the last in 1899. The entry for each > burial service has a note that the burial took place in the nearby > cemetery which had been opened in 1856. > > The churchyard was only taking burials where there was an existing > grave for earlier family members. > > Regards > Jenny DeAngelis > Spain.

Our burial register includes all the burials but the service can have happened in any Church in Lutterworth. Jo in Leics jo.mason@swsmail.net holmested@one-name.org