Hi Elaine As a rule and generally speaking, burials were pretty quick after death. Usually same day or the next at latest. I guess the climate, and no means of refrigerating bodies.as we can today, was the reason. I guess there were exceptions to this, but the circumstances would have been pretty "exceptional" Cheers De in Aus Searching for RAYMOND, HARDIE, BURNS, WALLIS, DAVIDSON, WHITE, ALLEN, OWEN/S, LARENGO, PATHE, SCOTT, WICKENS, MAYBERY, WILKINS. -