It's also common on graves owned by financially well off families to line the four edges of the grave plot with stone edging on which inscriptions can be shown . I'm referring to Limerick city municipal cemeteries and also in St. Mary's Cathedral and St. Munchin's (both C. of I. ) churchyards. ***** Reply to the LIST ONLY - Please ***** ***** Thanks for your consideration ***** Pádraig Mór, An Sean Gabhar ----- Original Message ----- From: "Susan Troy" <sbtroy@comcast.net> To: <irl-cork@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, September 21, 2006 2:55 PM Subject: Re: (CORK) Where do I look? > The following is only tangentially connected to the Irish cemetery > discussion, but I concur that the headstones are not proof of who's buried > somewhere. I know that a seller of headstones will consider how many > people > are expected to go into a plot before deciding how much space can be > allotted to the first name that goes on a stone. So if more people get > added > to the plot than were originally planned, there's not enough room to fit > the > added names in. Not that I know that such planning went into headstone > inscriptions going back hundreds of years ago, but you can see how if > there's an unpredictable number of people who can be added to a plot, > there's no easy way to plan whose name will go on there. > > And then there's this issue in my family: My great-aunt had her and her > husband's names engraved on the headstone on the plot she intended them to > be buried in, which was next to her parents in the cemetery. However, she > died before he did, so when it came time to bury her, he said, "We'll be > buried with my family." So she was buried in another area of the cemetery, > and he joined her a few years later. Their names are on both headstones. > No > one's gotten around to removing their names from the place where they're > not > buried. It's pretty expensive to do so, and no one else has needed that > space yet. > > So a name on a headstone doesn't necessarily mean the body's down below. > > > On 9/21/06 2:34 PM, "Janet Crawford" <reojan@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Well, that's another problem, Beth. Not all ARE on the headstone. In >> fact, sometimes very few of them are on there...but they are down >> there. >> >> Janet >> >> On 9/21/06, Beth Glaser <eaglaser@ix.netcom.com> wrote: >>> With the cost of headstones being a bit pricy for some it makes sense to >>> have one real nice one for an area or family plot and to have all the >>> names >>> put on the one stone. I've seen that a lot looking for my family in >>> Irish >>> Catholic cemeteries in New York. That plus after a certain number of >>> years >>> because of decomposition you can stack coffins. After finding some of my >>> family in New York the care takers there told me 1. I had family there. >>> 2. >>> There was still room in a few of the family plots. and 3. I owed upkeep >>> costs on the plot. If I could show direct relationship to the past owner >>> I >>> could "move in". I came back to Los Angeles and told my New York husband >>> we >>> had property right next to where he grew up. He asked about the >>> "neighborhood" so I read off a few names and he said it sounded good to >>> him. >>> ----- Original Message ----- >>> From: "kaye vernon" <kjvernon@bigpond.net.au> >>> To: <irl-cork@rootsweb.com> >>> Sent: Thursday, September 21, 2006 12:23 AM >>> Subject: Re: (CORK) Where do I look? >>> >>> >>>> well surely they wouldnt all be buried in the same grave........it >>>> would >>>> be >>>> mighty crowded. >>>> Kaye