Thanks Sandra, Wonder if the name would have been included in the burial registers?? Carole ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sandra J Smith" <[email protected]> To: "Carole Cumber" <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, May 26, 2008 3:28 PM Subject: Re: [IoW] Burial practises. > Hi Carole, > A suicide could not be buried in consecrated ground. However, churchyards > usually had some unconsecrated ground on the north side of the church > where suicides, unchristened, could be buried. > Sandra > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Carole Cumber" <[email protected]> > To: "Isle of Wight" <[email protected]> > Sent: Monday, May 26, 2008 8:07 PM > Subject: [IoW] Burial practises. > > >> >> I have found a death that was ruled a suicide and wonder if the deceased >> person would have had a christian burial in a churchyard, the year was >> 1889. >> I have read that suicides were not allowed a proper burial, would this >> practice have been in effect on the IOW also??? >> >> Carole. >> >> >> ************************************** >> You can contact the Isle of Wight List Administrator by emailing: >> [email protected] >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without >> the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG. > Version: 8.0.100 / Virus Database: 269.24.1/1466 - Release Date: > 25/05/2008 18:49 > > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG. Version: 7.5.524 / Virus Database: 269.24.1/1468 - Release > Date: 5/26/2008 3:23 PM > >