On 13/08/2013 12:50, Lozzie55@aol.com wrote: > Not sure if I am missing them, but I can only find Parish Church Burials > here and not > the Municipal Cemeteries that I was meaning Connie. > Have I just not spotted them? The cemetery burial books are often held either by the cemetery supervisor or the local council, often the Parks and Leisure department. However, if there was a church service ahead of the burial the entry will be in the parish church burial registers. If the child was not CoE, then they will be in the burial registers for that denomination. In my experience there are two different registers. The CityArk burial registers go well past the closure date of the churchyards. I've found family burials in the 1900s on CityArk. They weren't buried in the churchyard, nor were they cremated which is the only other way there might be an interment in a churchyard. I've also searched a parish church burial register where the last entry was in 1992, and I do mean 1992, not 1892. I've also been through a cemetery burial book with the supervisor and unexpectedly found a non conformist burial for a family member which was obviously not in the parish church burial register. -- Connie http://oursalmons.wordpress.com/
-----Original Message----- From: kent-eng-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:kent-eng-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Connie Sent: 13 August 2013 14:44 To: kent-eng@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [KENT-ENG] Graves Rochester 1903 "However, if there was a church service ahead of the burial the entry will be in the parish church burial registers. If the child was not CoE, then they will be in the burial registers for that denomination." Sorry, Connie, but this is just not the case. Parish burial registers record *burials* not funeral services. A vicar who conducted the latter (and who may well have officiated at the graveside in the former) will probably have recorded the event in some format (usually a day-book), and these records may have found their way to the county archives but they are different from the actual registers and there is no statutory duty for them to be kept, let alone deposited. Caroline