As a follow on to Chris's comparisons of info in the OPRs compared with the IGIs , let me quote an example from my family search . IGI Jannet Lamont , Born 19th 1804 and Christened 30th March 1804 in the Parish of Dunoon and Kilmun , Argyll Father : Neil Lamont Mother Janet McPherson . If I look at the OPR for Dunoon and Kilmun I find the following extract for this birth : OPR 1804 : On 19th January , Jannet , posthumous child of Neil Lamont , tenant in Kilellan and Janet McPherson , his widow . John Lamont tenant in Kilellan , sponsor . Baptised 30th March . The OPR informs me that Neil had died prior to the death of his child ( remember deaths are singularly absent from most OPRs ) are given his occupation ( tenant farmer ) and the name of the child’s sponsor ( his brother ) . Perhaps a somewhat unusual example but indicative of info differences between the two . Col

On Scotland's People, I found a death record from 1830. It was part of a whole page from a burials register. The column headings were Proprietor, Date, Name of Deceased, Age, Complaint, Space Occupied, Depth and Male or Female. I'm wondering at the significance of Proprietor, Space Occupied and Depth. Can someone explain the system for me? It looks like the proprietor bought a family plot and the whole family were buried there at different depths. Looking at the depths, they range from 4ft to 12 ft. Hopefully the first was buried the deepest, but it doesn't seem to be the case. Did they just dig through the earlier burials? There also appears to be a North grave and a South grave. Between them they seem to cover 20 burials over 25 years. Does this seem right? Peter in Sydney