Hi No he died in hospital with dementia, in 1923, aged 70  and in 1949 his wife also died in hospital, but still lived in the same house from 1923.  I am trying to solve a mystery, because we believe he was born with a different name of Reuben Joseph Pain son of Henry Pain and Mary Dry in 1853 in Bristol but by the time of his marriage in 1879 Sneyd Church Cobridge he was calling himself William Dry.  Was that the reason he was buried in a Public Grave or Paupers Grave. I am also making other enquiries. Would there be an announcement placed in the papers in Bristol.  Denise ________________________________ From: Denis Edwards <djedwds@bigpond.com> To: staffordshire@rootsweb.com Sent: Monday, 18 February 2013, 0:47 Subject: Re: [STAFFORDSHIRE] STAFFORDSHIRE Digest, Vol 8, Issue 40 Could the people involved have been Non Christians eg Jewish something to exclude them from the consecrated ground...sometimes public graves come about because of natural disaster, epidemic's or accidents where there are too many bodies to be buried individually at the one time Pauper burials are still used today mostly individual graves for the unidentified, homeless etc cheers denis ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ooooppss" <Ooooppss@btinternet.com> To: <staffordshire@rootsweb.com>; "Dawn Webb" <dawnwebb@optusnet.com.au> Sent: Monday, February 18, 2013 10:25 AM Subject: Re: [STAFFORDSHIRE] STAFFORDSHIRE Digest, Vol 8, Issue 40 > Dawn Webb wrote, Mon, 18 Feb 2013 06:58:27 +1100 > >> so the person was NOT committing a crime and >> therefore could be curried in consecrated ground. > > I must remember that....  ;-) > > ****************************** > ATTENTION TO ALL:- When replying please remove the details that do not > apply to your mail and change the SUBJECT LINE for best useage of ARCHIVED > MATERIALS. > ****************************** > PLEASE keep your Anti-Virus and Anti-Malware software up to date. BEWARE > of messages making it onto the List with a single URL. NEVER follow the > link. It's usually from an infected source! > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > STAFFORDSHIRE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message ****************************** ATTENTION TO ALL:- When replying please remove the details that do not apply to your mail and change the SUBJECT LINE for best useage of ARCHIVED MATERIALS. ****************************** PLEASE keep your Anti-Virus and Anti-Malware software up to date. BEWARE of messages making it onto the List with a single URL. NEVER follow the link. It's usually from an infected source! ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to STAFFORDSHIRE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message