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