First time at looking at online burial records, I expected them to be recorded with a little more information. On the top of the sheet it stated The Parish of Leatherhead. However, the record that I looked up, people had their abode as far as Mile End, London; Basingstoke; Epsom and some of the people were from a Poor Union. Somehow I half expected there to be a grave reference? So were people able to chose where they could be buried even if they died outside their local parish? At one point I thought that a person could only be buried in their local parish church or they would have to have special dispensation? It is very confusing?
Could someone explain the process of how the individual records are grouped and stored please, and the changes over the years in how they were recorded stretching from 1700s to modern day?
Many thanks
Could someone explain the process of how the individual records are grouped and stored please, and the changes over the years in how they were recorded stretching from 1700s to modern day?
Many thanks
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