Can anyone please tell me why you would have part of a Cemetery which has unconsecrated ground. i.e. Whitburn Cemetery (Tyne and Wear) has an unconsecrated section.
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Details of the person buried in Whitburn Cemetery - they were Christian and did not commit suicide. Puzzled.Linda - Happy Hunting
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Researching: Brown, Bell, Key and Musgrave from Cumberland. Dodds, Green, Campbell, Hall, Armstrong, Davison from Co. Durham. Raymond from Devon/Cornwall.
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All municipal cemeteries have a section of unconsecrated ground. Consecrated ground is normally just for C of E burials. Other denominations will have their own form of consecration RC, Methodists etc). All my Lancashire ancestors were buried in nonconformist sections - unconsecrated as far as the C of E is concerned.
Church GRAVEYARDS would indeed bury suicides in a nonconsecrated part of the graveyard - usually the perimeter - or sometimes they would be buried in consecrated ground but without a service. Depended on their staus really.
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Consecrated is often a misnomer.
Cemeteries are divided into two sections.
Consecrated: This section is consecrated on opening and is mainly used for Church of England burials.
Un-consecrated: This section the individual plots are often consecrated shortly before each burial (if the particular faith requires) and is mainly used for faiths other than Church of England and non-believers burials.
In a catholic burial for instance if the burial is to be in an unconsecrated part of a cemetery the tomb or burial plot is blessed (consecrated if it has not been blessed previously).
Do not forget every person who lives (or dies) in a parish has the undisputed right to be buried in the churchyard (if it is still open to burials), no matter who they are or what, if anything they believe.
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Guy
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GuyGuy passed away October 2022
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Many thanks for your responses. Think the person in question may have been a methodist. Subject too delicate to ask members of the family. Think I shall leave it here. Thank you for responding.Linda - Happy Hunting
A tidy house is the sign of a broken computer
Researching: Brown, Bell, Key and Musgrave from Cumberland. Dodds, Green, Campbell, Hall, Armstrong, Davison from Co. Durham. Raymond from Devon/Cornwall.
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