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    I do find it sad when I see such things as "two weeks old, service not read". Why couldn't the service have been read?

    Then the next two had the same surname, same date of burial ..... I moved the fiche along and saw twins. That was sad, too.


    PS Don't think this is Research Advice really but didn't know where else to put it.
    Joy

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    Possibly service not read because child hadn't been baptised? It is sad, so often parish registers tell very sad stories, don't they?

    I was quite upset when going through London parish register to find baptisms for a child called Rose Milton (because she'd been abandoned in a lodging house in Milton Street) and one called Mary Road (because she was literally found in the road).

    I suppose they were the lucky abandoned children as at least they survived long enough to be baptised.
    ~ with love from Little Nell~
    Chowns, Dunt, Emms, Mealing, Purvey & Smoothy

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      Possibly service not read because child hadn't been baptised?
      I think that's 99.9% likely to be the reason. Also, the churchbell would not be tolled at the burial if the dec'd was not baptised.

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        Rarely, the reason the burial service was not read was because the deceased was not of the faith. (So, not baptised C of E, of course!)

        This happened probably in the more rural areas. Burial had to take place within a few days of death and they couldn't hang around waiting for a Catholic Priest, or a non conformist minister or whoever, and there would be no other burial ground available.

        Sometimes the Vicar marks these entries - I have seen "Papist" and "Hebrew" for instance, although these were adults of course.

        OC

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