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From: Caroline Cavanagh <>
Subject: Re: Jersey Cemetery
Date: Tue, 09 Feb 1999 20:21:56 +0000


Don't know if it's useful, but my understanding of suicides last
century/early this century was that burial could not take place in a
usual cemetery - being consecrated ground, etc. Thus it was common for
such burials to take place at a cross-roads (thereby signifying the
closest thing to a religious cross). Of course, this was the custom for
Australia & it may have been completely different on the other side of
the world, although Australia did 'inherit' British customs (opps! CI
is FRENCH, how remiss of me to suggest otherwise...). I have an
ancestor who did the deed in a toilet in 1860 & it took years to find
out where he was buried - you guessed it, at the intersection of 2 dirt
roads out in the middle of the bush.

Have you tried the local papers to see if the 'event' was reported? May
say something about where he was buried.

Thought I'd put in my penny's worth.

Caroline
Darwin, Australia.

john le garignon wrote:
>
> I would also be interested by that information as I am trying to trace an
> ancestor (my great-grandfather Pierre-Marie Le Garignon) who committed
> suicide was reported (by a grand aunt, Cecile Le Garignon-Vanstone who found
> him hanging from the pig pen at Caën Lodge in St. John's) to have been
> buried in town sometimes between 1900 and 1905 (because she found him while
> returning from school and she was born in 1894 and he was dead at the
> mariage of his son on Jan 19, 1905) and there seems to be no trace of burial
> (or even record of death in St. John's parish) anywhere in St. Hélier nor
> for that matter anywhere else in the parish registers. Could it be that
> some cemeteries that still existed at the beginning of century were
> transformed and that their records were lost? I have heard that some
> cemeteries were exclusively kept for the burial of infants born without
> being baptized and people having committed suicide - could it be the reason
> that there are no records to be found to this day?
>
> John P. Le Garignon
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Geoff Wright <>
> To: <>
> Date: 8 février, 1999 15:13
> Subject: RE: Jersey Cemetery
>
> Hi Anne
>
> A while ago you wrote enquiring about the location of E Cy
> Cemetery, Jersey, which does not sound at all familiar to me and
> I've not seen anyone else on the list come up with a reply.
>
> Are you sure of the inscription ?
> Could some of it been eroded by time ?
>
> Good Hunting
> Geoff
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: MABennett [mailto:]
> Sent: 04 February 1999 00:18
> To: Internet:
> Subject: Jersey Cemetery
>
> Hi there
>
> I am a new subscriber to the list and am searching for the
> location of E Cy
> Cemetery, Jersey. This inscription appears on a gravestone in
> Nunhead
> Cemetery, Nunhead, London as being the burial place of a young
> child.
>
> Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Best wishes
>
> Anne Bennett
>
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