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From: (Carl Rogerson)
Subject: Re: [CHS] BURIAL PUZZLE CONGLETON
Date: Wed, 5 May 2004 09:38 +0100 (BST)
In-Reply-To: <40800C100003510F@mk-cpfrontend-4.mail.uk.tiscali.com>

Anne asked
> was it common for a married woman to be buried with her parents
> rather than with her husband and 2 children

I think it is uncommon. It may have been a question of economics (a free
place being available), or it may have indicated a piece of family history
such as the one causing my mother-in-law to be buried with her parents.

My father-in-law's first wife died in her mid thirties. He re-married and
raised a second family. When the time came he indicated that he wished to
be buried with his first wife. His second wife complied, reluctantly.
Twenty-five years later, when her time came, she said that she though it
would be wrong for a man's two wives to lie side-by-side, so insisted on
going to her parent's grave.

Carl.

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