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From: Guy Etchells <>
Subject: Re: [LEI] Help please
Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 22:26:30 +0100


It depends what you mean by christians, in many churches non-conformists
(religions others than anglican) were buried in the unconsecrated
section of the burial ground (often the ground would be consecrated by
the clergy of the religion concerned)
Cheers
Guy

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Wakefield England

http://freespace.virgin.net/guy.etchells Transcripts, Parish
Records, Calendar, Scaleable Map of Uk. Link to LDS website,
Abbreviations, Returns of Owners of Lands etc. etc.
http://www.guye.freeserve.co.uk Whitefield Transcripts, Etch/ells
Transcripts
http://gye.future.easyspace.com Worldwide Cemetery Links, Monumental
Inscriptions, War Graves, etc.
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~framland/CHURCH/church.htm
Churches & MIs. in the Wakefield Area
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~framland/Ossett/obmi1.htm
Transcripts of 1st Baptist Burial ground Ossett
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~framland/tmi.htm Photos of
St. James Churchyard, Wakefield
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~framland/stcr/stjsc1.htm
Memorials in the burial ground of St John the Evangelist Church,
Staincross.


> Hello
> Can anyone tell me why a man who died aged 81 in 1899, & his wife who died aged 83 in 1901, were buried in unconsecrated graves. We know they were Christians, so this was not the reason.
> Many thanks
> Brenda Ellis
>

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