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From: "Althea John" <>
Subject: Re: [MON] burial traditions
Date: Wed, 2 May 2007 16:05:56 +0100
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Hi i have a cemetry at the end of my road here in Neath in South Wales and
we used to have funerals where all the men walked behind the funeral car >
the last one Like that was the butcher at the top of our road who had a bad
accident .Cant really remember if there were any women in that one but it
was as you say normal practice for only men to attend the internment they
would state in the obitarys in the paper Men only. I supose it was really to
protect the women from showing their didtress to everyone as men were
suposed to be of sterner stuff.
Althea
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From: "Ann Roberts" <>
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Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2007 3:53 PM
Subject: [MON] burial traditions


> When I was in my teens I was told that no women were allowed to attend my
> father's funeral - and this included my mother. I must admit that I
> thought that this was a tall story however, on visiting Blaina last week,
> I was told that this was an old tradition in South Wales.
> Can anyone tell my why? Was it a case of what we would call nowadays -
> men did the important things and the women stayed at home with the
> children - I don't know how else to express it.
> Strange idea
> Ann
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