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Post by maninblack on Jan 12, 2011 18:17:04 GMT
I wonder whether anyone on the board has experience of the historical policy on infant burial in the early 20th century.
My family has a plot in Dukinfield Cemetery which has eight burials between 1911 & 1942.
Six of these are known family members but two are a 65 year old woman who I assume is a family fried buried by permission in 1919 and a 2 year old girl buried in 1914 with no obvious family connection.
My cousin was told recently, by a local undertaker that cot death and still born babies may have been placed in recently opened graves on an ad hoc basis.
Has anyone got any ideas, suggestions or confirmations?
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Post by lenhar on Jan 12, 2011 20:45:31 GMT
Hi. I can confirm that this happened. Poor families would take the body of a baby to the local undertaker, who would discreetly include it in a burial without the knowledge of the deceased's family. It ensured a Christian burial for the child, without cost. Two of my mother's baby siblings were buried in this way. Lenhar.
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Post by maninblack on Jan 15, 2011 9:03:22 GMT
Lenhar,
Thanks for that info; it ties up with what I had heard.
My issue is that there is over two years between the burial of this child and any other in the grave.
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