General Chat

seems "grave humour" is upon us....LOL!

But Lesley...............genealogy is all about the people who live in churchyards you know ! *sighs*

Kitty...but they don't chat do they?

and errrr they don't LIVE in graveyards do they? **worries** Maybe that's the reason they have walls lol

Send this thread to a proper genealogy board....it's far too serious for here! lol

Mmmmmm..........................I could have worded that better!! LOL

They might chat when the are alone..............maybe they have underground tunnels and caves and things.

My dad is buried near his brother and I love to think of them sitting and having a good old natter in the moonlight:))

Hi Kitty, I don't know whether I am reassured or worried by that image lol Actually it would be quite nice.....as long as i wasn't there....

I wouldn't want to see or hear anything either.....................I don't belive in ghosts (crosses everything) but it's good to think they are probably together again, they were loads of fun together:))

I expect i shall go in the oven at gas mk4, it's a job to get a burial plot nowadays.

When we went to Cairo we saw a very large cemetery called `City of the Dead` and homeless people actually live in the catacombs (spelling) and all around the tombs......................... very creepy.

this thread is beginning to make me jumpy.....you can tell I don't watch horror films lol

I often think about my poor father in law, his cousin's wife arranged his funeral (helping his wife in her time of need) and she had his mother in law's grave opened up, so poor beggar's in with his mother in law and her first husband, what a natter the two blokes would have and all this to get her Co-op divi.

Oooh, er, May! That is a bit of a family plot, eh? (Didn't mean it to be funny, so hope u don't take offence!)
Going back to the original question: could it have been something to do with the boundaries of consecrated ground?

Would have to be something really serious for me to take offence Jan, I try to always see the funny side of things and it's the divi thing that makes me laugh.

Think your idea about boundaries is probably correct,, consecrated land etc.,

May

The only 2 cemetries near me have no walls, just iron railings around them. Many years ago, they built a railway along the edge of one, thinking they were beyond the area of the graves, but unearthed some very old ones that had to be moved elswhere.

Don't really know the reason, but I should imagine it is because the ground has been consecrated or blessed for burials, so that souls can rest in peace.....

.......or maybe it is because that land belongs to the church and it wants people to know its boundaries.....

.....or maybe to keep people in order, that they would not be buried in consecrated ground if they commited a bad sin.....

Now I have heard of people being buried in their back gardens, or you can be scattered anywhere.........and there was a programme about a Jewish cemetary in London where they were going to build offices on the top.......that seemed very sad to me.....

sally

Whats a "private Burial" then? any ideas Please?

When my dad died in 91 we decided to put his ashes in his dads my grandads grave, just lift the turf a bit put the ashes in & put the turf down again, went to see the vicar to get permission which was promptly refused on the grounds of you have to have PLANING PERMISSION, asked the council, they said no, so waited a couple of months & went to the grave one sunday afternoon & just DID IT.

Taff which one is wher you av no money so they put you in with strangers?

We visited a lovely graveyard {small area} in Mancetter that had railings n one in Heysham which stood on cliffs the waves lappin it ~ spose thats wat they call a watery grave!

Really Mel? thanks for that.

My great grandmother in one of them graves in Gornal ~ her hubby is buried in a family plot with her parents in luxury a mile n arf away in Dudley