Crowded Grave

[Kit]

I'm tracing the line of the sister of my 4g grandmother.

In one grave there is :

Son 1 died Nov 1874
Dad died Apr 1875
Son 2 died Jun 1875
Mum died 1890
Spinster Aunt died 1891

Not much room left in that one.

[ElizabethHerts]

I wonder how much space was allocated for the whole grave, Toni?

I have found a grave in Liverpool which has helped me sort out the relationships and children of my son-in-law's/granddaughter's ancestors.

It is grave no. 172 at St Anthony's and came to light when found burial entries on Ancestry.

http://interactive.ancestry.co.uk/2183/engl56170_282-ant-6-2_m_00021/1452620?backurl=http%3a%2f%2fsearch.ancestry.co.uk %2fcgi-bin%2fsse.dll%3fdb%3dLiverpoolEngCathBur%26gss%3ds fs28_ms_db%26new%3d1%26rank%3d1%26msT%3d1%26gsfn%3 dAnn%26gsfn_x%3d0%26gsln%3dWalker%26gsln_x%3d0%26m sddy%3d1837%26MSAV%3d1%26uidh%3dho3&ssrc=&backlabel=ReturnSearchResults

These are the people in it:

1. Ann Walker buried Sunday 31st December 1837 aged 52
Liver complaint
(mother/grandmother of the others in the grave)

2. James Walker buried Tuesday 25th February 1840
Brain fever
(son of James and Ellen Walker - James son of Ann)

3. Ellen Walker buried Wednesday 9th September 1840 aged 4y 7m
Dropsey
(daughter of James and Ellen above)

4. John Walker buried 10th January 1843 aged 9 months
Inflammation
(Son of John Walker)

5. Ann Browne buried Wednesday 30th August 1843 age 30 hours
(daughter of John and Elizabeth Browne (Elizabeth daughter of Ann Walker no. 1)

6. John Brown buried Tuesday 23rd July 1844 aged 12 days
(parents as 5)

7. Ann Smith buried Saturday 22nd August 1846 aged 12 months
(daughter of Alexander Smith and Hannah daur. of 1.)

8. James Walker buried Thursday 5th November 1846 aged 9 months
(I haven't worked out to whom this child belonged yet! There were lots of Jameses after the grandfather.)

9. Maria Walker buried Friday 6th October 1848 aged 4 weeks
(Not sure about this girl either!)

10. Margaret Brown buried Monday 9th October 1848 aged 6 weeks
(parents as 5)

11. Alice Walker buried 1st February 1849 aged 10 months
(Daughter of Peter and Alice Walker. Peter son of 1.)

12. Alice Taylor buried 1st April 1849 aged 1 month
(daughter of James Taylor and his wife Martha Ann, daughter of 1. These are my granddaughter's 4x-great-grandparents)

13. Elizabeth Brown buried 24th December 1849
(parents as 5)


So the children buried here are all the children of siblings and the grandchildren of Ann Walker, maiden name Perrin. They have kept me busy the last few days!

I have never had as many as 13 people in one grave before!

[Olde Crone]

I made a fundamental mistake when I ASSUMED there were three people in a grave because three people were named on the headstone. In fact, one was buried elsewhere and merely commemorated on the headstone of his parents.

My Scottish side went in for very crowded graves and I have eight in one grave. Six is quite common.


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[Kit]

I'm looking at the burial records and know they are all together as it is the same grave number.

I have no idea who is on the headstone.

I've seen mass graves before but they are multiple plots joined together. This is just one grave.

[Glen TK]

I have a confusing set of entries in burial registers, the headstone suggests two burials but the burial register suggests there are four, until you get to the register for the "new" section of the cemetery. The two names not commemorated on the stone appear in the register for that section too!

[Zoemcdougall]

Where my paternal grandparents are buried, there is four in the grave,

My dad's brother died 4mths old in 1936 he was a twin, then another brother killed by a drunk driver in 1961, then my grandad in 1984, when my grandmother died in 1986, the vicar wasn't going to allow my grandmother to be buried in the grave, as supposedly not enough room, my grandmother's last wish was to be buried with the son she lost in 1961, my dad build up the grave so that they would all be buried to together, finally the vicar agree.

Then my paternal great grandparents buried in the same church yard, but there is 3 names on the headstone, the other name on there is my paternal great great grandmother, but there has always been a disagreement in the family about whether she is actually buried there, as my grandfather always said that his grandmother was buried in actually church grounds, at the back of the church, but I don't know to this day if this right.

[Kit]

My 2g aunt has a large beautiful headstone, with her husband and a lot of other family on it as well. The headstone is a 5 hour drive from where she is actually buried. I can only assume she died while away from home and she was buried there and not taken back home. The real plot is sad as there is no stone, just a grass patch between other graves.