Genealogy Chat

Just answered a query re graves and it got me thinking.

Does anyone know whether back in the 1940s it would have been likely that a Catholic would have been buried in a C of E part of the cemetery, rather than the Catholic cemetery adjoining, so that their C of E spouse could subsequently have been interred with them?

I think it would all depend on who arranged the funeral. I don't think there is anything stopping someone who was Catholic being buried anywhere in the cemetery.

Kath. x

Thanks Kathleen, from what I can gather it is certainly current practice now to allow non Catholic family to be buried with Catholic family, but I wondered if that was not the case back then. I know my Catholic grandfather is in the C of E part of cemetery, his wife was C of E.

Local municipal cemeteries often have catholic areas

My in laws and brother in law .their son , are all buried in the local municipal cemetery

Mum was a practising Catholic and is in the Catholic designated area dad and Bill are a little way away from her . As the death years are some way apart they as near to her as was possible

Thanks Shirley :-)

Forgot to write dad died in 1985 mum died in 1989

Dad wasn't religious .in fact he was almost an atheist because he was abandoned as a 4 years old . He very much respected mums Catholic religion and they married in a Catholic Church but only a small marriage with two witnesses , he didn't object to his children being christened in the Catholic Church as that was what was his wife wanted ,

When mum died her son arranged the funeral and for her to buried with all the Catholics rites because that was important for her in the Catholic designated area of the municipal cemetery ,

Sadly that son later passed away and his daughters knowing he wasn't a practising Catholic arranged for a service at the Catholic Church but his burial in a grave in the neutral part of the cemetery