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Thank you all for your help! I agree that it's some sort of pauper plot.

It is not a pauper plot as such although some of the occupants may have been paupers.

It is a common grave. Grave plots were expensive and only the fairly affluent could afford to purchase a private family grave. The rest were buried in common aka public graves.

Most of the people in common graves were ordinary working people who paid their own way and never asked for charity. Their family paid the burial and funeral costs, so they were not paupers.

I think of it like the difference between travelling by public transport and travelling in your own car. Not having a car doesn't mean you're a pauper and neither does being buried in a common grave.

I live near a large London cemetery where 18 people in a common grave is quite usual. I do wonder how they managed to dig them so deep.

He is listed on the CWGC site:
https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/720889/george-candy/

He is listed on two war memorials on findagrave:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/search?firstname=George+&middlename=&lastname=Candy&birthyear=&birthyearfilter=&deathyear=1916&deathyearfilter=&location=&locationId=&bio=&linkedToName=&plot=&memorialid=&mcid=&datefilter=&orderby=r&page=1#sr-55965977

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They married in June quarter 1842, Newington, volume 4, page 359.

According to freebmd.org.uk, the page range for this district and quarter was 309 to 362. The GRO indexed the marriages in parish churches first, followed by marriages in nonconformist churches and the register office. Page 359 is at the end of the range, thus indicating this marriage did not take place in a parish church.

Well you brought it to my attention, Wexflyer. I hadn't heard about it before.

I'm just glad I have never been tempted to have a DNA test.