Finding Graves part 2

[Oggie]

Carrying on from the excellent contributions going on in the thread..Finding graves at Parish Churches
Another question..
Would there still be an entry of burial in the Parish Registers if the deceased was non-conformist?

Where I live,there is a Victorian cemetery with a wall cutting it in half..not many locals realise that non conformists were buried on the side of the wall furthest from the Parish Church and Cof E burials on the other side.
Mark.

[Guy Etchells]

The could be, it would depend on the person being buried in the churchyard.
Some non-conformist churches had their own burial grounds.
Cheers
Guy

[Oggie]

This is the fascinating thing about Geneaology.
Its not just names and dates, but people and the times they lived in.
 We are now discussing Non-conformism and the burial clubs which is leading us to to the Victorian ideas on death and resurrection.

Do you think a dissenting person would be entered into the Parish register as a burial even if buried at a Non-Conformist Chapel which of course may have their own BMD register?

[MarieC]

Oggie

I can only recount my own experience.  Roman Catholics did not have their own churchyards originally, so had to arrange to be buried somewhere!  My London RC ggggrandparents, who died in 1834 and 1846, were buried in Old St Pancras churchyard, where apparently a lot of RC people were buried.  I think I was told at one time that such burials would have taken place after dark.  But they were entered in the St Pancras parish register, because a researcher found them there for me. 

Sadly, there is no sign of their headstones in the churchyard.

MarieC

[Oggie]

I imagine there is also the distinct possibility of older Graves being reused for later burials?

[MarieC]

Distinct possibility, yes.  Depends where it is and what were the policy/regulations applying to the churchyard.

MarieC