Why a Burial in Unconcecrated Ground?

[muckandtwigs]

Looking-up some deaths in the 1800s I note some were marked as buried in consecrated ground and some in Unconsecrated ground. Were the unconsecrated Pauper burials?

[stanmapstone]

Is this in a churchyard or municipal cemetery? In a cemetery the Anglican burial area would be consecrated, and subject to Church law, a body interred in consecrated ground is under the protection of the ecclesiastical court. Unconsecrated ground would be for non-conformist denominations and civil burials.

Stan

[stanmapstone]

Looking-up some deaths in the 1800s

What was the date? Burial laws changed during the nineteenth century.

Stan

[muckandtwigs]

It was a Municipal cemetery and they were around the late 1800s, I had never realised before that some burials were in unconsecrated ground.Thankyou for the information.

[J.R.Ellam]

Hi

A lot of the corporation burial grounds were for everyone which meant you had Church of England, Chapel and Catholic buried in the same cemetery and usually the consecrated burials were Church of England and the unconsecrated, (or sometimes general) were non conformist.
When the Huddersfield Edgerton cemetery was proposed the then vicar of Huddersfield want a wall built to separate the two ground. Also if you look at one of the cemeteries you will notice that most of them have two mortuary chapels one for the consecrated and the other for the unconsecrated.

Regards
John

[Guy Etchells]

It was a Municipal cemetery and they were around the late 1800s, I had never realised before that some burials were in unconsecrated ground.Thankyou for the information.

In many cases unconsecrated ground is a misnomer.

In an Anglican burial ground the area is consecrated when it is laid out as a burial ground. Areas laid out for other religions tend to consecrate the individual plot prior to the burial.
This means that for instance Catholic graves although marked as being in unconsecrated ground may actually be in consecrated ground.
Cheers
Guy

[muckandtwigs]

Thank's for the replies. Roots group are certainly a 'Mine' of information, there must be lots of people like myself who have reached a fair age and did not realise such things.
Muckandtwigs

[stanmapstone]

I should have added that Roman Catholics, Quakers, and Jews had their own sections in municipal cemeteries.

Stan

[Wiggy]

Some people buried in unconsecrated ground, over here, had committed crimes for which they were not pardoned and therefore were not buried within the cemetery. 
There is a cemetery on Norfolk Island where several convicts were buried outside the cemetery wall for killing policemen.

Maybe there were similar instances also in England?