Deceased Online Burial Information Help

[GrahamSimons]

Do you have the names of the other occupants.  If so you can presumably tell if they are related or not.  Was your burial the earliest one in the time frame?

Some plots were bought for 'life' although actually there was a limitation on the number of years of exclusivity so it might simply be that the plot was not exclusive to anyone but the fact that there were 18 people in there in total leads one to assume it was a common grave.

Pheno

Here are the details for churchyards in our diocese at the moment:
The maximum period of reservation permitted by law is 100 years but it is the Chancellor`s usual policy to reserve for a much shorter period, generally 50 years, although this may be extended in appropriate circumstances if, by its expiry, the right has not been exercised.

[Enumerated]

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.

[Calverley Lad]

In some cases the list of the departed can be quite distressing, local cemetery [now closed] in Leeds contains multiple remains of children, where the children were classed as born sleeping/deaths within days! All this near major hospital.RIP
 Brian