Hi,
Not sure if this has been asked before..I have come across multiple burials in one plot. I see sometimes that it could be a family plot, but wondered if sometimes he people buried where not related?
TIA
Sarah
This was a reply to this question back in 2021 relating to City Road.
'City Road Cemetery. Clasification of grave types.
"Purchased"
Normally all the burials in this type of grave were related to or at least known to, the grave owner as they had they had the say of who was buried there and as a result you are more likely to find a memorial on this type of grave.
"Common"
One purchased this type of grave for a specified number of burials (so husband and wife could be buried together for example) then after the agreed amount of burials had taken place the grave was then re-sold to other (usually unrelated) families until the graves capacity was reached. It is quite rare for this type of grave to have a memorial.
"Margin"
These were usually (but not always) reserved for stillborn and neo-natal deaths; as a result, the number of burials in this classification of grave can be quite staggering. These can be hard to locate as they run at 90 degrees to the standard plot lay-out and they rarely have any kind of memorial.
All three classifications can usually be found in all sections'.