Re: help with etiquette please


"Daphne Tregear" <daf@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>I have a very vague memory of attending my grandfather's
>funeral a few days after his death on 20th July 1962. It
>was all very strange, first funeral I had been to, first
>member of my immediate family I had lost. I'd like to visit
>his grave, which I believe (but I may be wrong) is at the
>parish church of St. Mary attached to Douai Abbey in
>Berkshire. So I am writing to them to ask where in the
>graveyard he is buried; I don't know whether the graveyard
>would be large or small and whether I'll need a plot
>number, or whether grandma had a memorial erected before
>she moved away.
>

The Berkshire Record Office has records of burials for Douai
but this may well NOT include grave location.


Douai Abbey is not the location you need (as you already
stated) Douai Abbey is a Catholic community of monks of the
English Benedictine Congregation. The Church is at the
centre of the monastic community's life. The monks worship
together there five times a day. It is also used by local
people who wish to share in the monastic liturgy. The Abbey
Church is the highest building and is visible from all parts
of the campus. The only graves associated with the church
appear to be those of deceased monks - there is no general
cemetery


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