Re: Burial of suicides

On Tue, 2 Dec 2008 18:23:40 -0000, Steve wrote:

I am finding difficulty in locating the burial of an ancestor around
1818-1820 in the Manchester, having searched the most likely
parish records. It is still possible that he may have been buried
at another local church,

It's entirely posible that the burial was simply omitted from the
burial register as they weren't written up at the time of the events
but maybe once a week, once a month or even once a quarter with the
incumbent, parish clerk or whoever had responsibility for relying on
memory (which can fail) or scraps of paper (which can get lost) in the
interim.

Try looking in the BTs. They are supposed to be the same as the
parish registers but aren't always.
.

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