JOHN McCREADIE DIED 2 AUGUST 1879, BURIED WHERE?

Post by **emanday** » Fri Apr 20, 2007 4:01 pm

As I understand it, many coastal parishes actually had properly consecrated areas for just such interments.

DavidWW · Post by **DavidWW** » Fri Apr 20, 2007 4:08 pm

emanday wrote:As I understand it, many coastal parishes actually had properly consecrated areas for just such interments.

Your source(s) would be of great interest.

David

Post by **emanday** » Fri Apr 20, 2007 4:59 pm

Can't help you there, David, although there used to be a paper online (link doesn't work now) about this very subject.

The minister who performed the burial in 1977 is probably lang deid (he was well into his 60's at the time), but was something of a bore on the subject of maritime burials. I do know he brought up the subject of "properly consecrated areas at sea" while bemoaning the fact that his predecessors wouldn't have had to travel so far out of their own parish to perform the service.

Post by **AndrewP** » Fri Apr 20, 2007 5:08 pm

Here is an online article pertaining to burials at sea nowadays, off the shores of England and Wales.

http://www.mceu.gov.uk/MCEU_LOCAL/fepa/FEPA-Burial.htm

All the best,

AndrewP