In Edwardian England, did poor families arrange to have their children buried in the graves of unrelated adults?
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My grandmother purchased a grave in Burslem Stoke on Trent in the early 1920s. A baby about a year old was buried there in a 'shelf' to the side of the grave. The grave was 16 feet deep. Later my grandmother was buried there and later still both my parents
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I can't say anything about Edwardian England, but my mother told me about her younger brother who died a few days after birth. This was somewhere around 1920s in The Netherlands.
My family owned a plot in a cemetery, a limited number of adult members of the family could find their resting place there. The infant was buried (his little coffin sideways) at the head of a space, so that both could be buried later on.
This was common practice in those days. My family was Catholic, but I've heard similar stories from protestants.
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