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Rushden Cemetery
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The "purchase" of a grave usually meant for 100 years, and depending on the depth of the first burial, may be used for up to four bodies. If a memorial stone is already on a grave which is to be opened for a subsequent burial, then the stone mason is asked to fetch the memorial away. If no relative requests the replacement of the memorial it will remain in the masons yard for up to ten years, but then may be discarded. Those inscriptions are lost forever. The Memorial Inscriptions are transcripts from the gravestones, but not every grave had a stone. The Plan of the cemetery shows where each section is together with the grave numbers and the layout of the Sections shows the grave numbers by rows. The Memorial Walls have been erected where section A & B gravestones were removed in 1954 and these commemorate cremations or people who were buried elsewhere. The Stones Removed lists inscriptions on the stones found laying along the path inside the perimeter fence in 1992 when the recording began, but these are now very overgrown with ivy. The index to all the Cemetery Burials is from 1888 to 2003, when the Rushden Town Council kindly allowed us a copy of some of the information from their database. All these records give a snapshot of the areas at the date of the survey - some graves may have been opened for further burials and some may have had stones or additional inscriptions added. |
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