Why give the date of burial rather than the date of death?

 

St Peter and St Paul, Rock, Worcestershire

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Another large church now serving a small rural community. Massive rural depopulation must have happened over the centuries.

 

 

It wasn't clear why the date of burial rather than the date of death

was quoted on the memorial. Frances (56) and John (73)

died on the same day.

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