Grave Stones - Obligations and Rights (General)

by rookancestrybest , United Kingdom, Thursday, April 26, 2012, 16:04 (4597 days ago) @ ajd1

These are good questions, last year I discovered where some of my ancestors were buried (not the F of D branch I hasten to add) and was horrified to learn that a whole row of grave stones had been taken out in the 1960s or 1970s to widen the path at the cemetery. So, the plots are there but now the graves are unmarked, when I asked where they had placed the stones I was told by a man at the cemetery that they were disposed of rather than repositioned, I was angry as this is a loss of part of my family history. However, many of the graves had been photographed and transcribed since to prevent this from happening in future at the same cemetery.