Does anyone know why these people would be buried together?

[newmodernist]

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=136769072&ref=acom

Sarah B Speakman is my 3x Great Grandmother - none of the rest of the names seem to be of any relation..

[KGarrad]

There's some information here:
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=709531.0

Looking at the dates, they are all very close - so maybe all died as a result of the same cause? An epidemic, maybe?

[KGarrad]

There was a typhoid epidemic in 1910 in Eccles?
The cause was ice-cream made in Ancoats?

See:  http://www.rootschat.com/links/01fjd/

[newmodernist]

That's such a COOL thing to find out.   

[KGarrad]

I should think that the death certificate, of any of these people, would hold some clues?

[carol8353]

My grandad (died 1937) is in a mass grave with 7 other men in London.
None of them are related,but his family were not able to afford a single plot for him.
Hence the much cheaper mass grave.

[newmodernist]

Don't have a death certificate as of now, but when I get it, I'll certainly look out for the possibility of terminal treats!

And yes, I don't think they were well off, so a mass grave could be likely.

[nanny jan]

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=136769072&ref=acom

Sarah B Speakman is my 3x Great Grandmother - none of the rest of the names seem to be of any relation..

I would have thought it unusual to have a headstone featuring people who were unrelated.   

[carol8353]

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=136769072&ref=acom

Sarah B Speakman is my 3x Great Grandmother - none of the rest of the names seem to be of any relation..

I would have thought it unusual to have a headstone featuring people who were unrelated.   

Sorry I missed that bit about there being a headstone Derr !!!

Good job one of us is awake Nanny Jan 

In that case they probably are all related in some way.

Carol