Hi I am a related to the Bibby family who were the Sextons at the Chantry from the 1800s up to about 1970s I think. My great grandparents lived in the cottages at the chantry. There was a family story which was not discussed but somehow was overheard by my second cousin when he was a young child. His grandfather mentioned a Rimmer who lived in or was visiting the cottages and had some connection with the Bibby family (the grave diggers) he had walked off into the cemetery one night and sadly hung himself. It was never mentioned I assume as the Bibby family were very religious practicing Catholics who would not have approved of suicide and so would not have buried anyone who had died by suicide. This may account for the reason there is no trace of your relative. I am unsure what they would have done with the body in those days but the death would not have been acknowledged on any grave even if he had been buried there. Suicide was a sin which would not have been forgiven.
