Does anyone know why these people would be buried together?

[newmodernist]

None of those names have come up in my research yet - the only ties seem to be they all died around the same time, but I'll keep an eye out for them.

[carol8353]

I see that the B in her middle name stands for Brown- the last name on that headstone is a 6 year old Robert Brown.

[KGarrad]

The names are:

Sarah B Speakman
Died July 30th 1910 aged 57 years    Registered Chorlton
Harry Cooper
Died August 16th 1910 aged 23 years    Registered Stockport
Emma Hammersley
Died September <??> 1910 aged 69 years    Registered Salford
Euculnia L Lescure
Died Oct <??> 1910 aged 62(?) years    Registered Chorlton as Fuguenia
Bertha Blakeley
Died Oct 30th 1910 aged 26 years    Registered Prestwich
Robert Brown
Died Jan 3rd(?) 1911 aged 6 years


Bang goes the epidemic theory!!

[arthurk]

I don't know if the same applied here, but in the cemeteries in Leeds they had "guinea graves" where those who couldn't afford a grave of their own could nevertheless have a grave with a brief inscription, albeit shared with strangers.

For one of the Leeds ones, and a fuller description than I have given, see http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?resourceIdentifier=20121119_174182
A search engine will bring up more examples.

Arthur

[Galium]

I don't know if you have spotted this thread, but the headstones in the pictures from St Joseph's Cemetery, Moston which Gortonboy posted also show lists of unrelated people buried together over a short time span.  The OP describes the grave requested as a "Public Inscription Grave".

http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=704069.0