What does "Certificate" on a English burial record mean?

[Chocface]

I have found a burial which may be my ancestor. The cemetery is the Gibraltar Burying Ground, Bethnal Green. The date of burial is 23 June, 1818.
Next to the entry, in the left-hand margin are the following notations:
Certificate 12/2/19, initialled
under that is
Ditto 11/11/29, initialled

Would anyone know what those notes mean? I have attached a picture.
Thanks

[Billyblue]

Probably / possibly dates that certificates were issued, re this event ??

Dawn M

[mike175]

Yes, I would have assumed they were dates when someone applied for a burial certificate. Which begs the question: who applied and for what purpose? 

Scope for plenty more research there . . .

Mike.

[Treetotal]

Maybe the certificate of proof was needed for a headstone to be erected.
Carol

[Billyblue]

Maybe for Probate?

I had to produce my dad's death certificate to Telstra to get my phone put into my name, when I moved house!  At the previous location it had been in his name though I paid the bills, so they put his name in the phone book even though he had never lived at my new home!
And this after I had asked did they need proof he was dead, to disconnect the previous line, and was told they did not!
So the second issuance may have been for something similar, and the original certificate could not be found.

Dawn M

[stanmapstone]

and the original certificate could not be found.

Dawn M

There were no GRO death certificates at that time. Perhaps the certificates proving burial were required for Inheritance or Assurance purposes, or some other reason. There is an entry in the London Gazette, Friday September 2, 1831, by the Royal Exchange Assurance Office, August 24, 1831 listing Annuities which had elapsed by the deaths of the persons for whose lives they were respectively granted, and one is for an annuitant  who was buried in Gibralter Ground, Bethnal Green, on 2nd. November 1829.

Stan