a 'silent' burial

[groom]

Sorry Andrew, I assumed, perhaps incorrectly, that as Mazi had given her exact age that it must have come from records somewhere.

[mazi]

Familysearch has Lydia gasgill christened  27 april 1777 cathedral Manchester, parents Samuel and ann. burial 4 June 1782 st Thomas ardwick,  seemed a good match to me

Mike
 

[mazi]

http://www.rootschat.com/links/01jb8/

Here is the link

It could have been a late christening,  but my original post was to suggest it was not a burial of an infant

Mike

[Andrew Tarr]

Familysearch has Lydia gasgill christened  27 april 1777 cathedral Manchester, parents Samuel and Ann. burial 4 June 1782 st Thomas ardwick,  seemed a good match to me.

Absolutely.  I had not found Lydia in the Ardwick baptisms, but hadn't looked further.  Doesn't answer the question of why the burial was Silent; interesting, that.

[mazi]

The possibility occurred to me that with father dead, mother dying and possibly not aware, that the incumbent was being asked to bury a child who may not be baptised, with no mourners so took the easy way out.

Mike

[Maiden Stone]

I've just seen a mention of "silent funerals" in connection with All Saints Parish Church, Hindley, Lancashire. It's in a sentence near the end of the  page about the history of All Saints Parish on Lancashire OPC. A Silent Funeral was one which no Anglican minister attended.