Just a general query really. Were catholic burials always recorded? Were catholics who died in the workhouse buried in a catholic cemetery with catholic rites even if they were paupers?
I am now wondering the same myself, despite replying that they were buried in CofE graveyards
. I do have a record of a Catholic ancestor being buried in a CofE churchyard HOWEVER, he was a pauper from the workhouse, and I am not sure they would have known what his religious denomination was. I do wonder for people that were known Catholics if most CofE cemeteries would accept them. But before you started to get specific Catholic cemeteries in the mid 19th century, I suspect many Anglican churches would not allow Catholic burials, but some places did, such as Bunhill Fields in London, but the fees would exclude the poor. I know some Catholics were buried in particular in St. Pancras burial ground, particularly French refugees, but I suspect some fees were involved there too.
The question is, what happened to all the poor Irish who started to come in large numbers to London from the mid 18th century onward - were they buried in some kind of adhoc, multiple occupancy graves within certain graveyards or cemeteries, paid for by the local parishes, or funded by Catholic donors? Perhaps the burials were not even recorded anywhere, but, would that even be legal?
