Catholic burials 1853

[Jill Eaton]

Apologies if this has been asked before, but would a 4 year old catholic child who was died in the workhouse, be buried in an Anglican ceremony in an Anglican burial ground?

St John the Evangelist, Westminster, London 1853. Jeremiah Harrington.
I've found a burial record for a child of this name on Ancestry but a unsure if, being a catholic, he would have a C of E burial

Thanks in advance for any help,

Jill

[jim1]

He would have received a pauper's burial & as such would most
likely have been interred in a communal grave which usually meant the cheapest
burial ground within the Diocese.

[melba_schmelba]

Apologies if this has been asked before, but would a 4 year old catholic child who was died in the workhouse, be buried in an Anglican ceremony in an Anglican burial ground?

St John the Evangelist, Westminster, London 1853. Jeremiah Harrington.
I've found a burial record for a child of this name on Ancestry but a unsure if, being a catholic, he would have a C of E burial

Thanks in advance for any help,

Jill

I am not sure there were that many Catholic burial grounds around at that time, one was Moorfields, and many Catholics were also buried in Spa Fields which opened in 1779 but closed in 1849 so wouldn't be around for your burial. Other places to look might be in one the municipal cemeteries such as the Tower Hamlets Cemetery (originally the City of London and Tower Hamlets) which opened in 1841, but also local churchyards likely in a public grave.

[Jill Eaton]

Thanks for your responses

I think the fact it was a pauper burial does point to the idea of a mass grave, cheapest option.