I have been looking for my rellies at Yardley cemetary and found they were in Public graves,"I said ,paupers grave?" and the lady was very upset that I called it that as she said ,that was what everyone expected at the time ( iwas looking at 1900),she said it's the same as cremation is today.
They hold the records of each grave,which held about 10 people ,when the plot was full they grassed it over.My Great grandfather is grave 6355 and is in the Woodland Rose garden area,which is on the right against the fence from the Yardley Road side.
AS the map has the grass in front of the cemetary alongside Yardley road Does that mean that they were Public graves ,I seemed to remember gravestones there when I was a child,does anyone else remember these stones?does anyone know when the public graves stopped and people had to buy a grave,other than DSS burials?