The squares are about 30x30 I guess (just from memory), and most are dedicated to a family.  Many however seem to have multiple unrelated families in them, probably because the family just decided not to buy a full square.

The cemetery office has the ownership records.

-- Randy Jones
   (my grandfather Herbert Jones, among others, is buried there)


----- Original Message ----
From: David Oakes <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask]
Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2008 9:08:27 AM
Subject: Re: Blandford Cemetery Interments

On 3/25/08 4:41 AM, "Tarter, Brent (LVA)" <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
[...]
> These records are now available in the Historic Blandford Cemetery
> Foundation Survey Records (Acc. 41780).  The collection is organized
> according to Blandford's alphanumeric plot identification system.  It
> would be extremely difficult to search for a record knowing only the
> name of someone buried in Blandford.  Therefore, we have created an
> online database with which patrons can use an individual's name to
> obtain the plot identifier.

Well, you know how it is, new information leads to new questions, so -

1st -
I have never been to this cemetery & have no clue how big the ³squares² are,
referenced in the database. Are the ³square¹s² usually dedicated family
plots -or- are they liable to have unrelated people buried in the same
"square"? 

IOW, can one assume that a group of people buried in the same ward & same
square are related somehow or other??

2nd - 
Are there any extant records of ownership of the burial plots?


Thanks!

C.Etter

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