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Re Bourne Abbey Churchyard

Lincoln Consistory Court: Bishop Ch, 19 June 2012 Exhumation – family grave

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 December 2012

Ruth Arlow
Ruth Arlow*
Affiliation:
Chancellor of the Diocese of Norwich
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Ecclesiastical Law Journal , Volume 15 , Issue 1 , January 2013 , pp. 118
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Copyright © Ecclesiastical Law Society 2013

The chancellor granted a petition for the exhumation of the cremated remains of the petitioners' father for their re-interment with those of their mother in Essex. The whole family focus had been in Essex and the petitioners' parents had only moved to Bourne a relatively short time before their respective deaths. There was no question of mistake in relation to the burial, although the creation of a family grave was held to be adequate reason for a departure from the norm of permanence. [RA]