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Funeral Rites and Ceremonies

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Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
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Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Note about Episcopalian burials at St Cyril's graveyard, 29 August 1883

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW120/101
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Note about Episcopalian burials at St Cyril's graveyard [Cladh Churalain, Earra Ghàidheal/Argyllshire] describing how they run into the graveyard rather than walk and that once the coffin is removed from the bier it is smashed against a tree.

Dates: 29 August 1883

Note about St Cyril's graveyard, 29 August 1883

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW120/95
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Note possibly collected from Donald MacColl, foxhunter, Glencreran, Earra Ghàidheal/Argyllshire, about St Cyril's graveyard [Cladh Churalain, Earra Ghàidheal/Argyllshire] and how the biers of the 'Eaglaish Shass[anach]' [English Church (Episcopal Church)] 'are smashed against an aged gnarled low cuilion holly tree after it carries up the dead' there, whereas presbyterian biers are covered with a cloth.

Dates: 29 August 1883