Ada Amy Birkhead has a memorial on one of the many 'inscription graves' or 'guinea graves' located in Holback Cemetry. These were a type of ‘common grave’ for a number of unrelated people who were buried around the same time. Unlike unmarked pauper graves, they had headstones commemorating the names of the dead. This type of burial originally cost one guinea (twenty-one shillings) often paid into a ‘Burial Society’ and saved the family from suffering the indignity of a burial for their loved ones in an unmarked paupers grave.
Ada Amy Birkhead has a memorial on one of the many 'inscription graves' or 'guinea graves' located in Holback Cemetry. These were a type of ‘common grave’ for a number of unrelated people who were buried around the same time. Unlike unmarked pauper graves, they had headstones commemorating the names of the dead. This type of burial originally cost one guinea (twenty-one shillings) often paid into a ‘Burial Society’ and saved the family from suffering the indignity of a burial for their loved ones in an unmarked paupers grave.
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