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Originally Posted by jammer139
The demolition application is only for the above ground slab building as there are archaeological concerns about possible cemetery plots. The site must be fenced afterwards and not used as parking until assessments are made to determine if any burials lie beneath. How the buildings that have stood here could have been built in the first place is odd as the footings would have found burials.
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You would be surprised once one goes back to a certain point in history, records become very poor. This is especially true involving the indigent, as society typically had little sense of charity then. Being on the site of a church, such "unfortunates" would seek out churches for support, and if they were deceased the church would take care of burial - as there was typically few if any family/friends. Such people were often buried with no marker, and there may or may not have been written records of where people were interred.
When the school there was built in the 1950's, perhaps unofficial advice and recommendations on how/where the building should be placed was given based on memory and passed down.
Years ago, I was involved in a multi-year effort to renew utilities under the roads of a small neighbourhood. Prior to the neighbourhood being built 80 year ago, it was a field across the road from a workhouse built in the 1860's. When the indigent inmates of the institution died, they were simply taken across the road and buried. No markers, no records. Those souls were lost to time. When the housing development started in the same location after WW 2, human remains were exhumed by the construction work. When we did the utility renewal work in the same location 20 years ago, we half expected to encounter the same issues, but with luck it seems that the original construction had cleared things out, and only pop bottles from the 1950's were found.
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