funerals

funeral Topic: funerals "own the corpse" 18 underbearers overbearers or topbearers the box 78 reading the mourners Oct. 1970 - various places 'winding cloth', 'winding sheet', 'wooden bearer', 'TD Pipes', ''mountin', Not used Not used...

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Bibliographic Details
Format:	Manuscript
Language:	English
Subjects:	English language > Dialects > Newfoundland and Labrador Newfoundland
Online Access:	http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/elrcdne/id/25650

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Summary:	funeral Topic: funerals "own the corpse" 18 underbearers overbearers or topbearers the box 78 reading the mourners Oct. 1970 - various places 'winding cloth', 'winding sheet', 'wooden bearer', 'TD Pipes', ''mountin', Not used Not used Not used [see also 'fittings, funeral', 'breast-plate' 'lich-gate', 'long-home', 'lych-wake', 'death wagon', 'dead carts', 'dead car' 'burying-ground', 'wake', 'wake room' 'passing the brogue', 'habit', 'wake house' 'God be merciful pipes and tobacco'