This may explain why a small percentage of the time we can never find a burial of an ancestor. In St Dunstan Stepney during the 1700s about 1 in 20 or 30 burials were of "A man unknown, found drowned" or woman or child.
Many of these unknowns were just in the wrong place at the wrong time and obviously had a name but was not known in that area and many of them were parents or grandparents so are many peoples ancestors.
Many of these unknowns were just in the wrong place at the wrong time and obviously had a name but was not known in that area and many of them were parents or grandparents so are many peoples ancestors.