Daily Ancestorcoemeterium
Coemeterium is Latin for a cemetery or churchyard; in coemeterio means in the cemetery.
Coemeterium comes from a Greek word for a sleeping chamber. Dictionaries give cemetery, churchyard and burial ground, and Lewis and Short marks it as church Latin.
Burial entries often say in coemeterio with a place name, and the place may differ from the parish of death when a village had no burial ground of its own.
As seen in a recordLatin burial register, Galicia, 1810s
Sepulta est in coemeterio loci Anna Mrozinski
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