Arrabona - Múzeumi közlemények 2. (Győr, 1960)

L. Timaffy: Traditions of the Joint Family in the Popular Burial Customs of the Szigetköz

law were enterred always in the joint family in which they lived, or which enjoyed more respect at the time. Children were not buried in the family group either, only those who attained the age of a bachelor or a grown-up girl. The graves of the children occupy a separate row in the cemetery. The form of the family groups of graves preserved the fan-shaped arrangement of the already unearthed cemeteries of the Hungarian common people from the time of the Conquest, centering in the comon ancestor, or the single row plan of those used by the middle classes of the pouplation. • 175