I have read in my cemetery readings that one should not make assumptions about relationships between individuals buried next to each other and otherwise grouped in close proximity. That is rather silly in itself, especially for rural cemeteries, with the kinship ties that develop as local families marry each other.
Often for me, the trouble is not deciding if that individuals in the same lot are related, but figuring out how they are related! Compounding the issue is the tradition of inscribing familiar relationships at the foot of wolf stones with epitaphs like "Wife & Mother" or "Our Brother."
No where is that "foot confusion" more evident then with the Featherstones and Robarts markers in Holy Trinity. The marker arrangement in lots 4 and 10, which you can see below:
