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West Ham Cemetery, Newham

As all 430,000 records for Manor Park Cemetery go online, this week's post looks at other East London burials in the Deceased Online database In last week's post, I explored the Victorian heritage of the early sections of Manor Park Cemetery and Crematorium. Unlike that privately-owned cemetery, neighbouring West Ham Cemetery is owned and run by the Newham Council. In fact, it is the only cemetery that the Council owns and manages, and it appears on Deceased Online in the name of   'The London Borough of Newham'. Just a mile west of Manor Park Cemetery, West Ham was founded almost twenty years earlier, in 1857. It was one of the first publicly-owned cemeteries to be created after the Metropolitan Burials Act of 1852.The cemetery's plot covers 20 acres. All of the cemetery's 180,000 burial records can be found in the database . These include private burials and details of over 200 Commonwealth War Graves. George and Catherine Jane Allen (or A