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Manor Park Infant Mortality

This week we mark the completion of the digitization of the records of Manor Park Cemetery and Crematorium All 430,000 burial and cremation records for Manor Park in East London are now online and available to search on the Deceased Online database . One of the (very large) burial registers from 1875-1898 This week we added burial records from 25 March 1875 to 15 December 1898. These records include scans of the burial registers, as well as maps of the grave sections and details of the occupants of each grave.  High numbers of deaths in this period led to the Cemetery being quickly filled with graves and headstones. This twenty-five year period saw around 160,000 burials, many due to a continually increasing population and the extreme levels of poverty in London’s East End. Amongst the dead were thousands of children, including young infants. The page below, from the burial register of August 1889, shows the burial details of ten children. One was only 36 hours