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Thanks. I'm really going to have to visit one of the Sufffolk record offices to get these Cracknells sorted. Obviously several families in the area for several generations probably interconnected.

Hello again Linda,
I've just come across The Stanley Home on the Plunket site for Norwich. In the 1887 directory for Norwich there it says: "Stanley Home Training Institution for Servants. Beazor Miss Susannah, Matron." I guess this description does not preclude the previously discussed possibility.
David

Thanks. I'll endeavour to locate a source.....I guess the family history section at Rotherham Library should hold copies.
David

Yes I've had a look. Just as well they were removed in the 30's as they look like timber framed buildings which would have burnt like matchwood in the blitz. Weavers windows at the top I'd say.  I feel these photos may give a misleading impression.  The map shows yards at the Western side of the buildings on the West side of Peacock street laid out as gardens. My grandmother's wedding reception was in the garden of Albion House in 1905 which as far as I can tell was adjacent to Stanley House and also owned by the Tate family.  The photos show ornamental shrubs growing against a wall though the ground is covered with what looks like a Persian carpet.  My mothers recollection was that the yard when she was a young girl in the 1910's was full of the paraphernalia of the fruit growing business.....wooden boxes and the like.  It looks as though the house and garden may have been on a downward spiral.

David Culley

Hi Lawrence,
It won't help your enquiry but I'm a relation of yours on the same quest.  I'm descended from Henry's son William who married Sarah Laws (as indeed you may know). I have rummaged SMO registers at the Forum and frankly can find no reference earlier than Henry Nichols Reynolds baptised 16.12.1799 Pockthorpe St James out of wedlock, the marriage being SMO 09.11.1800.  I  wonder if earlier data may be in the St Pauls registers or transcripts as this is where Henry Nichols Reynolds was baptised.  Of course there  is a problem of water damage in the blitz in the case of St Pauls and some records are irretrievably lost. You can check on-line what is available.  I know there is a printed transcription of the surviving water damaged registers.  Meanwhile I would be fascinated to share data with you. If you give me your e address I can send you what I've got. 
David.culley@dsl.pipex.com