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Using the Deceased Online website, I have found the burial details of several family members who were buried in Manor Park Cemetery. I am hoping to visit the Cemetery soon and try to locate their graves but having searched for ancestors in large cemeteries before I know what an extremely difficult job this is (and one which invariably turns out to be unsuccessful).

The map on the Cemetery's website shows the different numbered and lettered areas there, and I wondered if anyone else here who has searched the Cemetery has found the map to be any help. Do the area numbers etc bear any relevance to the details in the burial records of 90+ years ago?

Thanks in advance for any help.

I recently discovered the record of my grandfather's admission to Sidney Road School, Hackney, in 1892 when he was nine years old.

I was puzzled by this as my grandfather's family had never lived anywhere near Sidney Road to the best of my knowledge and I was intrigued by the address given for him in the admissions record - Cassland Cottage.

After a bit of research I discovered that there were Childrens Homes in Sidney Road, known as the Sidney Road Cottage Homes, and I'm now wondering whether Cassland Cottage was one of these.

Does anybody have any information about the Sidney Road Cottage Homes?