I knew nothing about this site and have found my fathers baby sister who was buried in Manor Park in 1914 and his brother who was buried there in 1954.
I know that they were poor but was astonished to find that there were 24 other people(babies?) in the 1914 grave buried between July & October. It sounds morbid but how would that work in practice. Would this have been one large paupers grave that kept being reopened. So much importance was placed on a proper burial that surely the family would have attended the burial even if they had no money.
Even more surprising was the brother in 1954 was buried with five others who all had different surnames, non of which I recognied from my tree. He was married with children. Is it likely this also might have been a paupers grave?
Does anyone have any thoughts or advice that would clarify this for me?
Thank you
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