What a terrible tragic event. I was reviewing the photos attached to the website a poster upthread provided.
The image of the deceased child identified as Eleanor Cook doesn't look much like the actual likeness of Eleanor except some some superficial resemblance. To me the image of the deceased child looks much younger than Eleanor. At the age of 8 Eleanor would already have some permanent teeth, probably her top front teeth and the lower bottom four. The image of the deceased child shows she still has all her baby teeth, at least the top teeth that are visible.
Also the deceased girl's ears appear much smaller than Eleanor's. Eleanor's ears are quite large and fleshy compared to the UID.
The unknown little girl is wearing a flowered dress and Eleanor was wearing a red and blue playsuit that suggests shorts and top attached.
It does appear that someone misidentified the little girl or some family, not willing or able to identify burned remains chose instead to identify based on written characteristics.
Who could blame them? Tragedies involving children are the worst, unimaginable and overwhelming for everyone. Without the science and technology available to us today it's understandable mistakes were made. As a matter of fact there is a case of young boy who was supposedly kidnapped who ended being given back to the parents. Yet years later, through DNA it was found the child was not related to the 'parents' he was returned to.
Disappearance of Bobby Dunbar - Wikipedia