The next meeting of RSHG will be held at the George Street Centre in Ryde on Saturday 12th January 2008 commencing at 10:30 am.
David Earle, Ryde Social Heritage Group's Membership Secretary and Leader of the Mapping Group, is a man of many talents and a valuable member of our team. He recently impressed us all by making a plaque to adorn the display case we had installed in Ryde Cemetery last year.
The dedicated team of Transcribers have been meeting in Ryde Cemetery every Saturday morning throughout the year to record the inscriptions from the grave stones and memorials.
We normally work for a couple of hours and only the severest of weather conditions would normally put off this intrepid troupe.
Our Research Group was busy again in November and 35 records were updated with census information, death notices, obituaties and other information.
The Christmas tree has become such an important part of a traditional English Christmas that it is difficult for us to imagine Christmas without a tree, but this wasn't always so.
There was a heavy frost in the cemetery yesterday morning and although most of it had melted by the time we met up at 10:30 for our weekly Transcribing session Kate found this beautiful ice cross in a shaped flower holder on one of the graves.
I am really pleased to announce that on 10 November 2007 we passed the milestone of uploading the 4000th individual record to Ryde Social Heritage Group's website.
Our Researchers were busy again in October and have updated 28 records with information gleaned from a variety of records including census records, directories and death and funeral reports from local newspapers.
It's November and the large, majestic Deodar Cedar tree in the Cemetery is in flower.
Even at a young age Harry owned his own horse and chaise and by the age of 18 was a fully-fledged licensed carriage driver.