Ryde Social Heritage Group research the social history of the citizens of Ryde, Isle of Wight. Documenting their lives, businesses and burial transcriptions.
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Based at Ryde Cemetery Heritage & Learning Centre. Preserving, documenting and promoting the social history of Ryde on the Isle of Wight.
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Ryde Cemetery

Bishop John Baptist Cahill

Title: Bishop
Forenames: John Baptist
Surnames: Cahill
Date of Birth: 02/09/1841
Date of Death: 02/08/1910
Age at Death Years: 69
Grave Type: Marked
Map Reference Number: RSHG 029 D1
Plot Number: Ryde Old Cemetery Section Y Plot 3432
Grave Description: Large plot with ledger stone and red polished granite top with ornate flat cross on the top.
Grave Condition: Good
Grave Condition Description: In danger of becoming overgrown by brambles. Update November 2008 grave has been cleared.
Other Information: Completed birth and death dates, source: newspapers and Registrars records.
Old Website Grave ID: 4737

Inscription:

North side
PRAY FOR THE SOUL OF
SECOND BISHOP OF PORTSMOUTH

West end
ANIMA ENUS PROPITIETUR DEUS

South side
ERECTED TO HIS MEMORY BY ST MARY'S CONGREGATION
FOR 37 YEARS AT RYDE HIS GRATEFUL AND DEVOTED FLOCK R.I.P.

Photographs:

Janette Gregson
J Cahill (Nov 2008)
Photographer: Janette Gregson
Funeral of Bishop Cahill photo by Hughes & Mullins kindly contributed by Sally-Ann Garrett
Janette Gregson
J Cahill (Feb 2008)
Photographer: Janette Gregson
Janette Gregson
J Cahill (Feb 2008)
Photographer: Janette Gregson
Janette Gregson
J Cahill (Feb 2008)
Photographer: Janette Gregson
Bishop John Cahill's tomb date unknown

Related Documents:

PDF file: Death; Funeral.
''The death and funeral reports from the IW Times and IW Observer.''

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