Ryde Social Heritage Group research the social history of the citizens of Ryde, Isle of Wight. Documenting their lives, businesses and burial transcriptions.
RYDE SOCIAL HERITAGE GROUP
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

Catharine Picton Wright

Forenames: Catharine Picton
Surnames: Wright
Date of Death: 27/12/1866
Burial Date: 01/01/1867
Age at Death Years: 55
Grave Type: Marked
Map Reference Number: RSHG 017 D3
Plot Number: Ryde Old Cemetery Section E Plot 703
Grave Description: Ledger stone with gabled peon top and sculpted stone cross along upper edge. Triangular pediments on both gable ends and below ends of horizontal bar of cross. Engraved gothic lettering. Ledger on step and all on large stone base with decorative surrounding railings.
Grave Condition Description: Previously overgrown, cleared February 2019.
Quite good condition although lettering weathered and illegible in places and heavy black lichen cover on stone. Memorial tilting southwards. Railings broken off at north-east corner.
Other Information: Added death date, source: Registrars and Newspaper records. Burial date added, source: Bereavement Services records.

Inscription:

North face
CATHARINE PICTON WRIGHT OF RYDE DIED … … 1866 AGED 55 YEARS

South face
ERECTED TO THE MEMORY OF OUR …. GOVERNESS BY ? ROBERT DUFF ASSHETON SMITH ESQ

Photographs:

Rob Cain
C Wright February 2019
Photographer: Rob Cain
Rob Cain
C Wright February 2019
Photographer: Rob Cain

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