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

Child Ada Georgina Bessant

Title: Child
Forenames: Ada Georgina
Surnames: Bessant
Date of Death: 02/02/1887
Burial Date: 04/02/1887
Age at Death Years: 9
Grave Type: Marked
Map Reference Number: RSHG 031 C1
Plot Number: Ryde New Cemetery Section E Plot 1158
Grave Description: Small tapered stone with encircled cross.
Grave Condition Description: Eroding badly, lots of lichen, difficult to read, leaning south west.
Other Information: Added 2nd name and burial date, source: Bereavement Services records
Old Website Grave ID: 7421

Inscription:

Illegible Gothic script across top
IN
LOVING MEMORY OF
ADA
BELOVED CHILD OF
GEORGE AND MARY ANN
BESSANT
WHO DIED FEB 2ND 1887
AGED 9 YEARS
"THE GENTLE SAVIOUR CALLED HER
LAID HER UPON HIS BREAST
FOLDED HIS ARMS AROUND HER
HUSHED HER TO PEACEFUL REST"

Photographs:

David Earle
A Bessant 12 November 2009
Photographer: David Earle
David Earle
A Bessant 12 November 2009
Photographer: David Earle

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