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 Algernon Mortimer Morris

Title: Child
Forenames: Algernon Mortimer
Surnames: Morris
Date of Death: 08/08/1853
Age at Death Years: 13
Grave Type: Marked
Map Reference Number: RSHG 004 B1
Plot Number: Ryde Old Parish Cemetery 5 Plot 688
Grave Description: Small upright stone, carved with curved top and shoulders. Footstone with curved top. Engraved lettering
Grave Condition: Poor
Grave Condition Description: Lichen covered but inscription can still be read (April 2007)

Headstone is much sunken and leaning forwards eastwards, inscription can no longer be read (May 2017)
Other Information: Also interred in this plot Rita Mary Flobell Morris (1929) and Edwin Alfred Morris (1930), source: Bereavement Services records.
Old Website Grave ID: 2722

Inscription:

Headstone
IN MEMORY OF
ALGERNON MORTIMER
SECOND SON OF
J. B. MORRIS ESQ,
OF BRIXTON HILL, SURREY
DIED AT RYDE
AUGUST 8TH 1853
AGED 13 YEARS

Footstone
A. M. M.

Photographs:

Janette Gregson
A Morris (April 2007)
Photographer: Janette Gregson
Janette Gregson
A Morris (April 2007)
Photographer: Janette Gregson
David Bushell
A Morris May 2017
Photographer: David Bushell
David Bushell
A Morris (2) May 2017
Photographer: David Bushell

Related Documents:

PDF file: Census; Death; Burial.
''Entry from the 1851 census, the death notice from the IW Observer, and the burial from the St. Thomas's register.''

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