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Child Alice Caroline Ewbank

Title: Child
Forenames: Alice Caroline
Surnames: Ewbank
Date of Birth: 11/03/1864
Baptism Date: 13/03/1864
Date of Death: 23/03/1864
Age at Death Days: 12
Grave Type: Vault
Map Reference Number: RSHG 015 C3/D3
Plot Number: Ryde Old Cemetery Section D Plots 315, 316 & 353
Grave Description: Large L shaped triple plot with surrounding kerbstones. Plots 315 and 316 are enclosed within a vault and plot 353 is behind the left hand side of the vault.
Matching triple plinths with plain crosses on north and south sides of vaulted area. Lead lettering.
Joining the two plinths is a low rectangular kerbed area, now overgrown, which contains no memorial so may have been a flower bed.
Grave Condition: Fair
Grave Condition Description: November 2007 - the cross on the north side of the plot was still standing.

Revised March 2019 - Cross on south side of plot is broken just below the horizontal bar and the top portion is leaning against its plinth. The cross on north side has been taken down and laid flat in front of its plinth. Lettering quite weathered in places and difficult to read. The whole burial area is covered with thick grass and moss.
Other Information: Added birth, baptism & death dates, source: Registrars and Newspaper records
Although mentioned on the memorial, Child Alice Caroline Ewbank was born, died and buried in Brighton, source: Registrars and Newspaper records
Sarah Lydia was not interred in the vault but is in plot 353 behind.
An earlier burial for Kitty Hooper (1877) was also in plot 353, source: Bereavement Services records
Old Website Grave ID: 4252

Inscription:

Headstone on south side of plot
East facing plinth - top tier
IN
LOVING MEMORY OF
Middle tier
FRANCIS EWBANK
WHO DIED NOV 25TH 1911
AGED … ?

West facing plinth - top tier
IN
LOVING MEMORY OF
Middle tier
SARAH LYDIA EWBANK
WHO DIED OCTOBER 11TH 1928
AGED 91 YEARS
Bottom tier
"I SHALL BE SACRIFIED WHEN I AWAKE
WITH THY LIKENESS"

North facing plinth -top tier
IN LOVING MEMORY OF
Middle tier
ANNIE EWBANK
WHO DIED APRIL 5TH 1928
AGED 85 YEARS
Bottom tier
"IN THY PRESENCE IS FULNESS OF JOY."

(Headstone on north side of plot)
East facing plinth -top tier
IN
LOVING MEMORY OF
Middle tier
THE REV HENRY EWBANK
WHO FELL ASLEEP OCT 19TH 1901
AGED 73 YEARS
Bottom tier
"HE TURNETH THE SHADOW OF DEATH BUT THIS MORNING."

West facing plinth - top tier
ALSO OF
ALICE CAROLINE
Middle tier
THEIR INFANT DAUGHTER
WHO ONLY LIVED TWELVE DAYS
1864

South facing plinth - top tier
IN MEMORY OF
CAROLINE ELIZABETH
Middle tier
THE BELOVED WIFE OF
THE REV HENRY EWBANK
WHO FELL ASLEEP APRIL 30TH 1877
AGED 45 YEARS
Bottom tier
"LOOKING FOR THE MERCY OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST
UNTO ETERNAL LIFE"

Photographs:

Janette Gregson
Ewbank family plot November 2007
Photographer: Janette Gregson
Janette Gregson
Ewbank family plot November 2007
Photographer: Janette Gregson
Janette Gregson
Ewbank family plot November 2007
Photographer: Janette Gregson
Kate MacDonell
Ewbank family plot March 2019
Photographer: Kate MacDonell
Kate MacDonell
Ewbank family plot March 2019
Photographer: Kate MacDonell
Kate MacDonell
Ewbank family plot March 2019
Photographer: Kate MacDonell
Kate MacDonell
H, C & A Ewbank March 2019
Photographer: Kate MacDonell

Related Documents:

PDF file: Birth; Baptism; Death; Census

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