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Ryde Cemetery

Child Cecil Cass

Title: Child
Forenames: Cecil
Surnames: Cass
Baptism Date: 26/05/1907
Date of Death: 20/02/1910
Burial Date: 24/02/1910
Age at Death Months: 9
Age at Death Years: 2
Grave Type: Marked
Map Reference Number: RSHG 040 B1
Plot Number: Ryde New Cemetery Section L Plot 4120
Grave Description: Small cross on 3 tiers

Grave Condition: Bad
Grave Condition Description: Cross broken off and lying on grave almost completely buried in grass, lettering worn. The area surrounding the grave was damaged by a fallen tree and a small wooden fence has been erected to the left of the grave on the boundary where the original cemetery stone wall stood.

Other Information: The photograph taken in 1910 shows the only 2 marked graves in New Section L at the time, the grave in the background is for a child, Brian Kent.
Cecil and Muriel are the children of John Aaron Thomas Cass and his wife Minnie (nee Wheeler). John was a Metropolitan Police Officer but grew up in Haylands, IW. The children died at 100 Northampton Buildings, Rossman Street, London. EC.

Cecil and Muriel Cass 1910
Cecil and Muriel Cass 1910, photo supplied by Carol Strong

Inscription:

Tier 1
IN
EVER LOVING MEMORY
OF OUR
DEARLY LOVED CHILDEN

Tier 2
CECIL CASS,
DIED FEBRUARY 20TH 1910,
AGED 2 YEARS 9 MONTHS.
AND MURIEL IVY CASS,
DIED MARCH 3RD 1910,
AGED 5 YEARS 4 MONTHS

Tier 3
"JESUS CALLED LITTLE CHILDREN UNTO HIM"

Photographs:

Photo supplied by Carol Strong
Cecil and Muriel Cass 1910
Photographer: Photo supplied by Carol Strong
Carol Strong
New Section L May 2008 showing Cass grave on left
Photographer: Carol Strong
Carol Strong
C Cass February 2016
Photographer: Carol Strong

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