Ryde Cemetery
Child Edward Russell Bowlby
Title: Child
Forenames: Edward Russell
Surnames: Bowlby
Burial Date: 20/03/1865
Age at Death Days: 3
Grave Type: Vault
Map Reference Number: RSHG 028 C1/C2 D1/D2
Plot Number: Ryde Old Cemetery Section K Plot 1578
Grave Description: Large rectangular Plot, 5 stones laid flat, first five with small stone upright crosses, 1st with inscribed plinth, 6th with 2 tier plinth and larger cross, lying on ground broken, iron railings around.
Grave Condition Description: Script condition good, grave quite overgrown, small crosses broken and lying on top of grave. North kerb broken.
Other Information: Although not mentioned on the inscription, the 3 other children Charles Russell Bowlby (1869) and Harry Salvin Bowlby (1878) were interred in plot 1578a & Marian Emily Bowlby (1868) in plot 1579, source: Bereavement Services records
Inscription:
2 tier plinth with larger cross
HERE LIES
WITH FIVE OF HER CHILDREN
IN SURE HOPE OF ETERNAL LIFE
MARIA
WIFE OF EDWARD SALVIN BOWLBY
ESQUIRE
DIED JAN 6TH 1879
AGED 39 YEARS.
Small cross in south west corner
horizontal bar of cross
HARRY SALVIN BOWLBY
Plinth
ELDEST SON OF EDWARD SALVIN BOWLBY
AND MARIA HIS WIFE
HARRY
North Kerb
VAULT BENEATH ON THIS SIDE
Photographs:
E R Bowlby June 2008
Photographer: Janette Gregson
E R Bowlby June 2008
Photographer: Janette Gregson
E R Bowlby March 2013
Photographer: David Earle
Bowlby family February 2016
Photographer: Carol Strong
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