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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Holy Cross Church Binstead

Child Elizabeth (Bessey) Hillier

Title: Child
Forenames: Elizabeth (Bessey)
Surnames: Hillier
Date of Death: 09/04/1828
Burial Date: 11/04/1828
Age at Death Months: 10
Age at Death Years: 2
Grave Type: Marked
Map Reference Number: RSHG HC001
Plot Number: Binstead Holy Cross Churchyard B3-079
Grave Description: Small round topped headstone with stepped shoulders and engraved lettering.
Grave Condition Description: Quite weathered and lichen cover on stone. Headstone leaning to left.
Other Information: This headstone has been placed against the inside of the West Churchyard wall and we have no record of where the original plot was sited.
Burial date taken from 1986/87 Museums Community Project.

Inscription:

LITTLE BESSEY
DAUGHTER OF WM
AND ANNE HILLIER
WHO DIED AT RYDE
9TH APRIL 1828
AGED 2 YEARS
AND TEN MONTHS

Photographs:

Kate MacDonell
Hillier family November 2019
Photographer: Kate MacDonell

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