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 Ernest Harold Steward

Title: Child
Forenames: Ernest Harold
Surnames: Steward
Date of Death: 01/08/1903
Burial Date: 06/08/1903
Age at Death Years: 16
Grave Type: Marked
Map Reference Number: RSHG 036 C1
Plot Number: Ryde New Cemetery Section D Plot 902a
Grave Description: Small squared headstone with stepped shoulders incorporating a maltese cross, standing on a tapered plinth.
Grave Condition: Poor
Grave Condition Description: Lettering weathered, difficult to read.
Other Information: Added burial date, source: Burial records. Although mentioned on the inscription Ernest Harold Steward is not interred in this plot, source: Bereavement Services records.

Inscription:

IN
LOVING MEMORY
OF
ADA ANNIE
THE DAUGHTER OF
JAMES AND EMILY STEWARD
WHO FELL ASLEEP IN JESUS
NOVEMBER 26TH 1893
AGED 2 YEARS AND 3 MONTHS
HOWEVER?? DROOPED OUR FLOWER
TOO FAIR TO FLOURISH HERE
GOD TOOK HER TO HIS HEAVENLY BOWER
TO BLOOM AND FLOURISH THERE.

Plinth
ALSO ERNEST HAROLD STEWARD
BROTHER OF THE ABOVE
DIED AUGUST 1ST 1903 AGED 16 YEARS.

Photographs:

Colin Hunt
A & E Steward March 2017
Photographer: Colin Hunt
Colin Hunt
A & E Steward March 2017
Photographer: Colin Hunt

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