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 Frederick Archer Kent

Title: Child
Forenames: Frederick Archer
Surnames: Kent
Date of Birth: 16/10/1860
Date of Death: 27/01/1861
Age at Death Months: 3
Grave Type: Marked
Map Reference Number: RSHG 006 C2
Plot Number: Ryde Old Parish Cemetery 3 No Plot Number
Grave Description: Stone cross on 3-tier plinth with stone kerbs and grass top.
Grave Condition Description: The cross is broken and lying flat on the grave, stone kerbs are mostly overgrown with grass, inscription becoming difficult to read.
Other Information: The grave of Benjamin Archer Kent, father of Frederick Archer Kent, can be seen in the background of the photograph, it is the large white obelisk just to the left of the central chapels.
Old Website Grave ID: 1310

Inscription:

FREDERICK ARCHER
INFANT SON OF
BENJAMIN ARCHER AND JOSEPHINE KENT
BORN OCTOBER 16TH 1860
DIED JANUARY 27TH 1861

HOW SOON THE FLOWERS OF LIFE DECAY
HOW SOON TERRESTIAL PLEASURES FADE AWAY
THS STAR OF COMFORT FOR A MOMENT GIVEN
JUST ROSE ON EARTH, THEN SET TO RISE IN HEAVEN

Photographs:

Janette Gregson
Frederick Archer Kent (Jan 06)
Photographer: Janette Gregson

Related Documents:

PDF file: Birth; Death; Burial.
''Reference from the IW Registrars birth records, the birth and death notice from the IW Observer, and the burial from the St. Thomas's register.''

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