Ryde Social Heritage Group research the social history of the citizens of Ryde, Isle of Wight. Documenting their lives, businesses and burial transcriptions.
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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 Gertrude Emma Fardell

Title: Child
Forenames: Gertrude Emma
Surnames: Fardell
Date of Death: 17/07/1876
Burial Date: 19/07/1876
Age at Death Years: 12
Grave Type: Marked
Map Reference Number: RSHG 016 A3/B3
Plot Number: Ryde Old Cemetery Section B Plots 133 - 135
Grave Description: Triple plot surrounded by kerbstones. Ledger stone on base with cross laying on top at north side; peon topped ledger stone in centre; elaborate obelisk with IHS and a stork on a crown motifs, nearest hedge on south side.
Grave Condition: Poor
Grave Condition Description: Previously overgrown, this grave was exposed by O'Conner's men (cemetery contractors) and transcribed in 2013. The 2 ledger stones are in poor condition, very weathered and text is eroded. The obelisk is in a fair condition.
Other Information: Gertrude Emma Fardell is interred in plot 133 & Mary & John Hearn are interred in plots 134 & 135, details source: Bereavement Services records.

Gertrude is recorded as the daughter of John Wlson Fardell, solicitor and his wife, of Spencer Road, Ryde, source: Bereavement Services records.
John Wilson Fardell was the business partner and son-in-law of John Henry Hearn, source: Obituary of John Henry Hearn (1871).

Old Website Grave ID: 4364

Inscription:

Obelisk
IN MEMORY OF
JOHN HENRY HEARN
SOLICITOR
WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE
OCTOBER 13TH 1871
IN HIS 57TH YEAR
NOT MY WILL … Illegible text

No inscriptions can be read on the ledger stones

Photographs:

Janette Gregson
G Fardell & M Hearn October 2007
Photographer: Janette Gregson
Janette Gregson
M Hearn October 2007
Photographer: Janette Gregson
David Earle
J Hearn September 2013
Photographer: David Earle

Related Documents:

PDF file: Marriage; Birth; Census; Death; Burial.
''Details from the St. Thomas's marriage register, reference from the IW Registrars birth records, entry from the 1871 census, and the death notice from the IW Observer.''

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