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 Lawrence Brown

Title: Child
Forenames: Lawrence
Surnames: Brown
Date of Death: 14/11/1842
Burial Date: 30/12/1842
Age at Death Years: 17
Grave Type: Marked
Map Reference Number: RSHG 003 B2
Plot Number: Ryde Old Parish Cemetery 2 Plot 373
Grave Description: Large headstone
Grave Condition Description: Fairly good, slight weather damage.
Other Information: The Motherbank is an anchorage which lies between Portsmouth and Ryde

Added burial date, source: St. Thomas's Burial register.
Laurence Brown was the third person to be interred in Ryde Cemetery, source: Annotated "New Burial Ground" in the margin of St. Thomas's burial register
Old Website Grave ID: 514

Inscription:

SACRED
TO THE MEMORY OF
LAWRENCE BROWN
OF NEWBURY PORT USA
WHO FELL FROM THE JIB-BOOM OF THE AMER.BRIG
JAMES GRAY
WHILE LYING AT THE MOTHERBANK
14TH NOV 1842 AGED 17
AND WAS UNAVOIDABLY DROWNED
HIS BODY WAS AFTERWARDS RECOVERED
AND BURIED IN THIS CHURCH YARD

THIS STONE IS ERECTED AS A TRIBUTE OF AFFECTION
BY HIS SISTERS AND FRIENDS WHO ARE LEFT
TO DEPLORE HIS EARLY DEATH IN THIS LAND

BELOVED YOUTH ADIEU, FORGIVE THIS TEAR
WHICH STILL MUST FLOW FOR MEMORY CANNOT SLEEP
THY PARENTS, SISTERS AND CONNECTIONS DEAR
HERE THEIR LAST TRIBUTE PAY - THEY WEEP

Photographs:

Janette Gregson
L Brown (March 06)
Photographer: Janette Gregson

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