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 Leonard Francis Simms

Title: Child
Forenames: Leonard Francis
Surnames: Simms
Date of Death: 14/11/1905
Burial Date: 18/11/1905
Age at Death Years: 12
Grave Type: Marked
Map Reference Number: RSHG 028E B1
Plot Number: Ryde Old Cemetery Section K Plot 1576b
Grave Description: Very small cross with fuchsias carved in shoulders.
Grave Condition Description: Cross is broken away from plinth, badly weathered and some lead letters missing.
Other Information: Added burial date and 2nd name, source: Bereavement Services records
Old Website Grave ID: 5719

Inscription:

Top plinth
IN LOVING MEMORY
OF LEONARD SIMMS
DIED NOV 14 1905
AGED 12 YEARS

2nd plinth
CHORISTER
OF HOLY TRINITY CHURCH

3rd plinth
"CLOTHED IN ROBES OF SPOTLESS WHITE
NOW HE DWELLS WITH THEE IN LIGHT"

Photographs:

Janette Gregson
L Simms June 2008
Photographer: Janette Gregson
Janette Gregson
L Simms June 2008
Photographer: Janette Gregson

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