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 Margaret Bloxam

Title: Child
Forenames: Margaret
Surnames: Bloxam
Date of Birth: 20/07/1853
Date of Death: 25/02/1870
Burial Date: 02/03/1870
Age at Death Years: 16
Grave Type: Marked
Map Reference Number: RSHG 021 A3
Plot Number: Ryde Old Cemetery Section B Plot 171
Grave Description: Large solid, polished pink granite headstone with deep set oval panel containing sculpted cross and clasped hands. Inset white text panel with lead lettering on lower part of headstone. On matching triple plinth with engraved lettering.
Grave Condition Description: Quite good despite some staining and worn lettering on text panel.
Other Information: Burial date added, source: Bereavement Services records
Old Website Grave ID: 5399

Inscription:

Headstone
IN MEMORY OF
MARY LOUISA BORN JULY 22 1849 DIED JAN 21 1867

ALSO OF MARGARET
BORN JULY 20 1853 DIED FEB 25 1870
DAUGHTERS OF R W AND H L BLOXAM

Plinth-top tier
THIS MONUMENT WAS DESIGNED
AND MODELLED BY THE LOVING FATHER WHO
BEFORE ITS COMPLETION WAS LAID WITH HIS WIFE AND CHILD.

Photographs:

Janette Gregson
M & M Bloxam May 2008
Photographer: Janette Gregson
Janette Gregson
M & M Bloxam May 2008
Photographer: Janette Gregson
Kate MacDonell
Bloxam family May 2019
Photographer: Kate MacDonell

Related Documents:

PDF file: Directory; Birth; Census; Death.
''Listing from the Pigot & Co directory, reference from the IW Registrars birth records, entry from the 1861 census and the death notice from the IW Times.''

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