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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Holy Cross Church Binstead

Child Mary Eleanor Sweetman

Title: Child
Forenames: Mary Eleanor
Surnames: Sweetman
Date of Death: 01/06/1820
Burial Date: 04/06/1820
Age at Death Years: 16
Grave Type: Marked
Map Reference Number: RSHG HC003
Plot Number: Binstead Holy Cross Churchyard A5-030
Grave Description: Plain bedstead type headstone with engraved lettering.
Grave Condition Description: Fair considering age of memorial, heavy lichen cover and inscription can just be deciphered.
Other Information: This headstone has been placed against the inside of the West Churchyard wall and we have no record of where the original plot was sited.
Burial date from 1986/87 Museums Community Project.

Inscription:

TO THE MEMORY
OF
MARY ELEANOR SWEETMAN.
WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE
JUNE 1ST 1820 IN THE 17TH YEAR
OF HER AGE.

Photographs:

Kate MacDonell
M Sweetman (right) October 2019
Photographer: Kate MacDonell

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