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Child Philip Alban Butler

Title: Child
Forenames: Philip Alban
Surnames: Butler
Date of Death: 19/03/1873
Age at Death Years: 11
Map Reference Number: RSHG 024 B3
Plot Number: Ryde Old Cemetery Section X Plot 3281
Grave Description: LARGE CUBOID BLOCK TOPPED WITH OCTAGONAL BASE FOR UPRIGHT STONE CROSS ON TRIPLE PLINTH. DECORATIVE IRON RAILING SURROUND ON STONE KERBS.
Grave Condition Description: Iron railing mostly covered with brambles and ivy, the cross is held up by ivy only and about to topple, has been partly cleared recently but bits of ivy debris still hanging to it
Other Information: The inscriptions on the North and East faces have been rendered visible due to clearance. The stone Cross has fallen. Additional transcription by David Earle
Old Website Grave ID: 6293

Inscription:

I.H.S.

West Face

IN LOVING MEMORY OF

THOMAS ALBAN BUTLER

WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE

SEPTEMBER 12th 1901

AGED 78 YEARS

"ON WHOSE SOUL SWEET JESUS HAVE MERCY"

R I P

FOR 25 YEARS SECRETARY OF THE

LOYAL EAST MEDINA LODGE OF

ODDFELLOWS MU

(Emblems in centre at each side above inscriptions (Oddfellows symbols?)

South Face

ALSO TO THE BELOVED MEMORY OF

PHILIP ALBAN BUTLER

THEIR SON

WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE

MMARCH 19th 1873

IN HIS 11th YEAR

"SWEET JESUS HAVE MERCY UPON HIM"

R.I.P

"LOVING SHEPHERD THOU DIDST GIVE

THINE OWN LIFE THAT I MIGHT LIVE

NOW BEFORE THY FATHER'S THRONE

JESUS CLAIM ME FOR THINE OWN.

East Face

IN LOVING REMEMBRANCE OF

MARY ELIZABETH

DAUGHTER OF

THOMAS ALBAN AND MARY SOPHIA BUTLER

WHO DEPARTED MAY 28th 1872

AGED 16 YEARS

ON WHOSE SOUL SWEET JESUS HAVE MERCY

RIP

North Face

IN LOVING MEMORY OF

MARY SOPHIA

THE BELOVED WIFE OF

THOMAS ALBAN BUTLER

WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE OCT 27th 1884

AGED 58 YEARS

BY THY CROSS AND PASSION

SWEET JESUS HAVE MERCY UPON HER

RIP

MY SOUL HATH RELIED ON HIS WORD

MY SOUL HATH HOPED IN THE LORD

PSALM ?

Photographs:

Janette Gregson
Butler, T, T & M (March 2009)
Photographer: Janette Gregson
Janette Gregson
Butler, T, T & M (March 2009)
Photographer: Janette Gregson
Janette Gregson
Butler, T, T & M Motif (March 2009)
Photographer: Janette Gregson
Janette Gregson
Butler, T, T & M Motif (March 2009)
Photographer: Janette Gregson
David Earle
Butler Grave 22.10.2010
Photographer: David Earle
David Earle
Butler Grave 22.10.2010
Photographer: David Earle

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