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 Raymond (Ray) Harris

Title: Child
Forenames: Raymond (Ray)
Surnames: Harris
Date of Death: 14/10/1914
Burial Date: 16/10/1914
Age at Death Years: 5
Grave Type: Marked
Map Reference Number: RSHG 019 D1
Plot Number: Ryde Old Cemetery Section S Plot 2806c
Grave Description: Small rustic tablet, with scroll like stone, kerbs around and grass top
Grave Condition: Fair
Grave Condition Description: Stone weathered and lichen growing, kerbs at the east end have sunk
Other Information: Added 1st name and burial date, Added birth and death dates, source: Registrars and Newspaper records
Old Website Grave ID: 4517

Inscription:

IN MEMORY OF
LITTLE RAY
ONLY CHILD OF REV: R.J. HARRIS
AND MARY HEYWOOD, HIS WIFE
WHOM JESUS CALLED HOME OCT. 14TH 1914
AGED 5 YEARS

"NOT SAD BUT BEAUTIFUL HIS MEMORY
SO CALM, SO BRIGHT
TWILL GUIDE US THROUGH EARTH'S DARKNESS
TENDERLY INTO GOD'S LIGHT"

Photographs:

David Earle
R Harris Jan 2011
Photographer: David Earle

Related Documents:

PDF file: Parents Marriage; Census; Obituary

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