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 Richard Heward

Title: Child
Forenames: Richard
Surnames: Heward
Date of Death: 28/07/1875
Age at Death Years: 14
Grave Type: Marked
Map Reference Number: RSHG 020 A2
Plot Number: Ryde Old Cemetery Section V Plot 3089
Grave Description: Upright arched headstone with stone kerbs.
Grave Condition Description: Both side of kerbs cracked and broken.
Old Website Grave ID: 6063

Inscription:

IN
LOVING REMEMBRANCE OF
RICHARD HEWARD
WHO WAS DROWNED AT RYDE
JULY 28TH 1875
AGED 14 YEARS
"GOD'S WILL BE DONE"

ALSO OF
MATILDA HEWARD
MOTHER OF THE ABOVE
WHO PASSED AWAY
JAN 5TH 1919
"AT REST"

North kerb
AND OF HER DAUGHTER MATILDA WHO DIED MARCH 28TH 1944 AGED 90 YEARS

Photographs:

Janette Gregson
R, M and M Heward September 2008
Photographer: Janette Gregson
Janette Gregson
R, M and M Heward September 2008
Photographer: Janette Gregson

Related Documents:

PDF file: Birth; Census; Inquest.
''Reference from the IW Registrars birth records, entry from the 1871 census, and the inquest report from the IW Times. A sad drowning fatality.''

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