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

Dame Roza Luiza Josepha Grey

Title: Dame
Forenames: Roza Luiza Josepha
Surnames: Grey
Date of Birth: 10/04/1810
Date of Death: 01/05/1885
Burial Date: 07/05/1885
Age at Death Years: 73
Grave Type: Marked
Map Reference Number: RSHG 029 D2
Plot Number: Ryde Old Cemetery Section Y Plot 3443
Grave Description: Headstone with very ornate carved stone cross at top.
Grave Condition Description: Part of the cross is broken off and is missing. The inscription is good. The grave is next to a tree and is overgrown by the branches of the tree and was covered in ivy. The grave was uncovered in February 2012 by Groundsell Grounds Maintenance.
Other Information: Added burial date, source: Burial records

Old Website Grave ID: 2806

Inscription:

Headstone

+ DAME ROZA LUIZA
JOSEPHA GREY WIDOW
OF GENERAL SIR JOHN
GREY K.C.B. & DAU OF CAPT.
H.E.P.STURT-GRINDALL R.N.
BORN 10 APRIL 1810
DIED 1 MAY 1885

R.I.P.

Footstone
R.L.J.G
IN PACE
1885

Photographs:

Janette Gregson
Showing the location of the grave (in the undergrowth) as seem from the central roadway (March 2007)
Photographer: Janette Gregson
Janette Gregson
Lady Grey Inscription (March 2007)
Photographer: Janette Gregson
Janette Gregson
Lady Grey Detail of Carving (March 2007)
Photographer: Janette Gregson

Related Documents:

PDF file: 1871, 1881 Census.
PDF file: Vellum Indentures signed by Capt. Charles Sturt, kindly submitted by Gordon Childs June 2007
PDF file: Obituary.
PDF file: Lady Grey's Servants kindly submitted by Gordon Childs June 2020
PDF file: Biography of Lady Grey's father, kindly submitted by Michael Pitfield, June 2020

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