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

Dr Alfred Garratt Platt Wilks

Title: Dr
Forenames: Alfred Garratt Platt
Surnames: Wilks
Date of Death: 14/12/1880
Burial Date: 18/12/1880
Age at Death Years: 44
Grave Type: Marked
Map Reference Number: RSHG 009 B1
Plot Number: Ryde Old Cemetery Section Q Plot 2397
Grave Description: Raised cross, stone kerbs and an inner kerb on north side.



Grave Condition Description: The actual stone is fairly good but grave overgrown with grass. Iin may 2008 it was noticed that this grave had been recently damaged.
Other Information: Added burial date, source: Burial records
Old Website Grave ID: 1987

Inscription:

Top tier of plinth
ALFRED GARRATT PLATT WILKS
MA, MB, MC TRIN COLL CAMBRIDGE

2nd tier
SON OF THE REV S C WILKS
RECTOR OF NURSLING
ENTERED INTO REST DEC 14TH 1880
AGED 44 YEARS

3rd tier
R.I.P

Photographs:

Janette Gregson
A Wilks (July 2006)
Photographer: Janette Gregson

Related Documents:

PDF file: Census; Death; Obituary; Orders.
''Entries from the 1861 and 1871 census, the death notice from the IW Times and the obituary and battalion orders from the IW Observer.''
PDF file: History Gazetteer & Directory of Hampshire & Isle of Wight
PDF file: Death Notice
PDF file: Furniture Sale

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