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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Dr Ambrose Thomas Sturges Dodd

Title: Dr
Forenames: Ambrose Thomas Sturges
Surnames: Dodd
Date of Birth: 16/01/1803
Date of Death: 30/01/1847
Age at Death Years: 44
Grave Type: Marked
Map Reference Number: RSHG 002 C3
Plot Number: Ryde Old Parish Cemetery 1 Plot 115
Grave Description: Headstone with shaped shoulders, stone kerbs
Grave Condition Description: Some weathering to face of stone making inscription difficult to read. This grave was cleared by Community Service Volunteers.
Other Information: Founder of Ryde Hospital

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Old Website Grave ID: 6469

Inscription:

SACRED
TO THE MEMORY
OF
AMBROSE THOMAS STURGES DODD
SURGEON
LATE OF THIS TOWN AND FORMERLY OF
CHICHESTER
HE FELL ASLEEP IN JESUS
30 JANUARY MDCCCXIVII
IN THE 45TH YEAR OF HIS AGE

BY FAITH
LOOKING THROUGH THE ........AND
GATE OF DEATH TO
JOYFUL RESURRECTION
AT THAT DAY
....... ..... ..... GOD OF ALL GRACE
.... ..... .... .... THE HOUR OF
HIS CREATURES NEED
HIS WORD OF LOVE
THOU SHALT KEEP HIM IN PERFECT PEACE
WHOSE MIND IS STAYED ON THEE

Photographs:

Janette Gregson
A Dodd (April 2009)
Photographer: Janette Gregson
Janette Gregson
A Dodd (April 2009)
Photographer: Janette Gregson

Related Documents:

PDF file: Census; Burial.
''Entry from the 1841 census, and details from the burial register.''
PDF file: Will transcript from the National Archives.

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