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 James Townsend Oswald Johnston

Title: Dr
Forenames: James Townsend Oswald
Surnames: Johnston
Date of Birth: 20/06/1813
Date of Death: 11/02/1898
Burial Date: 15/02/1898
Age at Death Years: 84
Grave Type: Marked
Map Reference Number: RSHG 017 A3
Plot Number: Ryde Old Cemetery Section G Plots 979 - 980
Grave Description: Large double plot with matching marble headstones
Grave Condition: Poor
Grave Condition Description: Headstones not bad although they are engulfed with ivy and brambles. Fully overgrown in 2018.
Other Information: Added birth and burial dates, source: Registrars, Newspaper and Burial records
Old Website Grave ID: 4085

Inscription:

Headstone 1
IN LOVING MEMORY OF
JAMES T. O. JOHNSTON M.D.
INSPECTOR GENERAL
OF ARMY HOSPITALS
WHO ENTERED INTO REST
FEB 11TH 1898
AGED 84 YEARS

"SO HE GIVETH HIS BELOVED SLEEP"

ALSO OF JANE ARCHER, WIFE OF THE ABOVE
WHO DIED JAN 7TH 1901
AGED 76 YEARS

"WITH CHRIST WHICH IS FAR BETTER"

Headstone 2
"FATHER I WILL THAT THEY ALSO
WHOM THOU HAST GIVEN ME, BE
WITH ME WHERE I AM"

IN MEMORIUM
EMMA
THE LOVER AND LOVING WIFE OF
JAMES T. O. JOHNSTON.M.D.
INSPECTOR GENERAL
OF ARMY HOSPITALS
WHO FELL ASLEEP IN JESUS
24TH DECEMBER 1878
AGED 65 YEARS

Photographs:

Janette Gregson
Johnston family plot (Aug 2007)
Photographer: Janette Gregson
Janette Gregson
Johnston family plot (Aug 2007)
Photographer: Janette Gregson
Janette Gregson
Johnston family plot (Aug 2007)
Photographer: Janette Gregson
Colin Hunt
Johnston (Mar 2018)
Photographer: Colin Hunt

Related Documents:

PDF file: Census; Death; Obituary; Funeral.
''Entries from the 1881 and 1891 census, and the death notice and obituary from the IW Times.''

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