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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Father Edward Wix

Title: Father
Forenames: Edward
Surnames: Wix
Date of Birth: 02/02/1802
Date of Death: 24/11/1866
Burial Date: 29/11/1866
Age at Death Years: 64
Grave Type: Marked
Map Reference Number: RSHG 021 C3
Plot Number: Ryde Old Cemetery Section B Plots 151 - 153
Grave Description: Triple plot. Celtic cross on a low headstone, stone sarcophagus coffin shaped with three carved stone handles and double hinges, kerbs and metal railings.

Grave Condition Description: Good except overgrown with brambles.
Other Information: Uunable to read most of inscription so the detail was taken from the obituary in the IW Times 5 December 1866. Added burial date, source: Burial records.
Old Website Grave ID: 6107
F & E Wix February 2011

Inscription:

EDWARD WIX. MA. TRIN CLL, OXON PRIEST
SOMETIME ARCHDEACON OF NEWFOUNDLAND
BORN FEB 2 1802. FELL ASLEEP NOV 24 1866

THE LORD GRANT UNTO HIM THAT HE MAY FIND THE MERCY OF THE LORD IN THAT DAY.

Celtic cross
FANNY WIX
BORN SEP 19TH 1809
(Illegible) 24TH OCT 1884

BY THY CROSS AND PASSION
GOOD LORD (Illegible)

Photographs:

David Earle
E Wix February 2011
Photographer: David Earle
David Earle
E Wix September 2013
Photographer: David Earle

Related Documents:

PDF file: Obituary
PDF file: Funeral.
PDF file: Details of coffin photographs taken by Jabez & Alfred Hughes

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