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

Ma Am Stagg

Forenames: Ma Am
Surnames: Stagg
Date of Death: 15/01/1858
Age at Death Years: 74
Grave Type: Marked
Map Reference Number: RSHG 002 C1
Plot Number: Ryde Old Parish Cemetery 2 Plot 247
Grave Description: Large headstone
Grave Condition Description: Severe weather damage to inscription
Other Information: Arthur Horatio Dawson Hill died when the HMS Captain sunk in the Bay of Biscay. He is not buried in Ryde Cemetery.
Old Website Grave ID: 662

Inscription:

IN
MEMORY OF
MA AM STAGG
OF BELCROFT ST HELENS
WHO DIED AT RYDE
JANUARY 15 1858 AGED 74 YEARS

MORE THAN FIFTY YEARS OF HER LIFE WERE
SPENT IN THE CARE AND EDUCATION OF CHILDREN
HER DYING WORDS WERE
THOUGH HE SLAY ME YET WILL I TRUST HIM
MERCIFUL JESUS HAVE MERCY ON ME

ALSO ONE OF HER LAST PUPILS
ARTHUR HORATIO DAWSON HILL
WHO WAS LOST IN H.M.S. CAPTAIN
SEPTEMBER 7 1870 IN THE 18TH YEAR OF HIS AGE
MAY THEY REST IN PEACE

Photographs:

Janette Gregson
M Stagg & A Hill (March 06)
Photographer: Janette Gregson

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