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

Mary Rose Smith

Forenames: Mary Rose
Surnames: Smith
Burial Date: 31/12/1914
Age at Death Years: 40
Grave Type: Marked
Map Reference Number: RSHG 023 A2
Plot Number: Ryde Old Cemetery Section I Plot 1461a
Grave Description: Very ornate arched headstone with recessed carving and roundels.
Grave Condition Description: Tilting forward and slightly to the left. Sentiment worn.
Other Information: Although not mentioned on the inscription, also interred in this plot Mary Rose Smith (1914), source: Bereavement Services records

Inscription:

"THY WILL BE DONE"

IN
LOVING MEMORY
OF
JOHN SMITH
WHO DIED DEC 4 1876
AGED 29

"BOAST NOT THYSELF OF TOMORROW FOR THOU
KNOWEST NOT WHAT A DAY BRING FORTH"

ALSO
MAURICE FREDERICK SMITH
THE BELOVED SON OF
JOHN AND ANNIE SMITH
WHO DIED MARCH 17TH 1878
AGED 3 YEARS AND 7 MONTHS

"THE LORD GIVETH AND THE LORD TAKETH AWAY
BLESSED BE THE NAME OF THE LORD"

Photographs:

Janette Gregson
J & M Smith February 2008
Photographer: Janette Gregson

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