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

Miss Alice Mary Denham

Title: Miss
Forenames: Alice Mary
Surnames: Denham
Date of Birth: 01/01/1888
Date of Death: 18/11/1905
Burial Date: 29/11/1905
Age at Death Years: 17
Grave Type: Marked
Map Reference Number: RSHG 043 B2/C2
Plot Number: Ryde New Cemetery Section G Plot 2074
Grave Description: Cross raised up on a plinth, stone kerbs surround, grass top
Grave Condition Description: The grave has been cleared but the Cross is now lying flat
Other Information: Added names, death & burial dates, source: Registrars, Newspaper and Burial records
Alice drowned when the S.S. Hilda was wrecked on reefs a few miles off St. Malo Harbour - see external link.
Old Website Grave ID: 8815

Inscription:

Base of Cross
IN MEMORY OF
ALICE MARY DENHAM
WHO LOST HER LIFE
IN THE HILDA DISASTER NOV 18 1905
AGED 17 YEARS

Middle Tier
GEORGE HENRY DENHAM
DIED APRIL 6TH 1913
AGED 61 YEARS

"UNTIL THE DAY BREAKS AND THE SHADOWS FLEE AWAY"

Bottom Tier
AND OF MARIA ANN HIS WIFE
DIED OCTOBER 14TH 1948
AGED 91 YEARS

Photographs:

David Earle
A Denham Apr 2014
Photographer: David Earle

Related Documents:

PDF file: Birth; Census.
PDF file: Le Salut newspaper article 1906
PDF file: Details of the siblings of Alice
PDF file: Repatriation and Inquest
PDF file: The Funeral

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