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 Orchard

Title: Miss
Forenames: Alice
Surnames: Orchard
Date of Death: 03/02/1972
Burial Date: 08/02/1972
Age at Death Years: 96
Grave Type: Marked
Map Reference Number: RSHG 037 D2
Plot Number: Ryde New Cemetery Section D Plot 719
Grave Description: Large headstone with Gothic shaped top, side columns and shoulders, open book carved into top panel
Grave Condition: Good
Other Information: Added burial date, source: Burial records
Old Website Grave ID: 7983

Inscription:

IN AFFECTIONATE REMEMBRANCE OF

(inscribed in openbook at top of headstone)
"the Lord raiseth them that are bowed down"

ALBERT ORCHARD
WHO DIED
AUGUST 30th 1889
AGED 44 YEARS

"WE CANNOT LORD THY PURPOSE SEE
BUT ALL IS WELL THAT'S DONE BY THEE"

ALSO OF HIS WIFE
FANNY ELLEN ORCHARD
WHO DIED DECEMBER 9th 1926
AGED 83 YEARS

"JESUS LEAD ME"

(on a small stone tablet on grave top)
ALSO OF THEIR DAUGHTER
ALICE ORCHARD
DIED 3rd FEBRUARY 1972
AGED 96 YEARS

Photographs:

David Earle
A Orchard Dec 2010
Photographer: David Earle
David Earle
A Orchard Dec 2010
Photographer: David Earle
David Earle
A Orchard Dec 2010
Photographer: David Earle

Related Documents:

PDF file: Census; Death; Obituary.
''Entries from the 1891-1901 census, and the death notice and brief obituary from the IW Times.''

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