Ryde Social Heritage Group research the social history of the citizens of Ryde, Isle of Wight. Documenting their lives, businesses and burial transcriptions.
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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 Bertha Lucy Biggs

Title: Miss
Forenames: Bertha Lucy
Surnames: Biggs
Date of Death: 26/10/1931
Burial Date: 30/10/1931
Age at Death Years: 74
Grave Type: Marked
Map Reference Number: RSHG 026 B2
Plot Number: Ryde Old Cemetry Section C Plot 284a
Grave Description: Upright arched stone with scalloped edge, rose carving central top.
Grave Condition Description: Leaning south, eroded more at base, lead lettering almost all missing.
Other Information: Although mentioned on the inscription, Ellen Matilda (Nellie) Biggs was not interred in this plot, she was buried in Ryde Old Cemetery Section C Plot 287a Map RSHG 026 B3. source: Bereavement Services records
Old Website Grave ID: 5710

Inscription:

IN
LOVING MEMORY OF
LUCY
WIFE OF SAMUEL BIGGS
DIED AUGUST 13TH 1882
AGED 48 YEARS

ALSO
NELLIE, DAUGHTER OF THE ABOVE
DIED JULY 1ST 1882
AGED 20 YEARS

"THE LORD GAVE AND THE LORD HATH TAKEN
AWAY, BLESSED BE THE NAME OF THE LORD"

AND OF HER ELDEST DAUGHTER
BERTHA LUCY
WHO PASSED PEACEFULLY AWAY
OCTOBER 26TH 1931
AGED 74 YEARS

"HE GIVETH HIS BELOVED SLEEP"

Marble tablet

IN LOVING MEMORY OF
EDITH MARGARET
BIGGS
WHO DIED 18TH JANUARY 1989
AGED 82 YEARS

"REST IN PEACE"

Photographs:

Janette Gregson
L, N, B & E Biggs June 2008
Photographer: Janette Gregson
Janette Gregson
L, N, B & E Biggs June 2008
Photographer: Janette Gregson
Janette Gregson
L, N, B & E Biggs June 2008
Photographer: Janette Gregson

Related Documents:

PDF file: Census; Obituary; Funeral.
''Entries from the 1861-1871 census, and the obituary and funeral report from the IW Times.''

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