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 Bessie Hansford

Title: Miss
Forenames: Bessie
Surnames: Hansford
Date of Death: 19/09/1895
Age at Death Years: 52
Grave Type: Marked
Map Reference Number: RSHG 032 B1
Plot Number: Ryde New Cemetery Section D Plot 536
Grave Description: Grave with kerbstone flush with grass.
Grave Condition Description: Kerbs partially covered by grass, headstone has fallen flat onto grave behind (Ellen Glasgow plot 572). Cracked across top third with grass growing through obscuring some text, some lead letters missing.
Old Website Grave ID: 7242

Inscription:

IN LOVNG
MEMORY OF
BESSIE
SECOND DAUGHTER OF THE LATE
WILLIAM HANSFORD
DIED SEPT 19TH 1895
AGED 52 YEARS

AND HEPHZIBAH
SISTER OF THE ABOVE
DIED NOV 28TH 1896
AGED 59 YEARS

"THESE ARE THEY WHICH HAVE GONE OUT
OF GREAT TRIBULATION AND HAVE WASHED
THEIR ROBES AND MADE THEM WHITE IN THE
BLOOD OF THE LAMB"

Photographs:

David Earle
B Hansford 26.09.09
Photographer: David Earle
David Earle
B Hansford
Photographer: David Earle

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