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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Miss Elizabeth Sarah ( Bessie ) Heckford

Title: Miss
Forenames: Elizabeth Sarah ( Bessie )
Surnames: Heckford
Date of Death: 19/08/1892
Age at Death Years: 23
Map Reference Number: RSHG 012 C2
Plot Number: Ryde Old Cemetery Section R Plot 2547
Grave Description: HEADSTONE
Grave Condition Description: GOOD
Other Information: Ann entered full name on 28/05/2008, source: death, burial and newspaper records.
Old Website Grave ID: 2206

Inscription:

IN

LOVING MEMORY OF

THOMAS WILLIAM HECKFORD

WHO DIED AT KELSO COTTAGE, RYDE

DECEMBER 25th 1879

AGED 44 YEARS

ALSO OF

DEAR BESSIE

DAUGHTER OF THE ABOVE

WHO DIED AUGUST 19th 1892

AGED 23(or 28?)years

ALSO OF ELIZABETH WIDOW OF

THOMAS WILLIAM HECKFORD

WHO DIED DECEMBER 4th 1904

AGED 69 YEARS

Photographs:

Janette Gregson
T, E and B Heckford (June 2007)
Photographer: Janette Gregson
Janette Gregson
T, E and B Heckford (June 2007)
Photographer: Janette Gregson

Related Documents:

PDF file: Census; Death.
''Entries from the 1871-1891 census and the death notice from the IW Times. Miss HECKFORD and other members of her family were schoolteachers.''

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