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 Elsie Maud Fountaine

Title: Miss
Forenames: Elsie Maud
Surnames: Fountaine
Date of Death: 27/09/1914
Burial Date: 01/10/1914
Age at Death Years: 24
Grave Type: Marked
Map Reference Number: RSHG 038 C3
Plot Number: Ryde New Cemetery Section C Plot 339
Grave Description: Upright stone with Celtic like type cross, sculpted details on top of cross and top of headstone, kerb surround
Grave Condition Description: Badly damaged at foot of headstone, both sided broken off, some lettering illegible and fgading
Other Information: Added 2nd name and burial date, source: Registrars and Burial records.
Old Website Grave ID: 6647

Inscription:

(above inscription)
IHS
THY WILL BE DONE

IN
LOVING
MEMORY OF
ELSIE DEARLY BELOVED DAUGHTER
OF
WALTER AND ALICE FOUNTAINE

(2 lines of illegible text)

SEPT, 27 1914, AGED 24 YEARS

"AT REST"

ALSO HARRY FOUNTAINE DIED OCT 7 1889
AGED 3 YEARS

(broken stone)
ALFRED FOUNTAINE OCT 29 1899
AGED 10 MONTHS

Photographs:

Janette Gregson
E, H & A Fountaine (May 2009)
Photographer: Janette Gregson
Janette Gregson
E, H & A Fountaine (May 2009)
Photographer: Janette Gregson

Related Documents:

PDF file: Census; Obituary.
''Entry from the 1901 census, and a brief obituary from the IW County Press.''

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