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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Binstead Cemetery

Miss Emma Barton

Title: Miss
Forenames: Emma
Surnames: Barton
Date of Death: 01/06/1878
Burial Date: 05/06/1878
Age at Death Years: 18
Grave Type: Marked
Map Reference Number: RSHG B017 C1
Plot Number: Binstead Old Cemetery Row F Plot 47
Grave Description: Arched gothic style headstone with decorative floral carvings at top and IHS motif centre top, matching inset swirls with raised floral motifs on sides, inset text panel with engraved lettering. This headstone is identical in design to the nearby memorial for Emma's parents Daniel and Charlotte Barton
Grave Condition: Fair
Grave Condition Description: Weathered with heavy crusted lichen cover on stone, difficult to read.
Other Information: Labourer's daughter, died Binstead, burial date added - Source: Register of Burials
Old Website Grave ID: 10519

Inscription:

IN
MEMORY OF
EMMA
THE BELOVED DAUGHTER OF
DANIEL AND CHARLOTTE
BARTON
WHO DIED JUNE 1ST 1878
AGED 18 YEARS
"BEHOLD HE TAKETH AWAY WHO CAN HINDER HIM"

Bottom right - R. E. F FEBEN (stonemason)

Photographs:

Kate MacDonell
Barton family (Emma on left) November 2020
Photographer: Kate MacDonell
Kate MacDonell
Barton family (Emma on left) November 2020
Photographer: Kate MacDonell

Related Documents:

PDF file: Birth; Census.
''Reference from the IW Registrars birth records, and entries from the 1861-1871 census.''

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