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Ryde Cemetery

Miss Gabrielle Mary Carrard

Title: Miss
Forenames: Gabrielle Mary
Surnames: Carrard
Date of Death: 22/03/1888
Burial Date: 26/03/1888
Age at Death Years: 53
Grave Type: Marked
Map Reference Number: RSHG 015 C3
Plot Number: Ryde Old Cemetery Section D Plot 354
Grave Description: Headstone in shape of cross with matching footstone and stone kerbs (November 2007)

After clearance - identical large headstones with stepped shoulders and integral budded crosses, one at head (west end) and one at foot (east end) of plot. Engraved lettering. Surrounding plain kerbstones with evidence of missing railing posts. Stone slab covered plot with some floral overgrowth. (March 2019)

Grave Condition: Fair
Grave Condition Description: Too overgrown to read - November 2007

Weathered and lichen covered, faint lettering, illegible in places. Headstone at foot of plot is leaning forwards and northwards - March 2019

Other Information: Burial date and age added, source: burial and Registrars records. Status added, source: Bereavement Services records.

Old Website Grave ID: 6785

Inscription:

Headstone - top of plot (west end)
IHS
IN MEMORY OF
EMMA CARRARD
WHO DIED AT RYDE
FEBRUARY 12TH 1863
SHE IS NOT DEAD BUT SLEEPETH …

Headstone - foot of plot (east end)
IHS
TO
THE MEMORY OF
GABRIELLE MARY CARRARD
DIED MARCH 22ND 1888
8 lines of illegible sentiment

Photographs:

Janette Gregson
E & G Carrard November 2007
Photographer: Janette Gregson
Janette Gregson
E & G Carrard November 2007
Photographer: Janette Gregson
Janette Gregson
E & G Carrard November 2007
Photographer: Janette Gregson
Kate MacDonell
G Carrard March 2019
Photographer: Kate MacDonell
Kate MacDonell
E & G Carrard March 2019
Photographer: Kate MacDonell
Kate MacDonell
E & G Carrard March 2019
Photographer: Kate MacDonell

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