Ryde Social Heritage Group research the social history of the citizens of Ryde, Isle of Wight. Documenting their lives, businesses and burial transcriptions.
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Ryde Cemetery

Miss Gertrude Sophia Marvin

Title: Miss
Forenames: Gertrude Sophia
Surnames: Marvin
Date of Death: 25/07/1923
Burial Date: 27/07/1923
Age at Death Years: 65
Grave Type: Marked
Map Reference Number: RSHG 016 C2/C3
Plot Number: Ryde Old Cemetery Section F Plots 809-811
Grave Description: Triple plot surrounded by elaborate ironwork railings. In centre of plot, triple plinth on rectangular base, surmounted with upright cross with central IHS motif and flared ends. Engraved lettering.
Grave Condition: Fair
Grave Condition Description: Overgrown area partially cleared November 2018. Plinth and cross are unstable. Text is weathered and a large amount of it is illegible.
Other Information: Added death date, age and status, source: Registrars and Newspaper records
Other details source: Bereavement Services records.
Also interred in this plot, Katherine Marvin (1869), source: Bereavement Services records

Inscription:

South side - middle wider plinth
IN LOVING MEMORY OF
JAMES MARVIN
WHO ENTERED INTO REST
MAY 31ST 1886 AGED 69 YEARS

ALSO ELIZA WIDOW OF THE ABOVE
BORN APRIL 1? 1817?
FELL ASLEEP DEC 15TH ????
(3 lines illegible sentiment)

Bottom plinth -
illegible double lines of sentiment.

East side - middle wider plinth
ANNETTE ?
... ? of
JAMES AND ELIZA MARVIN
.....?
MARCH 17TH 1866 AGED 14 YEARS.

….. several illegible lines ?? K … MARVIN

North side - middle wider plinth
ALSO
ISABELLA JANE
DAUGHTER OF JAMES AND ELIZA MARVIN
WHO DIED
JULY 12TH 1886 AGED 40 YEARS
2 lines of illegible sentiment

Bottom plinth
Further illegible lines

West side - middle wider plinth
ALSO IN MEMORY OF
PHILIP JAMES
THE ELDEST SON OF
JAMES AND ELIZA MARVIN
WHO DIED AT SOUTHSEA
FEBRUARY 23RD 1931, AGED 82.
AND WHOSE BODY WAS CREMATED AT WOKING

Photographs:

Kate MacDonell
Marvin family December 2018
Photographer: Kate MacDonell
Kate MacDonell
Marvin family December 2018
Photographer: Kate MacDonell

Related Documents:

PDF file: Death; Funeral
PDF file: Obituary; Funeral

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