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.
  • MENU
Ryde Cemetery

Miss Henrietta Cecilia White

Title: Miss
Forenames: Henrietta Cecilia
Surnames: White
Date of Death: 31/10/1925
Burial Date: 04/11/1925
Age at Death Years: 60
Grave Type: Marked
Map Reference Number: RSHG 002 A1
Plot Number: Ryde Old Parish Cemetery 3 Plot 538
Grave Description: Large raised stone tomb (2ft approx above ground) metal ornament, a Heliochronometer, mounted at east end.
Grave Condition Description: Overhung by a tree and becoming overgrown with ivy on top. Lichen on inscription on north side makes it difficult to read and the tree and build up of soil on south side also makes part of the inscription (first part of name) impossible to read.
Other Information: Added 1st name, burial date and status, source: Registrars, Probate and Burial records
Old Website Grave ID: 2930

Inscription:

North side
MIRABEL.BLADEN.NEIL.TOWERS.CLARK DIED ?? ?? ????

South side
....RIETTA CECILIA WHITE DIED 31ST OCTOBER 1925

On the Heliochronometer
"IN MEMORY OF JACK"
KILLED JULY 1 1916
UNITED IN TIME, PARTED IN TIME
TO BE REUNITED WHEN TIME SHALL BE NO MORE

On face of Heliochronometer
BON JOUR, BON SOIR
"AT THE GOING DOWN OF THE SUN
AND IN THE MORNING, WE WILL
REMEMBER THEM"
"CHEERIO"

Photographs:

Janette Gregson
M Towers-Clark and H White (May 2006)
Photographer: Janette Gregson
Janette Gregson
M Towers-Clark and H White (April 2007)
Photographer: Janette Gregson
Janette Gregson
M Towers-Clark and H White (April 2007)
Photographer: Janette Gregson
David Earle
Heliochronometer Close Up (Feb 2006)
Photographer: David Earle
David Earle
Heliochronometer General View (Feb 2006)
Photographer: David Earle
David Earle
Heliochronometer long shot (Feb 2006)
Photographer: David Earle

Related Documents:

PDF file: National Probate Calendar

Have you found this website useful?

This website is run by volunteers, so if you have found this website to be of any use whatsoever then please make a donation towards it's upkeep via our 'contact form'.