Ryde Cemetery
Miss Mabel Home Rooke
Title: Miss
Forenames: Mabel Home
Surnames: Rooke
Date of Birth: 11/03/1869
Date of Death: 23/06/1967
Age at Death Years: 98
Map Reference Number: RSHG 034 A1
Plot Number: Ryde New Cemetery Section A Plot 35a
Grave Description: GREY MARBLE THREE TIERED PLINTH, LEAD LETTERING. ONCE HAD CROSS ON TOP BUT NOW LYING FLAT ON GRAVE
Grave Condition Description: Letters good but stone near hedge and getting overgrown
Old Website Grave ID: 14977
Inscription:
(Top plinth east facing)
SACRED
TO THE MEMORY OF
ELEANOR MARY
(2nd plinth)
DEARLY LOVED WIFE OF
MAJ GENERAL WILLIAM ROOKE
LATE ROYAL ARTILLERY
BORN 28th NOVEMBER 1846
DIED 16th APRIL 1917
(3rd plinth)
"HER CHILDREN ARISE UP AND CALL HER BLESSED"
(2nd plinth south facing)
ALSO OF
MAJ GENERAL WILLIAM ROOKE
LATE ROYAL ARTILLERY
BORN 29th DECEMBER 1836
DIED 7th SEPTEMBER 1919
(3rd plinth south facing)
"AT REST"
(2nd plinth west facing)
MABEL HOME ROOKE
BORN 11th MARCH 1869
DIED 23rd JUNE 1967
(3rd plinth west facing)
HELEN ROOKE
1905 - 1993
Photographs:
Rooke memorial
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