Ryde Cemetery
Miss Margaret Wray
Title: Miss
Forenames: Margaret
Surnames: Wray
Date of Death: 21/12/1886
Grave Type: Marked
Map Reference Number: RSHG 006 D2
Plot Number: Ryde Old Parish Cemetery 3 Plot 547
Grave Description: Large headstone with ornate carving at the top, stone top with raised stone kerbs, miniature version of headstone at the foot end.
Grave Condition Description: Badly weathered inscription, lichen and ivy obscuring parts of the headstone, north side broken and resting on stone top. Update march 2008 additional picture below shows how much a headstone can become overgrown in just two years.
Other Information: Recorded by Sophie Sellars and Janette kitching
Old Website Grave ID: 2702
Inscription:
IN MEMORY OF
A MOST DEARLY LOVED MOTHER
ELIZA WRAY
WIDOW OF ROBERT WRAY ESQ OF THE TEMPLE
BURIED AT ST MOHVIS HAMPSTEAD MIDDLESEX
AND THE DAUGHTER OF THE REV. MOSES PORTER M.A
SHE WAS BORN SUNDAY AUGUST 18TH 1779
SHE LOVED THE SERVICE OF HER GOD AND SAVIOUR
AND WAS CALLED AWAY SUNDAY APRIL 21ST 1861
"...I AM THERE SHALL ALSO MY SERVANT BE ...(JOHN 12.V 20)
NEITHER CAN THEY DIE ANY MORE FOR THEY ARE.....?
UNTO THE ANGELS.......?"
ALSO OF
MARGARET, THEIR DAUGHTER
WHO DIED AT LITTLEBOURNE, KENT
DECEMBER. 21ST 1886.
Photographs:
E & M Wray (April 2006)
Photographer: Janette Gregson
E & M Wray (April 2006)
Photographer: Janette Gregson
E & M Wray (April 2006)
Photographer: Janette Gregson
E & M Wray (March 2008)
Photographer: Janette Gregson
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