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.
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Ryde Cemetery

Miss Mary Edith Hastings Hands

Title: Miss
Forenames: Mary Edith Hastings
Surnames: Hands
Date of Birth: 29/03/1860
Date of Death: 09/10/1930
Burial Date: 11/10/1930
Age at Death Years: 73
Grave Type: Marked
Map Reference Number: RSHG 006 A2/B2
Plot Number: Ryde Old Parish Cemetery 4 Plot 630a
Grave Description: Kerbed plot, with book style headstone at west end and stone urn in centre
Grave Condition Description: Weathered, weeds growing through the top and some lettering is missing from the book's inscription
Other Information: Date amended on 16/09/2006, source: death, burial and newspaper records.

Bereavement Services records state this is the old family grave of the Hands family.
Old Website Grave ID: 795

Inscription:

East facing
R.I.P.
EDITH HANDS
BORN MARCH 29TH 1860
DIED OCTOBER 9TH 1930

THE SOULS OF THE RIGHTEOUS
ARE IN THE HAND OF GOD

ALSO HER SISTER
FLORENCE
DIED IN INFANCY 1862

Photographs:

Janette Gregson
Hands (April 2006)
Photographer: Janette Gregson
Janette Gregson
Hands (April 2006)
Photographer: Janette Gregson

Related Documents:

PDF file: 1871, 1891 Census; Obituary; Funeral; Will.
''Entries from the 1871 and 1891 census, also the obituary, funeral report and Will from the IW County Press. Miss HANDS family ran a Drapery business in Union-street.''

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