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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St. Johns Cemetery

Miss Maude Gape

Title: Miss
Forenames: Maude
Surnames: Gape
Date of Death: 09/07/1903
Age at Death Years: 19
Grave Type: Marked
Map Reference Number: RSHG SJ001
Plot Number: St John's Cemetery Plot 1 Row 12 Grave 1
Grave Description: Gothic headstone with moulded shoulders and lower sides. Leaf decoration moulded in top centre and lead lettering. Moulded plinth. Headstone broken off from plinth and lying face up. Stone urn in front of plinth (may not belong to this plot).
Grave Condition: Fair
Grave Condition Description: Fallen face down - unable to read when first surveyed (2014). The headstone is now lying face up (Oct 2017).
Old Website Grave ID: 15502

Inscription:

IN
LOVING MEMORY
OF
MAUDE,
ELDEST AND BELOVED DAUGHTER OF
FREDERICK JAMES AND LOUISA GAPE
WHO FELL ASLEEP IN JESUS
JULY. 9. 1903,
AGED 19 YEARS.

"SOFTLY SHE SLEPT - IN THAT LAST HOUR
GOD'S ANGEL HOVERED NIGH;
HE RAISED WITH LOVE THIS FRAGILE FLOWER
TO WAKE IN BLISS ON HIGH"

Plinth
HOLLAND & STAINER
RYDE

Photographs:

David Marshall
M Gape April 2014
Photographer: David Marshall
Rob Cain
M Gape October 2017
Photographer: Rob Cain
Rob Cain
M Gape (2) October 2017
Photographer: Rob Cain
Rob Cain
M Gape (3) October 2017
Photographer: Rob Cain

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