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 Rachel Jane Jones

Title: Miss
Forenames: Rachel Jane
Surnames: Jones
Date of Birth: 05/06/1796
Date of Death: 04/10/1861
Burial Date: 09/10/1861
Age at Death Years: 65
Grave Type: Marked
Map Reference Number: RSHG 004 D3
Plot Number: Ryde Old Parish Cemetery 2 No Plot Number
Grave Description: Headstone with shoulders, pointed top surmounted with a small cross, engraved lettering. Small triangular shaped footstone.
Grave Condition: Poor
Grave Condition Description: The face of the stone is very eroded and difficult to read. This grave was overgrown but was cleared by Friends of Ryde Cemetery January 2009.

Becoming overgrown again, more difficult to read (May 2017).
Old Website Grave ID: 6226

Inscription:

Headstone
SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF
RACHEL JANE JONES
DAUGHTER OF
THOMAS BATTYN JONES ESQ
OF THE ISLAND OF BARBADOS
BORN 6TH OF MAY 1796
DIED 4TH OF OCTOBER 1861

Footstone
R J J
1861

Photographs:

David Earle
R Jones Feb 2011
Photographer: David Earle
David Earle
R Jones Feb 2011
Photographer: David Earle
Rob Cain
R Jones May 2017
Photographer: Rob Cain
Rob Cain
R Jones (2) May 2017
Photographer: Rob Cain
Kate MacDonell
R Jones (4) May 2017
Photographer: Kate MacDonell

Related Documents:

PDF file: Census; Death; Burial.
''Entry from the 1861 census, death notice from the IW Observer, and the burial listing from the St. Thomas's Church register.''

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