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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Miss Rosa Matilda Coombes

Title: Miss
Forenames: Rosa Matilda
Surnames: Coombes
Date of Birth: 07/05/1861
Burial Date: 09/04/1949
Age at Death Years: 87
Grave Type: Marked
Map Reference Number: RSHG 028 B3
Plot Number: Ryde Old Cemetery Section C Plot 254a
Grave Description: Upright stone with curved shoulders
Grave Condition Description: Stone leaning backwards, badly eroded lettering, lots of lichen
Other Information: Added birth date and status, source: Registrars and 1939 Register
Although not mentioned on the memorial, Rosa Matilda Coombes (1949) was interred in this plot, source: Bereavement Services records

Inscription:

IN
MEMORY OF
JAMES COOMBES
DIED JAN 7 1883
AGED 56 YEARS

"I WILL TRUST AND NOT BE AFRAID"

ALSO OF
CAROLINE
WIDOW OF THE ABOVE
DIED JAN 12TH 1911
AGED 85 YEARS

"SHE HATH DONE WHAT SHE COULD"

AND THEIR DAUGHTER FRANCES
DIED JUNE 24TH 1939

Photographs:

Janette Gregson
Coombes June 2008
Photographer: Janette Gregson

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