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

Mr Alfred Hopgood

Title: Mr
Forenames: Alfred
Surnames: Hopgood
Date of Death: 20/08/1871
Burial Date: 27/08/1871
Age at Death Years: 25
Grave Type: Marked
Map Reference Number: RSHG 011 B1
Plot Number: Ryde Old Cemetery Section R Plot 2655
Grave Description: Simple headstone simply carved, grass top, footstone with initials and date of death
Grave Condition Description: Lettering badly faded
Other Information: Completed date, source: death record.
Old Website Grave ID: 2486

Inscription:

SACRED
TO THE MEMORY OF
ALFRED HOPGOOD
(3 lines too hard read)
AUGUST 20TH 1871
AGED 25 YEARS

(about another 5 lines too hard to read)

ALSO CHARLES HIS BROTHER
DIED AUGUST 9TH 1893
AGED 46 YEARS

(another line too hard to read)

Photographs:

Janette Gregson
A & C Hopgood (June 2008)
Photographer: Janette Gregson
Janette Gregson
A & C Hopgood (June 2008)
Photographer: Janette Gregson

Related Documents:

PDF file: Census; Inquest; Funeral.
''Entries from the 1861 and 1871 census, and the inquest and funeral report from the IW Times. A sad drowning fatality.''

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