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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Mr Anthony Groves

Title: Mr
Forenames: Anthony
Surnames: Groves
Date of Birth: 25/12/1769
Date of Death: 28/10/1864
Burial Date: 02/11/1864
Age at Death Years: 95
Grave Type: Marked
Map Reference Number: RSHG 018 A2
Plot Number: Ryde Old Cemetery Section G Plot 1046
Grave Description: Large headstone with side columns, black lettering.
Grave Condition: Good
Grave Condition Description: The black from the lettering is mostly missing.
Other Information: Although Anthony Groves (1864) and George Henry Sawyer Groves (1907) are mentioned on the memorial, they were not interred in this grave, source: Bereavement Services records
Old Website Grave ID: 4246

Inscription:

IN AFFECTIONATE REMEMBRANCE OF
GEORGE GROVES
MASTER MARINER
BORN 15 JULY 1815
DIED 21 JULY 1886

ALSO ANTHONY GROVES
FATHER OF THE ABOVE
BORN 25th DECEMBER 1769
DIED 28th OCTOBER 1864

"COME UNTO ME ALL YE THAT LABOUR
AND ARE HEAVY LADEN AND I WILL GIVE
YOU REST"
"GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN"

ALSO

GEORGE HENRY SAWYER GROVES
SON OF THE ABOVE GEORGE GROVES
WHO DIED AT SEA MAY 6 1907
AGED 51 YEARS

GREATLY LOVED BY ALL RELATIONS

"ROCK AND STORMS I'LL FEAR NO MORE
WHEN ON THAT ETERNAL SHORE
DROP ANCHOR, FURL THE SAIL
I AM SAFE WITHIN THE VALE"

THE REMAINS WERE BURIED IN
LATITUDE 1 19N
LONGITUDE 29 30W

Photographs:

Janette Gregson
G, A & G Groves September 2007
Photographer: Janette Gregson
Janette Gregson
G, A & G Groves September 2007
Photographer: Janette Gregson

Related Documents:

PDF file: Census; Death.
''Entries from the 1841 and 1861 census, and the death notice from the IW Times.''

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