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 Arthur Francis Rowan (Major)

Title: Mr
Forenames: Arthur Francis
Surnames: Rowan
Date of Death: 25/02/1875
Age at Death Years: 64
Grave Type: Marked
Military Rank: Major
Map Reference Number: RSHG 022 C1/D1
Plot Number: Ryde Old Cemetery Section H Plot 1149
Grave Description: Gothic style upright headstone
Grave Condition Description: Kerbs completly buried with grass, headstone very badly weathered
Other Information: Ann added date on 18/07/2008, source: death, burial and newspaper records.
Old Website Grave ID: 4881

Inscription:

SACRED
TO THE MEMORY OF
MAJOR
ARTHUR FRANCIS ROWAN
LATE OF THE ......?TROOP BOMBAY
HORSE ARTILLERY
IN WHICH HE SERVED UNDER
GENERAL SIR CHARLES NAPIER
WITH THE ARMY IN SCINDE
(several lines text unreadable)

Photographs:

Janette Gregson
A Rowan (Feb 2008)
Photographer: Janette Gregson
Janette Gregson
A Rowan (Feb 2008)
Photographer: Janette Gregson

Related Documents:

PDF file: Census; Death; Burial.
''Entries from the 1861 and 1871 census, the death notice from the IW Times and the burial notice from the Ryde burial register.''

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