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 Wellesley Hill

Title: Mr
Forenames: Arthur Wellesley
Surnames: Hill
Date of Birth: 17/09/1870
Date of Death: 26/01/1942
Burial Date: 29/01/1942
Age at Death Years: 71
Grave Type: Marked
Map Reference Number: RSHG 017 C1
Plot Number: Ryde Old Cemetery Section F Plot 781
Grave Description: Half size headstone with cross inset, carved at corners, kerbstones, plain tablet at back of book with cord and tassel in middle of book, flower pot half buried, also a cross is buried on grave
Grave Condition Description: Fairly good
Other Information: Added burial date, source: Burial records
Old Website Grave ID: 3987

Inscription:

SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF
MY DEVOTED AND BELOVED HUSBAND
ARTHUR WELLESLEY HILL
BORN SEPTEMBER 17th 1870
PASSED AWAY JANUARY 26th 1942

"NOT GOODBYE, JUST GOODNIGHT"

AND OF SARAH JANE AMELIA HIS WIFE
BORN MARCH 19th 1872
PASSED AWAY JANUARY 28th 1950

"REUNITED"

(tablet on grave)
IN TREASURED MEMORY OF
EDITH LILIAN
BELOVED WIFE OF
HERBERT HILL
AT REST OCTOBER 17th 1951
AGED 51 YEARS

(open book on grave left page)
IN
EVER LOVING MEMORY
OF
HERBERT WELLESLEY
HILL
WHO PASSED
TO A HIGHER LIFE
JUNE 29th 1958

(right side page)
IN MY FATHERS HOUSE
ARE MANY MANSIONS
IF IT WERE NOT SO
I WOULD HAVE TOLD YOU
I GO TO PREPARE A
PLACE FOR YOU THAT
WHERE I AM THERE YE
MAY BE ALSO

St.John 14. verses 2 and 3.

Photographs:

Janette Gregson
H, A, S & E Hill (Aug 2007)
Photographer: Janette Gregson
Janette Gregson
H, A, S & E Hill (Aug 2007)
Photographer: Janette Gregson

Related Documents:

PDF file: Marriage; Census; Kelly's; Death; Obituary; Funeral.
''Details from the All Saints' church marriage register, entries from the 1901 census and 1910 Kelly's directory, the obituary and funeral reports from the IW Times. Mr. HILL was a well-known business man in the town.''
PDF file: Wedding 1893

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