Ryde Social Heritage Group research the social history of the citizens of Ryde, Isle of Wight. Documenting their lives, businesses and burial transcriptions.
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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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Binstead Cemetery

Mr Baldwin Losh

Title: Mr
Forenames: Baldwin
Surnames: Losh
Date of Death: 18/02/1887
Burial Date: 22/02/1887
Age at Death Years: 82
Grave Type: Marked
Map Reference Number: RSHG B017 D3
Plot Number: Binstead Old Cemetery Row A Plot 59
Grave Description: Double plot across rows A & B. Cross with iron railings surrounding grave - January 2012

Double plot with triple plinth in centre and large heavy plain cross, now fallen & lying on top of Losh side. Top tier of plinth has been misplaced and sits on top of broken cross behind remainder of plinth. Lead lettering. Surrounded by high plain kerbstones with 11 pairs of decorative metal posts on long sides and 1pair of posts at centre ends. Single plain metal rail connects all posts. Concrete grave cover visible on Harding side - November 2020
Grave Condition: Poor
Grave Condition Description: Buried under bramble bush - cleared by IWC contractors - January 2012

Overgrown again, partially explored to confirm details. Extensive growth of brambles and ivy. Kerbstones have split in centre and metal rail is broken in places- November 2020
Other Information: Gentleman, died Ryde, burial date added - Source: Register of Burials
Old Website Grave ID: 11253
B & G Losh Nov 2020 Photo by K MacDonell

Inscription:

Triple plinth - West side
Top tier
IN LASTING MEMORY OF
ELIZABETH DIANA JENNY
HARDING,

Middle tier
DIED JANUARY 22ND 1858,
AGED 80 YEARS.
A SORROWING DAUGHTER'S TRIBUTE
TO A FOND MOTHER'S LOVE.
G. J. L.

Triple plinth-East side
Top tier
ERECTED
BY HIS SORROWING WIDOW
TO THE MEMORY OF
BALDWIN LOSH

Middle tier
OF WOODSIDE, CUMBERLAND ESQUIRE
DIED 18TH FEBRUARY 1887
MARKING THIS SPOT WHERE
HE RESTS FROM HIS WEARY PILGRIMACE
OF 82 YEARS IN THIS WORLD.
G. J. L.

Bottom tier
ALSO TO THE MEMORY OF HIS WIDOW
GERTRUDE Jane LOSH
BORN 31ST JANUARY ... DIED ?TH 1908
(buried in ground beneath this line)

Photographs:

Carol Strong
B & G Losh January 2012
Photographer: Carol Strong
Kate MacDonell
B & G Losh November 2020
Photographer: Kate MacDonell
Kate MacDonell
Losh & Harding November 2020
Photographer: Kate MacDonell

Related Documents:

PDF file: Census; Death.
PDF file: National Probate Calendar

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