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 Charles Birch Vane (Major)

Title: Mr
Forenames: Charles Birch
Surnames: Vane
Date of Death: 29/04/1874
Burial Date: 05/05/1874
Age at Death Years: 66
Grave Type: Marked
Military Rank: Major
Map Reference Number: RSHG 018 A3
Plot Number: Ryde Old Cemetery Section G Plot 963
Grave Description: Gothic style headstone, kerbs and grass top
Grave Condition Description: Headstone fairly good, evidence that once there were railings, now gone
Other Information: The Gentleman's Magazine of 1855 states that on Jan 3 Capt. Charles Birch Vane, 9th Foot, was made Major.
Added burial date, source: Bereavement Services records
Old Website Grave ID: 4233

Inscription:

SACRED
TO THE MEMORY OF
MAJOR CHARLES BIRCH VANE
LATE 9TH REGT;
WHO FELL ASLEEP APRIL 29TH
1874
AGED 66 YEARS

"WITH CHRIST WHICH IS FR BETTER"

ALSO
TO THE MEMORY OF
MARY ANN VANE
WIDOW OF THE ABOVE
WHO DIED JANYARY 15TH
1886
AGED 60 YEARS

Photographs:

Janette Gregson
C & M Vane (Sept 2007)
Photographer: Janette Gregson
Janette Gregson
C & M Vane (Sept 2007)
Photographer: Janette Gregson

Related Documents:

PDF file: Census; Death; Funeral.
''Entries from the 1861 and 1871 census and the death notice and funeral report from the IW Observer.''

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