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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Holy Cross Church Binstead

Mr Charles Dennis

Title: Mr
Forenames: Charles
Surnames: Dennis
Date of Death: 06/03/1826
Age at Death Years: 26
Grave Type: Marked
Map Reference Number: RSHG HC001
Plot Number: Binstead Holy Cross Churchyard D2-097
Grave Description: Round topped headstone with shoulders and engraved lettering. Inscription is on reverse of headstone. Matching footstone with engraved initials.
Grave Condition: Fair
Grave Condition Description: Lichen cover on stone which is weathered and makes lettering difficult to read.
Other Information: E. I. C. - East India Company
Dennis family March 2020 Photo by K MacDonell

Inscription:

IN
MEMORY OF SARAH
WIDOW OF THE LATE
REV. WHITEHEAD DENNIS
OF BRAMSHOT IN THIS COUNTY,
WHO DIED AT RYDE ON THE 28TH
DAY OF FEBRUARY 1843
IN THE 83RD YEAR OF HER AGE

BE YE STEDFAST, UNMOVEABLE, ALWAYS
ABOUNDING IN THE WORK OF THE LORD. 1. COR XV LVIII

ALSO CHARLOTTE DAUGHTER
OF THE ABOVE WHO DIED SUDDENLY AT
GUILDFORD ON THE 19TH OF AUGUST
1854 AGED 59.

WATCH THEREFORE FOR WE KNOW NEITHER DAY
NOR THE HOUR WHEN THE SON OF MAN COMETH. MAT. XXIV XVII

ALSO OF CHARLES DENNIS
MEDICAL OFFICER IN THE HONBLE
E. I. C. SERVICE FIFTH SON OF THE
REV WHITEHEAD DENNIS
AND SARAH HIS WIFE
WHO DIED AT SUNDARBAN AFTER
HIS ACTION IN THE EAST INDIES
THE 6TH OF MARCH 1826 AGED 26 YEARS

Footstone
S. D.

Photographs:

Kate MacDonell
Dennis family grave (footstone) March 2020
Photographer: Kate MacDonell

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