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 David Porter

Title: Mr
Forenames: David
Surnames: Porter
Date of Death: 15/10/1888
Age at Death Years: 79
Grave Type: Marked
Map Reference Number: RSHG 011 D1
Plot Number: Ryde Old Cemetery Section Q Plot 2462
Grave Description: Large headstone. Grass top and small footstone.
Grave Condition: Fair
Grave Condition Description: Bottom lines of text have faded
Old Website Grave ID: 1956

Inscription:

IHS

SACRED
TO THE MEMORY OF
DAVID PORTER
WHO DIED OCTOBER 15TH 1888
AGED 79 YEARS

ALSO OF FRANCES WIFE OF THE ABOVE
WHO DIED NOVEMBER 30TH 1883
AGED 70 YEARS
Three lines of text too faded to read

The initials of both are on the footstone and the date of their deaths

Photographs:

Janette Gregson
D & F Porter (Sept 06)
Photographer: Janette Gregson
Janette Gregson
D & F Porter (May 2008)
Photographer: Janette Gregson
Janette Gregson
D & F Porter (May 2008)
Photographer: Janette Gregson

Related Documents:

PDF file: Census; Death.
''Entries from the 1851-1881 census and the death notice from the IW Observer. Mr PORTER, a coastguard on the Island for over 30 years.''
PDF file: Details of three of the children

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