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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Mr Edmund Rickard

Title: Mr
Forenames: Edmund
Surnames: Rickard
Date of Death: 07/11/1902
Age at Death Years: 64
Map Reference Number: RSHG 020 C3
Plot Number: Ryde Old Cemetery Section T Plot 2867
Grave Description: TALL RAISED CROSS ON THREE PLINTHS

INSCRIPTIONS ON ALL FOUR SIDES
Grave Condition Description: FAIR
Other Information: Photograph of Mr Rickard outside his shop in the High Street kindly contributed by Richard Smout of the IW Record Office. See link below and click on the thumbnail image to enlarge it.
Old Website Grave ID: 3609

Inscription:

(top plinth east)

"PURE IN HEART"

IN LOVING MEMORY OF

EDMUND RICKARD

(2nd plinth east)

CALLED TO REST NOV 7 1902 AGED 64

"KEEP INNOCENCY AND TAKE HEED UNTO THE THING THATS RIGHT FOR THAT SHALL BRING OUR MAN PEACE AT LAST"

(3rd plinth east)

AND OF MARY MARIA RICKARD

WHO FELL ASLEEP FEBRUARY 23 1917 AGE 77

"FATHER IN THY GRACIOUS KEEPING LEAVE WE NOW THY SERVANT SLEEPING"

(facing south)

(top plinth)

ALFRED RICKARD

DIED MARCH 15th 1913 AGED 41 YEARS

(2nd plinth)

WILLIAM RICKARD

DIED IN IRELAND AUGUST 19th 1910 AGED 42 YEARS

(3rd plinth)

JOSEPH EDMUND RICKARD

DIED IN NEWFOUNDLAND DEC 27th 1906 AGED 39 YEARS

(west side top plinth)

EDMUND RICKARD DIED MARCH 28 1871 AGE 23 DAYS

(2nd plinth)

ERNEST RICKARD DIED SEPTEMBER 8 1875 AGED 5 MONTHS

(north side top plinth)

LOTTIE RICKARD

DIED MARCH 13 1922 AGED 48 YEARS

(2nd plinth)

MINNIE RICKARD DIED SEPTEMBER 15th 1943 AGED 73 YEARS

(3rd plinth)

ETHEL MAUD RICKARD

DIED JULY 12th 1963 AGED 83

Photographs:

Mr Rickard outside his shop (contributed by R Smout of IW Record Office)
Maisie Kitching
Rickard family memorial (June 2007)
Photographer: Maisie Kitching

Related Documents:

PDF file: Marriage; Census; Directory; Obituary; Funeral.
''Reference from the IW Registrars marriage records, entries from the 1871-1901 census, 1878 Whites directory and the obituary and funeral report from the IW Observer. Mr RICKARD a watchmaker and Jeweller in Ryde.''
PDF file: Advertisement.
''An advertisement for Mr. RICKARD's business as printed in the IW Observer 12th June 1869.''
PDF file: Business premises to let.

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