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 Edward George Saunders

Title: Mr
Forenames: Edward George
Surnames: Saunders
Date of Death: 05/03/1897
Age at Death Years: 47
Grave Type: Marked
Map Reference Number: RSHG 041 D2
Plot Number: Ryde New Cemetery Section H Plot 2425
Grave Description: Stepped low headstone with broken cross on the grave.
Grave Condition: Fair
Other Information: Added 2nd name, all official records give his name as George Edward, source: Registrars records.
Old Website Grave ID: 11247

Inscription:

IN
LOVING MEMORY
OF
EDWARD G. SAUNDERS
WHO ENTERED INTO REST MARCH 5TH 1897
AGED 47 YEARS
"UNTIL THE DAY BREAK, AND THE SHADOWS FLEE AWAY"
"PEACE! PERFECT PEACE! WITH LOVED ONES FAR AWAY?
IN JESUS' KEEPING WE ARE SAFE AND THEY."

AND OF HIS SONS BOTH KILLED IN ACTION.
HAROLD OSCAR,
AUGUST 16TH 1917, AGED 27

PERCY ALBERT,
DECEMBER 14TH 1917, AGED 37

Photographs:

David Earle
E Saunders Jan 2012
Photographer: David Earle
David Earle
E Saunders Jan 2012
Photographer: David Earle

Related Documents:

PDF file: Marriage; Census.
''Details from the Holy Trinity Church Ventnor marriage register, and entries from the 1881-1891 census.''
PDF file: National Probate Calendar

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