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 Gibson

Title: Mr
Forenames: Edward
Surnames: Gibson
Date of Death: 06/12/1869
Burial Date: 10/12/1869
Age at Death Years: 45
Grave Type: Marked
Map Reference Number: RSHG 016 B3
Plot Number: Ryde Old Cemetery Section B Plots 131 & 132
Grave Description: Large double plot, large cross integral with kerbs. The name GIBSON is carved across the middle of the cross

Grave Condition: Fair
Grave Condition Description: Weathered, grass top signs of once having railings
Other Information: Burial date added, source: Bereavement Services records
Old Website Grave ID: 4334

Inscription:

(top plinth)
EDWARD GIBSON
PASSED AWAY DEC 6 1869
AGED 45 YEARS
"THEY THAT HAVE SEEN THY LOOK IN DEATH
DO M....? MAY FEAR TO DIE"

AND ALSO HIS WIDOW
MARGARET
WIFE OF WILLIAM HAWLEY
PASSED AWAY JUNE 24 1889

Photographs:

Janette Gregson
E Gibson and M Hawley October 2007
Photographer: Janette Gregson
Janette Gregson
E Gibson and M Hawley October 2007
Photographer: Janette Gregson

Related Documents:

PDF file: Marriage; Census; Death.
''Reference from the General Registrars marriage records, entry from the 1861 census, and the death notice from the IW Observer.''

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