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 Edward Williams

Title: Mr
Forenames: Edward
Surnames: Williams
Date of Death: 09/03/1824
Burial Date: 15/03/1824
Age at Death Years: 39
Grave Type: Marked
Map Reference Number: RSHG HC004
Plot Number: Binstead Holy Cross Churchyard H6-148
Grave Description: Tall headstone with curved top and wavy shoulders. Sculpted tasselled swag decoration at top and tasselled borders on sides of stone. Inset oval panel, centre top, containing winged cherub. Sculpted barred fence decoration towards base of stone. Engraved lettering
Grave Condition Description: Quite good considering age of memorial but heavy lichen cover on stone and weathering make inscription difficult to read in places and faint lines of sentiment/biblical text are illegible
Other Information: Burial date from 1986/87 Museums Community Project.
This headstone has been placed against the inside of the East Churchyard wall and we have no record of where the original plot was sited

Inscription:

SACRED
TO THE MEMORY OF
EDWARD WILLIAMS
WHO DIED MARCH 9 1824
AGED 39 YEARS
4 lines of illegible text

ALSO LAVINIA DAUGHTER
OF THE ABOVE DIED SEPT 8 1821
AGED 1 YEAR
4 lines of illegible text

Photographs:

Kate MacDonell
E & L Williams (on left) July 2020
Photographer: Kate MacDonell

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