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 Frederick Henry Ricketts

Title: Mr
Forenames: Frederick Henry
Surnames: Ricketts
Date of Death: 29/11/1874
Age at Death Years: 37
Grave Type: Marked
Map Reference Number: RSHG 033 C1
Plot Number: Ryde New Cemetery Section B Plot 186
Grave Description: Plain cross raised on a large rough pink granite base, stone kerbs and iron railings, grass top. There is also a memorial scroll plaque for Frederick Henry Ricketts in St John's Church, Ryde
Grave Condition: Fair
Grave Condition Description: The granite is cracked across the inscription and most of the railings are missing, slight subsidence to grave top
Old Website Grave ID: 6906

Inscription:

IN LOVING REMEMBRANCE OF
ISABEL
WIFE OF EDWARD RICKETTS
WHO ENTERED INTO REST MARCH 16TH 1883
AGED 68
"HER CHILDREN RISE UP AND CALL HER BLESSED"

ALSO IN MEMORIAM
FREDERICK HENRY RICKETTS GE
ELDEST SON OF THE ABOVE LOST AT SEA
OFF USHANT NOVEMBER 29TH 1874
AGED ??
"HIS SUN HAS GONE DOWN WHILE IT WAS YET DAY"

Scroll plaque in St John's Church, Ryde
TO THE BELOVED MEMORY OF
FREDERICK HENRY RICKETTS
CIVIL ENGINEER
ELDEST SON OF
EDWARD AND ISOBEL RICKETTS,
OF TWYFORD HOUSE, ST JOHNS PARK
WHO (ON HIS WAY TO SOUTH AMERICA
IN CHARGE OF AN EXPEDITION FOR
COMPLETING
THE SUBMARINE TELEGRAPH CABLES
ALONG THE COAST OF BRAZIL)
WAS LOST AT SEA OFF USHANT
BY THE FOUNDERING OF THE STEAM-SHIP
"LA PLATA"
DURING THE STORM OF THE 29TH NOVR
1874
AGED 37 YEARS

Photographs:

David Earle
F Ricketts 07.09
Photographer: David Earle
David Earle
F Ricketts
Photographer: David Earle
David Earle
F Ricketts scroll plaque St John's Church, Ryde
Photographer: David Earle

Related Documents:

PDF file: Loss of ship.
''Ships Loss report from the IW Observer.''

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