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 George Alfred Downer

Title: Mr
Forenames: George Alfred
Surnames: Downer
Date of Death: 17/02/1909
Burial Date: 20/02/1909
Age at Death Years: 23
Grave Type: Marked
Map Reference Number: RSHG 028 C3
Plot Number: Ryde Old Cemetery Section K Plot 1654
Grave Description: Arched headstone with shoulders.
Grave Condition Description: Leaning forward. Text very faint and worn to the north side.
Other Information: Added burial date, source: Bereavement Services records
Old Website Grave ID: 5557

Inscription:

IN
...............?
HENRY DOWNER
WHO DIED DEC 22ND 1869

"HUMBLY HE ......THAT DEARLY......?
AND FROM GODS........?
CARE GRACIOUS STRENGTH.......
MEEKLY TO TRUST AND ......?

ALSO GEORGE HENRY
GRANDSON OF THE ABOVE
WHO DIED OCT 8 1870
AGED 4 YEAR

AND OF GEORGE ALFRED
THE BELOVED SON OF
JAMES AND ALICE DOWNER
WHO PEACEFULLY PASSED AWAY
FEBRUARY 17TH 1909
AGED 23 YEARS

"HE SUFFERED MUCH BUT MURMURED NOT
WE WATCHED HIM DAY BY DAY
WITH ACHING HEARTS GROW LESS AND LESS
UNTIL HE PASSED AWAY"

Photographs:

Janette Gregson
H, G & G Downer (June 2008)
Photographer: Janette Gregson
Janette Gregson
H, G & G Downer (June 2008)
Photographer: Janette Gregson

Related Documents:

PDF file: Birth; Census; Death.
''Reference from the IW Registrars birth records, entry from the 1901 census, and the death notice from the IW County Press.''

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