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 Coffen

Title: Mr
Forenames: George
Surnames: Coffen
Date of Death: 21/04/1942
Burial Date: 24/04/1942
Age at Death Years: 85
Grave Type: Marked
Map Reference Number: RSHG 009 C2
Plot Number: Ryde Old Cemetery Section P Plot 2276a
Grave Description: Upright stone with ivy leaves engraved at the top, 4 kerbstones.
Grave Condition Description: Weathered
Other Information: Added burial date, source: Bereavement Services records

Although not mentioned on the inscription, also interred in this plot Stanley Waller Coffen (1962), source: Bereavement Services records

Also interred in this plot earlier burial Sarah Ratigan (1879), source: Bereavement Services records
Old Website Grave ID: 1881

Inscription:

IN
LOVING MEMORY OF
HILDEGARDE
THE DEVOTED WIFE OF
GEORGE COFFEN
WHO PASSED AWAY APRIL 3RD 1933
AGED 76 YEARS
"REST IN PEACE"

ALSO OF GEORGE
HUSBAND OF THE ABOVE
WHO DIED APRIL 21ST 1942
AGED 85 YEARS

Photographs:

Janette Gregson
H & G Coffen July 2006
Photographer: Janette Gregson
G & H Coffen

Related Documents:

PDF file: Marriage; Census; Death.
''Details from the Holy Cross Church, Binstead, marriage register, entries from the 1891 and 1901 census and the death notice from the IW County Press.''

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