Ryde Social Heritage Group research the social history of the citizens of Ryde, Isle of Wight. Documenting their lives, businesses and burial transcriptions.
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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 Hancock (Rear Admiral)

Title: Mr
Forenames: George
Surnames: Hancock
Date of Birth: 01/01/1819
Date of Death: 20/09/1876
Burial Date: 26/09/1876
Age at Death Years: 57
Grave Type: Marked
Military Rank: Rear Admiral
Map Reference Number: RSHG 014 D2
Plot Number: Ryde Old Cemetery Section A No Plot Number
Grave Description: Large plot enclosed with iron railings, three large slabs with a cross lying on them. The grave has a copper crown made from ships and there is a copper collar at the top of cross with the words "THY WILL BE DONE"
Grave Condition Description: Some ivy and brambles also a bay tree are growing in the plot. The cross is broken
Other Information: Added death date on 05/10/2009, source: Registrars and Naval death notice.
Added burial date and age, source: Registrars and Burial records
Old Website Grave ID: 7339

Inscription:

(east)
SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF
MARIANNE
COMTESSE METAXA ANZOLATO
DIED MARCH 4th 1..7?

"AND ALL WEPT AND BEWAILED HER BUT HE SAID
WEEP NOT SHE IS NOT DEAD BUT SLEEPETH"

(north)
......... TO THE MEMORY OF
GEORGE HANCOCK
REAR ADMIRAL. DIED SEPTEMBER ..?....

(The text is unreadable)

Photographs:

Janette Gregson
Anzolato & Hancock (March 2007)
Photographer: Janette Gregson
Janette Gregson
Anzolato & Hancock (March 2007)
Photographer: Janette Gregson
Janette Gregson
Anzolato & Hancock (March 2007)
Photographer: Janette Gregson
Janette Gregson
Anzolato & Hancock (March 2007)
Photographer: Janette Gregson

Related Documents:

PDF file: Details of Naval Career
PDF file: Death; Obituary; Funeral.
''The death notice, obituary, and funeral report from the IW Observer.''
PDF file: National Probate Calendar
PDF file: Details of wife Maria
PDF file: Wedding 1858
PDF file: Command of the Pacific
PDF file: Marriage extract
PDF file: Naval career 1875

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