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 Hopgood

Title: Mr
Forenames: George
Surnames: Hopgood
Date of Death: 17/01/1860
Age at Death Years: 56
Grave Type: Marked
Map Reference Number: RSHG 004 A3/B3
Plot Number: Ryde Old Parish Cemetery 5 No Plot Number
Grave Description: Gothic type headstone, nicely carved with relief cross, also kerbs and a footstone.
Grave Condition Description: Headstone is tilting forward, grave is getting overgrown with bramble and ivy.
Other Information: Added death date and age, source: Newspaper records
New images below added April 2024
Old Website Grave ID: 2759

Inscription:

GEORGE HOPGOOD
(The next lines are unreadable)

AND OF
MARTHA
WHO DIED
(the next lines are unreadable, too badly eroded)

????GOD'S THY REFUGE
(unable to read more)

Photographs:

Margaret Truckel
G & M Hopgood (April 2024)
Photographer: Margaret Truckel
Margaret Truckel
G & M Hopgood (April 2024)
Photographer: Margaret Truckel

Related Documents:

PDF file: Census; Sudden Death
PDF file: National Probate Calendar

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