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 Jolliffe

Title: Mr
Forenames: George
Surnames: Jolliffe
Date of Death: 02/01/1867
Burial Date: 07/01/1867
Age at Death Years: 70
Grave Type: Marked
Map Reference Number: RSHG 017 D3
Plot Number: Ryde Old Cemetery Section E Plot 701
Grave Description: Upright headstone pointed arch shape with engraved lettering.
Grave Condition: Fair
Grave Condition Description: Partially overgrown, worn and lichen growing (August 2007)

Became almost completely overgrown with ivy - after clearance - lettering faint in places, headstone leaning southwards (February 2019)
Other Information: Added death date, age and completed burial date, source: Registrars, Newspaper and Burial records
Ann and Lydia are not interred in this plot, source: Bereavement Services records.
Old Website Grave ID: 3970

Inscription:

SACRED
TO THE MEMORY OF
GEORGE JOLLIFFE
WHO DIED JAN 2(?) 1867
AGED 70 (?) YEARS

ALSO NEAR THIS SPOT LIE THE REMAINS OF
ANN
WIFE OF THE ABOVE
WHO DIED FEB 9 1857
AGED 6(?) YEARS

ALSO OF
LYDIA
DAUGHTER OF THE ABOVE
WHO WAS BURIED ON GOOD FRIDAY 1845
AGED 9 YEARS

"BE YE ALSO READY"

Photographs:

Janette Gregson
G, A & L Jolliffe August 2007
Photographer: Janette Gregson
Kate MacDonell
G, A & L Jolliffe February 2019
Photographer: Kate MacDonell
Kate MacDonell
G, A & L Jolliffe February 2019
Photographer: Kate MacDonell

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