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 Lake

Title: Mr
Forenames: George
Surnames: Lake
Date of Birth: 01/01/1799
Date of Death: 23/01/1848
Burial Date: 27/01/1848
Age at Death Years: 49
Grave Type: Marked
Map Reference Number: RSHG 005 A2/B2
Plot Number: Ryde Old Parish Cemetery 5 No Plot Number
Grave Description: Double headstone
Grave Condition: Fair
Grave Condition Description: Some weathering to inscription making it difficult to read
Other Information: Added burial date, source: listed in the St Thomas Church register, and buried in the new ground
George Lake (son of William Lake) was the owner of the Eagle Brewery at 37 and 38 High Street Ryde in 1822. He married a Portsmouth girl, Louisa, and they had 9 children
Old Website Grave ID: 2539

Inscription:

Left hand side
SACRED
TO THE MEMORY OF
GEORGE LAKE
DIED 23RD JAN 1848
AGED 49 YEARS

"ALTHOUGH WE MOURN THE HUSBAND, FATHER, FRIEND
WE GATHER COMFORT FROM HIS HAPPY END
MAY WE BY THAT WARNED OF LIFE'S EBBING TIDE

HIS..................(illegible text)
AND WITH A FAITH. A HOPE TO BE FORGIVEN
DEPART IN PEACE WITH EARTH AND MORE IN HEAVEN"

Right hand side
SACRED
TO THE MEMORY OF
LOUISA LAKE
DIED 23RD DEC. 1878
AGED 73 YEARS

"WHEN.......HEARD"

Photographs:

Janette Gregson
G & L Lake (April 2006
Photographer: Janette Gregson

Related Documents:

PDF file: Baptisms; Census; Directory; Death; Burial.
''Entry from the 1841 census, listing from the Pigot & Co directory, baptisms and burial from the Newchurch registers, and the death reference from the General Registrars records.''
PDF file: Transcript of Will

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