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 Lewis

Title: Mr
Forenames: George
Surnames: Lewis
Burial Date: 22/02/1943
Age at Death Years: 74
Grave Type: Marked
Map Reference Number: RSHG 019 B1
Plot Number: Ryde Old Cemetery Section T Plot 2969 and 2969a
Grave Description: Headstone with rounded top and shoulders, twisted rope design with an anchor engraved above the inscription, grass top to grave.
Grave Condition Description: Very Good
Other Information: Although not mentioned on the memorial, also interred in this plot, George Lewis (1943) and an earlier burial Edward Perkins (1872), source: Bereavement Services records

Inscription:

IN
LOVING MEMORY OF
GEORGE LEWIS
WHO DIED DECEMBER 20TH 1904
AGED 81 YEARS

ALSO OF
MARY JANE LEWIS
HIS BELOVED WIFE
WHO DIED JANUARY 25TH 1905
AGED 71 YEARS

"WE SAW THEM FADE AND WASTE AWAY
WE SAW THEM GASP FOR BREATH
WE SAW UPON THEIR SUNKEN BROW
THE FATAL SIGN OF DEATH"

"FOREVER WITH THE LORD"

ALSO MARTHA
WIFE OF JOHN LEWIS
DIED MARCH 15TH 1927
AGED 62 YEARS

ALSO OF THE ABOVE NAMED
JOHN LEWIS
DIED MARCH 28TH 1937
AGED 73 YEARS

Photographs:

Janette Gregson
Lewis Oct 2007
Photographer: Janette Gregson

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