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 Leeds

Title: Mr
Forenames: George Lewis
Surnames: Leeds
Date of Birth: 01/01/1845
Date of Death: 12/01/1900
Age at Death Months: -1
Age at Death Years: 55
Grave Type: Marked
Map Reference Number: RSHG 035 A1
Plot Number: Ryde New Cemetery Section H Plots 2136 & 2137
Grave Description: Double plot, triple stone plinth with cross. Surrounding stone kerbs, lead lettering.
Grave Condition: Poor
Grave Condition Description: Cross broken in two pieces lying on grave, grave covered in thick moss and grass.
Old Website Grave ID: 7749

Inscription:

Top tier
IN
LOVING MEMORY
OF

Middle tier
GEORGE LEWIS LEEDS
YOUNGEST SON OF THE LATE
SIR JOSEPH LEEDS BART
WHO DIED SUDDENLY AT RYDE
ON JAN 12TH 1900 AGED 55

Bottom tier
"WAITING IN HOLY STILLNESS WRAPT IN SLEEP"

Photographs:

David Earle
G Leeds 5 June 2010
Photographer: David Earle
David Earle
G Leeds 5 June 2010
Photographer: David Earle

Related Documents:

PDF file: Marriage; Census; Directory; Obituary; Funeral.
''Entry from the 1891 census, reference from the General Registrars marriage records, listing from the directory, and the obituary and funeral report from the IW Observer.''

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