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Ryde Cemetery

Mr George Mundell

Title: Mr
Forenames: George
Surnames: Mundell
Burial Date: 29/08/1923
Age at Death Years: 96
Grave Type: Marked
Map Reference Number: RSHG 019 B3
Plot Number: Ryde Old Cemetery Section T Plot 2984
Grave Description: Masonic compass engraved at top within a trefoil
Grave Condition Description: Poor at top half and unable to read many lines
Other Information: Although not mentioned on the memorial, George Mundell (1923) was interred in this plot, source: Bereavement Services records

Inscription:

............?
SIDNEY MUNDELL
.................?
....................?
....................?

ALSO OF
GEORGE BROON(?) MUNDELL
..........? OF THE ABOVE
WHO...........
NOV 30 1885
AGED 34
.............?
..............,?

ALSO OF
MARY A MUNDELL
THE BELOVED WIFE OF GEORGE MUNDELL
WHO WAS SUDDENLY TAKEN TO THE MERCY OF THE .............?
JUNE 23rd 1898

The above inscription was all that we could read from the headstone, however on 28 February 2008 Lesley Hendricks contacted us to say that an old photograph of the headstone reveals the full inscription as follows:

IN LOVING MEMORY OF
SIDNEY HERBERT
INFANT SON OF
GEORGE AND MARY ANN MUNDELL
BORN 26 MARCH 1871
DIED 6 JUNE 1871

ALSO OF
GEORGE BRYAN MUNDELL
BROTHER OF THE ABOVE
WHO DIED IN SOUTH AFRICA
MAY 30TH 1885
AGED 34

ALSO OF MARY A MUNDELL
THE BELOVED WIFE OF GEORGE MUNDELL
WHO WAS SUDDENLY TAKEN TO THE MERCY OF ALMIGHTY GOD
JUNE 23RD 1898

Photographs:

Mundell (Oct 2007)

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