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 Wills

Title: Mr
Forenames: George
Surnames: Wills
Date of Death: 11/04/1884
Burial Date: 17/04/1884
Age at Death Years: 65
Grave Type: Marked
Map Reference Number: RSHG 033 D1
Plot Number: Ryde New Cemetery Section B Plot 37
Grave Description: Ornate carved headstone and scroll footstone, stone kerbs, grass top.
Grave Condition: Good
Other Information: Added burial date, source: Burial records

Daughter Ida, her married surname was Tarrant, source: Registrars and Burial records
Old Website Grave ID: 6821

Inscription:

Headstone
IN
AFFECTIONATE REMEMBRANCE
OF
GEORGE WILLS
WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE
APRIL 11TH 1884
AGED 65 YEARS

"NOW THE LABOUR'S TASK IS OVER
NOW THE BATTLE DAY IS PAST
NOW UPON THE FARTHER SHORE
LANDS THE LOVING VOYAGER AT LAST
FATHER IN THY GRACIOUS KEEPING
LEAVE WE NOW THY SERVANT SLEEPING"

ALSO OF
HIS DEARLY BELOVED WIFE
MATILDA WILLS
WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE
FEBRUARY 9TH 1905
AGED 87 YEARS

"PEACE AND REST, SAFE AT HOME"

Scroll Footstone
IN
LOVING MEMORY OF
IDA
DAUGHTER OF GEORGE AND MATILDA
WILLS
DIED JAN 20TH 1926
AGED 59 YEARS

Photographs:

David Earle
G, M & I Wills 07.09
Photographer: David Earle
David Earle
G, M & I Wills
Photographer: David Earle

Related Documents:

PDF file: Marriage; Census; Advert; Directory; Death.
''Reference from the General Registrars marriage records, entry from the 1871-1881 census, listing from the directory, and an advert and death notice from the IW Observer.''

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