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 Henry Dixon

Title: Mr
Forenames: Henry
Surnames: Dixon
Date of Death: 10/09/1912
Burial Date: 13/09/1912
Age at Death Years: 78
Grave Type: Marked
Map Reference Number: RSHG 016 B1
Plot Number: Ryde Old Cemetery Section F Plot 939
Grave Description: Square plot, kerbstone surround, triple plinth, top fallen and broken in front of plinth
Grave Condition Description: Second and third plinth blocks perched on base easy to read
Other Information: Although not mentioned on the inscription, also interred in this double plot, Child Richard Wagner Dixon (1872), source: Bereavement Services records
Old Website Grave ID: 4373

Inscription:

Top plinth

IN
AFFECTIONATE MEMORY
OF
HENRY DIXON

Second plinth

WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE
IN THE 78TH YEAR OF HIS LIFE
SEPT 10TH 1912

"GRANT HIM ETERNAL REST O LORD
AND LET LIGHT PERPETUAL SHINE UPON HIM
I BELIEVE VERILY TO SEE THE GOODNESS OF
THE LORD IN THE LAND OF THE LIVING"

Photographs:

Janette Gregson
H Dixon (Oct 2007)
Photographer: Janette Gregson
Janette Gregson
H Dixon (Oct 2007)
Photographer: Janette Gregson

Related Documents:

PDF file: Marriage; Census; Directory; Death.
''Details from the All Saints Newchurch marriage register, entries from the 1881-1901 census, listing from the White's directory and the death notice from the IW Observer. Mr. DIXON had a Pharmaceutical company in Ryde.''

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