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 Mew

Title: Mr
Forenames: Henry
Surnames: Mew
Date of Death: 24/01/1887
Age at Death Years: 67
Grave Type: Marked
Map Reference Number: RSHG 020 B2
Plot Number: Ryde Old Cemetery Section T Plots 2913 - 2914
Grave Description: Double plot. Two matching Gothic style headstones with gentle point. Inset lettering panel. Grass top and kerbs.
Grave Condition: Fair
Grave Condition Description: Kerbs are sinking into ground.
Old Website Grave ID: 3663

Inscription:

Headstone 1
IN
LOVING MEMORY
OF
ANN
THE WIFE OF
HENRY MEW
WHO PASSED AWAY AUGUST 7TH 1883
AGED 66 YEARS
"SOON SHALL WE GREET THOSE GONE BEFORE
SOON SHALL WE MEET TO PART NO MORE
FAR FROM A WORLD OF GRIEF AND SIN
WITH GOD ETERNAL SHUT IN"

ALSO OF
ELIZABETH JANE MEW
DAUGHTER OF THE ABOVE
DIED SEPT 3RD 1888
AGED 44 YEARS
INTERRED IN PORTSEA CEMETERY

Headstone 2
IN
LOVING MEMORY
OF
HENRY MEW
FOR OVER TWENTY YEARS
SUPERINTENDENT OF THIS CEMETERY
WHO PASSED AWAY JAN 24TH 1887
"WHY SHOULD OUR TEARS IN SORROW FLOW
WHEN GOD RECALLS HIS OWN
AND BIDS THEM LEAVE A WORLD OF WOE
FOR AN IMMORTAL CROWN"

ALSO OF HIS SON
WILLIAM EDWARD MEW
FOR 37 YEARS SUPERINTENDENT OF CHICHESTER CEMETERY
DIED APRIL 5TH 1928
AGED 87 YEARS
(INTERRED IN CHICHESTER CEMETERY)

Photographs:

Janette Gregson
Mew family plot July 2007
Photographer: Janette Gregson
Janette Gregson
H & W Mew July 2007
Photographer: Janette Gregson

Related Documents:

PDF file: Marriage; Census; Directory; Obituary.
''Details from the All Saints' Newchurch marriage register, entries from the 1861-1881 census, listing from the White's directory and the obituary from the IW Observer.''
PDF file: Probate Document - contributed by Richard Mew

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