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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Holy Cross Church Binstead

Mr Henry Rawkins

Title: Mr
Forenames: Henry
Surnames: Rawkins
Date of Death: 09/03/1746
Burial Date: 12/03/1746
Age at Death Years: 68
Grave Type: Marked
Map Reference Number: RSHG HC003
Plot Number: Binstead Holy Cross Churchyard B6-003
Grave Description: Headstone with high relief top, central large winged cherub and symmetrical corner swirls. Relief floral design on right and left sides of stone. Text panel with flat top and shoulders and large deeply engraved lettering.
Grave Condition Description: Good considering age of memorial, weathered and crusted lichen in places but most of inscription can be read.
Other Information: This headstone has been placed against the inside of the South Churchyard wall and we have no record of where the original plot was sited.
Burial date from 1986/87 Museums Community Project.

Inscription:

IN
MEMORY OF HENRY
RAWKINS OF QUOR
WHO DIED
MARCH 9TH 1746
IN THE 69TH YEAR
OF HIS AGE

several faint lines of text

Photographs:

Kate MacDonell
Rawkins family August 2019
Photographer: Kate MacDonell

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