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 James Austin

Title: Mr
Forenames: James
Surnames: Austin
Date of Death: 12/11/1868
Burial Date: 17/11/1868
Age at Death Years: 36
Grave Type: Marked
Map Reference Number: RSHG 018 C2/D2
Plot Number: Ryde Old Cemetery Section E Plot 724
Grave Description: Large headstone ornately decorated with oak leaves around the edge and acorns either side at the top. Grass top to grave.
Grave Condition: Fair
Grave Condition Description: Quite easy to read but starting to tilt forwards
Other Information: Employes is how the word is spelt on the headstone
Old Website Grave ID: 3394

Inscription:

I.H.S (monogram)
ERECTED
BY THE
EMPLOYES OF THE
PORTSMOUTH AND RYDE
UNITED STEAM
PACKET COMPANY
IN REMEMBRANCE OF
JAMES AUSTIN
WHO DIED NOVEMBER 12TH 1868
AGED 36 YEARS

"FOR I KNOW THAT MY
REDEEMER LIVETH AND
THAT HE SHALL STAND
AT THE LATTER-DAY
UPON THE EARTH" (JOB.19.25)

Photographs:

Janette Gregson
J Austin (June 2007)
Photographer: Janette Gregson
Janette Gregson
J Austin (June 2007)
Photographer: Janette Gregson

Related Documents:

PDF file: Census; Death; Will.
''Entry from the 1841 census, death notice from the IW Observer, and reference to his father's Will.''
PDF file: Will proved 1869

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