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 Bessant

Title: Mr
Forenames: James
Surnames: Bessant
Date of Death: 10/01/1857
Age at Death Years: 82
Grave Type: Marked
Map Reference Number: RSHG 022 A3
Plot Number: Ryde Old Cemetery Section I Plot 1484
Grave Description: Upright stone arched headstone with shoulders
Grave Condition Description: Tilting to the south, lots of lichen and the sentiment is illegible.
Other Information: Completed date on 25/08/2009, source: parish registers.
Old Website Grave ID: 5084

Inscription:

IN
MEMORY OF
SARAH WIFE OF
JAMES BESSANT
WHO DIED SEPT 7TH 1871
AGED 81 YEARS

ALSO OF THE ABOVE
JAMES BESSANT
WHO DIED JAN 10TH 18(?)7
(several lines of sentiment illegible)

Photographs:

Janette Gregson
S & J Bessant (April 2008)
Photographer: Janette Gregson

Related Documents:

PDF file: Marriage; Census; Burial.
''Entry from the 1851 census, and the references from the Newchurch marriage and burial registers.''
PDF file: Inquest

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