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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Binstead Cemetery

Mr James Blake Venus

Title: Mr
Forenames: James Blake
Surnames: Venus
Date of Death: 18/03/1893
Burial Date: 24/03/1893
Age at Death Years: 74
Grave Type: Marked
Map Reference Number: RSHG B021 B2
Plot Number: Binstead Old Cemetery Row N Plot 56
Grave Description: Rectangular headstone with stepped shoulders rising to integral bottony cross. Outlined text panel with engraved lettering
Grave Condition: Fair
Grave Condition Description: Partly under hedge, very weathered and eroded, difficult to read
Other Information: Retired Chief Boatman, died Binstead, burial date added - Source: Register of Burials
Old Website Grave ID: 10441
J Venus & A Davey Oct 2013 Photo by C Strong

Inscription:

IN
LOVING
REMEMBRANCE
OF
JAMES BLAKE VENUS
WHO FELL ASLEEP IN JESUS
MARCH 18TH 1893
AGED 74 YEARS

OH YES, WE HOPE TO MEET AGAIN
THE LOVED ONE GONE BEFORE
AND WITH THE LORD OF LIFE TO DINE
IN GLORY EVERMORE
LOOKING UNTO JESUS THE AUTHOR AND __PUNISHER OF OUR FAITH

ALSO OF HIS LOVING WIFE MARYANN
DIED APRIL 6 1908
AGED 88 YEARS
FOR EVER WITH THE LORD

Photographs:

Carol Strong
Venus family October 2013
Photographer: Carol Strong
Kate MacDonell
Venus family August 2020
Photographer: Kate MacDonell

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