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 Day

Title: Mr
Forenames: James
Surnames: Day
Date of Birth: 03/11/1883
Date of Death: 06/03/1916
Burial Date: 10/03/1916
Age at Death Years: 32
Grave Type: Marked
Map Reference Number: RSHG 003 C3
Plot Number: Ryde Old Parish Cemetery 2 Plot 258a
Grave Description: Stone cross on 4-tier plinth
Grave Condition: Fair
Grave Condition Description: Some damage to inscription
Other Information: James Day was the son of George William and Marie Antoinette Day. He never married, but before his death from TB James had been engaged to Amy Florence Cooper. After James died, Amy (known as Floss) married Edmund Hayles, the widowed husband of James' sister, Marie Antoinette. Date of birth supplied by a relative.
Old Website Grave ID: 724

Inscription:

East Facing
TO THE DEAR MEMORY OF
JAMES DAY (JIM)
THE BELOVED SON OF
GEORGE WILLIAM DAY
WHO FELL ASLEEP IN JESUS
MARCH 6TH 1916
AGED 32 YEARS

JESUS IS OUR SHEPHERD
WIPING EVERY TEAR
FOLDED IN HIS BOSOM
NOTHING WE CAN FEAR

North Facing
ALSO OF
OUR BELOVED FATHER
GEORGE WILLIAM DAY
DIED JANUARY 7TH 1922
AGED 73 YEARS

"O RECEIVE MY SOUL AT LAST"

Photographs:

Janette Gregson
J & G Day (March 06)
Photographer: Janette Gregson

Related Documents:

PDF file: Birth; Census; Death.
''Reference from the IW Registrars birth records, entries from the 1891 and 1901 census, and the death notice from the IW Observer.''

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