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 Golden Gunn

Title: Mr
Forenames: James Golden
Surnames: Gunn
Date of Death: 09/01/1880
Burial Date: 14/01/1880
Age at Death Years: 56
Grave Type: Marked
Map Reference Number: RSHG 020 B1
Plot Number: Ryde Old Cemetery Section T Plot 2912
Grave Description: Very ornate headstone with pointed top finished with a finial. At each side there are marble pillars let into the headstone, concrete top with kerbs and railings.
Grave Condition Description: Railings are broken and the concrete top is also broken.
Other Information: Added burial date, source: Bereavement Services records
Old Website Grave ID: 3641

Inscription:

IN
LOVING MEMORY
OF
JAMES GOLDEN GUNN
WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE
JAN 9TH 1880
AGED 56 YEARS

"BETTER THAN ..........BY CROWDS ADORED

(GOLD?.....................?

A GOOD HONORED MAN
HIS EARTHLY SUFFERINGS NOW ARE O'ER
HE DWELLS WITH CHRIST EVERMORE WITH HIM TO REIGN

ALSO
SARAH GUNN
WIFE OF THE ABOVE
WHO DIED DECEMBER 1889

Photographs:

Janette Gregson
J & S Gunn July 2007
Photographer: Janette Gregson
Janette Gregson
J & S Gunn July 2007
Photographer: Janette Gregson

Related Documents:

PDF file: Census; Death; Obituary.
''Entry from the 1871 census and the death notice and obituary from the IW Times, also the yearly summary of deaths from the IW Observer.''
PDF file: Obituary
''An obituary from the Hampshire Telegraph & Sussex Chronicle.''
PDF file: National Probate Calendar

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