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 Harding Candy

Title: Mr
Forenames: James Harding
Surnames: Candy
Baptism Date: 15/06/1817
Date of Death: 14/04/1882
Burial Date: 18/04/1882
Age at Death Years: 63
Grave Type: Marked
Map Reference Number: RSHG 007 A3
Plot Number: Ryde Old Cemetery Section O Plot 2082
Grave Description: Double plot with iron railings and 8 small posts. There are two headstones side by side
Grave Condition Description: The stones are in a fair condition but quite a lot of lichen is growing, also it is overgrown with grass
Other Information: THIS INSCRIPTION IS ON THE FIRST HEADSTONE

The following information has been provided by Philip Candy: "James Harding CANDY was baptised on 15 June 1817 at Evercreech, Somerset to Richard Candy and Rebecca HARDING. His wife Sarah Ann was originally Sarah Ann GEORGE from Scaldwell in Northamptonshire. They married in 1863 in the Epping Registration District.
James Candy had a brother named Benjamin who also lived in Ryde for many years. Benjamins' wife Rebecca died at Ryde in the June Quarter of 1886".
Old Website Grave ID: 1628

Inscription:

IN
LOVING REMEMBERANCE OF
JAMES HARDING CANDY
WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE
APRIL 14TH 1882

AND OF

SARAH ANN CANDY
WIDOW OF THE ABOVE
WHO DIED ????
OCTOBER 12TH 1887
AGED 55 YEARS

Photographs:

Janette Gregson
J & S Candy (August 2006)
Photographer: Janette Gregson
J H Candy (proprietor)

Related Documents:

PDF file: Marriage; Census; Directory; Obituary.
''Reference from the General Registrars marriage records, entries from the 1871 and 1881 census, listing from the White's directory and the obituary from the IW Observer.''

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