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 Merritt

Title: Mr
Forenames: James
Surnames: Merritt
Date of Death: 01/01/1959
Burial Date: 05/01/1959
Age at Death Years: 74
Grave Type: Marked
Map Reference Number: RSHG 022 B3
Plot Number: Ryde Old Cemetery Section I Plot 1349
Grave Description: Open book
Grave Condition Description: Lettering becoming eroded lichen growing, grass growing over bottom.
Other Information: Also interred in this plot Ann Warder (1872), source: Bereavement Services records
Old Website Grave ID: 5102

Inscription:

(left hand page)
IN
LOVING MEMORY OF
MY DEAR HUSBAND
JAMES MERRITT
DIED
1ST JANUARY 1959
AGED 74 YEARS

"AT REST"

(right hand page)
ALSO OF
HIS WIFE
MARY ANN
DIED 5TH FEBRUARY 1972
AGED 90 YEARS

"REUNITED"

Photographs:

Janette Gregson
J & M Merritt (April 2008)
Photographer: Janette Gregson
Janette Gregson
J & M Merritt (April 2008)
Photographer: Janette Gregson

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