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 Saunders Newnham

Title: Mr
Forenames: James Saunders
Surnames: Newnham
Date of Death: 14/08/1933
Age at Death Years: 79
Grave Type: Marked
Map Reference Number: RSHG 042 A2/B2
Plot Number: Ryde New Cemetery Section K Plot 3133
Grave Description: Large headstone of white marble, kerb surround with corner posts, concrete and gravel top, flower holder on grave.
Grave Condition: Good
Grave Condition Description: Slight subsidence and top beginning to become overgrown.
Old Website Grave ID: 809

Inscription:

Headstone
IN EVER LOVING MEMORY OF
EMILY
THE DEARLY LOVED WIFE OF
JAMES NEWNHAM
WHO PASSED PEACEFULLY AWAY
OCTOBER 28TH 1910 AGED 55 YEARS
"SIMPLY TO THY CROSS I CLUNG"

ALSO OF THE ABOVE NAMED
JAMES SAUNDERS NEWNHAM
WHO ENTERED INTO REST
AUGUST 14TH 1933 AGED 79 YEARS
"PEACE, PERFECT PEACE, WITH LOVED ONES FAR AWAY"

South side kerb
AND OF THEIR GRANDSON JAMES W. E NEWNHAM, R.A.F., BELOVED SON OF JAMES AND EMILY NEWNHAM,
KILLED MARCH 4TH 1941 AGED 28 YEARS

East end kerb
"NOT OUR WILL O LORD BUT THINE BE DONE"

Flower holder
OUR JIM

Photographs:

Janette Gregson
J W E Newnham (May 2004)
Photographer: Janette Gregson
Janette Gregson
J W E Newnham inscription (May 2004)
Photographer: Janette Gregson

Related Documents:

PDF file: 1881 and 1901 Census; Obituary; Death notice.
''Entries from the 1881 and 1901 census. The obituary and death notice from the IW County Press, for Mr. James Saunders NEWNHAM, Police Constable at Ryde.''
PDF file: Obituary; Funeral.

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