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 Sawyer (Gunner)

Title: Mr
Forenames: James
Surnames: Sawyer
Date of Death: 23/03/1874
Age at Death Years: 70
Grave Type: Marked
Military Rank: Gunner
Map Reference Number: RSHG 018 A2
Plot Number: Ryde Old Cemetery Section G Plot 1045
Grave Description: Upright headstone, curved shoulders and there is an anchor embossed above the inscription.
Grave Condition Description: Lettering fading, some lichen growing top and bottom.
Old Website Grave ID: 4219

Inscription:

SACRED
TO THE MEMORY OF
JAMES SAWYER
GUNNER RN
WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE
MARCH 23RD 1874
AGED 70 YEARS
DEEPLY LAMENTED BY HIS SORROWING WIDOW AND FRIENDS

"O LORD MY GOD I CRIED UNTO THEE
AND THOU HAST HEARD ME
I AM ANCHORED SAFELY, MY WEARY SOUL
OBTAINS A PORT OF REST
WHERE STORMS NE'ER BLOW NOR BILLOW
ACROSS MY PEACEFUL BREAST".

ALSO
HESTER
WIFE OF THE ABOVE
WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE
AUGUST 19TH 1875
AGED 64 YEARS
"SHE IS NOT DEAD BUT SLEEPETH"

Photographs:

Janette Gregson
J & H Sawyer September 2007
Photographer: Janette Gregson
Janette Gregson
J & H Sawyer September 2007
Photographer: Janette Gregson

Related Documents:

PDF file: Census; Burial.
''Entries from the 1851-1871 census and details from the Ryde burial register.''

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