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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Holy Cross Church Binstead

Mr James Seward

Title: Mr
Forenames: James
Surnames: Seward
Date of Death: 11/08/1842
Burial Date: 17/08/1842
Age at Death Years: 75
Grave Type: Marked
Map Reference Number: RSHG HC003
Plot Number: Binstead Holy Cross Churchyard A5-037
Grave Description: Headstone with concave shoulders and unknown top, heavily engraved lettering
Grave Condition: Poor
Grave Condition Description: Top has been broken off, lower left section also broken, loosing some of the text
Other Information: This headstone has been placed against the inside of the West Churchyard wall, we have no record of where the original plot was sited.
Burial date from 1986/87 Museums Community Project.

Inscription:

THIS STONE
MARKS THE RESTING PLACE
OF THE MORTAL REMAINS OF
JAMES SEWARD
FORMERLY OF UNDERLY
HEREFORDSHIRE
WHO DIED AT RYDE
AUG 11TH 1842 AGED 75

WE BELIEVE THAT JESUS DIED
AND ROSE AGAIN, EVEN SO THEM
ALSO WHICH SLEEP IN JESUS
WILL GOD BRING WITH HIM
1 THESS. 4:14

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