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 John Coombes

Title: Mr
Forenames: John
Surnames: Coombes
Date of Death: 05/08/1888
Burial Date: 09/08/1888
Age at Death Years: 68
Grave Type: Marked
Map Reference Number: RSHG 012 C1
Plot Number: Ryde Old Cemetery Section M Plot 1819
Grave Description: Double plot. 2 identical headstones with ornate shoulders, leaf motif at top, inlaid inscription, 8 pointed star carved on each shoulder, floral motif at base. Kerbstones.
Grave Condition: Good
Grave Condition Description: Overhanging tree and ivy cut down March 2016. South kerbstone broken in half.

Inscription:

Left hand headstone

IN
LOVING REMEMBRANCE OF
MARIANNE ELIZABETH
THE BELOVED DAUGHTER OF
JOHN AND SARAH COOMBES
WHO DIED
APRIL 1ST 1878
AGED 33 YEARS

FOR ME TO LIVE IS CHRIST AND
TO DIE IS GAIN

AND OF HER SISTER
LAURA CLOTHIER
COOMBES
WHO PASSED AWAY
SEPTEMBER 17TH 1908
AGED 58 YEARS

THY WILL BE DONE

Right hand headstone

IN
LOVING REMEMBRANCE OF
SARAH
THE BELOVED WIFE OF
JOHN COOMBES
WHO DIED
APRIL 16TH 1886.
AGED 67 YEARS

ALSO HER HUSBAND
JOHN COOMBES
WHO DIED
AUGUST 5TH 1888
AGED 68 YEARS.

"PEACE PERFECT PEACE"

Photographs:

Carol Strong
Coombes family plot March 2016
Photographer: Carol Strong
Carol Strong
S & J Coombes March 2016
Photographer: Carol Strong
Carol Strong
M & L Coombes March 2016
Photographer: Carol Strong

Related Documents:

PDF file: Obituary; Funeral; Tribute

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