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 Dowling

Title: Mr
Forenames: John
Surnames: Dowling
Date of Death: 12/02/1906
Age at Death Years: 71
Map Reference Number: RSHG 025 B3
Plot Number: Ryde Old Cemetery Section X Plots 3260 & 3261
Grave Description: UPRIGHT STONE ROUNDED TOP WITH THREE ROSETTES, CROSS IN CENTER WITH "THY WILL BE DONE"CARVED ON IT,ALSO IVY LEAVES

AND BERRIES, GRAVE SURROUNDED BY ORNATE IRON RAILINGS
Grave Condition Description: Overgrown with grass and cotoneaster bush, quite a lot of lichen
Old Website Grave ID: 5965

Inscription:

OF YOUR CHARITY

PRAY FOR THE SOUL

OF

JOHN DOWLING

LATE OF THE ROYAL HOSPITAL, CHELSEA

WHO DIED AT THE FERNS, RYDE

12th FEBRUARY 1906

AGED 71 YEARS

BLESSED ARE THE MERCIFUL FOR THEY WILL OBTAIN MERCY

RIP

ALSO OF HIS DAUGHTER

MARY ELIZABETH MCAULIFFE

OF DUHALLOW, PARKFIELD ROAD, BRADFORD

WHO DIED 19th JULY 1937

AGED 65 YEARS

SWEET JESUS MERCY

RIP

Photographs:

Janette Gregson
J Dowling and M McAuliffe (Aug 2008)
Photographer: Janette Gregson
Janette Gregson
J Dowling and M McAuliffe (Aug 2008)
Photographer: Janette Gregson

Related Documents:

PDF file: Census; Obituary.
''Entries from the 1891 and 1901 census and the obituary from the IW County Press.''

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