Ryde Social Heritage Group research the social history of the citizens of Ryde, Isle of Wight. Documenting their lives, businesses and burial transcriptions.
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Mr John Dudley Watkins

Title: Mr
Forenames: John Dudley
Surnames: Watkins
Date of Birth: 03/06/1834
Date of Death: 29/11/1908
Burial Date: 02/12/1908
Age at Death Years: 74
Grave Type: Marked
Map Reference Number: RSHG 032 B2/C2
Plot Number: Ryde New Cemetery Section B Plots 240 & 240a
Grave Description: Angular cross on four tier plinth in double plot surrounded by stone kerbs, inscription in leaded lettering.
Grave Condition Description: Cross is broken in pieces, top plinth and part of cross on grave top, ash tree growing on grave.
Other Information: Added birth & burial dates, source: Registrars and Newspaper records
Old Website Grave ID: 7256

Inscription:

Top tier
IN
MEMORY OF
A LOVING MOTHER
ANNE WATKINS

Second tier
WIDOW OF THE LATE WILLIAM WATKINS
SHE DIED APRIL 21ST 1898
AGED 92 YEARS

"THOU WILT KEEP HIM IN PERFECT PEACE
WHOSE MIND IS STAYED ON THEE"

Third tier
ALSO OF JOHN DUDLEY WATKINS, THEIR BELOVED SON
WHO FELL ASLEEP ADVENT SUNDAY NOV 29 1908
AGED 74 YEARS

"I WILL SING A NEW SONG UNTO THEE, O GOD"

ALSO OF JANE ELIZABETH WATKINS
THEIR LOVING AND BELOVED DAUGHTER AND SISTER OF THE ABOVE
WHO FELL ASLEEP MARCH 7TH 1919

Bottom tier
"NOTHING IN MY HANDS I BRING
SIMPLY TO THY CROSS I CLING"
"GOD IS LOVE"

Photographs:

David Earle
J Watkins 26.09.09
Photographer: David Earle
David Earle
J Watkins
Photographer: David Earle

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