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 Henry Burt

Title: Mr
Forenames: John Henry
Surnames: Burt
Date of Death: 18/06/1880
Age at Death Years: 45
Grave Type: Marked
Map Reference Number: RSHG 010 D3
Plot Number: Ryde Old Cemetery Section O/P Plot 2160
Grave Description: Decorative detailed carved cross on a complex multipart plinth, quite flat front to back. Evidence of stone kerb.
Grave Condition Description: Overgrown with grass covering all but a small part of the stone kerb on north edge near the headstone.
Old Website Grave ID: 1643

Inscription:

THIS STONE
WAS ERECTED BY MEMBERS
OF THE
RYDE BOROUGH POLICE FORCE
IN MEMORY OF
THEIR LATE SUPERINTENDENT
JOHN HENRY BURT
WHO DIED 18TH JUNE 1880
AGED 45 YEARS
BE YE ALSO READY FOR IN SUCH AN HOUR AS YE THINK NOT THE
SON OF MAN COMETH

Photographs:

Sally-Ann Garrett
Burt memorial
Photographer: Sally-Ann Garrett
Janette Gregson
J Burt (Aug 2006)
Photographer: Janette Gregson

Related Documents:

PDF file: Census; Death; Obituary; Funeral; Inquest.
''Entry from the 1871 census and the death, obituary and funeral from the IW Times, also the inquest report from the IW Times. Mr Burt, Superintendent of Police.''
PDF file: Monument erected 1881

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