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 Lewis

Title: Mr
Forenames: John
Surnames: Lewis
Date of Death: 23/10/1886
Burial Date: 28/10/1886
Age at Death Years: 56
Grave Type: Marked
Map Reference Number: RSHG 019 D2
Plot Number: Ryde Old Cemetery Section S Plot 2786
Grave Description: Upright stone curved shoulders, embossed flowers at top, embossed stars at side.
Grave Condition Description: Lettering right side of stone unreadable, lichen growing.
Other Information: Amended date, source: death, burial and newspaper records.
Old Website Grave ID: 4408

Inscription:

IN
LOVING REMEMBRANCE OF
ELIZABETH LEWIS WHO DIED APRIL 15TH 1885
AGED 61 YEARS

"FOR IF OUR EARTHLY HOUSE OF THIS
TABERNACLE WERE DISSOLVED WE HAVE
A BUILDING OF GOD, A HOUSE NOW MADE
WITH HANDS ETERNAL IN THE HEAVENS"

AND OF JOHN LEWIS
BROTHER OF THE ABOVE
WHO DIED OCT 23RD 1886
AGED 56 YEARS

"HAPPY SHE WHO WITH.................?
HIS HELP WHOSE HOPE IS.............?
FAR FROM THIS WORLD OF TOIL AND STRIFE
HE'S PRESENT WITH THE LORD
THE LABOURS OF HIS MORTAL LIFE
END IN A RICH REWARD"

ALSO OF EMMA ELIZABETH DORE
NIECE OF THE ABOVE
DIED NOV 2ND 1875 AGED 7 YEARS

Photographs:

Janette Gregson
J & E Lewis and E Dore (Oct 2007)
Photographer: Janette Gregson

Related Documents:

PDF file: Census; Death; Obituary.
''Entries from the 1871 and 1881 census and the death notice and brief obituary from the IW Observer.''
PDF file: Memorial Porch

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