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 Masters

Title: Mr
Forenames: John
Surnames: Masters
Date of Death: 24/07/1884
Burial Date: 28/07/1884
Age at Death Years: 65
Grave Type: Marked
Map Reference Number: RSHG 010 A1
Plot Number: Ryde Old Cemetery Section M Plot 1803
Grave Description: Large headstone with carving of a shell and ivy leaves at top, stone kerbs and concrete top
Grave Condition: Fair
Grave Condition Description: Slight subsiding to right, south kerb broken. Was overgrown with ivy but clear in March 2016 and new photograph taken.
Old Website Grave ID: 2475

Inscription:

IN AFFECTIONATE REMEMBRANCE
OF
JOHN MASTERS
WHO FELL ASLEEP JULY 24TH 1884
AGED 65 YEARS

"I AM THE RESURRECTION AND THE LIFE
HAD HE ASKED US WELL WE KNOW
WE SHOULD CRY OH SPARE US THIS BLOW
YEA WITH STREAMING TEARS SHOULD PRAY
LORD WE LOVE HIM, LET HIM STAY
BUT THE LORD DOTH NOUGHT AMISS
AND SINCE HE HATH ORDERED THIS
WE HAVE NOUGHT TO DO BUT STILL
REST IN SILENCE ON HIS WILL."
"ABSENT FROM THE BODY PRESENT WITH THE LORD"

ALSO OF REBEKAH
WIFE OF THE ABOVE
WHO PEACEFULLY PASSED AWAY
JAN 22ND 1888
AGED 70 YEARS

"WE WHICH BELIEVED DO ENTER INTO REST
FOREVER WITH THE LORD
AMEN SO LET IT BE
LIFE FROM THE DEAD IS IN THE WORD IMMORTALITY"

ALSO OF THEIR DAUGHTER
SUSIE E HIBBERD
AT REST DEC 17TH 1926
AGED 69 YEARS

Photographs:

Janette Gregson
J & R Masters and S Hibberd (May 2008)
Photographer: Janette Gregson
Janette Gregson
J & R Masters and S Hibberd (May 2008)
Photographer: Janette Gregson
Kate Macdonell
J & R Masters and S Hibberd March 2016
Photographer: Kate Macdonell

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