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.
  • MENU
Ryde Cemetery

Mr John Munro

Title: Mr
Forenames: John
Surnames: Munro
Date of Birth: 01/01/1857
Date of Death: 01/08/1896
Burial Date: 22/08/1896
Age at Death Years: 39
Grave Type: Marked
Map Reference Number: RSHG 041 D3
Plot Number: Ryde New Cemetery Section H Plot 2423
Grave Description: Upright stone with embossed anchor and masonic sign and leaves
Grave Condition Description: Stone badly leaning backward, lichen spots and stained
Other Information: Added burial date and age, source: Registrars and Burial records
Old Website Grave ID: 12952

Inscription:

ERECTED
IN
LOVING MEMORY
OF
JOHN MUNRO
YACHTSMAN
WHO WAS BORN AT FURNACE, ARGYLLSHIRE 1857
AND WHO DIED WHILST ON DUTY AT RYDE
IN AUGUST 1896.

WITH THE CONSENT OF HIS OWN PEOPLE
THIS STONE IS ERECTED BY HIS FELLOW YACHTSMEN
WHO MORE THAN OTHERS KNEW HIS ABILITY AS
A SAILOR AND HIS YEARS OF FAITHFUL SERVICE.

Photographs:

J Munro Aug 2021

Related Documents:

Have you found this website useful?

This website is run by volunteers, so if you have found this website to be of any use whatsoever then please make a donation towards it's upkeep via our 'contact form'.