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 Osmond (Able Seaman)

Title: Mr
Forenames: John
Surnames: Osmond
Date of Death: 06/07/1915
Age at Death Years: 35
Grave Type: Marked
Military Rank: Able Seaman
Map Reference Number: RSHG 024 B1
Plot Number: Ryde Old Cemetery Section X Plot 3299
Grave Description: Upright stone with two tiers surmounted by cross with IHS in middle
Grave Condition Description: Lichen top and bottom, letters eroded
Old Website Grave ID: 5930

Inscription:

Top plinth

PRAY FOR THE SOUL
OF ELIZABETH DEASY WIFE
OF TIMOTHY DEASY

2nd plinth

WHO DEPARTED JULY 25TH 1866
AGED 57 YEARS
"MAY SHE REST IN PEACE"

ALSO OF TIMOTHY DEASY
WHO DIED OCT 23RD 1889, AGED 84 YEARS
"ON WHOSE SOULS SWEET JESUS HAVE MERCY"

ALSO OF JOHN OSMOND
GRANDSON OF THE ABOVE
OF HMS MERSEY
KILLED IN ACTION IN GERMAN EAST AFRICA
JULY 6TH 1915 IN HIS 35TH YEAR
ETERNAL REST GRANT UNTO THEM, O LORD AND LET PERPETUAL LIGHT SHINE UPON THEM"

Photographs:

Janette Gregson
E & T Deasy and J Osmond (Aug 2008)
Photographer: Janette Gregson
Janette Gregson
E & T Deasy and J Osmond (Aug 2008)
Photographer: Janette Gregson

Related Documents:

PDF file: Birth; Census; Death.
''Reference from the IW and General Registrars birth records, entries from the 1891-1901 census, and the death notice from the IW Observer.''

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