Ryde Social Heritage Group research the social history of the citizens of Ryde, Isle of Wight. Documenting their lives, businesses and burial transcriptions.
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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 Porter-Humphreys

Title: Mr
Forenames: John
Surnames: Porter-Humphreys
Date of Death: 08/02/1872
Burial Date: 15/02/1872
Age at Death Years: 75
Grave Type: Marked
Map Reference Number: RSHG 021 B3/C3
Plot Number: Ryde Old Cemetery Section B Plots 157 - 159
Grave Description: Cross entwined with a garland at top, iron railings at one time but now only on one side, stone kerbs .
Grave Condition: Good
Grave Condition Description: Moss cover on stone
Other Information: Added burial date, source: Bereavement Services records
Although mentioned on the memorial, Emily, Jemima and Mary were not interred in this plot, source: Bereavement Services records
Old Website Grave ID: 5321

Inscription:

East facing
IN BELOVED
REMEMBRANCE OF
JOHN PORTER-HUMPHREYS
(FORMERLY OF DUNSDALE
WESTERHAM KENT)
WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE
AFTER A FEW DAYS ILLNESS
FEB 8TH 1872

"THE ETERNAL GOD IS MY REFUGE
AND UNDERNEATH ARE THE
EVERLASTING ARMS" DEUT XXX111 27

Base
ALSO OF SUSAN 6TH DAUGHTER OF THE ABOVE
WHO FELL ASLEEP ON HER BIRTHDAY NOV 27TH 1871

"AND THERE SHALL BE NO MORE DEATH
NOR CRYING NEITHER SHALL THERE BE ANY MORE PAIN
FOR THE FORMER THINGS ARE PASSED AWAY"

North facing
ALSO DEAR REMEMBRANCE OF EMILY
3RD DAUGHTER OF THE LATE JOHN PORTER-HUMPHREYS
DIED FEB 21ST 1906

"THE DARKNESS IS PASSED THE TRUE LIGHT NOW SHINETH"

ALSO OF JEMIMA HIS SEVENTH DAUGHTER
WHO JOINED HER BELOVED SISTER

"THINE EYES SHALL SEE THE KINGDOM IN HER BEAUTY
THEY SHALL BEHOLD THE LAND THAT IS VERY FAR OFF"

South west side
ALSO OF MARY HIS FIFTH DAUGHTER
WHO DIED JULY 28TH 1905

"THE LORD KNOWETH HIM THAT ARE HIS"

Photographs:

Janette Gregson
Porter-Humphreys family plot May 2008
Photographer: Janette Gregson
Janette Gregson
Porter-Humphreys family plot May 2008
Photographer: Janette Gregson
Janette Gregson
Porter-Humphreys family plot May 2008
Photographer: Janette Gregson
Janette Gregson
Porter-Humphreys family plot May 2008
Photographer: Janette Gregson

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