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 Read

Title: Mr
Forenames: John
Surnames: Read
Date of Death: 15/11/1883
Burial Date: 19/11/1883
Age at Death Years: 65
Grave Type: Marked
Map Reference Number: RSHG 032 D2
Plot Number: Ryde New Cemetery Section B Plot 30
Grave Description: Gothic shaped headstone
Grave Condition Description: Lichen growth and weathering make the inscription difficult to read in places
Other Information: Although not mentioned on the memorial, also interred in this plot, Eliza Reed (1911), source: Bereavement Services records
Old Website Grave ID: 7322

Inscription:

IN
MEMORY OF
JOHN READ
WHO DIED NOVEMBER 15TH 1883
AGED 65

"BE YE ALSO READY FOR IN SUCH AN HOUR
YE THINK NOT THE SON OF MAN COMETH"

Photographs:

David Earle
J Read 17.10.09
Photographer: David Earle
David Earle
J Read
Photographer: David Earle

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