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 Sheffield Couzens

Title: Mr
Forenames: John Sheffield
Surnames: Couzens
Date of Death: 13/06/1884
Age at Death Years: 50
Grave Type: Marked
Map Reference Number: RSHG 033 D3
Plot Number: Ryde New Cemetery Section B Plot 53
Grave Description: Headstone in shape of cross with IHS inscribed in top
Grave Condition: Good
Other Information: Amended spelling of 2nd name on 28/08/2010, source: burial, newspaper and Registrars records.
Old Website Grave ID: 6838

Inscription:

IN
LOVING MEMORY OF
JOHN SHEFFIELD
COUZENS
WHO DIED JUNE 13TH 1884
AGED 50 YEARS
THE BELOVED SON OF JOHN S COUZENS
AND LOUISA HIS WIFE
"FOR I KNOW THAT MY REDEEMER LIVETH AND THAT
HE SHALL STAND AT THE LATTER DAY"

THIS STONE IS ERECTED BY HIS LOVING MOTHER

Photographs:

David Earle
J Couzens 07.09
Photographer: David Earle
David Earle
J Couzens
Photographer: David Earle

Related Documents:

PDF file: Census; Marriage; Death.
''Entries from the 1871-1881 census, reference from the General Registrars marriage records, and the death notice from the IW Observer.''

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