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 Steward

Title: Mr
Forenames: John
Surnames: Steward
Date of Death: 09/05/1886
Burial Date: 13/05/1886
Age at Death Years: 71
Grave Type: Marked
Map Reference Number: RSHG 017 B1
Plot Number: Ryde Old Cemetery Section F Plot 873
Grave Description: Headstone has carved top
Grave Condition Description: Leaning forward slightly and some of the lettering is weathered and difficult to read
Other Information: Added burial date, source: Burial records
Old Website Grave ID: 3958

Inscription:

SACRED
IN THE MEMORY OF
HARRIET, WIFE OF
JOHN STEWARD PILOT
WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE
JAN 5TH 1871
AGED 51 YEARS

"LOOKING FOR THAT BLESSED HOPE AND
THE GLORIOUS APPEARING OF THE GREAT
GOD AND OUR SAVIOUR JESUS CHRIST"

ALSO OF THE ABOVE
JOHN STEWARD
DIED MAY 9TH 1886
AGED 71 YEARS

"HIS END WAS PEACE"

There is also a matching footstone inscribed

H.S
1871

J.S
1886

Photographs:

Janette Gregson
H & J Steward (Aug 2007)
Photographer: Janette Gregson
Janette Gregson
H & J Steward (Aug 2007)
Photographer: Janette Gregson

Related Documents:

PDF file: Census; Marriage; Death.
''Entries from the 1861-1881 census, the reference from the IW Registrars marriage index and the death notice from the IW County Press and IW Observer.''
PDF file: A Tough Tar

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