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 Thomas Player

Title: Mr
Forenames: John Thomas
Surnames: Player
Date of Death: 06/05/1891
Burial Date: 21/05/1891
Age at Death Years: 55
Grave Type: Marked
Map Reference Number: RSHG 036 D2
Plot Number: Ryde New Cemetery Section D Plot 822
Grave Description: Large Gothic shaped headstone with protruding shoulders.
Grave Condition: Fair
Grave Condition Description: Headstone laying face up on the grass, inscription worn and very difficult to read.
Other Information: All available newspapers searched, but no obituary found
Old Website Grave ID: 7998

Inscription:

IN LOVING MEMORY OF
JOHN THOMAS PLAYER
WHO FELL ASLEEP
MAY 6TH 1891
AGED 55 YEARS

"I CAME TO JESUS AS I WAS
WEARY AND WORN AND SAD
I FOUND IN HIM A RESTING PLACE
AND HE HAS MADE ME GLAD"

ALSO OF EDITH
WIFE OF THE ABOVE
WHO DIED OCT 8TH 1913
AGED 75 YEARS

"I HEARD THE VOICE OF JESUS SAY
I AM THIS DARK WORLD'S LIGHT
LOOK UNTO ME THY MORN SHALL RISE
AND ALL THY DAY BE BRIGHT"

Photographs:

David Earle
J & E Player 13 August 2010
Photographer: David Earle
David Earle
J & E Player 13 August 2010
Photographer: David Earle

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