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 Joseph Hawkins

Title: Mr
Forenames: Joseph
Surnames: Hawkins
Date of Birth: 14/01/1840
Date of Death: 10/11/1931
Burial Date: 14/11/1931
Age at Death Years: 91
Grave Type: Marked
Map Reference Number: RSHG 038 B1/C1
Plot Number: Ryde New Cemetery Section C Plot 344
Grave Description: Gothic shaped headstone
Grave Condition: Good
Other Information: Added birth & burial dates, source: Registrars, Newspaper and Burial records
Old Website Grave ID: 6673

Inscription:

IN
LOVING MEMORY OF
OUR DEAR MOTHER
ELIZA HAWKINS
WHO AFTER A LONG AND PAINFUL ILLNESS
FELL ASLEEP IN JESUS
MARCH 28 1891
AGED 49 YEARS

"THE LORD IS MY KEEPER
WHILE I DRAW THIS FLEETING BREATH
WHEN MY EYES SHALL CLOSE IN DEATH
WHEN I RISE TO WORLDS UNKNOWN
SEE THEE ON THY JUDGEMENT THRONE
ROCK OF AGES CLEFT TO ME LET ME HIDE MYSELF IN THEE"

ALSO OF HER HUSBAND
JOSEPH
DIED NOVEMBER 10TH 1931
AGED 91 YEARS
"JESUS LOVER OF MY SOUL, LET ME TO THY BOSOM FLY"

ALSO OF WILLIAM EDWARD, THEIR SON
DIED APRIL 22ND 1935 AGED 68 YEARS
"AT REST"

Photographs:

Janette Gregson
E, J & W Hawkins (May 2009)
Photographer: Janette Gregson
Janette Gregson
E, J & W Hawkins (May 2009)
Photographer: Janette Gregson

Related Documents:

PDF file: Obituary; Funeral

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