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.
  • MENU
Ryde Cemetery

Mr Leonard Perkis

Title: Mr
Forenames: Leonard
Surnames: Perkis
Date of Death: 18/01/1911
Burial Date: 24/01/1911
Age at Death Years: 31
Grave Type: Marked
Map Reference Number: RSHG 043 A2
Plot Number: Ryde New Cemetery Section K Plot 3157
Grave Description: Tall headstone, grave surround with granite kerbs
Grave Condition: Good
Grave Condition Description: The grave was very overgrown, but was cleared by cadets from the Ryde Fire Station from February to May 2004.
Old Website Grave ID: 1221

Inscription:

IN LOVING MEMORY OF
LEONARD ALFRED
THE DEARLY LOVED HUSBAND OF NELLIE PERKIS
WHO WAS KILLED AT ALDERSHOT
JANUARY 18 1911
AGED 31 YEARS

IN THE MIDST OF LIFE WE ARE IN DEATH

AND OF
GERTRUDE ELLEN (NELLIE)
DIED JULY 25 1963
AGED 81 YEARS

Photographs:

Funeral at the Ryde Parish Church
Perkis funeral
Perkis funeral at Cemetery West St entrance
L Perkis (May 2022)
L Perkis (May 2022)

Related Documents:

PDF file: Article about the death of Leonard Perkis
''Transcribed from County Press''
PDF file: Cadets clearing the grave
''Photos of Cadets from the Ryde Fire Station clearing the grave of Leonard Perkis, between February and May 2004.''

Have you found this website useful?

This website is run by volunteers, so if you have found this website to be of any use whatsoever then please make a donation towards it's upkeep via our 'contact form'.