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 Major Dixon

Title: Mr
Forenames: Major
Surnames: Dixon
Date of Death: 15/02/1895
Burial Date: 20/02/1895
Age at Death Years: 81
Grave Type: Marked
Map Reference Number: RSHG 038 C3
Plot Number: Ryde New Cemetery Section C Plot 322
Grave Description: Upright stone, curved shoulders
Grave Condition Description: Badly eroded and covered with lichen
Other Information: Added name, age and burial date, source: Death, Burial, Census and Newspaper records.
Old Website Grave ID: 6540

Inscription:

IN
LOVING MEMORY OF
AMANDA
WIFE OF M DIXON
FORMERLY OF MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA
DIED NOV 26TH 1887
IN HER 71ST YEAR

"BLESSED ARE THE PURE IN HEART FOR
THEY SHALL SEE GOD"

ALSO OF M DIXON
HUSBAND OF THE ABOVE
DIED AT CLEVELAND SUTTON,SURREY FEB 15 1895

"YEA THOUGH I WALK THROUGH THE VALLEY
OF THE SHADOW OF DEATH, WE WILL FEAR NO
EVIL FOR THOU ART WITH ME.
IN SIMPLE TRUST LIKE THEIRS WHO HEARD
BESIDES THE SYRIAN SEA
THE GRACIOUS CALLING OF THE LORD
LET US LIKE THEM WITHOUT A WORD
RISE UP AND FOLLOW THEE"

Photographs:

Janette Gregson
A & M Dixon (May 2009)
Photographer: Janette Gregson
Janette Gregson
A & M Dixon (May 2009)
Photographer: Janette Gregson

Related Documents:

PDF file: Obituary; Funeral

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