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 Marcus John Slade (Lieutenant General)

Title: Mr
Forenames: Marcus John
Surnames: Slade
Date of Death: 07/03/1872
Burial Date: 13/03/1872
Age at Death Years: 71
Grave Type: Marked
Military Rank: Lieutenant General
Map Reference Number: RSHG 023 A1
Plot Number: Ryde Old Cemetery Section I Plot 1456
Grave Description: Stone cross on tiered base, stone surround, metal railings.
Grave Condition: Poor
Grave Condition Description: Cross broken and lying on grave, part of metal railings missing, tree growing by base and ivy covered.
Other Information: Added burial date, source: death, burial and newspaper records.
Old Website Grave ID: 4870

Inscription:

TO THE BELOVED AND REVEREND MEMORY OF
MARCUS JOHN SLADE
LIEUT GENERAL AND COLONEL
OF THE 50TH QUEEN'S OWN REGT
FOURTH SON OF
GENERAL SIR JOHN SLADE BART
DIED MARCH 7TH 1872
AGED 71 YEARS
"ETERNAL REST GRANT UNTO HIM O LORD AND LET PERPETUAL LIGHT SHINE UPON HIM, MAY HE REST IN PEACE"

Photographs:

Janette Gregson
M Slade March 2008
Photographer: Janette Gregson
Janette Gregson
M Slade March 2008
Photographer: Janette Gregson

Related Documents:

PDF file: Census; List; Death.
''Reference from the fashionable list, entry from the 1871 census, and the death notice from the IW Times.''
PDF file: Military Information

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