Ryde Social Heritage Group research the social history of the citizens of Ryde, Isle of Wight. Documenting their lives, businesses and burial transcriptions.
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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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Binstead Cemetery

Mr Michael Murphy

Title: Mr
Forenames: Michael
Surnames: Murphy
Date of Death: 12/07/1889
Age at Death Years: 66
Grave Type: Marked
Map Reference Number: RSHG B017 B1
Plot Number: Binstead Old Cemetery Row G Plot 42
Grave Description: Headstone with decorative stepped shoulders rising to integral fleur de lys cross with central inset IHS motif. Engraved lettering
Grave Condition: Fair
Grave Condition Description: Lichen cover on stone which is weathered and difficult to read in places. This headstone is identical in design to the adjacent memorial for Henry Murphy and Emily Goyns
Old Website Grave ID: 10580
E & M Murphy Nov 2011 Photo by C Strong

Inscription:

IN
LOVING REMEMBRANCE
OF
ELIZABETH
THE DEAR WIFE OF
MICHAEL MURPHY.
WHO FELL ASLEEP JANUARY THE 11TH 1881.
AGED 53 YEARS.

"IN THE MIDST OF LIFE WE ARE IN DEATH"

"HAD HE ASKED US, WELL WE KNOW
WE SHOULD CRY TO SPARE THIS BLOW
YES WITH STREAMING TEARS SHOULD PRAY
LORD WE LOVE HER LET HER STAY."

ALSO OF THE ABOVE NAMED MICHAEL MURPHY.

DIED JULY 12TH 1889. AGED 66 YEARS.

Photographs:

Kate MacDonell
E & M Murphy (on right) October 2020
Photographer: Kate MacDonell

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