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 Percy Algernon Rolf

Title: Mr
Forenames: Percy Algernon
Surnames: Rolf
Date of Death: 09/11/1956
Age at Death Years: 78
Grave Type: Marked
Map Reference Number: RSHG 002 D1/D2
Plot Number: Ryde Old Parish Cemetery Section X Plot 42
Grave Description: Flat grave with stone kerbs. White gravel and sedum covered top.
Grave Condition: Good
Other Information: Middle name added 03/11/2006, source: death, burial and newspaper record.
Old Website Grave ID: 1734

Inscription:

South side
IN LOVING MEMORY OF MY BELOVED HUSBAND PERCY A ROLF CALLED HOME NOVEMBER 9TH 1956 AGED 78 YEARS

West end
THE LORD IS MY SHEPHERD
I SHALL NOT WANT

North side
UNITED IN THE LORD'S PRESENCE WITH HIS DEVOTED PARTNER LYDIA K ROLF MAY 24TH 1978 AGED 92 YEARS

East end
HIS PRAISE SHALL BE CONTINUALLY
IN THY MOUTH

Photographs:

Janette Gregson
P and L Rolf (April 2004)
Photographer: Janette Gregson

Related Documents:

PDF file: 1881 and 1901 Census; Obituary; Funeral.
''Entries from the 1881 and 1901 census and a brief obituary and funeral report from the IW Times. From a well-known Newport family.''

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'.