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 Peter Long

Title: Mr
Forenames: Peter
Surnames: Long
Date of Death: 13/03/1864
Burial Date: 17/03/1864
Age at Death Years: 73
Grave Type: Marked
Map Reference Number: RSHG 014 B2
Plot Number: Ryde Old Cemetery Section D Plot 469
Grave Description: Small upright headstone with rounded top, grass top to grave
Grave Condition: Fair
Grave Condition Description: Some of the lettering weathered making it difficult to read
Other Information: Ann amended date on 03/02/2009, source: death, burial and Registrars records. Peter & Ann Long were interred side by side in plots 468 & 469 but they have one headstone, source: Bereavement Services records
Old Website Grave ID: 2938

Inscription:

SACRED
TO THE MEMORY OF
PETER LONG
WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE
MARCH 13TH 1864
AGED 73 YEARS

A FAITHFUL.................?
A LOVING HUSBAND AND FATHER

ALSO OF ANN
WIFE OF THE ABOVE
WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE
MARCH 5TH 1873
AGED 82 YEARS
"THEY ARE NOT DEAD BUT SLEEPETH"

Photographs:

Janette Gregson
P & A Long (April 2007)
Photographer: Janette Gregson

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