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 Valentine Wood (Captain)

Title: Mr
Forenames: Peter Valentine
Surnames: Wood
Date of Birth: 14/02/1792
Date of Death: 09/06/1876
Age at Death Years: 84
Grave Type: Marked
Military Rank: Captain
Map Reference Number: RSHG 015 A3/B3
Plot Number: Ryde Old Cemetery Section E Plot 493
Grave Description: Large stone, stone kerbs and grass top, small stone at east end.
Grave Condition Description: Lot of lichen on the top of headstone, inscription badly weathered.
Old Website Grave ID: 4700

Inscription:

IN
MEMORY OF
CAPT PETER VALENTINE WOOD
LATE 14TH REGT OF FOOT
WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE
JUNE 9TH 1876
AGED 84

ALSO OF
MAJOR WILLIAM ARTHUR WOOD
SON OF THE ABOVE
LATE OF 44TH REGT OF FOOT
WHO DIED AT BOMBAY
SEPT 12TH 1874
AGED 39

Photographs:

Janette Gregson
P & W Wood (Nov 2007)
Photographer: Janette Gregson
Janette Gregson
P & W Wood (Nov 2007)
Photographer: Janette Gregson

Related Documents:

PDF file: Census; Death.
''Entries from the 1861 and 1871 census and the death notice from the IW Observer.''

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