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 Robert Austin

Title: Mr
Forenames: Robert
Surnames: Austin
Date of Death: 30/06/1870
Age at Death Years: 69
Grave Type: Marked
Map Reference Number: RSHG 016 B2
Plot Number: Ryde Old Cemetery Section F Plot 900
Grave Description: Upright stone rising to a point, IHS carved in relief in the centre of point above inscription, ornate shoulders. Two identical headstones, side by side, this being No 1.
Grave Condition: Fair
Grave Condition Description: Some lichen and leaning backwards
Old Website Grave ID: 4295

Inscription:

IHS
IN MEMORY OF
ROBERT AUSTIN
DIED JUNE 30TH 1870
AGED 69 YEARS

"HIS END WAS PEACE"

ALSO MARY AUSTIN
WIFE OF THE ABOVE
DIED APRIL 19TH 1886
AGED 75 YEARS

Photographs:

Janette Gregson
R & M Austin (Oct 2007)
Photographer: Janette Gregson
Janette Gregson
R & M Austin (Oct 2007)
Photographer: Janette Gregson

Related Documents:

PDF file: Marriage; Census; Death.
''Details from the St. Thomas's church marriage register, entries from the 1851 and 1861 census, and the death notice from the IW Observer.''

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