Ryde Cemetery
Mr Robert Saunders
Title: Mr
Forenames: Robert
Surnames: Saunders
Date of Death: 30/07/1868
Age at Death Years: 65
Map Reference Number: RSHG 018 B1/C1
Plot Number: Ryde Old Cemetery Section F Plot 812
Grave Description: UPRIGHT HEADSTONE WITH CURVED SHOULDERS
Grave Condition Description: Some lettering badly eroded, weathered at top and bottom of stone
Other Information: On 5th October 2007 Rod Burrell from Australia contacted RSHG with the following message:
"The seven grandchidren of Walter Scott Saunders (born 12 Jan 1870 at 11 High Street, Ryde) all live in Queensland and are referred to as the 'Saunders Cousins' although only one of them bears the name Saunders. For the past 20 years or so, these seven together with their seven spouses, have met together two or three times each year. All fourteen are in their late seventies or early eighties. (I am one of the spouses).
A few years back they pooled their recollections of their Saunders parents for the benefit of their descendants in a private publication 'The Saunders Family'. Last year I decided to take the research a little further. The starting point was a marriage certificate of Walter marrying Florence Ann Hoy on 27 February 1897.
The 'More Saunders Family' attachment covers part of a resulting private publication of the same name which also included info on the Hoy family and various background info on the Isle of Wight, Glasgow and Florence Hoy's Cinque Port Pilot ancestors.
The info in the attachment mainly came from English census records or FreeBMD, with a little help from cerificates from the General Register office. The certificates I hold are deaths of Ann Saunders 1845, Robert Saunders 1868, Jane Saunders 1881, Henry Robert Saunders 1906; the 1866 marriage of Henry Saunders and Elizabeth Payne, and Walters' birth in 1870.
You will see that without access to parish records there are gaps about the earlier ancestors and relatives. (Your grave site added previously unknown info about the death of Emma, for which thanks.)"
Please see links below to read Rod's documents
"The seven grandchidren of Walter Scott Saunders (born 12 Jan 1870 at 11 High Street, Ryde) all live in Queensland and are referred to as the 'Saunders Cousins' although only one of them bears the name Saunders. For the past 20 years or so, these seven together with their seven spouses, have met together two or three times each year. All fourteen are in their late seventies or early eighties. (I am one of the spouses).
A few years back they pooled their recollections of their Saunders parents for the benefit of their descendants in a private publication 'The Saunders Family'. Last year I decided to take the research a little further. The starting point was a marriage certificate of Walter marrying Florence Ann Hoy on 27 February 1897.
The 'More Saunders Family' attachment covers part of a resulting private publication of the same name which also included info on the Hoy family and various background info on the Isle of Wight, Glasgow and Florence Hoy's Cinque Port Pilot ancestors.
The info in the attachment mainly came from English census records or FreeBMD, with a little help from cerificates from the General Register office. The certificates I hold are deaths of Ann Saunders 1845, Robert Saunders 1868, Jane Saunders 1881, Henry Robert Saunders 1906; the 1866 marriage of Henry Saunders and Elizabeth Payne, and Walters' birth in 1870.
You will see that without access to parish records there are gaps about the earlier ancestors and relatives. (Your grave site added previously unknown info about the death of Emma, for which thanks.)"
Please see links below to read Rod's documents
Old Website Grave ID: 4157
Inscription:
IN
MEMORY OF
ROBERT SAUNDERS
WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE
JULY 30 1868
AGED 65 YEARS
"................ALL PEACE"
ALSO JANE SAUNDERS
WIFE OF THE ABOVE
WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE
FEB 12th 1881
AGED 77 YEARS
"HER END WAS PEACE"
AND OF THEIR DAUGHTER
EMMA JANE SAUNDERS
WHO ENTERED INTO REST
MARCH 26th 1902
AGED 60 YEARS
"THY WILL BE DONE"
Photographs:
R, J and E Saunders (Sept 2007)
Photographer: Janette Gregson
R, J and E Saunders (Sept 2007)
Photographer: Janette Gregson
Related Documents:
PDF file: More Saunders Family - Research carried out by Rod Burrell in AustraliaPDF file: Saunders Family Ancestry Chart by Rod Burrell
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