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 William Bloxam

Title: Mr
Forenames: Robert William
Surnames: Bloxam
Date of Birth: 19/09/1807
Date of Death: 10/01/1868
Burial Date: 16/01/1868
Age at Death Years: 60
Grave Type: Marked
Map Reference Number: RSHG 021 A3
Plot Number: Ryde Old Cemetery Section B Plot 169
Grave Description: Solid, deep, pink polished granite rectangular headstone with two metallic text panels and lead lettering, on large triple grey stone plinth. Large rectangular stone tablet with engraved lettering, leaning against middle plinth.
Grave Condition Description: Headstone fairly good, stone tablet very weathered, moss and lichen covered and difficult to read.
Other Information: Burial date added. The sons and daughters named on the stone tablet are not interred in this plot, source: Bereavement Services records
Old Website Grave ID: 5412
Bloxam family May 2019 Photo by Kate MacDonell

Inscription:

Headstone- top panel
ROBERT WILLIAM BLOXAM
BORN SEPT 19 1807 - DIED JANY 10 1868
"BLESSED ARE THE DEAD THAT DIE IN THE LORD"

Bottom panel
HENRIETTA LOUISA ANNE
JEANETTE, WIFE OF THE ABOVE
BORN APRIL 9 1824 - DIED JULY 28 1905

Stone tablet
IN MEMORY OF
ROBERT HENRY RAYNSFORD
DIED AUG 19TH 1918

ARTHUR CHARLTON
DIED FEB 18TH 1919

ADELAIDE CAROLINE
WIFE OF REGINALD HALLWARD
DIED MARCH 30TH 1925

KATHERINE GEORGIANA
WIFE OF J R T BLOXAM
DIED DEC 7TH 1925

SONS AND DAUGHTERS
OF R W & H L BLOXAM

Photographs:

Janette Gregson
Bloxam family May 2008
Photographer: Janette Gregson
Janette Gregson
R & H Bloxam May 2008
Photographer: Janette Gregson
Janette Gregson
Bloxam sons & daughters May 2008
Photographer: Janette Gregson

Related Documents:

PDF file: Marriage; Directories; Census; Death.
''Details from the St. Thomas's Church marriage register, listings from the directories, entries from the 1851-1861 census, and the death notice from the IW Times. Mr. BLOXAM a surgeon in Ryde.''

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