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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Holy Cross Church Binstead

Mr Thomas Rawkins

Title: Mr
Forenames: Thomas
Surnames: Rawkins
Date of Death: 24/11/1750
Burial Date: 28/11/1750
Age at Death Years: 26
Grave Type: Marked
Map Reference Number: RSHG HC003
Plot Number: Binstead Holy Cross Churchyard B6-004
Grave Description: Headstone with high relief top, symmetrical corner swirls and swags. Relief floral design on right and left sides of stone. Text panel with curved top and concave shoulders and large deeply engraved lettering.
Grave Condition Description: Good considering age of memorial, weathered and crusted lichen in places but most of inscription can be read.
Other Information: This headstone has been placed against the inside of the South Churchyard wall and we have no record of where the original plot was sited.
Burial date from 1986/87 Museums Community Project.

Inscription:

IN
MEMORY OF
THOS. RAWKINS
WHO DIED NOV 24TH
1750 AGED 26
YEARS

several lines of faint text

Photographs:

Kate MacDonell
Rawkins family August 2019
Photographer: Kate MacDonell

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