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 Thomas Rutherford

Title: Mr
Forenames: Thomas
Surnames: Rutherford
Date of Death: 26/09/1875
Burial Date: 01/10/1875
Age at Death Years: 62
Grave Type: Marked
Map Reference Number: RSHG 026 D3
Plot Number: Ryde Old Cemetery Section B Plot 180
Grave Description: Flat grave with peon shaped ledger stone (May 2008)

Pink hipped topped ledger stone on wide stone base with 4 corner and 2 middle post holes. Engraved lettering (November 2019)
Grave Condition: Fair
Grave Condition Description: Very eroded and overgrown (May 2008)
Now much clearer but heavy lichen and some moss cover on stone. Remains of post holes but railings missing (November 2019)
Other Information: Burial date added. Age on burial record is 63 but on memorial it clearly reads 62.
Old Website Grave ID: 5503

Inscription:

North side of ledger
IN AFFECTIONATE REMEMBRANCE OF THOMAS RUTHERFORD ESQ.
SECOND SON OF THE LATE JOHN RUTHERFORD ESQ OF RUTLAND ST DOULOUGHS CO DUBLIN
WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE AT RYDE ON 26 SEPTR 1875 AGED 62 YEARS
… (line of small illegible text)

Photographs:

Janette Gregson
T Rutherford May 2008
Photographer: Janette Gregson
Janette Gregson
T Rutherford May 2008
Photographer: Janette Gregson
Kate MacDonell
T Rutherford November 2019
Photographer: Kate MacDonell

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