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 White

Title: Mr
Forenames: Thomas
Surnames: White
Date of Birth: 09/06/1831
Date of Death: 14/03/1897
Burial Date: 18/03/1897
Age at Death Years: 65
Grave Type: Marked
Map Reference Number: RSHG 033 B2
Plot Number: Ryde New Cemetery Section D Plot 523
Grave Description: Double plot, upright white headstone (stone or marble) with surrounding kerb stones. Left hand side stone.

Grave Condition: Good
Grave Condition Description: Small holly tree growing between the two headstones.
Other Information: Added burial date and age, source: Registrars and Burial records
Although mentioned on the inscription, Annie Elizabeth White (1937) and Frances Folliott White (1937) were not interred in this plot, source: Bereavement Services records
Old Website Grave ID: 6986

Inscription:

IHS (in monogram form at top of headstone)

IN
EVER LOVING MEMORY OF
A DEAR HUSBAND AND FATHER
THOMAS WHITE
BORN AT BARTON, I.W.
JUNE 9TH 1831
PASSED TO ETERNAL REST AT RYDE
MARCH 14TH 1897

"WHERE I AM THERE SHALL ALSO MY SERVANT BE"

ALSO OF HIS WIFE
ANNIE ELIZABETH
REUNITED SEPT 11TH 1937
AGED 92 YEARS

AND THEIR ELDER DAUGHTER
FRANCES FOLLIOTT WHITE
WHO JOINED THEM NOV 9TH 1937 AGED 54 YEARS

At the bottom of the stone
BOTH CREMATED AT ARNOS VALE

"BLESSED ARE THE PURE IN HEART"

Photographs:

David Earle
T White 15.08.09
Photographer: David Earle
David Earle
T White
Photographer: David Earle

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