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 Tom Roland Gawn

Title: Mr
Forenames: Tom Roland
Surnames: Gawn
Date of Death: 08/08/1931
Burial Date: 12/08/1931
Age at Death Years: 58
Grave Type: Marked
Map Reference Number: RSHG 007 A3
Plot Number: Ryde Old Cemetery Section O Plot 2147
Grave Description: Flat grave, stone kerbs, 4 corner stone posts, grass top, stone flower holder at head end
Grave Condition: Fair
Grave Condition Description: Grass beginning to cover inscription. North East corner has some damage.
Other Information: Also interred in this plot, Mary Jane Durrant (1880), source: Bereavement Services records
Old Website Grave ID: 1936

Inscription:

South Kerb

IN LOVING MEMORY OF GEORGE HAPWOOD VANNER
DIED FEBRUARY 2ND 1929? AGED 42 YEARS
(INTERRED AT BROOKLANDS MANCHESTER)

North Kerb

IN LOVING MEMORY OF BLANCHE LOUISA GAWN
DIED FEBRUARY 3RD 1945 AGED 73 YEARS
ALSO OF HER HUSBAND TOM ROLAND GAWN
DIED AUGUST 8TH 1931 AGED 58 YEARS.

West End
Unable to see if there is any more inscription due to a large ant nest

East End
No inscription

Photographs:

Janette Gregson
T & B Gawn and G Vanner (July 06)
Photographer: Janette Gregson

Related Documents:

PDF file: Death; Inquest.
''Death and inquest report from the IW County Press. Shocking tragedy at Ryde.''

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