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 Saunders

Title: Mr
Forenames: Tom
Surnames: Saunders
Date of Death: 27/05/1900
Burial Date: 30/05/1900
Age at Death Years: 74
Grave Type: Marked
Map Reference Number: RSHG 032 C1
Plot Number: Ryde New Cemetery Section B Plot 173
Grave Description: Upright arched stone with floral motifs on arch and shoulders, Corinthian column type decoration on each side of stone.
Grave Condition Description: Tilting badly to north, sentiment lettering very difficult to read.
Other Information: Although not mentioned on the memorial, also interred in this plot, Alfred Lorenzo Helyer (1911), source: Bereavement Services records
Old Website Grave ID: 7273

Inscription:

IN
AFFECTIONATE REMEMBRANCE OF
FRANCES
THE DEARLY BELOVED WIFE OF
TOM SAUNDERS
BUILDER RYDE
WHO DIED OCTOBER 9TH 1886
IN THE 62ND YEAR OF HER AGE

"AFFLICTIONS SORE LONG TIME SHE BORE
PHYSICIANS WERE IN VAIN
TILL GOD DID PLEASE TO GIVE HER EASE
AND FREE HER FROM HER PAIN"

"HER END WAS PEACE"

AND OF THE ABOVE NAMED
TOM SAUNDERS
WHO DIED MAY 27TH 1900
AGED 74 YEARS

Photographs:

David Earle
T Saunders
Photographer: David Earle
David Earle
T Saunders
Photographer: David Earle

Related Documents:

PDF file: Marriages; Census

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