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 Wilfred Herbert Rigg

Title: Mr
Forenames: Wilfred Herbert
Surnames: Rigg
Date of Death: 30/12/1915
Age at Death Years: 38
Map Reference Number: RSHG 044 C3
Plot Number: Ryde New Cemetery Section F Plot 1809
Grave Description: 3 tier stones, stone surrounds, grass middle, probably a cross on top at some time
Grave Condition Description: Badly stained and tiers overgrown in middle, cross missing
Other Information: Also interred in this plot, the cremated remains of Arthur Edmund Rigg (1960), source: Bereavement Services records
Old Website Grave ID: 9287

Inscription:

(1st tier North side)

IN LOVING MEMORY
OF

(2nd tier east side)

EDMUND RIGG
WESLEYAN MINISTER
WHO DIED FEBRUARY 12th 1906
AGED 68 YEARS

"PEACE PERFECT PEACE"

(Eastside)

IN LOVING MEMORY OF
FLORENCE MARIANNE
ELDEST DAUGHTER OF THE REV. E. RIGG
WHO DIED ON JUNE 27th 1921
AGED 48 YEARS

(South side)

WILFRED HERBERT
SECOND SON OF REV. RIGG
WHO WAS LOST IN THE S.S. PERSIA
DEC. 30th 1915 AGED 38

(3rd tier east side)

ALSO IN LOVING MEMORY OF HIS WIFE
MARIANNE ELIZABETH
DIED ON DEC. 17th 1920 AGED 79 YEARS

"HER CHILDREN RISE UP AND CALL HER BLESSED"

Photographs:

David Earle
W Rigg May 2011
Photographer: David Earle
David Earle
W Rigg May 2011
Photographer: David Earle

Related Documents:

PDF file: National Probate Calendar
PDF file: Census; Directory; Obituary.
''Entry from the 1891 census, listing from the directory, and the obituary from the IW County Press.''

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