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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Holy Cross Church Binstead

Mr William Arnold

Title: Mr
Forenames: William
Surnames: Arnold
Date of Death: 06/11/1792
Burial Date: 09/11/1792
Age at Death Years: 75
Grave Type: Marked
Map Reference Number: RSHG HC003
Plot Number: Binstead Holy Cross Churchyard A5-036
Grave Description: Double headstone with twin semi-circular top and square shoulders. Engraved central vertical line down two thirds of headstone. Engraved text either side of central line and along full width of stone at lower end.
Grave Condition Description: Quite good considering age of memorial, lichen cover on stone but inscription is difficult to read.
Other Information: This headstone has been placed against the inside of the West Churchyard wall and we have no record of where the original plot was sited.
Burial date from 1986/87 Museums Community Project.
S & W Arnold Sept 2019 Photo by Kate MacDonell

Inscription:

Left side
IN
MEMORY OF
SARAH WIFE OF
WILLIAM ARNOLD
WHO DEPARTED THIS
LIFE SEPTEMBER
15TH 1789
AGED 64 YEARS

Right side
IN
MEMORY OF
WILLIAM ARNOLD
LATE OF RYDE
WHO DEPARTED THIS
LIFE NOVEMBER
6TH 1792
AGED 75 YEARS

Across full width of stone at lower end
BEHOLD THE HUSBAND AND THE WIFE
NOW JOINED IN DEATH AS ONCE IN LIFE
WITH HOPE THEIR CHANGE IS FOR THE BEST
TO LIVE WITH CHRIST AND BE AT REST

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