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 William Edmund Roope

Title: Mr
Forenames: William Edmund
Surnames: Roope
Date of Birth: 06/02/1849
Date of Death: 23/11/1904
Map Reference Number: RSHG 030 D3
Plot Number: Ryde Old Cemetery Section Y Plot 3494
Grave Description: 3 SQUARE PLINTHS WITH 4th SHAPED PLINTH ON TOP WITH EPITAPH, ORNATE UPRIGHT CROSS WITH IHS IN CENTRE, STONE KERB SURROUND, LEAD LETTERS
Grave Condition Description: Lettering mostly unreadable,very overgrown with grass and weeds quite a lot of moss and lichen
Old Website Grave ID: 5876

Inscription:

OF

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(4th line)

WILLIAM EDMUND(?) ROOPE, DD

WHO WAS BORN JUNE 2 1849

WHO DIED NOVEMBER 23 1904

(metal plaque)

WILLIAM ROOPE

1849-1904

ORDAINED 1885

"REQUISCAT IN PACE"

Photographs:

Janette Gregson
W Roope (Aug 2008)
Photographer: Janette Gregson
Janette Gregson
W Roope (Aug 2008)
Photographer: Janette Gregson

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