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 George Granger

Title: Mr
Forenames: William George
Surnames: Granger
Date of Birth: 01/01/1880
Date of Death: 13/12/1951
Burial Date: 17/12/1951
Age at Death Years: 71
Grave Type: Marked
Map Reference Number: RSHG 033 D3
Plot Number: Ryde New Cemetery Section B Plot 89
Grave Description: Open book with lead letters
Grave Condition Description: Set in ground and has sunk below surrounding level, was covered over. Lead letters distorted and some missing.
Other Information: Added death and burial dates, source: Registrars, Burial and Newspaper records

Also interred in this plot, Frances Linton Hunnybun (1885), source: Bereavement Services records
Old Website Grave ID: 6853

Inscription:

Left Page
IN
LOVING MEMORY OF
WILLIAM GEORGE
GRANGER
BORN 1880
DIED 1951

ALSO OF HIS WIFE
ADA THOMASINA
BORN 1880
DIED 1957

Right Page
"DEATH ONLY COMES
TO LET US KNOW
WE LOVE MORE DEARLY
THAN WE SHOW.
SWEET MEMORY WILL
ALWAYS KEEP TILL WE
WHO LOVED HIM
JOIN HIS SLEEP"

Photographs:

David Earle
W & A Granger July 09
Photographer: David Earle
David Earle
W & A Granger July 09
Photographer: David Earle

Related Documents:

PDF file: Marriage; Census; Directory; Obituary; Funeral.
''Reference from the IW Registrars marriage records, entry from the 1901 census, listing from the directory, and the obituary and funeral from the IW Times and IW County Press.''

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