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 Hal Gray

Title: Mr
Forenames: William Hal
Surnames: Gray
Date of Death: 02/11/1911
Age at Death Years: 59
Grave Type: Marked
Map Reference Number: RSHG 031 C1
Plot Number: Ryde New Cemetery Section E Plot 1169
Grave Description: Headstone in shape of a cross, leaded lettering, stone kerbs surround.
Grave Condition Description: Some subsidence and headstone is leaning forward, grave top overgrown and covered in leaf mould.
Other Information: Ann added 1st name, source: Registrars records and burial register.
Old Website Grave ID: 7454

Inscription:

On cross

IN
LOVING MEMORY OF
RICHARD HARCOURT
VANDEN BEMPDE JOHNSTONE
WHO DIED 28TH OF SEPTEMBER 1892
AGED 17 YEARS
SON OF THE LATE
COLONEL RICHARD JOHNSTONE
BOMBAY ARMY
"AN HEIR OF GOD THROUGH CHRIST" GALATIANS IV.7

1st tier

ALSO OF HIS MOTHER
ANNA MARIA EMMALINE
BELOVED WIFE OF W HAL GRAY (ARTIST)
WHO DIED JANUARY 30TH 1900 AGED 49 YEARS

2nd tier

ALSO OF HER BELOVED HUSBAND
W HAL GRAY
WHO DIED NOVEMBER 2ND 1911 AGED 59 YEARS

Photographs:

David Earle
W Gray 23 November 2009
Photographer: David Earle
David Earle
W Gray 23 November 2009
Photographer: David Earle

Related Documents:

PDF file: Census; Obituary.
''Entry from the 1871 census, and the obituary from the IW Observer.''

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