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 Hancock Gray

Title: Mr
Forenames: William Hancock
Surnames: Gray
Date of Death: 12/06/1883
Age at Death Years: 66
Map Reference Number: RSHG 010 C1
Plot Number: Ryde Old Cemetery Section M Plot 1785
Grave Description: PLAIN CROSS ON THREE TIER PLINTH WITH STONE KERBS, CONCRETE AND GRASS TOP
Grave Condition Description: GOOD EXCEPT SOME LETTERS ARE MISSING AND PART OF KERB DISPLACED
Old Website Grave ID: 2364

Inscription:

(Top tier)

IN LOVING MEMORY OF

WILLIAM HANCOCK

GRAY

WHO DIED JUNE 12th 1883

(Middle tier)

"WAITING FOR THE COMING OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST" 1 Cor.1.7

(Bottom tier)

also of

GERTRUDE MARIANNE

WIDOW OF THE ABOVE

WHO DIED MARCH 21st 1888

"FOREVER WITH THE LORD"

Photographs:

Janette Gregson
W & G Gray (May 2008)
Photographer: Janette Gregson
Janette Gregson
W & G Gray (May 2008)
Photographer: Janette Gregson

Related Documents:

PDF file: Census; Death.
''Entry from the 1881 census and the death notice from the IW Times.''
PDF file: Obituary.

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