Ryde Social Heritage Group research the social history of the citizens of Ryde, Isle of Wight. Documenting their lives, businesses and burial transcriptions.
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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 Henry Long

Title: Mr
Forenames: William Henry
Surnames: Long
Date of Death: 04/04/1930
Burial Date: 09/04/1930
Age at Death Years: 78
Grave Type: Marked
Map Reference Number: RSHG 014 A1
Plot Number: Ryde Old Cemetery Section E Plots 497 & 498
Grave Description: Small low headstone like a scroll with leaded lettering, 4 kerbs, small slab on grave, also a broken flower holder. Lilies are engraved at side of headstone
Grave Condition Description: The headstone and kerbs are getting discoloured by weathering
Old Website Grave ID: 3058

Inscription:

IN LOVING MEMORY
OF
REGINALD LONG
ENTERED INTO REST MAY 12TH 1933

ALSO OF ISABELLA, HIS WIFE
DIED MARCH 16TH 1942
AGED 61 YEARS

(On the lower part of headstone)

ALSO THEIR SON, REGINALD HENRY LONG
BORN 1ST MARCH 1910
DIED 13TH APRIL 1973 R.I.P

(On a small slab on the grave)

AND OF HIS WIFE PATRICIA FOLEY
DIED 1ST MARCH 1981
AGED 64 YEARS R.I.P

(On the north kerb)

IN LOVING MEMORY OF WILLIAM HENRY LONG
DIED APRIL 4TH 1930 aged 78 years

(East Kerb)

ALSO OF HIS WIFE ELIZA LONG
DIED JULY 13TH 1938 AGED 85 YEARS

(South Kerb)

IN LOVING MEMORY OF ANN WELCH APRIL 27TH1888 AGED 51

CHARLES WELCH JUNE 16TH 1865 AGED 56 YEARS

ELIZA WELCH OCT 21ST 1885 AGED 75

(West Kerb)

ABIDE WITH ME

Photographs:

Janette Gregson
Long family plot (April 2007)
Photographer: Janette Gregson
Janette Gregson
Long family plot (April 2007)
Photographer: Janette Gregson

Related Documents:

PDF file: Census; Death; Obituary; Funeral.
''Entries from the 1861, 1871, 1881, 1891 1901 census and the obituary and funeral report from the IW County Press. Mr. LONG a well-known businessman in Ryde.''

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