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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Ryde Cemetery

Mr William Lake

Title: Mr
Forenames: William
Surnames: Lake
Date of Birth: 09/04/1832
Date of Death: 23/02/1877
Burial Date: 27/02/1877
Age at Death Years: 45
Grave Type: Marked
Map Reference Number: RSHG 014 C3/D3
Plot Number: Ryde Old Cemetery Section D Plot 333
Grave Description: Large kerbed double grave, inscription on three tiers with cross on top. Concrete top to grave

Grave Condition Description: Poor condition, kerbstones falling sideways, cross has fallen off onto top of concrete top which is also broken

Other Information: Interred in this double plot, in 333 - William Lake (1877) and Albert Flux (1893), in 334 - Ann Lake (1889) and George Worman Lake (1890), source: Bereavement Services records

Note: William Lake and his brother Harry Lake took over the Eagle Brewery at 37 & 38 High Street Ryde after the death of their brother George Worman Lake in 1866. William and Ann had one son also called George Worman Lake whose interest was in farming - Researched by Roy Brinton.

Old Website Grave ID: 2830

Inscription:

IN LOVING MEMORY OF
WILLIAM LAKE
BORN MAY 9TH 1832
DIED FEBRUARY 23RD 1877

ALSO OF
ANN, WIDOW OF THE ABOVE
WHO FELL ASLEEP IN JESUS 14TH DECEMBER 1889
IN THE 63RD YEAR OF HER AGE

"IT IS THE LORD, LET HIM DO WHAT SEEMETH GOOD"
"THY WILL BE DONE"

Photographs:

Janette Gregson
W, A & G Lake and A Flux (March 2007)
Photographer: Janette Gregson

Related Documents:

PDF file: Census; Marriages; Death.
''Entries from the 1851-1871 census, marriages from the General Registrars records and the St. Thomas's Church register, and the death notice and brief obituary from the IW Observer. Mr LAKE a local Town Councillor.''

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