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 Owen Lane

Title: Mr
Forenames: William Owen
Surnames: Lane
Date of Death: 15/02/1868
Burial Date: 20/02/1868
Age at Death Years: 41
Grave Type: Marked
Map Reference Number: RSHG 026 B3/C3
Plot Number: Ryde Old Cemetery Section C Plot 239
Grave Description: Tall cross on rectangular plinth, inscribed with gothic lettering. This has been toppled by tree growth and lies out of place with the tree on top (March 2017).

Block pedestal with engraved gothic script, on rectangular stone base, plain cross with sculpted central flying dove (now fallen). Surrounding plain kerbstones with corner and central post holes (November 2019).
Grave Condition: Poor
Grave Condition Description: Buried under tree and shrub growth - March 2017

No longer overgrown but badly damaged and misplaced. railings missing - November 2019
Other Information: Burial date added, source: Bereavement Services records

Inscription:

Pedestal - East facing
IN LOVING MEMORY OF
WILLIAM OWEN LANE
WHO DIED FEBY 15TH 1868
AGED 41
GONE BUT NOT LOST

FRED EDMUND LANE
BORN AUGUST 24TH 1866 DIED JULY 22ND 1867

MARY ANN LANE
WIDOW OF WILLIAM OWEN LANE
AT REST 29TH JUNE 1898
AGED 69.

Photographs:

Colin Hunt
Lane family March 2017
Photographer: Colin Hunt
Kate MacDonell
Lane family November 2019
Photographer: Kate MacDonell

Related Documents:

PDF file: Death; Brief Obituary

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