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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Mr William Randle Jolliffe

Title: Mr
Forenames: William Randle
Surnames: Jolliffe
Date of Death: 26/03/1892
Burial Date: 28/04/1892
Age at Death Years: 49
Grave Type: Marked
Map Reference Number: RSHG 012 D3
Plot Number: Ryde Old Cemetery Section Q Plot 2527
Grave Description: Ornately carved headstone. Double plot with kerbstones around once had railings.
Grave Condition Description: Weathered. Railings now missing.
Other Information: On 2nd Nov 2007 Paul Jollife contacted us : "William Randle Jolliffe was my great great gandfather he married Ellen (Nee Damp). William founded the business that was to become his son's, my G Grandfather H.G Jolliffe & sons (Harry George) which is where Baby Needs (Pram shop) is now"

See picture below of the sign for the old shop which can still be seen on the wall of Baby Needs - Janette Gregson 3 Nov 2007
Old Website Grave ID: 2169

Inscription:

IN
LOVING REMEMBRANCE OF
ELLEN
WIFE OF
WILLIAM RANDLE JOLLIFFE
WHO FELL ASLEEP IN JESUS
NOVEMBER 23RD 1880
AGED 35? YEARS
"ABSENT FROM THE BODY PRESENT WITH THE LORD"

ALSO
WILLIAM RANDLE JOLLIFFE
HUSBAND OF THE ABOVE
WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE
APRIL 26TH 1892
AGED 49 YEARS

Photographs:

Janette Gregson
H & A and E & W Jolliffe (Sept 06)
Photographer: Janette Gregson
Janette Gregson
E & W Jolliffe (Sept 06)
Photographer: Janette Gregson
Janette Gregson
Old sign for Jolliffe's shop on the wall above Baby Needs (Sept 2005)
Photographer: Janette Gregson

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