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 Taplen

Title: Mr
Forenames: William
Surnames: Taplen
Date of Death: 02/01/1854
Age at Death Years: 68
Grave Type: Marked
Map Reference Number: RSHG 004 A2
Plot Number: Ryde Old Parish Cemetery 5 No Plot Number
Grave Description: Large plot with large headstone and foot stone, sarcophagus top with grass, iron railings surround.
Grave Condition Description: Two large trees growing, most of railings missing, inscription very weathered, in danger of becoming overgrown.
Other Information: Ann completed date, source: Registrars records.
Old Website Grave ID: 2673

Inscription:

IN MEMORY OF
MARY STREET
WHO DIED THE 10TH DAY OF JUNE 1851?

AND OF WILLIAM TAPLEN
WHO DIED THE 2ND DAY OF JANUARY 1854
AGED 6? YEARS

ALSO OF MARY
WIFE OF WILLIAM TAPLEN
AND DAUGHTER OF MARY STREET
WHO DIED THE 14TH DAY OF FEB. 1862
AGED 75 YEARS

ALSO OF MARY ANN STREET
NIECE WILLIAM AND MARY TAPLEN
WHO DIED THE ?? DAY OF ?? ????
AGED ?? YEARS

Footstone
M. S.
1851

W. T.
18??

unable to read last lines

Photographs:

Janette Gregson
Taplen & Street (April 2006)
Photographer: Janette Gregson
Carol Strong
Taplen & Street 2 May 2017
Photographer: Carol Strong
Carol Strong
Taplen & Street Footstone 2 May 2017
Photographer: Carol Strong
Carol Strong
Taplen & Street kerbs 2 May 2017
Photographer: Carol Strong

Related Documents:

PDF file: Census; Death.
''Entry from the 1851 census, and the death notice from the IW Observer.''

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