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 Thomas Chapman

Title: Mr
Forenames: William Thomas
Surnames: Chapman
Date of Death: 03/07/1937
Burial Date: 07/07/1937
Age at Death Years: 71
Grave Type: Marked
Map Reference Number: RSHG 013 C1
Plot Number: Ryde Old Cemetery Section D Plot 380
Grave Description: Flat grave with kerbs, scroll shaped headstone with leaded letters, two flower holders on grave
Grave Condition: Bad
Grave Condition Description: Grave is sinking, it is full of weeds, kerbs are broken and ivy is growing on headstone
Other Information: Added burial date, source: Burial records

Also interred in this plot, Eliza Meader (1864), source: Bereavement Services records
Old Website Grave ID: 3172

Inscription:

IN
LOVING MEMORY
OF
WILLIAM THOMAS CHAPMAN
FELL ASLEEP JULY 3RD 1937
AGED 71 YEARS

"DEAR HUSBAND THOU ART SLEEPING
FREE FROM SORROW FREE FROM PAIN
BUT THY MEMORY WE SHALL CHERISH
TILL IN HEAVEN WE MEET AGAIN"

ALSO OF ADA, HIS WIFE
DIED NOVEMBER 14TH 1944
AGE 78 YEARS

Photographs:

Janette Gregson
W & A Chapman (May 2007)
Photographer: Janette Gregson

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