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 Whittingham

Title: Mr
Forenames: William
Surnames: Whittingham
Date of Death: 20/02/1915
Age at Death Years: 93
Grave Type: Marked
Map Reference Number: RSHG 014 B3/C3
Plot Number: Ryde Old Cemetery Section D Plot 440
Grave Description: Ornate headstone and stone kerb. Concrete surface.
Grave Condition: Fair
Grave Condition Description: Kerbing and concrete surface partially collapsed.
Other Information: RMLI - Royal Marines Light Infantry

The map from Bereavement Services also gives the name of William Marvin for this plot.
Old Website Grave ID: 1416

Inscription:

SACRED
TO THE MEMORY
OF
EMMA WHITTINGHAM
THE BELOVED WIFE OF
WILLIAM WHITTINGHAM
DIED THE 26TH DAY OF JUNE 1903
AGED 75 YEARS

AND OF HER HUSBAND
WILLIAM WHITTINGHAM
( LATE R M L I )
DIED THE 20TH DAY OF FEB 1915
AGED 93 YEARS
THEIR CHILDREN CALLED THEM BLESSED

ERECTED AS A TOKEN OF LOVING MEMORY
BY THEIR LOVING SON
WILLIAM WHITTINGHAM
ENGINEER CAPTAIN RN

Photographs:

David Earle
Whittingham Grave
Photographer: David Earle
Janette Gregson
E & W Whittingham (April 2007)
Photographer: Janette Gregson
Janette Gregson
E & W Whittingham (April 2007)
Photographer: Janette Gregson

Related Documents:

PDF file: Census; Obituary.
''Entries from the 1891 and 1901 census, and the death notice and obituary from the IW Times. A Crimean Veteran.''
PDF file: A Ryde Veteran

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