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 Yeates (Sergeant)

Title: Mr
Forenames: William
Surnames: Yeates
Date of Death: 14/11/1875
Age at Death Years: 44
Military Rank: Sergeant
Map Reference Number: RSHG 027 B1/C1
Plot Number: Ryde Old Cemetery Section C Plot 208
Grave Description: UPRIGHT HEADSTONE WITH POINTED TOP AND CARVED SHOULDERS
Grave Condition Description: Inscription very worn and difficult to read, lot of lichen
Other Information: Ann amended date on 05/04/2009, source: death, burial and newspaper records.
Old Website Grave ID: 5575

Inscription:

ERECTED

BY THE OFFICERS, NONCOMMISSIONED

AND PRIVATES OF THE ISLE OF WIGHT

RIFLE VOLUNTEER CORPS.

TO THE MEMORY OF

WILLIAM YEATES

SEVEN YEARS

RESPECTED SERGEANT INSTRUCTOR

.............?

WHO DIED NOV.14th 1875

IN THE 45th YEAR OF HIS AGE

ALSO OF OUR DEAR MOTHER

MARY ANN YEATES

WIFE OF THE ABOVE

WHO DIED OCTOBER 12th 1922

AGED 86 YEARS

"AT REST"

Photographs:

Janette Gregson
W & M Yeates (June 2008)
Photographer: Janette Gregson
Janette Gregson
W & M Yeates (June 2008)
Photographer: Janette Gregson

Related Documents:

PDF file: Marriage; Census; Obituary.
''Reference from the General Registrars marriage records, entry from the 1871 census and the death notice and obituary from the IW Observer.''
PDF file: Portraits and Subscription
PDF file: Military Funeral

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