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Ryde Cemetery

Mrs Caroline Anne Bowles

Title: Mrs
Forenames: Caroline Anne
Surnames: Bowles
Date of Death: 11/01/1887
Burial Date: 19/01/1887
Age at Death Years: 86
Grave Type: Marked
Map Reference Number: RSHG 018 A3
Plot Number: Ryde Old Cemetery Section G Plots 960 & 961
Grave Description: Double plot with central double plinth with engraved lettering. Surrounding kerbstones and high ornate railings.

Grave Condition: Poor
Grave Condition Description: Very overgrown with several trees in centre of this double plot and heavy canopy of brambles and ivy. The kerbstones and railings are in quite good condition but the central memorial has been misplaced and broken by the tree roots. The north side of the plinth is semi buried. Very little of the inscription is visible.

Other Information: Names completed and age added. Added death date, source: Registrars and Probate records.
Also interred in this double plot, Frederick Thomas Bowles (1873) and Ellen Glanville Bowles (1910), source: Bereavement Services records.

NB OBIIT is Latin for he/she died.

Inscription:

Double plinth - East facing - top step
CAROLINE A...
OBIIT 11TH …
WIDOW OF THE L...
OF …

Base step
several lines of illegible sentiment

South facing - top step
...ANVILLE BOWLES
...
Base step looks uninscribed

Unable to access North and West faces.

Photographs:

Kate MacDonell
F, C & E Bowles February 2019
Photographer: Kate MacDonell
Kate MacDonell
F, C & E Bowles February 2019
Photographer: Kate MacDonell
Kate MacDonell
F, C & E Bowles February 2019
Photographer: Kate MacDonell

Related Documents:

PDF file: National Probate Calendar

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