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

Mrs Caroline Coombes

Title: Mrs
Forenames: Caroline
Surnames: Coombes
Date of Death: 12/01/1911
Burial Date: 16/01/1911
Age at Death Years: 85
Grave Type: Marked
Map Reference Number: RSHG 028 B3
Plot Number: Ryde Old Cemetery Section C Plot 254a
Grave Description: Upright stone with curved shoulders
Grave Condition Description: Stone leaning backwards, badly eroded lettering, lots of lichen
Other Information: Added burial date, source: Bereavement Services records
Although not mentioned on the memorial, also interred in this plot, Rosa Matilda Coombes (1949), source: Bereavement Services records
Old Website Grave ID: 5764

Inscription:

IN
MEMORY OF
JAMES COOMBES
DIED JAN 7 1883
AGED 56 YEARS

"I WILL TRUST AND NOT BE AFRAID"

ALSO OF
CAROLINE
WIDOW OF THE ABOVE
DIED JAN 12TH 1911
AGED 85 YEARS

"SHE HATH DONE WHAT SHE COULD"

AND THEIR DAUGHTER FRANCES
DIED JUNE 24TH 1939

Photographs:

Janette Gregson
J, C & F Coombes (June 2008)
Photographer: Janette Gregson

Related Documents:

PDF file: Marriage; Census; Death.
''Details from the St. Mary's Church marriage register, entries from the 1871-1901 census and the death notice from the IW Observer.''

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