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Ryde Cemetery

Mrs Caroline Hounsell

Title: Mrs
Forenames: Caroline
Surnames: Hounsell
Date of Death: 17/01/1907
Burial Date: 22/01/1907
Age at Death Years: 77
Grave Type: Marked
Map Reference Number: RSHG 019 B2
Plot Number: Ryde Old Cemetery Section T Plots 2976a & 2977
Grave Description: Double plot with headstone and kerb stones and grass and weed covered top

Grave Condition Description: Good, slight subsidence to top

Other Information: Added burial date, source: Newspaper records

Old Website Grave ID: 2387

Inscription:

Headstone
IN LOVING MEMORY OF

IHS

CAROLINE
WIFE OF EDWARD GEORGE HOUNSELL
WHO ENTERED INTO REST
JANUARY 17TH 1907
AGED 77 YEARS

IN THY PRESENCE IS FULNESS OF JOY

ALSO OF SAPPHO MILDRED
INFANT DAUGHTER OF ABOVE
WHO DIED JULY 15TH 1871
AGED 1 YEAR

FOR SUCH IS THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN

AND OF
EDWARD GEORGE HOUNSELL
WHO DIED DECEMBER 17TH 1918
AGED 91 YEARS

FOR EVER WITH THE LORD

ALSO OF MILLICENT EVELYN HOUNSELL
YOUNGEST AND LAST SURVIVING CHILD OF THE ABOVE
WHO DIED AUGUST 3RD 1960 AT RYDE
AGED 88 YEARS

South Kerb
AND OF THEIR ELDEST DAUGHTER (ELLIE) ELEANOR FRANCES HOUNSELL
WHO DIED NOVEMBER 19TH 1915 AGED 54 YEARS

North Kerb
IN LOVING MEMORY OF DOUGLAS WILLIAM ELDEST SON OF EDWARD GEORGE AND
CAROLINE HOUNSELL
WHO DIED NOVEMBER 23RD 1910 AGED 57 YEARS

Photographs:

Janette Gregson
Hounsell family July 2006)
Photographer: Janette Gregson

Related Documents:

PDF file: 1881 and 1901 Census; Death.
PDF file: Obituary; Funeral

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