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 Dorcas Akers

Title: Mrs
Forenames: Dorcas
Surnames: Akers
Date of Death: 01/03/1876
Age at Death Years: 42
Map Reference Number: RSHG 027 B1/B2/C1C2
Plot Number: Ryde Old Cemetery Section C Plot 209
Grave Description: UPRIGHT STONE WITH ARCHED TOP
Grave Condition Description: Some lichen and very difficult to read
Other Information: Note the map from Bereavement Services also gives the name of Anne Akers for this plot but she is not mentioned on the inscription. According to the Quigley Index of burials for Ryde Cemetery Anne Akers was buried 27 March 1897 aged 67.... Ann completed date on 30/05/2009, source: death, burial and newspaper records.
Old Website Grave ID: 5591

Inscription:

SACRED

TO THE MEMORY OF

DORCAS AKERS

......................1876

AGED ?? YEARS

Photographs:

Janette Gregson
D Akers (June 2008)
Photographer: Janette Gregson
Janette Gregson
D Akers (June 2008)
Photographer: Janette Gregson

Related Documents:

PDF file: Census; Death.
''Entry from the 1871 census and the death notice from the IW Observer.''

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