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 Eliza Pearson Perry

Title: Mrs
Forenames: Eliza Pearson
Surnames: Perry
Date of Death: 07/10/1893
Age at Death Years: 56
Grave Type: Marked
Map Reference Number: RSHG 031 B1
Plot Number: Ryde New Cemetery Section E Plot 1260
Grave Description: Surrounding plain kerbstones with railings, triple plinth with broken and fallen cross.
Grave Condition: Fair
Grave Condition Description: Was completely overgrown, partially cleared (January 2018).
Some railings missing, broken cross lying, partly buried, on top of plot. Plinth covered in green lichen.

Inscription:

East Facing - top plinth
IN
MEMORY OF

Middle plinth
ELIZA PEARSON PERRY.
WHO DIED OCTOBER 7TH 1893, AGED 56. WIDOW OF JOSEPH PERRY, AND DAUGHTER OF THE LATE ALFRED CAESAR MEW, OF BOWCOMBE, ISLE OF WIGHT
AND SABRINA HIS WIFE.

Bottom plinth
"GOD'S FINGER TOUCHED HER AND SHE SLEPT. UNTIL THE DAY BREAK AND THE SHADOWS FLEE AWAY"
... V V1

North facing - top plinth
IN
MEMORY OF

Middle plinth
SABRINA MEW
WIDOW OF
ALFRED CAESAR MEW
WHO DIED DECEMBER 24TH 1897
AGED 85 YEARS.

Bottom plinth
"THE RESURRECTION AND THE LIFE SAYETH THE LORD"

Photographs:

Kate MacDonell
E Perry & S Mew Jan 2018
Photographer: Kate MacDonell
Kate MacDonell
E Perry & S Mew (2) Jan 2018
Photographer: Kate MacDonell

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