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 Elizabeth Sweetman

Title: Mrs
Forenames: Elizabeth
Surnames: Sweetman
Date of Birth: 11/01/1824
Date of Death: 26/05/1905
Age at Death Years: 81
Grave Type: Marked
Map Reference Number: RSHG 033 B3/C3
Plot Number: Ryde New Cemetery Section B Plots 233 & 233a
Grave Description: Double plot with stone posts linked with chains, headstone raised on 2 tier plinth (top plinth angled). The top of the headstone is a cross in a circle with IHS in the centre.
Grave Condition Description: Parts of inscription difficult to read, top of headstone is badly cracked, ivy beginning to overgrow.
Old Website Grave ID: 3320

Inscription:

West Facing
Top (angled plinth)
IN
LOVING MEMORY
OF
MARY ANNE SWEETMAN
ELDEST DAUGHTER OF
EDWARD AND ELIZABETH SWEETMAN
DIED 27TH FEBRUARY 1900
AGED 50 YEARS

Bottom plinth
EDWARD SWEETMAN
BORN 30TH JAN 1827 DIED 15TH OCT 1903

ELIZABETH SWEETMAN
BORN 11TH JAN 1824 DIED 26TH MAY 1905

Photographs:

Janette Gregson
M, E and E Sweetman (June 2007)
Photographer: Janette Gregson
Janette Gregson
M, E and E Sweetman (June 2007)
Photographer: Janette Gregson
Janette Gregson
M, E and E Sweetman (June 2007)
Photographer: Janette Gregson

Related Documents:

PDF file: Marriage: Directory; Census; Death; Funeral.
''Details from the St. Thomas's Church marriage register, listing from the directory, entry from the 1881 and 1901 census, and the death notice and funeral report from the IW County Press.''

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