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 Frances Elizabeth Westphal

Title: Mrs
Forenames: Frances Elizabeth
Surnames: Westphal
Date of Death: 31/05/1868
Age at Death Years: 75
Grave Type: Marked
Map Reference Number: RSHG 015 A3
Plot Number: Ryde Old Cemetery Section E Plots 526 & 527
Grave Description: Double plot, twin identical headstones, grass top and stone kerbs.
Grave Condition: Good
Grave Condition Description: Stones leaning backwards slightly some lichen and weathering on inscription
Other Information:
S.Sellars student of RYDE SCHOOL............Ann amended surname spelling on 18/02/2008, source: death, burial and newspaper records.
Old Website Grave ID: 4699

Inscription:

Headstone 1
IN
MEMORY OF
ADMIRAL PHILIP WESTPHAL
WHO DIED MARCH 16TH 1880
AGED 98 YEARS
THE OLDEST COMMISSIONED
OFFICER H.M. NAVY
AND PRESENT AT
THE BATTLE OF COPENHAGEN
FOUGHT UNDER LORD NELSON, APRIL 1801

Headstone 2
IN MEMORY OF
FRANCES ELIZABETH
WESTPHAL
WIFE OF
ADMIRAL PHILIP WESTPHAL
WHO DIED MAY 31st 1868
AGED 75 YEARS

Photographs:

Janette Gregson
F & P Westphall (Oct 2007)
Photographer: Janette Gregson
Janette Gregson
F & P Westphall (Oct 2007)
Photographer: Janette Gregson
Janette Gregson
F & P Westphall (Oct 2007)
Photographer: Janette Gregson
Janette Gregson
P & F Westphall (Oct 2007)
Photographer: Janette Gregson

Related Documents:

PDF file: Directory; Census; Death.
''Listing from the directory, entry from the 1861 census, and the death notice from the IW Observer.''

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