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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Holy Cross Church Binstead

Mrs Grace Ford

Title: Mrs
Forenames: Grace
Surnames: Ford
Date of Death: 08/10/1818
Burial Date: 11/10/1818
Age at Death Years: 84
Grave Type: Marked
Map Reference Number: RSHG HC004
Plot Number: Binstead Holy Cross Churchyard D6-245
Grave Description: Round topped headstone with concave shoulders and engraved lettering.
Grave Condition Description: Quite good considering age of memorial. Lichen cover and some letters faded but fully legible.
Other Information: This headstone has been placed against the inside of the South Churchyard wall and we have no record of where the original plot was sited.
Burial date from 1986/87 Museums Community Project.

G Ford February 2020 Photo by Kate Mac Donell

Inscription:

IN
MEMORY
OF GRACE THE WIFE
OF JAMES FORD,
WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE
OCTR 8TH 1818
IN THE 84TH YEAR OF HER AGE

FOR THE LORD HATH CALLED THEE
AS A WOMAN FORSAKEN AND GRIEVED
IN SPIRIT AND A WIFE OF YOUTH WHEN
THY WAST REFUSED SAITH THY GOD.

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