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 Jane Toms

Title: Mrs
Forenames: Jane
Surnames: Toms
Date of Death: 13/05/1903
Burial Date: 18/05/1903
Age at Death Years: 95
Grave Type: Marked
Map Reference Number: RSHG 037 D1
Plot Number: Ryde New Cemetery Section D Plot 713
Grave Description: Upright stone with sloping shoulders
Grave Condition Description: Leaning slightly forward, some lettering eroded and stained with lichen spots
Old Website Grave ID: 8040

Inscription:

IN
MEMORY OF
HENRY TOMS
WHO DIED JULY 6TH 1889
AGED 88 YEARS
FOR MANY YEARS COACHMAN TO THE LATE
CAPTAIN AND MRS BRIGSTOCK
OF STONE PITTS IN THIS PARISH

ALSO OF HIS BELOVED WIFE
JANE TOMS
WHO DIED MAY 13TH 1903
AGED 95 YEARS

T'IS JESUS WHEN THE INFANT TONGUE
CAN HARDLY USE THE NAME
AND WHEN THE FORM IS BENT WITH AGE
T'IS JESUS JUST THE SAME
FOR ON OUR WAY TO PASTURES GREEN
LEST WE FROM THIS WORLD STRAY
OUR SHEPHERD WALKS BEFORE HIS SHEEP
AND LEADS THEM ALL THE WAY

Photographs:

David Earle
J Toms 07.08.10
Photographer: David Earle
David Earle
J Toms 07.08.10
Photographer: David Earle

Related Documents:

PDF file: Census; Death.

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