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Ryde Cemetery

Mrs Laura Bee

Title: Mrs
Forenames: Laura
Surnames: Bee
Date of Death: 29/06/1944
Burial Date: 03/07/1944
Age at Death Years: 89
Grave Type: Vault
Map Reference Number: RSHG 012 D1/D2
Plot Number: Ryde Old Cemetery Section Q Plots 2480-2483 & 2447-2450
Grave Description: Large pedestal monument with inscriptions on three sides. It is over a family vault and it is a very large plot. There are very ornate railings.

Grave Condition: Good
Grave Condition Description: This grave was restored in 2010 as part of the Ryde Cemetery Restoration project, the monument was cleaned, the railings were repaired and a large oak tree removed from the centre of the grave. Previously the railings were overgrown with ivy and on the west side the railings were broken.

Other Information: Amended date on 10/01/2008, source: death, burial and newspaper records.

Old Website Grave ID: 2152

Inscription:

East side

IN LOVING MEMORY OF
FRANCIS CARTER
DIED MAY 30TH 1897
AGED 78 YEARS

ALSO OF HIS WIFE
ELIZA CARTER
DIED JANUARY 31ST 1878
AGED 57 YEARS
"WITH ETERNAL GOD IS THY REFUGE AND UNDERNEATH ARE THE EVERLASTING ????"

AND OF THEIR THIRD SON
CHARLES CARTER
DIED NOV 25TH 1888 AGE 37 YEARS

ALSO OF ELIZA
THEIR SECOND DAUGHTER
AND WIFE OF FREDERICK J THOMPSON
OF ALNWICK
DIED JUNE 16TH 1886
AGED 32 YEARS

AND HELEN
THEIR FOURTH DAUGHTER AND WIFE OF
FREDERICK CHARLES TRAFFORD
DIED AT BALHAM. NOV 11TH 1896
AGED 41 YEARS.

West side

IN LOVING MEMORY OF
ALICE MARY
WIFE OF HOLLIS BROOK FOWLER
DIED AUGUST 14TH 1924
AGED 59 YEARS
YOUNGEST DAUGHTER OF
FRANCIS AND ELIZA CARTER

AND OF HER HUSBAND
HOLLIS BROOK FOWLER
DIED AUGUST 31ST 1951
AGED 85 YEARS

North side

ALSO IN MEMORY OF
FRANK
ELDEST SON OF FRANCIS CARTER
DIED JAN 11TH 1907
AGED 62 YEARS

AND OF HIS WIFE
ISABEL DIED AT WALTON-ON-THAMES
JAN 28TH 1925
AGED 82 YEARS

WILLIAM JEFFERY BEE
SON-IN-LAW OF FRANCIS CARTER
DIED OCT 5TH 1903
AGED 47 YEARS

ALSO LAURA HIS WIFE
THIRD DAUGHTER OF FRANCIS CARTER
DIED JUNE 29TH 1944
AGED 89 YEARS

WILLIAM SON OF WILLIAM AND EMMA NORMAN
AND SON-IN-LAW OF FRANCIS CARTER
DIED MAY 7TH 1894 AGED 34 YEARS

ALSO ELIZABETH FIFTH DAUGHTER OF FRANCIS CARTER
WIDOW OF W NORMAN AND WIFE OF ALFRED DRAKE
DIED SEPTEMBER 12TH ???? AGED 52 YEARS

Memorial plaque in St Thomas Church, Ryde, Brass plate in floor near Pew 66

IN MEMORY OF JOHN TURNER
FORMERLY OF RYE SUSSEX
OB 17TH FEB 1830 AGED 42 AND
WAS BURIED IN THE ADJOINING CHURCHYARD

ELIZABETH STYLES HIS WIDOW
AFTERWARDS WIFE OF JAMES WOODROW
OB 13TH DEC 1872 AGED 83

ELIZA THEIR SECOND DAUGHTER
35 YEARS AFFECTIONATE WIFE OF
FRANCIS CARTER OF THIS TOWN
OB 31 JAN.1878 AGED 57 AND RESTS
NEAR HER MOTHER IN RYDE CEMETERY

Photographs:

Janette Gregson
Carter Family Vault (Sept 06)
Photographer: Janette Gregson
Janette Gregson
Carter Family Vault (Sept 06)
Photographer: Janette Gregson
Janette Gregson
Carter Family Vault (Sept 06)
Photographer: Janette Gregson
Janette Gregson
Carter Family Vault (Sept 06)
Photographer: Janette Gregson
David Earle
Restored Carter vault 2010
Photographer: David Earle

Related Documents:

PDF file: Census; Death.
PDF file: Funeral

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