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.
  • MENU
Holy Cross Church Binstead

Mrs Martha Young

Title: Mrs
Forenames: Martha
Surnames: Young
Date of Death: 19/12/1783
Burial Date: 23/12/1783
Age at Death Years: 69
Grave Type: Marked
Map Reference Number: RSHG HC003
Plot Number: Binstead Holy Cross Churchyard B6-006
Grave Description: Curved topped headstone with shaped shoulders and large deeply engraved lettering.
Grave Condition Description: Good considering age of memorial, weathered and crusted lichen in places but most of inscription can be read.
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. It is an identical design to that of her husband Richard which has been placed next to her.
Burial date from 1986/87 Museums Community Project.

Inscription:

TO THE
MEMORY OF MARTHA
WIFE OF RICHARD YOUNG
OF NEWNHAM FARM
WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE
DECEMBER THE 19TH 1783
AGED 69 YEARS

several lines of faint text

Photographs:

Kate MacDonell
R & M Young August 2019
Photographer: Kate MacDonell

Related Documents:

Have you found this website useful?

This website is run by volunteers, so if you have found this website to be of any use whatsoever then please make a donation towards it's upkeep via our 'contact form'.