Ryde Social Heritage Group research the social history of the citizens of Ryde, Isle of Wight. Documenting their lives, businesses and burial transcriptions.
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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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St. Thomas Church

Mrs Mary Brigstocke

Title: Mrs
Forenames: Mary
Surnames: Brigstocke
Date of Death: 04/09/1915
Burial Date: 07/09/1915
Age at Death Years: 43
Grave Type: Marked
Map Reference Number: RSHG St Thomas
Plot Number: St Thomas Church south aisle, low level on the wall of pew no. 64
Other Information: Information from Inscriptions on the Memorials in St Thomas Chapel compiled by Jack Wheeler 1975. Headstone removed from the grave of William Player Brigstocke (d. 1929) and of Mary his wife (d. 1915) who were buried in consecrated ground at Ryde House. Their remains have since been removed and re-interred in the churchyard at St Thomas, the place being near the position of this stone.

Added burial date and age, source: Registrars and Newspaper records
Old Website Grave ID: 8746

Inscription:

HERE LIES
MARY, YOUNGEST DAUGHTER OF
C.A. FAIRBRIDGE, OF SEA POINT, SOUTH AFRICA
FOR TWENTY YEARS SHE WAS THE UNSELFISH WIFE
AND BEST FRIEND OF W. P. BRIGSTOCKE
SHE DIED AT RYDE HOUSE, SEPT 4TH 1915

HERE LIES
WILLIAM PLAYER BRIGSTOCKE
OF RYDE HOUSE
HE DIED AT SAN REMO, MARCH 5TH 1929

2nd memorial plaque
IN MEMORY OF
MARY
WIFE OF W. P. BRIGSTOCKE
AND YOUNGEST DAUGHTER OF C.A. FAIRBRIDGE
OF SEA POINT, CAPE TOWN
SHE DIED AT RYDE HOUSE SEPT. 4TH 1915
AND IS BURIED THERE IN CONSECRATED GROUND.

ALSO OF
WILLIAM PLAYER BRIGSTOCKE
LORD OF THE MANOR OF ASHEY AND RYDE
OWNER OF THIS CHAPEL
LATE LIEUT: 4TH DRAGOON GUARDS
BARRISTER-AT-LAW, INNER TEMPLE
ELDER SON OF CAPT. G. C. H. BRIGSTOCKE
AND ADELAIDE HIS WIFE
BORN IN NORFOLF MAY 4TH 1873
DIED AT SAN REMO, ITALY. MARCH 5TH
BURIED AT RYDE HOUSE, MARCH 16TH 1929

Photographs:

Carol Strong
M & W Brigstocke
Photographer: Carol Strong
Carol Strong
M Brigstocke
Photographer: Carol Strong

Related Documents:

PDF file: Obituary; Funeral

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