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 Mary Forbes

Title: Mrs
Forenames: Mary
Surnames: Forbes
Date of Death: 30/03/1893
Burial Date: 01/04/1893
Age at Death Years: 60
Grave Type: Marked
Map Reference Number: RSHG 033 B3
Plot Number: Ryde New Cemetery Section D Plot 531
Grave Description: Upright stone with pointed shoulders, inscription is engraved into stone, stone kerbs.
Grave Condition Description: Stone kerbs with broken iron railings, overgrown in middle.
Other Information: Added burial date, source: Burial records
Old Website Grave ID: 6975

Inscription:

IN
MEMORY OF
CHARLES FORBES
ELDEST SON OF
GENERAL DAVID FORBES.C.B
LATE 78TH HIGHLANDERS (ROSSHIRE BUFFS)
DIED DECEMBER 28TH 1892

"COME UNTO ME" ST. MATTHEW XI, 28

ALSO
MARY
WIDOW OF THE ABOVE
DIED MARCH 30TH 1893

"YEA, I HAVE LOVED THEE WITH AN EVERLASTING LOVE"

JEREMIAH XXXI.3

Photographs:

David Earle
M Forbes 18.08.09
Photographer: David Earle
David Earle
M Forbes
Photographer: David Earle

Related Documents:

PDF file: Census; Obituary; Funeral.
''Entries from the 1881-1891 census, and the obituary and funeral report from the IW Observer and IW Times.''

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