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 Sarah Elton

Title: Mrs
Forenames: Mary Sarah
Surnames: Elton
Date of Death: 17/04/1853
Age at Death Years: 37
Grave Type: Marked
Map Reference Number: RSHG 002 B3
Plot Number: Ryde Old Parish Cemetery 1 Plot 155
Grave Description: Flat grave with flat ledger stone on top and stone kerbs. Green vase on top of grave. Evidence that the plot was once surrounded by railings (removed long ago). There is a strange shaped hole above the inscription where some form of ornamentation would have been placed, but it is no longer there.
Grave Condition Description: The grave is overgrown with ivy and the vase is broken at the base.
Old Website Grave ID: 3008

Inscription:

SACRED
TO THE MEMORY OF
MARY SARAH ELTON
THE BELOVED AND
AFFECTIONATE WIFE OF
ISAAC ELTON ESQ
LATE
MAJOR IN H.M. SERVICE
SHE DEPARTED THIS LIFE
APRIL 17TH 1853?
AGED 37 YEARS

PEACE BE WITH HER ????

Photographs:

Janette Gregson
M Elton (April 2007)
Photographer: Janette Gregson
Janette Gregson
M Elton (April 2007)
Photographer: Janette Gregson
Janette Gregson
M Elton (April 2007)
Photographer: Janette Gregson

Related Documents:

PDF file: Census; Death; Burial.
''Entry from the 1851 census, death notice from the IW Observer, and the burial from the St. Thomas's register.''

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