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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Holy Cross Church Binstead

Mrs Mary Way

Title: Mrs
Forenames: Mary
Surnames: Way
Date of Death: 15/03/1766
Burial Date: 17/03/1776
Age at Death Years: 29
Grave Type: Marked
Map Reference Number: RSHG HC003
Plot Number: Binstead Holy Cross Churchyard A6-015
Grave Description: Round topped headstone with scalloped shoulders. Highly decorative relief floral design across top and down both sides. Engraved lettering.
Grave Condition Description: Quite good considering age of memorial, sprinkling of white lichen cover on stone but inscription is legible apart from faint lines of sentiment.
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.
Burial date from 1986/87 Museums Community Project.
M Way Sept 2019 Photo by Rob Cain

Inscription:

IN
MEMORY OF
MARY THE WIFE
OF JAMES WAY
WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE
MARCH THE 15TH 1766
AGED 29 YEARS

4 lines of illegible sentiment

Photographs:

Kate MacDonell
A & M Way September 2019
Photographer: Kate MacDonell

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