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 Weeks

Title: Mrs
Forenames: Mary
Surnames: Weeks
Date of Death: 14/07/1920
Burial Date: 19/07/1920
Age at Death Years: 69
Grave Type: Marked
Map Reference Number: RSHG 001 C1
Plot Number: Ryde Old Parish Cemetery 1 Plot 97
Grave Description: Large ornate headstone and kerbs
Grave Condition Description: Some weathering to inscription making it difficult to read in places. South kerb broken, some subsidence to grave.
Old Website Grave ID: 2094

Inscription:

IN
EVER LOVING MEMORY
OF
MARY LOUISA WEEKS
ELDEST DAUGHTER OF
LAWRENCE AND MARY WEEKS
LATE OF TORQUAY
DIED DECEMBER 9TH 1917
AGED 44 YEARS

HOLY SPIRIT BE THOUGH NIGH
???? WE LIE
Although we cannot read all of the inscription we believe it is from the Hymn Holy Father, Cheer Our Way by Richard Hayes Robinson, 1869 and the verse we are unable to read is likely to be:
HOLY SPIRIT BE THOU NIGH
WHEN IN MORTAL PAINS WE LIE
GRANT US, AS WE COME TO DIE
LIGHT AT EVENING TIME

MARY WEEKS
MOTHER OF THE ABOVE
DIED JULY 14TH 1920
AGED 69 YEARS

HOLY SAVIOUR CALM OUR FEARS
WHEN EARTH??S BRIGHTNESS DISAPPEARS
GRANT US IN OUR LATTER YEARS
LIGHT AT EVENING TIME

Photographs:

Janette Gregson
M & M L Weeks (April 2007)
Photographer: Janette Gregson
Janette Gregson
M & M L Weeks (April 2007)
Photographer: Janette Gregson

Related Documents:

PDF file: Census; Death.
''Entries from the 1881 and 1891 census and the death notice from the IW County Press.''

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