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 Mehetabel Buxey

Title: Mrs
Forenames: Mehetabel
Surnames: Buxey
Date of Death: 24/08/1883
Age at Death Years: 62
Grave Type: Marked
Map Reference Number: RSHG 033 D3
Plot Number: Ryde New Cemetery Section B Plot 20
Grave Description: Upright stone with sloping shoulders, scroll design at bottom.
Grave Condition Description: Lettering eroded, lichen top and bottom.
Old Website Grave ID: 6820

Inscription:

ROCK OF AGES CLEFT FOR ME

IN LOVING MEMORY
OF
MEHETABEL
THE DEARLY LOVED WIFE OF
THOMAS BUXEY, PILOT
WHO PASSED AWAY AUGUST 24TH 1883
AGED 62 YEARS

"INTO THINE HAND I COME WITH MY SPIRIT
THOU HAS REDEEMED ME O LORD"

ALSO TO BELOVED MEMORY OF THE ABOVE
THOMAS BUXEY
WHO FELL ASLEEP 8TH FEB 1890
IN HIS 73RD YEAR
(3 lines of sentiment unreadable)

Photographs:

David Earle
M & T Buxey 07.09
Photographer: David Earle
David Earle
M & T Buxey
Photographer: David Earle

Related Documents:

PDF file: Marriage; Census; Death.
''Details from the All Saints Newchurch marriage register, entry from the 1881 census, and the death notice from the IW Times.''

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