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Ryde Cemetery

Mrs Mirabel Bladen Neil Towers-Clark

Title: Mrs
Forenames: Mirabel Bladen Neil
Surnames: Towers-Clark
Date of Death: 07/05/1948
Burial Date: 08/05/1948
Age at Death Years: 88
Grave Type: Marked
Map Reference Number: RSHG 002 A1
Plot Number: Ryde Old Parish Cemetery 3 Plot 538
Grave Description: Large raised stone tomb (2ft approx above ground) metal ornament, a Heliochronometer, mounted at east end, serial number 638.

Grave Condition Description: Overhung by a tree and becoming overgrown with ivy on top. Lichen on inscription on north side makes it difficult to read and the tree and build up of soil on south side also makes part of the inscription (first part of name) impossible to read.

Other Information: Completed death date and added status, source: Registrars, Newspaper and Probate records

On 18 June 2012 we were contacted by Chris Rooney with the following message: "thank you for putting the grave on line a lovely picture a distant cousin of my Great grandfathers. Mirabel Bladen Neil Towers-Clerk nee White born on board a sailing ship returning via South Africa from Australia "

Old Website Grave ID: 2929

Inscription:

North side
MIRABEL.BLADEN.NEIL.TOWERS.CLARK DIED ?? ?? ????

South side
....RIETTA CECILIA WHITE DIED 31ST OCTOBER 1925

On the Heliochronometer
"IN MEMORY OF JACK"
KILLED JULY 1 1916
UNITED IN TIME, PARTED IN TIME
TO BE REUNITED WHEN TIME SHALL BE NO MORE

On face of Heliochronometer
BON JOUR, BON SOIR
"AT THE GOING DOWN OF THE SUN
AND IN THE MORNING, WE WILL
REMEMBER THEM"
"CHEERIO"

Photographs:

Janette Gregson
M Towers-Clark and H White (May 2006)
Photographer: Janette Gregson
Janette Gregson
M Towers-Clark and H White (April 2007)
Photographer: Janette Gregson
Janette Gregson
M Towers-Clark and H White (April 2007)
Photographer: Janette Gregson
David Earle
Heliochronometer Close Up (Feb 2006)
Photographer: David Earle
David Earle
Heliochronometer General View (Feb 2006)
Photographer: David Earle
David Earle
Heliochronometer long shot (Feb 2006)
Photographer: David Earle

Related Documents:

PDF file: Brief Obituary
PDF file: Sealed Probate

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