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 Rachel Thomson

Title: Mrs
Forenames: Rachel
Surnames: Thomson
Date of Death: 24/06/1915
Age at Death Years: 73
Grave Type: Marked
Map Reference Number: RSHG 043 C2
Plot Number: Ryde New Cemetery Section G Plot 2032
Grave Description: Large gothic shaped headstone with ivy leaves carved into top and inscriptions is in lead lettering
Grave Condition: Poor
Grave Condition Description: Good apart from the fact that the headstone is leaning forward about 53 degrees.
Lying flat - June 2023
Old Website Grave ID: 8535

Inscription:

IN
EVER LOVING MEMORY OF
ARCHIBALD H J THOMSON
WHO FELL ASLEEP JULY 14th 1904
AGED 21 YEARS
"OH GOD, WHO HAS TAKEN OUR DEAR ONE AWAY
FROM SORROW, AND SICKNESS AND PAIN
MAY WE NEVER MURMUR LIKE THOSE WITHOUT HOPE
FOR WE TRUST THAT OUR LOSS IS HIS GAIN"

ALSO OF HIS FATHER
DAVID THOMSON
DEPARTED THIS LIFE MAY 22nd 1913
AGED 75 YEARS
"IN THE MIDST OF LIFE WE ARE IN DEATH"

AND HIS MOTHER
RACHEL THOMSON
DIED JUNE 24th 1915
AGED 73 YEARS
"PEACE PERFECT PEACE"

Photographs:

David Earle
R Thomson Dec 2010
Photographer: David Earle
R Thompson (June 2023)

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