Ryde Cemetery

Mrs Sarah Austin

Title: Mrs

Forenames: Sarah

Surnames: Austin

Date of Death: 05/04/1889

Burial Date: 08/04/1889

Age at Death Years: 77

Grave Type: Marked

Map Reference Number: RSHG 018 C2/D2

Plot Number: Ryde Old Cemetery Section E Plot 726

Grave Description: Large family plot with large upright matching headstones on left and right, engraved lettering. Headstones have flowers and leaves engraved at centre top.
Scroll tablet slanted on pillow lies above a smaller slanted rectangular stone tablet, both with lead lettering and both of these memorials are placed between the two headstones.
Plot grass covered.

Grave Condition: Fair

Grave Condition Description: Inscriptions on headstones have faded so unable to read all the text. Some lead letters missing from stone tablets.

Other Information: The memorial for Sarah Austin is the upright headstone on the right of the plot

Old Website Grave ID: 3395

Inscription:

Headstone on right side of plot
IN AFFECTIONATE REMEMBRANCE OF
SARAH
THE BELOVED WIFE OF
WILLIAM AUSTIN
WHO DIED AT RIVERTON, WEST STREET, RYDE
ON FRIDAY APRIL 5TH 1889
AGED 77 YEARS
"...............................?
SHE ..OUGHT FOR HEALTH AND FOUND A
...........................?
O LAMB OF GOD I COME"

(On the back of headstone another inscription reads)
IN LOVING MEMORY OF
PERCY AUGUSTUS STANFIELD
AUSTIN
WHO DIED DECEMBER 9TH 1904
AGED 39 YEARS

Headstone on left side of plot
IN AFFECTIONATE REMEMBRANCE OF
WILLIAM AUSTIN
WHO DIED AT RIVERTON WEST ST RYDE
ON FRIDAY OCT 16 1891
IN HIS 80TH YEAR

I HEARD THE VOICE OF JESUS SAY COME
UNTO ME AND REST
UNTO YOU WHICH BELIEVE ....... JESUS
IS PRECIOUS .......... .........

ALSO
HORACE THEODORE AUSTIN
GRANDSON OF THE ABOVE
DIED MAY 14 1893 AGED ??
(line of illegible text)

Scroll tablet
IN
LOVING MEMORY
OF
ALFRED AUGUSTUS AUSTIN
DIED MARCH 22ND 1922
AGED 73 YEARS

ALSO OF HIS WIFE
CHARLOTTE
DIED OCTOBER 23RD 1932
AGED 83 YEARS

Stone tablet
ALSO OF THEIR DAUGHTER
VIOLET ELFRIDA
MELLANBY
DIED 30TH 1963
AGED 81 YEARS?

AND OF HER HUSBAND
THOMAS SAMUEL
"TOMMY"
DIED 19TH SEPTEMBER 1957?
AGED 80 YEARS