Ryde Social Heritage Group research the social history of the citizens of Ryde, Isle of Wight. Documenting their lives, businesses and burial transcriptions.
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Holy Cross Church Binstead

Mrs Sarah Beazley

Title: Mrs
Forenames: Sarah
Surnames: Beazley
Date of Death: 28/11/1809
Burial Date: 03/12/1809
Age at Death Years: 59
Grave Type: Marked
Map Reference Number: RSHG HC004
Plot Number: Binstead Holy Cross Churchyard E6-195
Grave Description: Double round topped bedstead type headstone with decorative shoulders and engraved lettering.

Grave Condition: Poor
Grave Condition Description: Headstone broken off and laid flat to form pathway, lower left corner missing. Much weathered and lichen covered stone, central dent, faint illegible text at lower end.

Other Information: Burial date from 1986/87 Museums Community Project.
This headstone has been used to form pathway from south-east entrance gate to rear of east end of church (just inside gateway).


Inscription:

Left side
TO
THE MEMORY
OF
SARAH
THE WIFE OF
GEO. BEAZLEY
WHO DEPARTED
THIS LIFE NOV 28
1809
AGED 59 YEARS

Right side
TO
THE MEMORY
OF
GEO. BEAZLEY
OF RYDE
WHO DEPARTED
THIS LIFE
DECEMBER 8TH
1830
AGED 80 YEARS

3 lines of illegible text across full width of headstone beneath inscription

Photographs:

Kate MacDonell
S & G Beazley December 2019
Photographer: Kate MacDonell

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