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 Sarah Sophie Newnham

Title: Mrs
Forenames: Sarah Sophie
Surnames: Newnham
Date of Death: 07/03/1970
Burial Date: 11/03/1970
Age at Death Years: 95
Grave Type: Marked
Map Reference Number: RSHG 009 D1
Plot Number: Ryde Old Cemetery Section P Plot 2199
Grave Description: Open book with lead lettering

Grave Condition: Fair
Grave Condition Description: Badly stained, lettering worn and missing in places, partly buried in grass.
Other Information: Burial date from Bereavement Services records.

Although the 2nd name states Sophie on the memorial, in all records found, including Birth, Marriage and Death registration, her 2nd name was given as Sophia

Also interred in this plot Grace Cook (1880) and Maria Newnham (1932), source: Bereavement Services records.
Old Website Grave ID: 1879

Inscription:

Left page
IN
LOVING MEMORY OF
WILLIAM NEWNHAM
DIED
13TH APRIL 1933
AGED 64

ALSO HIS SON
HAROLD
DIED
27TH APRIL 1968
AGED 66

Right page
AND OF HIS MOTHER
SARAH SOPHIE
NEWNHAM
WIFE OF
WILLIAM
DIED
7TH MARCH 1970
AGED 95 YEARS
"IN MY FATHERS HOUSE ARE MANY MANSIONS"

Photographs:

Janette Gregson
W, S and H Newnham (July 2006)
Photographer: Janette Gregson
Colin Hunt
Newnham (Mar 2017)
Photographer: Colin Hunt
Colin Hunt
Newnham (Mar 2017)
Photographer: Colin Hunt

Related Documents:

PDF file: Obituary; Funeral

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