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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Holy Cross Church Binstead

Mrs Sophia Atkinson

Title: Mrs
Forenames: Sophia
Surnames: Atkinson
Date of Death: 19/11/1831
Burial Date: 26/11/1831
Age at Death Years: 72
Grave Type: Marked
Map Reference Number: RSHG HC001
Plot Number: Binstead Holy Cross Churchyard D2-096
Grave Description: Large box tomb with plain sides and large flat kerbs with post holes. Engraved lettering.
Grave Condition: Fair
Grave Condition Description: Heavy lichen cover on stone, lettering faded and faint but still legible, kerbs cracked and broken in places.
Other Information: Burial date from 1986/87 Museums Community Project.

Inscription:

BENEATH THIS STONE ARE
DEPOSITED THE MORTAL RE
MAINS OF SOPHIA THE BELOVED
WIFE OF JASPER ATKINSON
ESQR OF COOKHAM BERKS WHO
RESIGNED HER PEACEFUL SPIRIT
INTO THE HANDS OF HER SAVIOUR
AT RYDE ON THE 19TH DAY OF NOR
1831 IN THE 72 YEAR OF HER AGE

IF WE BELIEVE THAT JESUS DIED AND ROSE
AGAIN EVEN SO THEM ALSO WHICH SLEEP IN
JESUS WILL GOD BRING WITH HIM
THESS. IV. XIV

TO THE MEMORY OF
THE ABOVE NAMED
JASPER ATKINSON ESQR
WHO DIED JANY 30TH 1844
IN THE 84TH YEAR OF HIS AGE

Photographs:

Kate MacDonell
S & J Atkinson March 2020
Photographer: Kate MacDonell

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