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Mrs Susanna Charlotte Musson Brock

Title: Mrs
Forenames: Susanna Charlotte Musson
Surnames: Brock
Date of Death: 11/02/1922
Age at Death Years: 83
Map Reference Number: RSHG 008 A2
Plot Number: Ryde Old Cemetery Section O Plot 2119
Grave Description: LARGE ARCHED HEADSTONE
Grave Condition Description: Weathered, some lettering hard to read. Leaning slightly forwards
Other Information: Note: The map from Bereavement Services also gives the name of M Sampson for this plot but there is no mention on the inscription. According to the Quigley Index of burials for Ryde Cemetery a Mary Sampson was buried in Ryde Cemetery on 2 November 1906 aged 60 years.

Additional information contributed by Gina Ambridge in January 2014: "Susannah was born 3 May 1838, Barbados, daughter of William Griffith a barrister-at-law and plantation proprieter (Windsor & Frenches Estates) and his wife Sophia Grant. Her brother brother William Brandford Griffith K.C.M.G. Governor of the Gold Coast. She married Nicholas Mourant Brock a Captain; 4th West India Regiment (1869), and later in 1881 Honorary Major 1st West India Regiment. The couple were married at St StephenŠ—Ès, Paddington, London 22 Sept 1869. Until NicholasŠ—È death in 1886 they lived Kensington, LND, & Uxbridge, MDX. After NicholasŠ—È death Susannah moved back to Paddington, LND (1891), then Portsmouth, HAM (1901) and Harlington, MDX (1911) They had no issue."
Old Website Grave ID: 2192

Inscription:

THERE SHALL BE NO LIGHT THERE

SACRED

TO THE BELOVED MEMORY

OF

ELEANOR

WIDOW OF THE LATE

GEORGE K. PITCAIRN. ESQ. M.D.

..? 5th DRAGOON GUARDS

WHO AFTER PATIENT SUFFERING

FELL ASLEEP IN JESUS

SEPT. 3rd 1880

"COME YE BLESSED OF MY FATHER, INHERIT

THE KINGDOM PREPARED FOR YOU FROM

THE FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD"

SHE IS NOT DEAD BUT ONLY SLEEPING

IN THE SWEET REFUGE OF THY MASTER'S BREAST

AND FAR AWAY FROM EARTHLY ..? AND WEEPING

SHE IS NOT DEAD BUT AWAY TAKING REST.

THIS STONE IS ERECTED

BY HER EVER SORROWING FRIEND

MORTIMER J. LOUSADA.

IN LOVING MEMORY OF

SUSANNA C. M. BROCK

DIED FEBRUARY 11th 1922

AGED 83 YEARS

"IN GLORY EVERLASTING"

Photographs:

Janette Gregson
Pitcairn and Brock (May 2008)
Photographer: Janette Gregson
Janette Gregson
Pitcairn and Brock (May 2008)
Photographer: Janette Gregson

Related Documents:

PDF file: 1901 Census.
''Entry from the 1901 census.''

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