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

Rev Matthew Lister Gaunt

Title: Rev
Forenames: Matthew Lister
Surnames: Gaunt
Date of Death: 18/05/1949
Burial Date: 21/05/1949
Age at Death Years: 81
Grave Type: Marked
Map Reference Number: RSHG 050 D3
Plot Number: Ryde New Cemetery Section I Plot 2687
Grave Description: Stone kerbing with raised corner posts topped with round crosses. Head and foot stones are low half round. Lead lettering to head and outer sloping faces. Stone vase
Grave Condition Description: Very good
Other Information: Added 1st name and burial date, source: Registrars and Burial records
Old Website Grave ID: 15074

Inscription:

West end kerb:
IN MEMORY
OF
A GREAT UNSELFISH LOVE

South kerb:
IN GLAD REMEMBRANCE OF M LISTER GAUNT
50 YEARS BAPTIST MINISTER IN THIS ISLAND
DIED MAY 18TH 1949

North kerb:
ANNIE, THE BELOVED WIFE OF THE REV M LISTER GAUNT
WHO ENTERED INTO THE FULLER LIFE MARCH 22ND 1929

Photographs:

Rev Gaunt (IW Times Newspaper)
David Earle
M Gaunt OCT 2014
Photographer: David Earle

Related Documents:

PDF file: National Probate Calendar
PDF file: New Ministry

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