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

Miss Julia Helen Martin

Title: Miss
Forenames: Julia Helen
Surnames: Martin
Date of Birth: 25/06/1860
Date of Death: 20/02/1886
Grave Type: Marked
Map Reference Number: RSHG 008 B1/C1
Plot Number: Ryde Old Cemetery Section L Plot 1686
Grave Description: Large headstone with stone flowers inset at top and carved shoulders
Grave Condition Description: Headstone has broken from base and is lying face up, becoming overgrown by hedge
Old Website Grave ID: 6368

Inscription:

JULIA HELEN, DAUGHTER OF
GEORGE AND HELEN MARTIN
OF RYDE
BORN JUNE 25 1860
FELL ASLEEP FEB 2ND 1886

"SHE IS NOT DEAD BUT SLEEPETH
O CALL IT NOT DEATH IT IS LIFE BEGUN
FOR THE WATERS ARE PASSED THE HOME IS WON
THE RANSOMED SPIRIT HATH REACHED THE SHORE
WHERE THEY WEEP AND SUFFER AND SIN NO MORE
SHE IS SAFE IN HER FATHER'S HOUSE ABOVE
IN THE PLACE PREPARED FOR HER WITH LOVE
TO DEPART FROM A WORLD OF SIN AND STRIFE
TO BE WITH JESUS, YES THIS IS LIFE"

ALSO OF HELEN MARTIN
MOTHER OF THE ABOVE
WHO PASSED AWAY DEC 9TH 1916
"AT REST"

AND OF ANNIE BERTHA, HER SISTER
PASSED AWAY JUNE 3RD 1937
AGED 73 YEARS

Photographs:

Janette Gregson
J, H & A Martin (March 2009)
Photographer: Janette Gregson
Janette Gregson
J, H & A Martin (March 2009)
Photographer: Janette Gregson

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