ISLE OF WIGHT NOSTALGIA


Photograph kindly sent in by:Sharon Austin, Wichita, Kansas, USA 

Sharons grandmothers sister, Emily Sarah Reed, standing in front of the greengrocer
shop owned by her father - William Alfred Reed (born 1866 in Ryde). 
The shop and family residence were located at 140 High Street. 

 

The following sketches and photograph were kindly donated by Sue Pepin from Victoria, B.C.,Canada 

They are of her Great great grandmother Louisa Hayes, who was born June 25th 1816 to John and Mary Paine.  She married John Hayes at St Marks Kennington on Nov 8 1837.They lived at 165/167 High St. Hampton Middlesex.  It is thought that John Hayes was apothecary to Queen Victoria as yet unproved .  She was the mother  of ten and from were fairly well off and she seemed to spend four or five months a year traveling in her old age.  She died in 1897 .

Louisa Hayes 1816 - 1897
St Boniface Down
Blackgang Chine
Steephill Cove
Steephill Farm
St Lawrence Church

The text in the picture is as follow:-
St Lawrence Church I.W.

Its breadth from side to side above the bench Is just eleven feet and half an inch;
Its height from pavement to the ceiling mortar,
eleven feet four inches and a quarter,

and its whole length from the east to west end
I tell the truth on which you may depend
Twas twenty five feet four inches quarters three
But now tis forty feet as you may see.

In eleven hundred and ninety seven
Twas built, to us to show the way  to Heaven
 
sketched and written oct 3 1890

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