Brian J. Ticehurst

An Encyclopedia Titanica member since 27th April 2003 Brian J. Ticehurst has added 534 items to Encyclopedia Titanica.


Brighton Argos	SHOREHAM MAN MISSING [ISAAC MAYNARD] Article about Titanic survivor Isaac Maynard from Shoreham, Sussex...	17th April 1912
	FREDERICK SHEATH FREDERICK SHEATH was born in 1892 at number 12 Bell Street, Southampton, the house was a two-up, two-down terraced house with an outside toilet and no garden. Bell Street was situated in the lower, poorer part of town and not f...
Folkestone Herald	ELIZABETH NYE : FOLKESTONE PASSENGER'S GRAPHIC ACCOUNT Mrs. Nye's account of the catastrophe Captain Smith and the little girl His last words: 'I must go with the ship'. Mrs. Elizabeth Nye, daughter of Mr. Thomas I. Ramell, coach builder, Dover Road, Folkesto...	4th May 1912
Titanic Review	E.J. THE STORY OF EDWARD J. SMITH. CAPTAIN OF THE TITANIC THIS is Gary Coopers second book on the RMS Titanic's Captain. His first book The Man Wh...	5th May 2009
Oxford Times	STEWARD'S STATEMENT Propped up on pillows in bed at St. Vincent's Hospital, Thomas Whiteley, steward of the First Class Saloon of the Titanic, described the scene in the dining-room on the night of the disaster. ''We had made great time,...	27th April 1912
New York World	LOOKOUT CLAIMS MURDOCH SHOT HIMSELF "As we stood there on Collapsible B, each man holding on to his neighbours shoulder fearful every moment that some lurch would send us off again into that icy water, two of the men I knew had been on watch in the crow's nest...	21st April 1912
	MILLVINA AT HOME Millvina Dean photographed at her Southampton home....
	MILLVINA DEAN Taken at her nursing home September 2007...	September 2007
Free Press	WEST BROMWICH MEN MISSING Among the passengers were the following West Bromwich people, who were on their way to America: Alfred Davies (24), of Harwood Street, West Bromwich: John Davies (22), of the same address; Joseph Davies (17) of the same address; James Lester (39) ...	19th April 1912
Staffordshire Advertiser	WEST BROMWICH MEN ON TITANIC Three West Bromwich men, Alfred Davies, aged 21, John Davies, aged 22, and Joseph Davies, aged 17 years, all of Hardware Street, and a relative named James Lester, aged 39, of Wolverhampton are believed to be among the ill-fated passengers. They l...	20th April 1912
Titanic Research	TRUE SURVIVORS ...	14th April 2007
Titanic Research	CLASSIFIED IN DEATH : RECOVERING THE TITANIC'S DEAD AFTER the Titanic sank in the early hours of the 15th April, 1912 the sea around the site was littered with the flotsam and jetsam of the liner. Among the broken decking, furniture and fittings were hundreds of bodies floating around. Eac...	31st March 2007
	WALTER BISHOP INFORMATION (Death Notice - Southern Daily Echo 30th April 1912, and Hampshire Independent 4th May 1912) Bishop, Walter Alexander Under Castleman, Edward ...
	FREDERICK MANTLE : MANSION HOUSE RELIEF FUND (From: Mansion House Titanic Relief Fund Booklet, March 1913) Number C510. Mantle, Ellen Rosina, widow. Stagg, Florence Agnes, mother. Both class F dependants. (From the T...
	JOHN FREDERICK PRESTON CLARKE Clarke, John Frederick Preston. 22 Tunstall Street, Smithdown Road, Liverpool. Orchestra (Bass). (From: Mansion House Titanic Relief Fund Booklet, March 1913) ...
Birkenhead News	AN ARGYLE THEATRE'S BANDSMAN AMONG THE TITANIC ORCHESTRA One of those on board the Titanic and who it is feared is amongst those who have perished, is Mr. J. F. P. Clarke, formerly a member of the orchestra of the Argyle Theatre of Varieties. Mr. Clarke in his short time he played...	20th April 1912
Progress - the Journal of Lever Brothers	PORT SUNLIGHT DIRECTLY AND INDIRECTLY ASSOCIATED Port Sunlight was directly and indirectly associated with the great suspense, and subsequent sorrow, which thrilled this country and the world when the new and gigantic White Star Liner Titanic heir of all the ages of constructive ...	July 1912
Bridgwater Mercury	WEST COUNTRY PEOPLE IN THE TITANIC Melksham Among the passengers was a Melksham family of eight persons - Mr. and Mrs. F. Goodwin, Watson's Court, High Street, Melksham, and their six children, whose ages range from 17 months to 16 years. Goodwin, M...	20th April 1912
Bath Journal	FREDERICK GOODWIN AND HIS WIFE AND SIX CHILDREN MELKSHAM Frederick Goodwin and his wife and six children were on board. They had been living in Melksham for some years. Goodwin was a machine hand at the foundry, and about 40 years of age. The eldest of the children, a g...	20th April 1912
	GOODWIN FAMILY UPDATED BIOGRAPHIES Goodwin, Mr. Charles Frederick. (40). Missing. Watson's Court, High Street, Melksham, Wiltshire. Ticket number CA2144 cost £46 18s 0d. There is a memorial to the whole famil...
Atlantic Daily Bulletin	SOS : TITANIC NOT THE FIRST USER OVER the years many myths and fallacies have grown up around the Titanic. Not least the myth that the Titanic was the first vessel to use the International Distress Call 'SOS'. This is not so - the facts are these:- ...	22nd November 2005
	TITANIC RELIEF FUND (From the Minute Book of the White Star Company) The White Star Company had a Committee meeting on 23rd July 1912 at 10 Winter Street, Liverpool at 11.55am. Present Mr. J. Bruce Ismay...
Titanic Research	RITZ RESTAURANT STAFF ON THE TITANIC ON BOARD the Titanic was what must have been the finest Restaurant in the world. The Ritz Restaurant (as it was called) was situated on B deck and was for the exclusive use of First Class passengers only. Th...	19th September 2005
	RELIEF FUND DETAILS Copperthwaite, B. Lived at 39 Mount Street, St Marys, Southampton. Occupation - Fireman. 22 years old. (Born in Hampshire). (From: Mansion House Titanic Relief Fund Booklet, March 1913) ...
	ERNEST WALDRON KING : GENERAL INFORMATION King, Ernest Waldron. Lived at Currin Rectory, Clones, Ireland. Occupation - Clerk, Pursers Assistant. 28 years old. (Born in Dublin, Ireland). Body number 321. Interred at Fairview Cemetery, Halifa...
	RELIEF FUND EXTRACTS - ARTHUR ALBERT HOWELLS Relief Fund...
Herts Advertiser & St. Albans Times	ACCOUNT OF THOMAS THRELFALL Leading Fireman T, Threlfall, one of the Titanic survivors, who was in boat No. 14, in the course of a narrative told to a pressman on landing at Plymouth, said: "From the wreckage we picked up four men. Then Mr. Lowe called out, 'There's...	4th May 1912
Bridgwater Mercury	T. THRELFALL, LEADING FIREMAN T. Threlfall, leading fireman, told a stirring tale of how his watch went down to their duty in the stokeholds after the ship had struck, how on an order from the bridge they were sent up on deck at 1.20 am by the engineers, who themselves stayed ...	April 1912
Boston Globe	OTHERS OF REPUTED WEALTH Among the others of reputed wealth who were on board are Christopher Head a London barrister and one of the senior member of Lloyds, underwriters, was among the passengers....	16th April 1912
	PROBATE REPORT : CHRISTOPHER HEAD Head Christopher, of 7 Wyndham House, Sloane Square, Middlesex and 27, Cornhill, London. Probate registered 12th June, 1912 to Geoffrey Head esquire. Effects £56,207.8.2d....	12th June 1912
Brighton Argus	FORMER MAYOR OF CHELSEA ''The passengers included Mr. Christopher Head, a former Mayor of Chelsea, director of Henry Head and Co. (Limited), insurance brokers and underwriters, and son of the late Mr. Head, J.P., who resided at Buckingham, Shoreham....	17th April 1912
Bridgwater Mercury	NOTABLE PEOPLE ON BOARD Mr. Christopher Head, former mayor of Chelsea. Much interested in art matters, and the donor of one of the panels to be placed in Chelsea Town hall. Took a prominent part in the discussions at the Mansion House on the King Edward Memorial. ...	20th April 1912
Chatham, Rochester, and Gillingham News	LIFE INSURANCE ''The life insurance's on lost passengers must also represent a very high figure. Mr. Christopher Head, recently Mayor of Chelsea and himself an underwriter at Lloyds, is reported lost; he was insured against accident during his trip to America fo...	20th April 1912
Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea News	CHRISTOPHER HEAD A former Mayor of Chelsea was among the 1,523 lost in the Titanic disaster of April 1912. Christopher Head served as Mayor between 1909 and 1911 and had been a Conservative councillor since 1906. According to contemporary accounts, Head wa...	April 1998
Shoreham Society Newsletter	A TITANIC LINK Little did any of us realise as we beat a path to South Coast Cinema doors to see that blockbuster movie Titanic that it had a Shoreham connection. A prominent Shoreham family lost one of their sons on the so-called ‘unsinkable ship’. Henry Head, ...	April 1998
Progress	PORT SUNLIGHT Progress : the Journal of Lever Brothers Port Sunlight was directly and indirectly associated with the great suspense, and subsequent sorrow, which thrilled this country and the world when the new and gigantic White Star Liner Tit...	July 1912
	MEMORIALS TO CHRISTOPHER HEAD Head, Mr. Christopher. Missing. Cabin B11. London address c/o Henry Head & Co., 27, Cornhill, London, E.C. There is a brass memorial to Mr. Head in St Nicolas Church, Old Shoreham, Susses. ...
	RELIEF FUND Cross, W. 97 Ludlow Road, Itchen, Southampton. Fireman. 39. (Hampshire). (From: Mansion House Titanic Relief Fund Booklet, March 1913) Number 72. Cross, Annie. Widow. Class G dependent. He has a Memorial bri...
	CITY'S UNSUNG TITANIC HERO Article Frederick Barrett...	26th February 1987
	MANSION HOUSE FUND ETC. Wardner, Fred Albert. Lived at 45 Endle Street, Chapel, Southampton. Occupation - Fireman. 39 years old. (Born in Hampshire). (Wife: Nellie). (Death Notice Southern Daily Echo 30th April 1912 an...
	RED CROSS REPORT AND MEMORIAL McGowan, Annie, Miss (later Mrs. Straube). Saved in Lifeboat number 14. Born 5th July 1895, died 30th January 1990 and was buried in the All Saints Cemetery, Des Plaines, Illinois. (From The Emergency and Relief booklet by the ...
	GEORGE ROBERTON
	RED CROSS FUND REPORT ON ASPLUNDS (From: Mansion House Titanic Relief Fund Booklet, March 1913) Number P. 114. Asplund. Widow, two children and mother received a grant of £150. Farmer from Sweden, returning from visit to relatives. Aged 40 years, born 7th ...
	MANSION HOUSE TITANIC RELIEF FUND: ROBERTON Number 581. Roberton, Alice Lydia, mother. Class G dependent....	March 1913
	MINUTE BOOK OF THE WHITE STAR COMPANY The White Star Company had a Committee meeting on 23rd July 1912 at 10 Winter Street, Liverpool at 11.55am. Present Mr. J. Bruce Ismay (in the chair) and others. During the meeting it was announced that the following cases were...	23rd July 1912
Hampshire Independent	DEATH NOTICE: Robertson, George Edward. 19, Dearly beloved Son of Thomas and Alice Roberton, of 36 Mount Street....	27th April 1912
	FAMILY GRAVE Is mentioned on the family grave in Hollybrook Cemetery, Lordshill, Southampton A10 180. Inscription ''Lost at sea - SS Titanic 1912 aged 19 years''. ...
	RED CROSS COMMITTEE REPORT Bracken, Mr. James. H. Missing. American. Home New Mexico. (From The Emergency and Relief booklet by the American Red Cross, 1913). No. 51. (American). Husband, travelling alone, was drowned. He was carrying with hi...
	RELIEF FUND Smith, (Schmidt) Mr. Augustus. Missing. UK address - 11, Berwick Street, London, N. UK. Insurance claim 38. Life: $30,000 filed by A.H.C. Claim 172. Life: $30,000. Claim filed by parents. (Schmidt). (From: Mansion House...
	RED CROSS REPORT Greenberg, Mr. Samuel. Missing. c/o Alex. Wolff, 154, Nassau Street, New York City, USA. Russian citizen. Body forwarded to Mrs. Greenberg, Bronx, New York City. Permit issued May 2, 1912, Borough, ...

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