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Sandra Matras
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Username: hedgehog
Post Number: 2
Registered: 7-2004
| | Posted on Tuesday, August 10, 2004 - 11:34 pm: | 
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I was looking through a copy of A Night to Remember today and there is a passenger list. The name Kate Connolly appears twice. Is this a mistake, or were there two passengers of that name? |
Jason D. Tiller
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Username: jtiller
Post Number: 2063
Registered: 12-2000
| | Posted on Wednesday, August 11, 2004 - 1:31 am: |
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Hi Sandra,
Nope it's not a mistake, there were two Kate Connolly's on board.
Click HERE and HERE for their biographies.
Best regards,
Jason 
"to be happy is to be contented in your own mind"...Harold Godfrey Lowe
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Cornelius Thiessen
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Username: neil_t
Post Number: 34
Registered: 11-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, August 11, 2004 - 1:34 am: |
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Looking through the biographies here on ET it shows there were indeed 2 Kate Connolly's.Kate Connolly from Curtrasna Ireland was bound for New York, she survived the sinking in lifeboat 13.This Kate Connolly passed away July 3rd,1948. The other Kate Connolly hailed from Tipperary Ireland, destination unknown.This Kate Connolly was not as fortunate, she did not survive the sinking and her body if recovered was never identified.
I know that Connolly is a common Irish name and I know the two Kates' hailed from different counties but could there be a connection? Where is our geneolgists when we need them? |
Delia Mahoney
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Username: delia
Post Number: 88
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, September 30, 2004 - 3:44 pm: |
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Hi all,
I believe that there is no relation between both Kates. As Cornelius said Connolly is a common Irish name. Also MANY Irish girls were named Kate. I've never heard that these passengers were related. Katie McCarthy, who shared her cabin with lost Miss Connolly, never mentioned that there were any passenger who had a connection with not fortunate Kate. Kate Connolly (lost) herself probably didn't know that the person who was named the same as she, boarded on the Titanic.
All the best,
Delia
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Bob Godfrey
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Username: bobgod1
Post Number: 1736
Registered: 11-2002
| | Posted on Thursday, September 30, 2004 - 5:42 pm: |
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I believe it was Walter Lord who said jokingly that the only Irish people on Titanic who weren't called Katherine were the men! Not too far from the truth, and there is certainly no other connection between these two. See here for info on the less fortunate Katherine (it was she who was known as Katie rather than Kate):
http://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/discus/messages/5811/72067.html?1084774837
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