Alice Frances Louisa Phillips

158 items found relating to : Alice Frances Louisa Phillips

  1901 CENSUS - ILFRACOMBE, DEVON
At the 1901 census date Alice Frances Phillips, aged 10, was at home with her parents, Escott Robert & Hannah Marie Phillips, they were living at 9 Belvedere, Ilfracombe....
31st March 1901
Brooklyn Daily Times ON WAY TO REUNION; IS LOST ON TITANIC
Pittsburgh Man Hears Brother Is Lost, but Girl Saved --- PITTSBURGH, April 17---Looking forward to a reunion after years of separation, William Phillips, of New Brighton, was stunned by the news that his brother, Robert Phillips, on his...
17th April 1912
  MANSION HOUSE TITANIC RELIEF FUND
Number 378. Dyer, Frances, widow; children Lillian Ada; Rosaline Emma; Winifred Alice. All class D dependants....
March 1913
Ilfracombe Gazette BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENT
PHILLIPS-January 26th, at 85 High Street, Ilfracombe, the wife of Mr. E. R. Phillips, of a daughter....
27th January 1891
Wiltshire Times TITANIC WIRELESS OPERATOR
Son of Trowbridgian: Relatives in the Town The man who sent the fateful SOS wireless appeal for assistance - the Marconi Operator aboard the Titanic - is Mr. John George Phillips, son of Mr. G. A. Phillips, of Francombe, near Godalming...
20th April 1912
BRIDE FIXING LIFEBELT ON PHILLIPS New York Times BRIDE FIXING LIFEBELT ON PHILLIPS
Two Marconi Men Worked to the Last...
28th April 1912
CARD WRITTEN BY JACK PHILLIPS   CARD WRITTEN BY JACK PHILLIPS
Written just a few months before he joined the Titanic...
1911
New York Times MARCONI MAN HAD RECORD
Wireless operator on Titanic Young, but a Veteran in Service --- The man who sent out the wireless call for help from the damaged Titanic was J. G. Phillips, an Englishman, 24 years old, who had been in the employ of the Marconi Compan...
16th April 1912
THE BYLES FAMILY   THE BYLES FAMILY
Left to right: Roussel, Winter, Louisa Davids, Alfred Holden, William Esdaile, Lawrence, Hilda, Helen and Mary ...
Western Morning News TITANIC DISASTER, WESTCOUNTRY PASSENGERS AND CREW
Two residents of Ilfracombe, Devon were in the Titanic, viz., Mr. Robert Phillips, aged about 45 years, and his daughter, Alice, a young woman about 19 or 20. For some time he was barman in the Royal Clarence Tap, and subsequently was in the employ ...
17th April 1912
Daily Home News DR. SHANNON LOST FRIEND ON TITANIC
John George Phillips, the young Englishman who was in charge of the wireless room on the ill-fated Titanic, and who paid with his life the price of his faithfulness to duty, was to have been a visitor in this city while in this country, of Dr. P. A. ...
22nd April 1912
  MANSION HOUSE TITANIC RELIEF FUND
Number 127. Hurst, Louisa, Mary, widow. Children: Edwin; Lewis; Leonard; Herbert; Gladys. All class G dependants....
March 1913
Chicago Tribune FRANCES A. KING, NéE STRAUBE - OBITUARY
Frances A. King, née Straube, loving mother of Raymond R., Robert A. and Arthur W.; devoted daughter of Raymond and Ann Straube, née McGowan; fond sister of Jacqueline Komay and Mary Kapolnek. Funeral Monday, 9:30 a.m., from funeral home,...
27th March 1960
  FAMILY INFORMATION ABOUT ARTHUR PAINTIN, HIS WIFE AND CHILD
Alice and Arthur courted for four years before they married. Arthur had intended to come out of the merchant Navy in 1912 because Alice was pregnant, Titanic being his last planned voyage. He and Alice wanted to buy a small hotel in Ox...
  MANSION HOUSE TITANIC RELIEF FUND : ARTHUR WILLIAM MAY
Number 190. May, Ann, widow. Children: Joy; Grace; Mabel; Annie Louisa; Philip Nelson, Gladys. All class G dependants....
March 1913
New York Times CONSOLE PHILLIPS'S PARENTS
blurb...
21st April 1912
JOHN GEORGE PHILLIPS Lectures pour Tous JOHN GEORGE PHILLIPS
As imagined by 'Lectures pour tous', July 1912...
1912
Surrey Advertiser and County Times THE HEROIC WIRELESS OPERATOR
The wireless operator who flashed out the terrible signal SOS, and gave the first intimation to the world of the appalling disaster to the Titanic, belongs to Farncombe, where he is well known and popular. He is Mr. John George Phillips, and his pare...
April 1912
Southern Daily Echo DEATH NOTICE: HURST
Hurst, Charles John. Dearly Beloved Husband of Louisa Hurst, 5 Laundry Road, Shirley Warren, Aged 40. [also the Hampshire Independent 27th April and 11th May 1912]....
27th April 1912
  1930 CENSUS RECORD - ANNA MCGOWAN STRAUBE
Obituaries related to Anna McGowan Straube...
1930
MRS. ARTHUR NEWELL   MRS. ARTHUR NEWELL
Mrs. Arthur Newell lived to be 103 Her daughters Alice, Marjorie and Madeleine are around her. Madeleine is standing over her mother's left shoulder behind the wheelchair and Marjorie is on the left side of the photo, Alice on the right....
ALICE HERMAN IN 1913   ALICE HERMAN IN 1913
photograph...
1913
Boston Globe PHILLIPS THE JACK BINNS
Wireless Operator on Titanic formerly on James Gordon Bennett's Yacht and on Oceanic. NEW YORK. April 15. - The wireless operator on the Titanic, who sent out the SOS message when she struck the iceberg is J. G. Phillips...
16th April 1912
  MEMORIALS TO JACK PHILLIPS
Phillips, John George (Jack). Chief Wireless Operator. Has perhaps the largest Titanic memorial, namely 'The Phillips Memorial Cloister', by the River Wey, covering some three acres, at Godalming, Surrey. Inscribed on the memorial stone is: 'The Cloi...
Godalming and District News POST OFFICE MEMORIAL
At the Godalming Post Office, where Phillips was employed as a telegraphist for three years before leaving to enter the Marconi School at Liverpool, the Postmaster (Mr. W. R. Williams), and his staff have provided a suitable memorial to their ...
4th May 1912
Washington Times DESCRIBES ASSAULT BY FRENZIED PASSENGERS
NEW YORK, April 19---Wireless Operator Jack Phillips did not desert his post when the Titanic sank, but was torn from the key by a party of fear-crazed first cabin passengers, who assaulted him in an effort to take from him a big life belt he wore. ...
19th April 1912
  THE PARENTS OF WILLIAM JEFFREY WARE
William Jeffrey Ware was the only child of Samuel Ware and Ann Louisa (formerly Witheridge). Their marriage was registered at Tavistock, Devon in the December Quarter of 1888. His father Samuel worked as a blacksmith at one of the copper mine...
  FAMILY INFORMATION : GEORGE PELHAM
George Pelham was one of six children, having four sisters and one brother: Thomas Walter (born Jan [1867]?), Ann (born 1 April 1869), Caroline (born 26 July 1872), George was next, Elizabeth (born 26 October 1875) and Louis...
11th August 2005
New York Times PHILLIPS FOUNTAIN READY
Memorial to Titanic Operator Will Be Erected at the Battery Soon --- The fountain erected in memory of Jack Phillips, the senior wireless operrator [sic] who lost his life on the Titanic when she foundered an her maiden voyage on April ...
11th October 1914
KATE PHILLIPS AND HER DAUGHTER ELLEN   KATE PHILLIPS AND HER DAUGHTER ELLEN
Hampshire Independent DEATH NOTICE: FAY
Fay, Thomas 'Hay' Dearly Beloved Husband of Frances Hay (sic), Aged 29 or 31 Standford Street, Chapel....
4th May 1912
JACK PHILLIPS   JACK PHILLIPS
Pictured (left) with a colleague aboard the Adriatic...
CAPTAIN SMITH AND JACK PHILLIPS   CAPTAIN SMITH AND JACK PHILLIPS
From an unidentified French paper...
1912
ALICE AND KATE HERMAN   ALICE AND KATE HERMAN
YOUNG ALICE HERMAN   YOUNG ALICE HERMAN
  MANSION HOUSE TITANIC RELIEF FUND
Number 542. Phillips, Parents. Grant £60. Two sisters, grants £20 each....
March 1913
The Toronto World WIRELESS WORK ON A YACHT NOT FAST ENOUGH FOR ME
--------------------- J. G. Phillips, Who Flashed the Signals of Distress From the Titanic, Talked Several Times to Two Local Wireless Operators While Working on the Great Lakes Boat and Told of His Am...
17th April 1912
ARTHUR PAINTIN (JR), HIS MOTHER (ALICE) AND STEPFATHER   ARTHUR PAINTIN (JR), HIS MOTHER (ALICE) AND STEPFATHER
ARTHUR PAINTIN (JR), HIS MOTHER (ALICE) AND STEPFATHER   ARTHUR PAINTIN (JR), HIS MOTHER (ALICE) AND STEPFATHER
HELEN ALICE WILSON ROSENQUIST MARKER   HELEN ALICE WILSON ROSENQUIST MARKER
  GRAVESTONE
In Ever Loving Memory of Evelyn Louisa Lammin Moody Born December 26th 1857 Died December 17th 1898 "Be Thou Faithful Unto Death And I will Give Thee A Crown of Life" Also In Lovi...
Southern Daily Echo DEATH NOTICE: HOLMAN
Holman, Harry. Dearly Loved and Loving Husband of Louisa Josephine Holman, Cathcart, Britannia Road and Portsmouth. Aged 27. Aged 27. Deeply Mourned by His Sister Emily and Brothers in Portsmouth. [Also 27th April...
26th April 1912
New York Times DEATH NOTICE
ISHAM---AT sea, on April 15, 1912, A. E. Isham, daughter of the late Edward Swift and Frances Burch Isham. Memorial services will be held in the Congregational Church, Manchester, Vt., on Sunday, May 12, at 11 o'clock....
9th May 1912
Hampshire Independent DEATH NOTICE:
Robertson, George Edward. 19, Dearly beloved Son of Thomas and Alice Roberton, of 36 Mount Street....
27th April 1912
HAROLD BRIDE - MARCONI RADIO OPERATOR   HAROLD BRIDE - MARCONI RADIO OPERATOR
Titanic Stories
The Marconi Radio Operator's descendants visit Titanic's birthplace....
14th November 2011
New York Times CLARENCE MOORE
Washington Banker One of the Best-Known Sportsmen in America --- Special to The New York Times --- WASHINGTON, April 15---Clarence Moore of 1,748 Massachusetts Avenue, a passenger on the Titanic, is one of the best-known s...
16th April 1912
  VARIOUS MEMORIALS TO ARTHUR WILLIAM MAY
Named on the right hand panel of the St. Augustines Church Memorial, (Maritime Museum) Southampton. also has a stone in Fair view Cemetery, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Titanic section, number 141. (Late in 1990 I found a grave at ...
  CENSUS
In 1901 Mrs. Alice Louch (born in Hoxton, London) was aged 31 years. She lived in Clevedon, Somerset. She was a housewife....
1901
  ALLUM FAMILY INFORMATION
Owen George Allum was born in a village called Mabe near Falmouth, Cornwall in 1894. His father, William Allum (b.1865 Bray, Berkshire) was a gardener by occupation who had married Clara Alice Eggleton (b.1867 Jersey, CI) at Wokingham, Berkshi...
MR. AND MRS. SAMUEL HERMAN AND DAUGHTERS ALICE AND KATE   MR. AND MRS. SAMUEL HERMAN AND DAUGHTERS ALICE AND KATE
portrait...
1900
Hampshire Independent IN MEMORIAM: FAY
In ever loving memory of Thomas Joseph, the dearly beloved husband of Frances Fay . . . Three long years have now passed by. Since this great sorrow fell, Yet in my heart I mourn the loss, Of one I love so well. Time rolls on, the years pass by, What...
17th April 1915
JACK PHILLIPS IN A FRENCH BOOK FOR CHILDREN   JACK PHILLIPS IN A FRENCH BOOK FOR CHILDREN
This drawing by G. Dutriac was published by Hachette in the first French book about the Titanic, 'Les Petits Naufragés du Titanic' in 1913. The authors of the novel were J. Jacquin and A. Fabre....
1913
  TITANIC SURVIVOR SINKS IN DEBT
Millvina Dean is the last living survivor of the Titanic and, at 96 years old, she has been forced to auction off her valuable Titanic souvenirs to pay for her nursing home. Mark Phillips reports. ...
  MANSION HOUSE TITANIC RELIEF FUND: ROBERTON
Number 581. Roberton, Alice Lydia, mother. Class G dependent....
March 1913
  MANSION HOUSE TITANIC RELIEF FUND : GEORGE FOX HOSKING
Number 123. Hosking, Ada Alice. Children: Iris May; George Thomas; William Bock. All class B dependants....
March 1913
  FAMILY GRAVESTONE
In loving memory of Richard Fynney (of Wetton Staffordshire) the beloved husband of Frances Fynney who died July 16th 1894 aged 66 years "Gone but not forgotten" also Joseph, son of the above who was lost on...
  OREGON'S ONLY FIRST CLASS PASSENGERS: THE WARRENS
John Lamoreau
Frank and Anna Warren were the only first class passengers on the Titanic from the state of Oregon. They were returning from Europe after a three month celebration of their 40th wedding anniversary. Frank Warren may wel...
  CAPT. WILLIAM CREESE
Henry Creese's eldest brother, William Creese, was born in 1857 and was a mariner by occupation. He had married in about 1889 to Alice (formerly Smith) whom he had met whilst based in Barrow-in-Furness, Lancashire. Their first 2 children, Hen...
New York Times MRS. HENRI MARQUISAN'S FUNERAL
Special Cable to THE NEW YORK TIMES --- PARIS, Oct. 11---Funeral services were held today in the chapel of the Rue Honore d’Eylan Church for Mrs. Henri Marquisan, who was Miss Frances Moore, daughter of the late Clarence Moore, who...
12th October 1921
  MANSION HOUSE TITANIC RELIEF FUND
Number 83. Chisnall, Alice Hardy, Widow. Chisnall Dorothy Hardy, child. Chisnall, William Chapman. Child....
March 1913
  REPORT TO MARCONI TRAFFIC MANAGER [EXTRACT]
Harold Bride, Junior Marconi operator in his Report of April 27th to W. B. Cross, Traffic Manager, Marconi Co. says: Just at this moment the Captain said: ''You cannot do any more; save yourselves.'' Leaving the Captain we climbed on top of th...
  TITANIC RELIEF FUND MINUTES: LIVERPOOL COMMITTEE
C 83 Chisnall Mrs. Alice H. Address for cheques: East branch, Prescot Street. Net monthly allowance to widow: £5.19.2d: children 2 - £1.3.0d. Total monthly allowance for widow and children £7.3.0d....
1st December 1915
Concord Enterprise TO INSTITUTE SUIT
Miss Frances M. Ford of this town, who lost nine relatives in the wreck of the Titanic, including her mother, two brothers, two sisters, an uncle and an aunt, and their small children, is one of those to institute suit against the steamship company i...
12th February 1913
Newark Evening News TITANIC VICTIM'S WILL ADMITTED TO PROBATE
No especial proof of death was required by the surrogate today, when the first will of a Titanic victim, William Anderson Walker, the head of Hope Lodge, No. 124, F. and A. M., of East Orange, was offered for probate by his widow, Mrs. Frances Moorho...
27th April 1912
Western Daily Mercury NO NEWS OF MR F. ANDREW, OF REDRUTH
Among the passengers of whose fate nothing is yet definitely known is Mr. Frank Andrew (30), of Pencoys, near Redruth. Mrs. Andrew, who lives at Pencoys, with one little child about two years of age, received a postcard from a friend in Plymouth, on ...
19th April 1912
  1881 CENSUS - LONDON
At the time of the 1881 census Lilian Hughes (14) was living with her mother and father, Thomas Hughes (57) and Frances (Fanny) (50) at 80 Park Street, London. The census confirms Lilian's birthplace as within the parish of St George's Hanover...
31st March 1881
Washington Times DRESSED IN SKIRTS MAN LEFT TITANIC
Mrs. Fortune and Daughter Say a Coward Was in Last Lifeboat --- NEW YORK, April 22---A man in women’s clothes was among the survivors in lifeboat 10, according to Mrs. Mark Fortune, Winnipeg, who was rescued with her three daughters on ...
22nd April 1912
The Times THE TITANIC'S WIRELESS OPERATORS
It has been decided to erect a memorial fountain at Godalming in memory of Mr Jack Phillips, the senior wireless operator on board the Titanic, who was a native of the town. The Mayor (Alderman E Bridger) has received letters from all par...
20th May 1912
New York Times STATEMENT BY HAROLD BRIDE
The following thrilling statement was dictated today by Mr. Bride, the assistant Marconi operator on board the Titanic, to the New York Times representative, in the presence of Mr. Marconi, who is now staying in Ne...
19th April 1912
Newark Evening News ENGINEER HAS SISTER HERE
Jonathan Shepherd, third assistant engineer on the Titanic, who is believed to have gone down with the ship, is a brother of Miss Frances Shepherd, of 10 South Twelfth street. He was formerly on the Olympic, but was transferred to the...
16th April 1912
New York Times WILL OF A TITANIC VICTIM FILED
Special to The New York Times --- EAST ORANGE, N. J., April 27--- The will of W. Anderson Walker, which, was flied to-day by his widow, Mrs. Frances Moorehouse Walker, is believed to be the first one of a Titanic victim offered for prob...
28th April 1912
Evening Bulletin TITANIC SURVIVOR WRITES OF HORROR TO FRIEND HERE
“Like Scene on Stage," Says Dr. Alice Leeder in Letter to Mrs. Sarah Babcock --- One of the most interesting accounts of the Titanic disaster which has come to light is in a letter written on board the Carpathia by Dr. Alice Leeder, New...
20th April 1912
  NOTE BY FRANCES WILSON ON THE ISMAY FAMILY ARCHIVE
Frances Wilson
Frances Wilson, author of How to Survive the Titanic or The Sinking of J. Bruce Ismay discusses her enduring interest in the Titanic and her discovery of the Ismay family archive...
11th August 2011
Bernardsville News MRS. WILLIAM D. CLELAND
MRS. WILLIAM D. CLELAND Mrs. William D. Cleland of Bedminster died Sunday, March 23 in Somerset Hospital, Somerville. She was the former Alice Herman. Funeral services were held at 1:30 p. m., Wednesday in St. Luke's Episcopal Church, Gladsto...
27th March 1947
MOHAWK PASSENGERS BRUCKER, WILLIAMS AND DANN   MOHAWK PASSENGERS BRUCKER, WILLIAMS AND DANN
Victims Jeanette Brucker (left) and Alice Williams (right)along with survivor Dorothy Dann (Center)...
Gare Maritime
Worcester Evening Gazette BRAVE COUNTESS TAKES CHARGE OF LIFEBOAT
New York, April 19- Miss Alice Farnam Leader, a New York physician escaped from the Titanic on the same boat which carried the Countess Rothes. " The countess is an expert oarswoman." said Dr. Leader, " and thouroughly at home on the water. She pract...
19th April 1912
  NESHAN KREKORIAN : CLARIFICATIONS
Mr. Krekorian had 3 children, not 4.  Minor spelling error:  city is St. Catharines, not St. Catherines. He was single when he left for North America - his first wife was killed by the Turks. My recollection of how he got into bo...
Elizabeth Daily Journal BELIEVES BROTHER LOST
Another who waited in vain for the return of a loved one was Miss Frances Sheppard, a trained nurse, of Newark, who is staying at the home of Mrs. J. H. S. Clark, of 561 North Broad street, this city. Miss Sheppard’s brother, Jonathan Sheppard, of S...
19th April 1912
  MANSION HOUSE TITANIC RELIEF FUND : FAY
(From: Mansion House Titanic Relief Fund Booklet, March 1913) Number 107. Fay, Frances, widow. Children: Andrew and Daniel. All class F dependants. (From: Mansion House Titanic Relief Fund Booklet, March 1913) Number C. 4...
Newark Evening News TELLS OF HER FINANCIAL LOSS
Special Service of the NEWS BERNARDSVILLE, April 24---Mrs. Jane Herman, wife of Samuel Herman, who lost his life in the Titanic disaster, said yesterday that her husband had with him a check for a large sum, a gold watch and chain belo...
24th April 1912
  ERNEST WALDRON KING FAMILY INFO
I believe E. W. King's father, Thomas Waldron King, was my great-great-grandfather John King's brother, and that their parents were Thomas King, who was a Church of Ireland scripture reader in Selerna, County Galway, and Elizabeth. Here's ...
Washington Times TITANIC SURVIVOR IS EXPECTED HERE
Wife of Former Washington Man Will Visit Relatives In Washington --- Mrs. William Beard Silvey, of Duluth, Minn., one of the survivors of the Titanic, comes to Washington tomorrow night and will, for several days, be the guest of her mo...
22nd April 1912
LINEN KEEPER ON THE LUSITANIA   LINEN KEEPER ON THE LUSITANIA
Lusitania Postcard...
  CHICAGOANS SEEK SURVIVORS
At the local White Star office inquiries were made today for Katherine McCarthy by her brother, John McCarthy, 4634 Wallace street, who is certain she was a passenger on the Titanic and was coming to Chicago. Information regarding Nora Cummin...
19th April 1912
Hartford Courant MRS. STEWART DID NOT SAIL ON TITANIC
(Special to The Courant) Winsted, April 17 Spencer C. Coe received a message this morning advising him that his cousin, Mrs. Florence A. Stewart, wife of Albert A. Stewart,...
18th April 1912
New York Times MRS. LOUISE U.-S. JONES IS ENGAGED TO MARRY
Mrs. J. Hippach Unander-Scharin of Wianno, Mass., formerly of Chicago and Lake Forest, Ill., has announced here the engagement of her daughter, Mrs. Louise Unander-Scharin Jones, to John Maclay Mirkil, son of William I. Mirkil of Meadowlane Farm, New...
26th August 1953
Toronto Daily Star MRS. E.F. GORDON
Page 36, Column 2 Private funeral services were held for Mrs. Ethel Flora Fortune Gordon, wife of the late Crawford Gordon, a former manager of a Toronto branch of the Canadian Bank of Commerce. Mrs. Gordon died yes...
22nd March 1961
New York Times DEATH NOTICE OF EDITH EVANS
EVANS---At sea, on the Titanic, Edith Corse Evans, daughter of the late Cadwalader and Angeline B. C. Evans and granddaughter of the late Israel Corse. A memorial service will be held at Grace Church, Broadway and 10th St., on Monday morning ,April 2...
21st April 1912
Washington Times W. B. SILVEY'S DAUGHTER TRIES TO ENCOURAGE HER GRIEVING GRANDMOTHER
"Daddy may be safe aboard some ship." This little ray of hope, coming in a letter from Miss Melville Silvey, the seventeen-year-old daughter of William B. Silvey, who is believed lost in the Titanic disaster, was extended today to Mrs. William Beard...
17th April 1912
New York Times MISS ASTOR AT FESTIVAL
Sees 1,000 Children In Folk Dances and a Maypole Romp --- RED BANK, N. J., June 14---Miss Muriel Alice Astor, daughter of John Jacob Astor, who lost his life on the Titanic, was one of the interested spectators at the playground festiva...
15th June 1915
Arlington Advocate A W NEWELL OF LEXINGTON
Among the passengers were A. W. Newell, of 20 Percy road, Lexington, and two of his daughters, Misses Madeline and Marjorie. Mr. Newell is president of the Fourth National Bank of Boston, and is well known and widely acquainted in business circ...
20th April 1912
Washington Times CLARENCE MOORE, WHO MAY HAVE LOST HIS LIFE, WELL KNOWN IN CAPITAL
Clarence Moore, of Washington, whose name is included in the list of first-cabin passengers on the Titanic, left Washington March 16. He was particularly interested in seeing the Liverpool steeplechase races while abroad, and if he remained to see th...
16th April 1912
New York Times MISS ASTOR TO WED RUSSIAN NOBLEMAN
He Was Recently Divorced From One of the Daughters of Czar Alexander II --- ONE OF ANCIENT LINE --- Bride-to-Be Is Daughter of the Late John Jacob Astor of New York --- Special Cable to THE NEW YORK TIMES...
4th July 1924
  MR. & MRS. E. A. SANDERS (UNCLE AND AUNT)
In April 1912 the Exeter Flying Post newspaper reported that Titanic victim, Mrs. Lilian Carter, was a neice of Mrs. E. A. Sanders of Stoke House. Mrs. Lilian Carter (formerly Hughes) was a daughter of Thomas Hughes and Frances (formerly Ford)...
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
FORTUNE FAMILY PARTED IN BOAT IN GOOD CHEER Manitoba Free Press FORTUNE FAMILY PARTED IN BOAT IN GOOD CHEER
(Special Staff Correspondent)
Women Had No Idea of Serious Condition of the Titanic Gave Their Money to Charlie For Safe-Keeping Until They Met Hugo Ross Was Ill in Bed When Disaster Occurred—Rescued Loathe to Talk...
20th April 1912
Asbury Park Evening Press COMPTONS TELL OF TITANIC DISASTER
NEW YORK, APRIL 20---Mrs. Alexander T. Compton and her daughter, Miss Alice Compton, of Lakewood and New Orleans, two of the Titanic’s rescued, reached here completely prostrated over the loss of Mrs. Compton’s son Alexander, who went down with the...
20th April 1912
Unidentified Newspaper UNKNOWN TITLE
Eleanor, her brother; Harold, and her mother; Alice were in Finland visiting her mother's dying father. They were on their way back to the U.S. The three stopped in England only to find out their tickets on the ship to take them back to America had b...
1997
  EDWARD JAMES WILLIAM ROGERS (FAMILY RESEARCH)
Edward James William Rogers was born on 9th September 1880, to Robert James Rogers and his wife Priscilla Susan (nee Bagley). His father was a bricklayer and the family lived at 3 Robert Street, North Woolwich. Edward JW was baptized on 3rd November ...
2003
ALBERT BRIANT 1877 – 1912 A SHORT BIOGRAPHY Titanic Research ALBERT BRIANT 1877 – 1912 A SHORT BIOGRAPHY
Bryan and Hilary Popple
Albert Briant c 1900 Albert Briant was born on 26 June 1877 at Melbourne Pl...
14th September 2005
Daily Chronicle LAST WILL & TESTAMENT LOST ON TITANIC
In the High Court of Justice Probate, Divorce and Admiralty Division (Before the Rt. Hon. Samuel Evans, President) In the goods of S. S. Jacobsohn, deceased. page 3 This was a motion by a wid...
23rd July 1912
New York Times MRS. LOUISE JONES WED IN BAY STATE
Church in Barnstable Is Scene of Marriage to John Maclay Mirkil, Marine Ex-Officer --- Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES --- BARNSTABLE, Mass., Sept. 19---Mrs. Louise Unander-Scharin Jones, daughter of Mrs. J. Hippach Unander...
20th September 1952
Newark Evening News SAY LIFEBOAT COULD HAVE HELD TEN MORE
Special Service of the NEWS BERNARDSVILLE, April 20---That the lifeboat which bore them from the Titanic might easily have contained ten more passengers, is the statement of Mrs. Jane Herman and her twin daughters, the Misses Kate and ...
20th April 1912
Chicago Examiner JOHN HUGO ROSS AMONG THOSE NOT RESCUED
J. H. ROSS EXPECTED.      One of the Titanic victims was to visit Dr. Hugh H. Perry, 9515 Commercial avenue, the latter part of this week.  He was J. Hugo Ross, cousin of Dr. Perry and a wealthy re...
19th April 1912
Newark Evening News MRS. COMPTON TELLS OF TITANIC DISASTER
NEW YORK, April 19---Mrs. Alexander T. Compton and her daughter, Miss Alice Compton, of Lakewood, N. J., and New Orleans, two of the Titanic’s rescued, reached here completely prostrated o...
19th April 1912
New York Times DISPUTE J. M. SMART'S WILL
Many Claimants Now for Estate of Titanic Victim --- Surrogate Fowler reserved decision yesterday on the contested will of James Montgomery Smart, a victim of the Titanic disaster. The authenticity of the will which bears the date of Jul...
4th February 1914
Washington Times MRS. DESHLER HEARS HER SISTER-IN-LAW IS SAFE; NO WORD FROM BROTHER
"God grant that my brother, too, is safe," said Mrs. Frances Silvey Deshler of the Wilmington apartments Wyoming avenue northwest, when told today by a Times' reporter that her sister-in-law, Mrs. William B. Silvey, of Duluth, Minn., was among the pa...
16th April 1912
TITANIC SISTERS: THE NEWELL GIRLS Voyage TITANIC SISTERS: THE NEWELL GIRLS
Shelley Dziedzic
Marjorie Newell accompanied ...
20th August 2004
  HUSBAND OF HELEN ALICE WILSON
  Axel Johannas Rosenquist was the husband of Helen Alice Wilson who survived the sinking of the Titanic, the following information gives brief details of how their lives continued after the disaste...
  THERE IS A GREEN HILL FAR AWAY
The Hymn "There is a Green Hill Far Away" was one of those sung at the hymn service lead by Revd. Ernest Courtenay Carter. The words were written by Cecil Frances Humphreys Alexander (1818-1895), in 1848, for the collection Hymns for Li...
New York Times PARTNER SAYS SMART DIDN'T SIGN THE WILL
This Document of Titanic Victim Was Much Discussed Because No Children Were Mentioned --- AND NONE WERE EVER FOUND --- Fortune Reputed Great, but it Turned Out to be Very Small---Constance H. Baldwin Brings Suit ---...
5th March 1913
  BARNES : MANSION HOUSE TITANIC RELIEF FUND
(From: Mansion House Titanic Relief Fund Booklet, March 1913) Number 52. Barnes, Amelia, widow. Alice, Rose, William, Ann and Henry children. All class G dependants. (From the Titanic Relief Fund Minute Book number 2, Southam...
New York Times SMART HEIRS SEEM NOW TO BE A MYTH
No Mention of Widely Sought Children in Will of Wealthy Man Lost on Titanic --- HE NEVER SPOKE OF THEM --- His Friends Recall Now After World Search That They Merely Thought That He Had Two --- Two children,...
7th January 1913
  LAWRY FAMILY INFORMATION
Charity, who travelled as a third class passenger with her husband Alexander Robins was born in the parish of St. Mewan, Cornwall on 18 January 1865. At the time of the 1871 Census, aged 7, she was living at St. Austell with her parents and 8 ...
New York Times MRS. M. S. MOORE MARRIES
Wealthy Widow of Titanic Victim Weds A. C. P. Wichfeld, a Dane --- Special to The New York Times --- WASHINGTON, May 1---Mrs. Mabelle Swift Moore, Washington's wealthiest widow, whose husband, Clarence Moore, lost his life...
2nd May 1915
HOW TO SURVIVE THE TITANIC. OR THE SINKING OF J. BRUCE ISMAY Titanic Review HOW TO SURVIVE THE TITANIC. OR THE SINKING OF J. BRUCE ISMAY
Senan Molony
Ismay as Ecce Homo...
11th August 2011
THE CAVE LIST   THE CAVE LIST
When the...
New York Times STARTS NEW SEARCH FOR SMART CHILDREN
Friend of Man Lost on the Titanic Has Found Many Persons Who Heard Father Speak of Them --- A FORMER QUEST IN VAIN --- Lawyer Ryan Thinks Children Provided for by Mother's Will May Not Want Father's Estate ---...
9th March 1913
Unidentified Newspaper WIFE OF STATE FARM FOUNDER DIES AT 80
MRS. MECHERLE SURVIVOR OF ILL-FATED TITANIC Mrs. Sylvia Mecherle, 80, widow of the founder of State Farm Insurance Companies, died at 12:36 a.m. Thursday at Brokaw Hospital, where she had been a patient for 14 months. Her fu...
15th January 1965
WHEN DID TITANIC TRY FOR HELP? Titanic Research WHEN DID TITANIC TRY FOR HELP?
Senan Molony
When did the Titanic transmit her distress signal?...
7th April 2010
The Toronto World WIRELESS FLASHES HEARD BY TWO TORONTO OPERATORS
------------------------- Messages Sent by Ports Along the Atlantic Seaboard Are Often Caught at (sic) Local Station if the Night is Clear---Tapping of the Instrument Decipherable at T...
17th April 1912
Bernardsville News SURVIVORS OF THE GREAT DISASTER
Mrs. Harman and Daughters Interviewed---Before and after the awful Casualty---Husband and Father gone and all their Property Lost---A Trouble too Deep for Words --- Mrs. Jane Harman, widow of Samuel Harman, who met his death at sea last...
26th April 1912
Surrey Advertiser and County Times THE WIRELESS OPERATOR OF THE TITANIC
A rectangular cloister, 120 ft square, will be the chief feature of the memorial which is to be provided at Godalming in memory of Mr. John George Phillips, the wireless operator in the Titanic, whose home was at Farncombe, Godalming. The memorial co...
30th September 1912
Elizabeth Daily Journal LEARNS SISTER WAS LOST ON FATED TITANIC
[The beginning of this article appears under Julia Barry's ET entry.] Overcome with grief at the loss of his wife and two children, who were on their way from England to join him in this country, Benjamin Peacock left his boarding plac...
19th April 1912
New York Times MEMORIAL NOTICE
HAYS---At a special meeting of the Board of Directors of the United States Mortgage and Trust Company held April 25, 1912, it was resolved that the following minutes be adopted and transmitted to the family of Mr. Charles M. Hays: CHAR...
28th April 1912
Newark Evening News JERSEY DEATH ROLL DETAILS
Besides Residents of This State, Many Victims Had Connections Here ---------- ANGUISH OF THE RELATIVES ---------- In addition to the New Jersey residents who lost their lives in the disaster, fourteen more who met death had friends and r...
19th April 1912
Ship to Shore WILLIAM SLOPER'S ACCOUNT OF THE TITANIC DISASTER
William T. Sloper
"I walked into the palm court of the Carleton hotel on Pall Mall in the middle of the afternoon. The streets around the hotel and the hotel itself were deserted except for one group of people...
1984
The Times HAROLD COTTAM
Obituary...
31st May 1984
New York Times HUGE WAVE SWEEPS OCEANIC
Captain Thrown from the Bridge and Left Unconscious --- While plowing her way through the worst weather met with on the North Atlantic lane in many months, the White Star liner Oceanic, in last night from Liverpool, was boarded...
29th November 1906
  EDWARD THOMAS STONE FAMILY INFORMATION
Edward Thomas Stone was born in 1882/83 in Shirley, Southampton. He himself quotes his birthplace as Cornwall when signing on Titanic but this appears to be erroneous. (It is currently assumed that he lived there for a while when young). He was the ...
THE HERMAN FAMILY Voyage THE HERMAN FAMILY
Michael A. Findlay
In recent years much has been written about those who sailed aboard the RMS Titanic. Stories of heroism, selflessness and cowardice on that fateful night have emerged through the lives of those who were witnesses to the Ti...
25th August 2005
New York Times UNSEALED DECREE IN ASTOR DIVORCE
On Final Judgment Court Does Away with Secrecy by Order to Dutchess County Clerk ---- CROWD IN THE COURTROOM --- Report That Mrs. Astor Receives Only $50,000 a Year Not Contradicted --- The terms of the final...
5th March 1910
TITANIC'S TIME ENIGMAS Titanic Research TITANIC'S TIME ENIGMAS
Markus Philipp
One of the thorniest questions about the Titanic disaster is, how her clock was changed during the journey. Several events observed by differing observers at different locations add to the confusion about the difference between Titani...
16th February 2003
New York Times COL. ASTOR IMPORTS A NEW BREED OF DOG
Animal, Which Society Is Expected to Take Up, Is a Cross Between a Bear and a Hound --- GROWLS AT CUSTOMS MEN --- Mrs. O. H. P. Belmont Praises Hammerstein's Productions---Duchess of Marlborough's Return Delayed --...
22nd September 1908
New York Times COL. JOHN JACOB ASTOR
Wealthy Society Man and an Author and Inventor as Well --- Col. John Jacob Astor, the American head of the Astor family, has held a prominent place in the life of this city for many years. Not alone has he been a conspicuous club member...
16th April 1912
New York Times MISS LUCILE CARTER A BUD IN NEWPORT
--- Daughter of Mrs. George Brooke of Philadelphia Greeted by Society Throng --- HER BOW AT DINNER DANCE --- Mrs. Beeckman and Mrs. Perin Fly in Hydröaeroplane with E. E. Dodge---Tennis Tourney Continues ---...
12th August 1916
Chicago American 3 VICTIMS LAUD TITANIC FILM
Ann Marsters
Three Survivors of the Titanic--the only three in Illinois--watched a screening yesterday of "A Night to Remember," an enormously exciting drama of the sinking of that magnificent liner on its maiden voyage 27 y...
25th February 1959
DOUBLE JEOPARDY – LUSITANIA'S UNIQUE VICTIM Gare Maritime DOUBLE JEOPARDY – LUSITANIA'S UNIQUE VICTIM
Senan Molony
The astonishing story of the woman whose body was twice claimed by the same German submarine....
15th October 2007 Gare Maritime
THE TITANIC MCCOYS Titanic Research THE TITANIC MCCOYS
Robert L. Bracken
The story of the McCoy family from Ireland....
28th January 2001
Elizabeth Daily Journal AWAIT COMING OF CARPATHIA WITH RESCUED
Relatives of Titanic Passengers Here Grief-Stricken Because of Suspense. ---------- SISTER OF ENGINEER SUFFERS NERVOUS SHOCK ---------- Almost crazed by grief and anxiety over the fate of relatives who are known to have be...
18th April 1912
New York Times LORD RIBBLESDALE DEAD; LINE EXTINCT
Widow Was the First Wife of the Late John Jacob Astor, Formerly Miss Willing --- BARON LOST SONS IN WAR --- Aristocratic Appearance Drew Compliment From King Edward---Lady Oxford Kin by Marriage --- Copyright...
22nd October 1925
Jersey Journal BATTLED FOR LIFE WITH SAILOR AFTER THE TITANIC SANK
McCormack Tells How Seaman Tried to Throw Him Out of Lifeboat---Special Blessing for Bayonne Survivor _____ Thomas McCormack, 19 years old, of 36 West Twentieth Street, Bayonne, a Titanic surviv...
23rd April 1912
New York Times SON FOR MRS. ASTOR; NAMED FOR FATHER
Both Mother and Baby Said to be Very Well, the Child Strong and Well Formed --- ROSES FROM VINCENT ASTOR --- And Many Congratulations from Friends---Baby Is the Sixth John Jacob Astor --- Mrs. Madeleine Force...
15th August 1912
EXCUSE SENDING ... AM HALF ASLEEP Titanic Research EXCUSE SENDING ... AM HALF ASLEEP
Jemma Hyder
The experience of Carpathia Wireless Operator Harold Cottam...
17th March 2002
New York Times RITES FOR ASTOR ATTENDED BY 400
Realty Leader's Funeral Is Held at St. James Church---Honor Guard Present --- More than 400 friends and business associates attended a funeral service yesterday for Vincent Astor. The real estate owner and descendant of John Jacob Astor...
7th February 1959
  FRANK ANDREW FAMILY INFORMATION
The following biography has been compiled with the assistance of descendants of Frank Andrew who reside in Cornwall. It should be pointed out that no birth certificate exists for Frank despite extensive searching and it should also be made known tha...
Hampshire Magazine DID THIS MAN SURVIVE THREE DAYS IN THE ICY OCEAN?
By far the most exciting story concerning a Titanic crewman has survived through Mrs. Louise Parker of Golden Grove, a surviving daughter of greaser George Prangnell. The story of Prangnell's escape is truly incredible, and is told here in print for ...
1980
 

 
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