Purser

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Unidentified Newspaper	UNTITLED Article in Unidentified Wexford Newspaper...	1912
	HUGH MCELROY AGED 12 Photograph of Titanic purser Hugh McElroy aged 12. c.1887 ...	1887
	CAPTAIN SMITH WITH PURSER MCELROY	April 1912
New York Times	THREE BRAVE OFFICERS In telling the story of the loss of the Titanic more light is being shed upon the conduct of the ship's officers....	23rd April 1912
	THE VIEW FROM THE CARONIA Charles Spedding At 10:30 that night we received a message from the Titanic to say that she had struck an iceberg. She would then be about two hundred and forty miles away. We established communication with the German steamer Breslau, about fo...	1926
	RADIOS FROM NOTABLE PASSENGERS Charles Spedding "The next day, which was Sunday, we passed the Titanic, receiving many friendly radios from our friends on board. Personally, I exchanged messages with Mr. Isadore Strauss ( sp ) and Mr. John Jacob Astor. Captain Barr received a wirele...	1926
	REMINISCENCES OF TRANSATLANTIC TRAVELLERS Charles Spedding There are a great many fallacies in connection with the loss of the Titanic, the chief one being that she was trying to break the record. As a matter of fact, she had not averaged twenty-one knots up to the time she struck, three knots le...	1926
East Dorset Herald	UNTITLED Mr. J. A. Prideaux, of Bournemouth, was one of the stewards' and acted as purser's clerk; he was until quite recently employed by Mr. F. T. Cutler, of Old Christchurch Road, Bournemouth, and was well known as the Hon. Sec. of the Bournemouth Wanderer...	18th April 1912
Newton Abbot Western Guardian	UNTITLED PC Prideaux the village constable (Shaldon, Devon), has lost a nephew, a promising young fellow who was clerk to the purser on the Titanic, he was a young man of fine physique and was the only son of a widow who resides in Hampshire....	25th April 1912
	PROBATE REPORT McElroy, Hugh Walter of Polygon House, Southampton. Ship’s purser. Administration: London 31st July 1912 to Mrs Barbara McElroy widow, effects £ 4330.13. 3d. ...	31st July 1912
New York Times	THE CEDRIC'S PARROT MASCOT "Baden-Powell" Won Purser McElroy's Heart by Sighting a "Landlubber off the Starboard Not since the days of Funston the famous Mexican parrot of Castle William on Governors Island, has there been seen in the...	4th May 1903
Western Morning News	THE FEARS OF RELATIVES Three inhabitants of Bodmin had relatives on board the Titanic. Mrs. George Pidwell, of Robartes-road, had a sister (Mrs.Lobb), who was going out to America with her husband, and Fathers Smith and McElroy, of St. Mary’s Roman Catholic Priory, had br...	19th April 1912
Western Morning News	THE FEARS OF RELATIVES Three inhabitants of Bodmin had relatives on board the Titanic. Mrs. George Pidwell, of Robartes-road, had a sister (Mrs.Lobb), who was going out to America with her husband, and Fathers Smith and McElroy, of St. Mary’s Roman Catholic Priory, had bro...	19th April 1912
Unidentified Newspaper	LOCAL PEOPLE MISSING A number of former residents in this locality were among those on the ill-fated ship. Several were members of her staff. Mr. J. A. Prideaux, of Bournemouth, was one of the stewards, and acted as purser's clerk; he was until quite recently empl...	1912
Atlantic Daily Bulletin	PURSER MCELROY Hugh Walter McElroy was born on 28th October 1874 at 3, Percy Street, Liverpool, the son of Richard McElroy, and his wife Jessie (nee Fox). On Hugh’s certificate his father’s occupation is shown as Shipbuilder, [he was a ships carpenter] and he was k...	April 1999
West Briton and Cornwall Advertiser	BODMIN PRIESTS BEREAVED At Mass at St. Piran’s Roman Catholic Church, Truro on Sunday morning, prayers were offered for those who went down in the Titanic, and special mention was made of Mr. Hugh McElroy, the chief purser, brother of the present Prior of Bodmin, and Mr. Re...	20th April 1912
Daily Telegraph	ESTATE OF HERBERT JOHN PITMAN Mr Herbert John Pitman, of Pitcombe, Somerset, retired purser, a survivor of the Titanic disaster, left estate in Great Britain valued at pounds 21,158 gross, pounds 21,116 net. He left the residue of his estate to his niece [name withheld] for life,...	9th April 1962
Coventry Standard	IRISH PRIESTS LOST Newspaper article...	26th April 1912
West Briton and Cornwall Advertiser	BODMIN PRIESTS BEREAVED At Mass at St. Piran’s Roman Catholic Church, Truro on Sunday morning, prayers were offered for those who went down in the Titanic, and special mention was made of Mr. Hugh McElroy, the chief purser, brother of the present Prior of Bodmin (Fr. Richar...	20th April 1912
	GENERAL INFORMATION MBE awarded March 1946. Purser SS Mataroa of the Shaw, Savill and Albion Company Ltd. Awarded for long and meritorious service at sea and in dangerous waters during the war. He served as a Purser for the company for 20 years, tr...
	PRIDEAUX FAMILY INFORMATION John Arthur Prideaux (k/a Jack) was born at Southampton, Hampshire on 24 April 1888 at a house in Victoria Road, Woolston. He was the son of John Davey Prideaux and Annie Elizabeth (formerly Slade). His father, originally from Teignmouth, Dev...
	REGINALD GEORGE SMITH & HUGH WALTER MCELROY It is quite likely that Hugh Walter McElroy (purser) and Reginald George Smith (saloon steward) were acquainted as they both had brothers who were Roman Catholic Priests. Father Richard McElroy and Father Aloysius Smith both served to...
Teignmouth Post	SHALDON AND THE DISASTER Mr. Henry Forbes Julian, one of the first-class passengers, of Redholme, Torquay, is also among the missing. He formerly resided at Ness House. Mr. Forbes made a fortune in South Africa with a patent for separating gold from quartz, and during his ...	26th April 1912
New York Times	MME. AUBART RETURNS TO FRANCE {Note: This is an excerpt from a longer article, headlined "SEES SOCIAL CHANGES," reporting on an interview with another Adriatic passenger, unrelated to Titanic or Mme. Aubart.} Mrs. N. Aubart, a young Frenchwoman who was a survivor o...	3rd May 1912
	BRAVERY AWARD Trevor M. Bailey Ernest G F Brown...	1st April 2005
New York Times	LINER CEDRIC IN PORT The largest steamship ever constructed slowly made her way, last evening between 6 and 8 o'clock, up New York Bay and the North River to the White Star piers at the foot of Banks Street. The huge vessel was the new transatlant...	21st February 1903
New York Times	REWARD CARPATHIA'S CREW White Star Line Makes Gifts---Cunard to Claim No Damages --- By Marconi Transatlantic Wireless Telegraph to The New York Times --- LONDON, June 10---The White Star Line has announced that the Cunard Company has acceded to ...	11th June 1912
The Gazette (Montreal)	THOUSANDS VISIT LAURENTIC Thousands of interested sight-seers, each provided with a pass of admittance, without which the vessel would without doubt have been packed even beyond her great capacity, yesterday visited the new White Star-Dominion li...	10th May 1909
Titanic Research	THE LIFE AND TIMES OF HUGH WALTER MCELROY : CHIEF PURSER OF R.M.S. TITANIC Frank McElroy Coat of Arms...	19th June 2009
The Evening Post, Wellington, New Zealand	ARRIVAL OF THE R.M.S. COPTIC [AT WELLINGTON WITH E.J. SMITH IN COMMAND] The S.S. & A. Company's R.M.S. Coptic anchored in the harbour at 8.40 this morning. She left London on 12th December, Plymouth 14th, and reached Teneriffe on 19th; left again on the following morning, crossed the Equator o...	31st January 1890
The Sun (New York)	SMITH THOUGHT HIS SHIP UNSINKABLE Titanic's Skipper Was Never in an Accident on High Seas Before This One --- LOVED OCEAN LIKE A BOY --- Grew Up With White Star Line and Had Its Confidence---Junior Officers on Board --- ...	16th April 1912
Chicago Examiner	A TITANIC HERO Charles Brown, the English comedian now playing with "A Modern Eve" at the Garrick, lost a number of friends when the Titanic went down. He knew most of the officers on the ill-fated ship, and the purser, McElroy, had been a com...	2nd June 1912
The Greenwich News	GREENWICH PEOPLE SAVED MRS. WILLIAM T. GRAHAM AND MISS MARGARET AMONG RESCUED FROM TITANIC. RELATIVES OF OTHER GREENWICH PEOPLE ON STRICKEN SHIP ALL REACH PORT - TALES OF THE DISASTER FROM MISS GRAHAM AND MR. CARTER'S ...	19th April 1912
	NEAR TRAGEDY ON THE SEAS FOR STRAUS FAMILY Charles Spedding The following year both Captain Barr and myself were transferred to the Caronia for a voyage down to Alexandria from New York. Mr. and Mrs. Isadore Strauss ( sp ) were on board, and occupying one of the suites on the upper deck. ...	1926
New York Times	THOSE WHO SAW THE RESCUE Carpathia's Passengers, Who Were Bound for Mediterranean, Back. The passengers on the Carpathia, whose trip to the Mediterranean was interrupted to aid those saved from the Titanic, are: Rev. R. B. Anderson, Baltimore,...	19th April 1912
New York Times	MARITAL RIFT OVER, FIERMONTE RADIOS Italian Boxer Sends Word From Ship on Which Wife Sailed Suddenly on Saturday --- A DIVORCE WAS RUMORED --- Couple Were Wed Here Late in 1933---She Is the Former Mrs. Madeleine Force Astor Dick --- Enzo Fierm...	31st January 1935
New York Times	TITANIC SURVIVORS HONOR CAPT. ROSTRON They Present Silver Loving Cup to Him and Medals to His Officers and Men --- GIVES CREDIT TO HIS CREW --- Modest Skipper Praises and Thanks His Men for Them Loyalty and Committee for Its Gifts --- When the Cu...	30th May 1912
Boston Daily Globe	LATTIMER MOURNED Titanic's Chief Steward Well Known in Boston Prince of Entertainers and a Most Competent Officer Andrew Lattimer, senior chief steward of the Titanic, who was drowned, was well known in maritime and...	20th April 1912
	TITANIC CONNECTIONS WITH LIVERPOOL Titanic, Carpathia, Californian were all Liverpool registered ships. The Titanic was scheduled to visit the port on the voyage from Belfast to Southampton but this was cancelled almost at the last minute. ...
New York Herald	BRAVERY OF TITANIC SURGEON DR. WILLIAM FRANCIS NORMAN O'LOUGHLIN In accounts printed about the Titanic and the bravery of her officers little has been said of one who probably was the most widely known and best beloved of all classes....	22nd April 1912
New York Times	LEAPED FROM LINER AT SEA TO SAVE MAN Majestic's First Officer Dived Overboard after Coal Trimmer Who Attempted Suicide --- BUT LIFEBOAT MADE RESCUE --- Gift from Passengers for Officer's Deed--Another of Crew who Sought Death Successful --- The ...	9th May 1913
Titanic Review	DEATH OF A PURSER Stanley C. Jenkins Review of the new biography of Hugh McElroy, the Chief Purser of RMS Titanic:...	5th January 2012
New York Times	J. P. MORGAN SAILS; IS GOING TO EGYPT No Worry in Washington, Where He Is to Testify Some Time About Steel and Money --- NOT ON PASSENGER LIST --- Lords Deceis [sic; should be "Decies"] and Camoys, with Their American Brides, Also on th...	31st December 1911
Titanic Research	THE PORTRUSH LETTER Senan Molony THE LETTER fell onto the hall floor in the house at Main Street, Portrush, Co Antrim, in late April 1912. Hugh Smith, descending the stair, noticed it and picked it up. The American stamp...	31st January 2006