405 items found relating to : Southampton
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| SOUTHAMPTON TERMINUS A panoramic view of Southampton Terminus railway station, circa 1912, at which time it was known as Southampton Town & Dock.... |
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| SOUTHAMPTON TERMINUS The rear elevation of Southampton Terminus, circa 1912. Note the Southampton Corporation tramcar.... |
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| New York Times | [WHITE STAR'S FIRST SAILING FROM SOUTHAMPTON] SOUTHAMPTON, June 5---The White Star Line steamer Adriatic, which sailed from here at about 1 o'clock this afternoon for New York on her first Western trip from Southampton, was given an enthusiastic send-off, many craft crowd... |
6th June 1907 | |||
| STONE FAMILY INFORMATION Edmund Stone was born in Southampton in 1879. He was the son of William Stone (Railway Inspector) and Agnes Mary Jane Stone. In 1881 the UK Census has the family at 7 Brinton's Terrace, Southampton. With William and Agnes Stone were their 4 ... |
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| dailyecho.co.uk | PLANS TO SELL OFF SOUTHAMPTON'S 600-YEAR-OLD WOOLHOUSE REVEALED The Grade I listed Wool House, which houses the city's Titanic display, is being marketed by Southampton City Council. It is the only surviving freestanding mediaeval warehouse in Southampton, built in 1415 as a storehouse for wool to be exported to ...... |
4th April 2011 | |||
| The Toronto World | SOUTHAMPTON TOWN OF MOURNING SOUTHAMPTON, April 16.---Distressing scenes have been witnessed thruout the morning at the White Star offices here, which have been thronged by the relatives of the crew of the Titanic. The town is absolutely stunned by the news of t... |
17th April 1912 | |||
| QUEEN MARY AT SOUTHAMPTON DOCKS A panoramic view of Southampton Docks circa 1956, with RMS Queen Mary alongside. The small shunting locomotive visible in the centre of the picture was a former USA Transportation Corps "switcher", one of several that had been sold... |
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| SOUTHAMPTON ROYAL PIER The small station at Southampton Pier, which was in use from 1891 until 1914. The excursion steamer is typical of those which ran across the Solent to and from the Isle of Wight.... |
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| SOUTHAMPTON DOCKS Looking towards the Ocean /White Star Dock c. 1912... |
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| BBC News | SOUTHAMPTON'S TITANIC MUSEUM PLAN GETS GREEN LIGHT Southampton City Council says it will consider selling off assets and short-term borrowing to raise the extra £10m needed to build a £15m maritime museum.... |
4th August 2010 | |||
| CONTEMPORARY OBITUARY WAS born in Southampton forty-three years ago. He served his apprenticeship in the works of the London and South-Western Railway Co., and after other appointments sailed in vessels owned by the company as second engineer. Four years were spent with t... |
1912 | ||||
| BBC News | MUSICAL OF SOUTHAMPTON'S TITANIC CREW STORIES A trio of Southampton singer-songwriters have written a musical show based on the city's connections with the Titanic.... |
10th April 2010 | |||
| New York Times | SOUTHAMPTON EN FETE Arrival of Adriatic Inaugurates the New White Star Service --- SOUTHAMPTON, May 30---The City of Southampton was in holiday attire to-day in honor of the arrival here of the White Star liner Adriatic, f... |
31st May 1907 | |||
| BBC News | SOUTHAMPTON'S £8M AERONAUTICA MUSEUM PLAN UNVEILED Plans have been unveiled for a £8m museum celebrating Southampton's maritime and aviation history. ... |
19th June 2010 | |||
| Press Release | TITANIC WALKS : IPHONE APP : TITANIC TRAIL IN SOUTHAMPTON, UK Almost a century on, Southampton, England—the home port of RMS Titanic—carefully preserves the memory of the ship and those who tragically lost their lives on her ill-fated maiden voyage. Locals and visitors to Southampton who, in t... |
20th October 2010 | |||
| BBC News | LOTTERY CASH FOR SOUTHAMPTON'S TITANIC MUSEUM A new maritime museum in Hampshire has moved a step closer after the plan was awarded a £4.6m lottery grant. Southampton City Council had planned to sell off artwork to raise £5m of the total £15m cost but dropped the idea after criticism.... |
30th March 2010 | |||
| thisishampshire.net | SOUTHAMPTON AND BELFAST'S TITANIC MEMORIALS TAKE SHAPE AHEAD OF ANNIVERSARY THEY have both been billed as landmark tourist attractions to mark the 100th anniversary of Titanic's tragic maiden voyage. But council heritage bosses behind a £15m Titanic museum in Southampton have shrugged off ...... |
13th April 2011 | |||
| The Times | TITANIC SURVIVOR DEAD One of the few surviving members of the crew of the liner Titanic, Mr James Crimmins, died suddenly at a Southampton Salvation Army hostel yesterday, at the age of 65. (The Times of London, February 17, 1956, p. 3) * Cri... |
17th February 1956 | |||
| VARIOUS MEMORIALS: WILLIAM DUFFY Named on the magnificent Southampton Engineers Memorial, East Park, Southampton. also named on the Glasgow Institute of Marine Engineers memorial. also remembered on the London, Institute of Marine Engineers memorial.... |
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| Web | SOUTHAMPTON COMMEMORATION WEEKEND A group of long standing Titanic buffs will be attending Southampton's Titanic Commemoration this coming weekend...... |
6th April 2008 | |||
| ARTINFO | ARTWORK SALE TO FUND TITANIC MUSEUM OPPOSED IN ENGLAND SOUTHAMPTON, England— The Southampton City Council’s plans to auction off two artworks to help fund a museum dedicated to the Titanic is drawing art world opposition, with some critics fearing the precedent the sale might set.... |
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| Southern Daily Echo | SOUTHAMPTON TO STAGE EVENTS MARKING 97TH ANNIVERSARY OF TITANIC TRAGEDY A MONTH-LONG series of commemorative events will be staged in Southampton to mark the 97th anniversary of the sinking of Titanic. Fascination with the ship, her passengers and crew still continues unabated.... |
18th March 2009 | |||
| DEATH CERTIFICATE Certified Copy of an Entry of Death Registration District ... |
1913 | ||||
| GENERAL INFORMATION Jersey Address: 28 Old St. Johns Road, Jersey. In 1996 his family were still in business in Southampton - Baitdiggers and Fishing Tackle Dealers. Jack Poingdestre, whose parents lived at 28, Old St. John's Road, also had hi... |
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| BBC News | SOUTHAMPTON TITANIC ENGINEERS MEMORIAL IS RESTORED A newly-restored memorial marking the bravery of the engineers who died when the ill-fated RMS Titanic sank 98 years ago will be unveiled in Southampton.... |
2nd September 2010 | |||
| 1910 MAP OF SOUTHAMPTON Map... |
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| Daily Echo | SOUTHAMPTON'S SEA CITY MUSEUM GIVEN GO AHEAD COUNCILLORS have given the final go ahead for work to start on Southampton's £15m Sea City Museum.... |
29th September 2010 | |||
| Baskingstoke Gazette | HERITAGE CENTRE 'WILL PUT CITY ON MAP' THE proposed multi-million-pound Southampton Heritage Centre will put the city back on the map, tourist chiefs believe.As exclusively revealed by the Daily Echo yesterday, plans have been drawn up to transform the west wing of Southampton's iconic Civic Centre into a museum celebrating the city's history.... |
30th January 2008 | |||
| New York Times | SEAMEN'S STRIKE ABROAD LIVERPOOL, May 22---The projected move of the White Star Line to Southampton is responsible for a dispute between seamen and firemen and the company which threatens to spread. A hundred men belonging to the Oceanic refused to sai... |
23rd May 1907 | |||
| BBC News | SOUTHAMPTON AUTHORITY CRITICISED OVER ART SELL-OFF BID A council has been criticised by the Charity Commission over its plan to sell off art work in order to raise £5m to help fund a new Titanic museum. Southampton City Council had planned to sell work by French sculptor Auguste Rodin and British painter Sir Alfred Munnings but later dropped the idea. ... |
26th February 2010 | |||
| LETTER TO HIS MOTHER Mrs. Thomas Mudd, The Street, Hunting Field, Halesworth, Suffolk. Dear Mother, Arrived at Southampton safe - The Titanic is a splendid boat and you hardly know you are moving. Will write more fully later Your loving Son Tom. PS ... |
1912 | ||||
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| Guardian online | TITANIC MUSEUM TO OPEN IN SOUTHAMPTON BY 2012 Southampton is planning its own interactive Titanic museum to open in time for the centenary in 2012.... |
31st March 2009 | |||
| BBC News | NEW £15M SOUTHAMPTON TITANIC MUSEUM GETS TIME CAPSULE A time capsule has been buried beneath concrete at the site of a new £15m Titanic museum in Southampton.... |
5th February 2011 | |||
| 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... |
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| dailyecho.co.uk | GRANDDAUGHTER OF CARPATHIA MASTER SIR ARTHUR ROSTRON VISITS SOUTHAMPTON THE granddaughter of the Southampton sea captain who saved the lives of more than 700 survivors of the Titanic disaster, visited the city’s port today.Rosemary Pettet’s grandfather was Sir Arthur Rostron, master of the Cunard liner, Carpathia, who answered the SOS from Titanic as she was sinking in the Atlantic. ... |
10th January 2012 | |||
| Southern Daily Echo | MILLVINA DEAN TO BE BURIED TODAY Mourners are due to gather in Southampton to say a final farewell to Millvina Dean, the last remaining survivor of the Titanic disaster, today. Millvina, who died aged 97, was the youngest passenger on board the illfated White Star liner when the ship left on her maiden voyage from Southampton in April, 1912 The funeral service at Southampton Crematorium was set to include the seafarers' hymn Eternal Father, Strong to Save, which includes the famous chorus: For those in peril on the sea.... |
16th June 2009 | |||
| LAST CONTACT WITH TITANIC? Pete Morrall Was Jack Mew the last man to have contact with Titanic before she left Southampton?... |
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| Chicago Examiner | OLYMPIC TO BE REBUILT Special Cable to the Examiner. Belfast, Sept. 24---The White Star Line announces definitely that the steamer Olympic, sister of the Titanic, will come to Belfaast from Southampton for renovation. She will be ma... |
25th September 1912 | |||
| Southern Daily Echo | DESIGNERS UNVEILED FOR SOUTHAMPTON'S TITANIC MUSEUM THE team that will design Southampton's £15m Titanic museum has been appointed. In a major step forward for the world-class tourist attraction, Southampton City Council has appointed award-winning architects Wilkinson Eyre.... |
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| New York Times | ROUSED BY WHITE STAR LINE Liverpool and Queenstown Protest Against Change to Southampton --- LIVERPOOL, Jan. 9---Because of the strong feeling aroused locally by the statement that the White Star Line purposed to divert its steamers to Southampt... |
10th January 1907 | |||
| guardian.co.uk | TITANIC MUSEUM TO OPEN IN SOUTHAMPTON BY 2012 It is 97 years next month since she went down, but the Titanic - the supposedly unsinkable liner that scraped an iceberg in the north Atlantic on her maiden voyage and sank with the loss of 1,500 people - continues to exercise a huge public fascination. There have been several films and myriad books and documentaries, Belfast has its Titanic quarter around the docks where she was built - and now Southampton, the city which provided most of the crew, is planning its own interactive museum, to open in time for the centenary in 2012.... |
31st March 2009 | |||
| BIRTH CERTIFICATE CERTIFIED COPY OF AN ENTRY OF BIRTH Registration District Southam... |
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| thisishampshire.net | £450000 CONTRACT TO PROMOTE SOUTHAMPTON'S TITANIC-THEMED MUSEUM DOZENS of firms are likely to compete for a contract worth up to £450,000 to promote Southampton’s flagship Titanic-themed museum. City leisure chiefs says 45 firms, many local, have expressed an interest in the £90,000-a-year contract to market the £15m Sea City attraction, which is due to open in April next year. ... |
15th August 2011 | |||
| Southern Daily Echo | TWINNING WILL CEMENT TITANIC LINK In a cemetery in the Canadian town of Halifax in Nova Scotia, around 150 victims of the Titanic disaster are buried. Their bodies were recovered from the freezing waters of the north Atlantic days after the sinking.Now, leisure chiefs in Southampton are planning to cement the relationship between the two cities by signing an official "twinning" accord with the Canadians.The Mayor of Southampton, Councillor John Slade, is set to visit Halifax in March next year as part of the 95th anniversary commemorations of the disaster.... |
13th November 2006 | |||
| Western Morning News | WESTCOUNTRY CONNECTIONS A representative called at the residence of Mr. J. A. Pascoe, Crownhill, whose brother, Mr. C. H. Pascoe, is believed to be the only Westcountry member of the crew saved in the Titanic disaster, and had the pleasure of an interesting conversation wit... |
29th April 1912 | |||
| SHIERS FAMILY INFORMATION Alfred Charles Shiers was born in Devonport, Plymouth, Devon on 11th June 1886, the son of Alfred and May Shiers. His siblings were Frederick (b.1888) and Michael (b.1890). Shortly following his birth the family left Devon and settled at Southampton... |
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| Guernsey Evening Press | JACK POINGDESTRE Jack Poingdestre, whose parents lived at 28, Old St. John's Road Jersey, also had his home in Southampton. A month earlier he had been on the crew of the Oceana when it sank of Newhaven. That had been on March 16th. He at least was used to shipwrecks... |
April 1912 | |||
| VARIOUS MEMORIALS TO EDWARD DODD Named on the magnificent Southampton Engineers Memorial, East Park, Southampton. also named on the Glasgow Institute of Marine Engineers memorial. also remembered on the London, Institute of Marine Engineers memorial. also ... |
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| VARIOUS MEMORIALS TO RENNY DODDS Named on the magnificent Southampton Engineers Memorial, East Park, Southampton. also named on the Glasgow Institute of Marine Engineers memorial. also remembered on the London, Institute of Marine Engineers memorial. also ... |
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| MEMORIALS TO ALBERT GEORGE ERVINE Named on the magnificent Southampton Engineers Memorial, East Park, Southampton. also named on the Glasgow Institute of Marine Engineers memorial. also remembered on the London, Institute of Marine Engineers memorial.... |
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| thisishampshire.net | SOUTHAMPTON LOSES OUT TO BELFAST OVER TITANIC CENTENARY Both cities, each with a long maritime history and close connections with the ill-fated liner, are aiming to attract international attention when the 100th anniversary of the ship’s sinking is commemorated in April 2012. Now it seems Belfast has clinched the prized top position with not only the construction of a major £97m visitor attraction dedicated to the White Star ship, but also by the announcement of a unique partnership between the Ulster city and the American deep-sea explorer who found the liner’s wreck in 1985... |
2nd November 2011 | |||
| TITANIC RELIEF FUND MINUTE BOOK (From: Mansion House Titanic Relief Fund Booklet, March 1913) Number 102. Foster, Elizabeth Ann, mother. Foster, Mary, widow. Children: Vera and Leah. All class G dependants. (From the Titanic Relief Fund Minute Book number 2, S... |
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| VARIOUS MEMORIALS TO HENRY DYER Named on the magnificent Southampton Engineers Memorial, East Park, Southampton. also named on the Glasgow Institute of Marine Engineers memorial. also remembered on the London, Institute of Marine Engineers memorial. also ... |
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| VARIOUS MEMORIALS Named on the magnificent Southampton Engineers Memorial, East Park. also named on the Glasgow Institute of Marine Engineers memorial. also remembered on the London, Institute of Marine Engineers memorial. ... |
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| MANSION HOUSE TITANIC RELIEF FUND From the Mansion House Titanic Relief Fund Booklet (March 1913) Number 38. Biggs. Thomas, Father. Biggs Mrs. Mother. Both class G dependants. From the Titanic Relief Fund Minute Book number 2, Southampton Ar... |
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| HAMBLYN FAMILY INFORMATION Ernest William Hamblyn was born in Plymouth, Devon and his birth was registered there in the December Quarter of 1865. He remains elusive in early life but has been traced to Shirley, Southampton in the England & Wales 1901 census. It h... |
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| VARIOUS MEMORIALS Named on the magnificent Southampton Engineers Memorial, East Park. also named on the Glasgow Institute of Marine Engineers memorial. also remembered on the London, Institute of Marine Engineers memorial. also r... |
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| MEMORIALS: ARTHUR ROUS Named on the magnificent Southampton Engineers Memorial, East Park. also named on the Glasgow Institute of Marine Engineers memorial. also remembered on the London, Institute of Marine Engineers memorial. also r... |
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| Western Morning News | TITANIC DISASTER, WESTCOUNTRY PASSENGERS AND CREW An Exonian on board was Mr Harry Dyer, second son of Q.M.S. Dyer and Mrs Dyer of Mount Pleasant Road, Exeter. A smart young fellow, 25 years of age, he was fourth engineer, having transferred from the Olympic. He was in Exeter for a short holiday a... |
1912 | |||
| Southern Evening Echo | UNTITLED GOING through the contents of a war damaged safe after returning from his recent Australian tour Mr. Hector Young, O.B.E., former Southampton Mayor, came across a tattered postcard and a letter which brought back memories of the ill-fated White Star ... |
9th December 1952 | |||
| AN ARRIVAL IN SOUTHAMPTON |
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| TITANIC ARRIVES IN SOUTHAMPTON |
3rd April 1912 | ||||
| New York Times | TITANIC TESTS HER SPEED Then She Sails for Southampton to Prepare for Maiden Voyage by Marconi Transatlantic Wireless Telegraph to The New York Times LONDON, April 2.—The White Star liner Titanic, which has just been completed by Ha... |
3rd April 1912 | |||
| 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... |
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| NORMANDIE SOUTHAMPTON 1936. BOARDING |
1936 | ||||
| Stratford Express | THE TITANIC DISASTER Mr William Dixon Mackie, fifth engineer on the steamship Titanic, who, it is feared has perished in the wreck of that ill-fated vessel. Mr Mackie, who was 31 years of age, had resided recently when ashore at 2b, Margery Park-road, For... |
20th April 1912 | |||
| NORMANDIE SOUTHAMPTON 1936. VIEW TOWARDS THE STERN. |
1936 | ||||
| VARIOUS MEMORIALS TO JAMES SMITH Named on the magnificent Southampton Engineers Memorial, East Park. also named on the Glasgow Institute of Marine Engineers memorial. also remembered on the London, Institute of Marine Engineers memorial. also remembered on... |
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| nzherald.co.nz | TITANIC WRECK TOURS OFFERED TO MARK DISASTER'S CENTENARY The Titanic at the docks of Southampton prior to its doomed maiden voyage in April 1912. Expand The Titanic at the docks of Southampton prior to its doomed maiden voyage in April 1912. If you can't quite afford the US$200,000 (NZ$243,962) ticket to space on Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic, how about US$59,680 to dive down to the Titanic, which lies 3810m below the surface of the Atlantic Ocean? The latest exotic expedition for the moneyed traveller is being organised for next year, the centenary of the Titanic disaster. Passengers will descend to the Titanic's hulk two-by-two, aboard a three-person Russian Mir submersible.... |
20th September 2011 | |||
| H. M. T. OLYMPIC LEAVING SOUTHAMPTON The Ship that Brought me home Left Southampton June 7th - Arrived halifax June 132th 1919 1914 - Canadian Expeditionary Force - 1918 Mons St Eloi Neuve Chapelle Y... |
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| Chicago Examiner | SEEK WORD OF STEWARD Mrs. William J. Stroud, 217 East Thirty-first street, besought news of her husband's brother, Harry Stroud, yesterday at the White Star office. His name does not appear among those saved. "Harry Stroud lived in Southampton with ... |
19th April 1912 | |||
| MANSION HOUSE TITANIC RELIEF FUND : JAMES FRASER (From: Mansion House Titanic Relief Fund Booklet, March 1913) Number 99. Fraser, Florence, widow. Children: Florence Stephen and James. Stephen, Jane, widow's mother. All class B dependants. (From the Titanic Relief Fund Minute Book n... |
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| SAMUEL HEMMING'S GRAVE Hollybrook Cemetery, Lordshill, Southampton... |
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| Voyage | HERCULES John P. Eaton One of the tugs that got lines aboard New York and kept her from striking Titanic as the latter was leaving her Southampton dock. Port of Registry: South... |
20th February 2005 | |||
| RTE | FUNERAL FOR TITANIC'S LAST SURVIVOR The funeral has taken place in England of the last survivor of the Titanic disaster, Millvina Dean. The private service, attended by family and friends, took place at Southampton Crematorium, the funeral directors confirmed.... |
16th June 2009 | |||
| Chicago Examiner | POET KEMP LOCKED UP AS STOWAWAY Oceanic Officials to Prosecute Him at Souithampton Special Cable to the Examiner Plymouth, Oct. 3--Harry Kemp, the poet who eloped with the former wife of Upton Sinclair, was a stowaway on... |
4th October 1913 | |||
| HENRY BREWER'S WIFE? Robert J.Prewitt This is the family story as it has been passed to me form my grandparents, Edith and William Prewitt, now deceased and my father, Ronald Prewitt, very much alive as of 11/25/2005 born 3/16/1920. I spoke with him this ev... |
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| Southern Evening Echo | UNTITLED A Former White Star man who was a survivor of the Titanic disaster in April, 1912, 81-years-old Mr. John Hardy, left Southampton for New York last night in U.S. Lines America after his first home visit in 18 years. Mr. Hardy, who is now living... |
14th May 1952 | |||
| Southern Evening Echo | KEEPING IN TOUCH FIFTY-TWO years ago, Titanic survivor Mr Ernest Allen, of 40 Salisbury Road, Highfield, Southampton was a stoker in the ill-fated Titanic. Today at 72 years of age, he is still stoking and at the Ordnance Survey Office, London Road, Southampton, cont... |
4th September 1964 | |||
| MARCONIGRAM To: Hardy, Oakleigh, Holyrood Avenue, Highfield, Southampton, England. "Safe and well. - Jack"... |
18th April 1912 | ||||
| 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... |
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| Chicago Daily News | LINER OLYMPIC HITS A WRECK Ship Due at Southampton on Its Way To Belfast for Repairs. Belfast, Ireland, Feb. 27---The White Star liner Olympic, which left New York on Wednesday and was due in Southampton today, stru... |
27th February 1912 | |||
| Southampton Times and Hampshire Express | MR. C. H. LIGHTOLLER, THE SECOND OFFICER Mr. C. H. Lightoller, the second officer on the ill-fated Titanic, who is reported to be among the survivors, lived at Netley Abbey, and on Wednesday one of our representatives called on his wife at their residence at Hound to convey congratula... |
20th April 1912 | |||
| FRED FLEET'S GRAVE Hollybrook Cemetery, Lordshill, Southampton... |
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| FAMILY INFORMATION Henry Philip Creese was born in Falmouth, Cornwall in 1868. He was the son of Charles and Jane Creese. He had an elder brother, William Creese who was to lose his life on 19 November 1917 when the submarine, SS Jutland, was torpedoed off the Britta... |
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| 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 ... |
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| CENSUS In 1901 William Abrams (born in Hants Gosport) was aged 23 years. He lived in Southampton and worked as a Stoker.... |
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| Voyage | VULCAN John P. Eaton Vulcan struggling to pull the stern of the New York (left) away from Titanic's port side (Eaton-Haas Collection)... |
13th February 2005 | |||
| STEAMING AWAY This drawing by Ole Kolborg from Denmark was drawn originally for The Grapes pub in Southampton where some Titanic crewmen gathered prior to departure.... |
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| 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 ... |
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| The Syracuse Herald | FIRE RAGED ON TITANIC FIVE DAYS New York Aril 20th – That a fire had raged in the [?] bunkers of the liner Titanic from the day she left Southampton u... |
20th April 1912 | |||
| TITANIC RELIEF FUND MINUTES Book 3, Southampton Area The Committee authorises the continuance of Allowance of 3/- per week until 30th June 1924. ... |
23rd June 1923 | ||||
| Daily Echo | HESTON BLUMENTHAL'S TITANIC MENU SLAMMED HE’S considered Britain’s finest chef, but his latest culinary creation has left a bad taste in Southampton.... |
20th April 2010 | |||
| MEMORIAL Named on this memorial, now on display in two section at Southampton Maritime Museum.... |
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| CAPTAIN ARTHUR ROSTRON'S GRAVE West End Cemetery, West End, Southampton... |
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| TITANIC SAILS At noon on 10th April 1912 Titanic departs Southampton for Cherbourg.... |
10th April 1912 | ||||
| MEMORIAL Named on the left hand panel of the St. Augustines Church Memorial, (Maritime Museum) Southampton.... |
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| Barking Chronicle | THE TITANIC DISASTER. EAST HAM RESIDENTS MISSING We learn that Mr and Mrs R.J. Rogers, of 11 Southchurch Gardens, East Ham, have a son and a nephew amongst the crew of the Titanic, the deplorable sinking of which has created such widespread consternation... |
19th April 1912 | |||
| Cambridge Chronicle | EXCERPT Falling ice from the berg killed many persons on the decks. - William Jones, of Southampton, fireman. [page 5]... |
26th April 1912 | |||
| MEMORIALS TO WILLIAM DICKSON MACKIE Named on the magnificent Southampton Engineers Memorial, East Park. also named on the Glasgow Institute of Marine Engineers memorial. also remembered on the London, Institute of Marine Engineers memorial. also r... |
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| TITANIC LEAVES BELFAST FOR SOUTHAMPTON Titanic departs commanded by Captain Bartlett, later to command the Britannic on her final voyage.... |
2nd April 1912 | ||||
| Cambridge Chronicle | CAMBRIDGE MAN ABOARD It is feared that a Cambridge man was among those who lost their lives, and great anxiety is felt by his parents, who live in Cambridge, and relatives and close friends, as to his safety. We refer to Mr. A. W. Barringer, a native of Cambridge, who we... |
19th April 1912 | |||
| MANSION HOUSE TITANIC RELIEF FUND: WILLIAM DUFFY (From: Mansion House Titanic Relief Fund Booklet, March 1913) Number 88. Duffy, Ethel, widow; child: Mary; Ward, Marion, Aunt. All class D dependants. (From the Titanic Relief Fund Minute Book number 2, Southampton Area) ... |
March 1913 | ||||
| DATE OF MARRIAGE Marriage... |
21st October 1909 | ||||
| TITANIC RELIEF FUND MINUTES Book number 2, Southampton Area Case number C489. A grant of 10/6d be made to Mrs. Kerley for the purchase of spectacles. ... |
30th June 1913 | ||||
| TITANIC RELIEF FUND MINUTE BOOK NUMBER 2, SOUTHAMPTON AREA Case number C24. That Mrs. Hilda Allsop be granted the sum of £1 0s 0d for assistance with expenses due to the illness to her little boy. ... |
23rd April 1914 | ||||
| TITANIC RELIEF FUND MINUTE BOOK NUMBER 2, SOUTHAMPTON AREA Case number 550. That a sum of £2 be paid in lieu of Apprenticeship grant in respect of Elsie Parsons.... |
14th August 1913 | ||||
| TITANIC RELIEF FUND MINUTE BOOK NUMBER 2, SOUTHAMPTON AREA Case number C557. That a grant of 8/- be paid to Miss Penrose to cover the cost of eyeglass.... |
18th September 1914 | ||||
| LETTER FROM WILLIAM J. MELLORS TO HIS MOTHER - SOUTHAMPTON Letter written on RMS Titanic notepaper from second class passenger William J. Mellors to his mother... |
10th April 1912 | ||||
| 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) ... |
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| Salt Lake Tribune | FEAR PROVO WOMAN DISASTER VICTIM Page 3 Special to The Tribune PROVO, April 1900 Up to 4 o'clock this afternoon no word had been received in this city of the fate of Mrs. Irene C. Corbett who is supposed to have been a passenger on the Titanic when it... |
20th April 1912 | |||
| JOHN QUINN: A BRIEF BIOGRAPHY John Quinn was born in Belfast on 3rd March 1876 the son of a shoemaker, he was one of ... |
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| PROBATE REPORT Allsop, Alfred Samuel, of 134 Malmesbury Road, Freemantle, Southampton. Ships Electrician. Administration London 10th May 1912 to Hilda Allsop widow. Effects £152.6.7d.... |
10th May 1912 | ||||
| Hampshire Independent | DEATH NOTICE Tamlyn, Frederick Dearly Beloved Son of Alfred and Annie Tamlyn of 20 Upper Southampton Street. Aged 23. Deeply Mourned by His Father and Mother, Brothers and Sisters.... |
11th May 1912 | |||
| PROBATE REPORT Rogers, Edward James William of 120 Oxford Avenue, Southampton. Ships storekeeper. Administration Winchester 31st July to Elizabeth Rogers, widow. Effects £131.5s.0d.... |
31st July 1912 | ||||
| TITANIC RELIEF FUND MINUTE BOOK NUMBER 2, SOUTHAMPTON AREA Case number C299. Mrs. Barringer remarried on 14th January 1914 and the usual allowance was paid.... |
29th January 1914 | ||||
| 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 | ||||
| MEMORIAL He has a Memorial brick in his name in the Woolston, Southampton, Millennium Garden known as the Feathers in Victoria Road Woolston - which opened in April 2002.... |
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| MEMORIAL He has a Memorial brick in his name in the Woolston, Southampton, Millennium Garden known as the Feathers in Victoria Road Woolston - which opened in April 2002.... |
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| MEMORIAL He has a Memorial brick in his name in the Woolston, Southampton, Millennium Garden known as the Feathers in Victoria Road Woolston - which opened in April 2002.... |
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| ENGINEERS' MEMORIAL The Engineers Memorial which was unveiled at Andrews Park, Southampton on 22nd April 1914... |
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| 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''. ... |
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| PROBATE REPORT Barringer, Arthur William, Elsingore, Bath Street, Southampton. Probate - Winchester to Ethel Isabel Barringer. Estate £232 19s 11d.... |
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| Southern Daily Echo | TITANIC DESCENDANTS REMEMBERED DESCENDANTS of Southampton sailors lost on Titanic were among those who gathered in the city yesterday to commemorate the 95th anniversary of the tragedy.... |
30th April 2007 | |||
| Chicago Daily News | CHICAGOAN'S KIN TITANIC STEWARD A brother of William J. Stroud, 217 East 31st street, was a steward on the ill fated Titanic. Today Mrs. Stroud, sobbing tearfully, begged for news of her brother-in-law, Harry Stroud, of Southampton, England. “If Harry is dead,... |
18th April 1912 | |||
| PROBATE REPORT Murdoch, William McMaster, of 94 Belmont Road, Portswood, Southampton. Ships Officer. Administration, London 22nd July 1912 to Ada Florence Murdoch, widow. Effects £1141.9.4d.... |
22nd July 1912 | ||||
| TITANIC RELIEF FUND MINUTE BOOK Southampton Area Case number C400. That a grant of 2/- per week be made from the Compassionate Fund to Mrs. Edge because of sickness - vascular disease of heart and neuritis. ... |
2nd March 1914 | ||||
| TITANIC RELIEF FUND MINUTE BOOK NUMBER 2, SOUTHAMPTON AREA Case number C557. That an allowance of 3/6d per week be made to Annie Penrose - partial dependent - (sister) to continue for three years.... |
3rd December 1915 | ||||
| PROBATE REPORT Sloan, Peter of 77a Clovelly Road, Southampton. Electrician. Probate registered 24th May, 1912 to Annie Sloan, widow. Effects £487.0.0d.... |
24th May 1912 | ||||
| TITANIC RELIEF FUND MINUTE BOOK NUMBER 2, SOUTHAMPTON AREA Case number C299. Decision that a grant of £3 be made from the Compassionate Fund.... |
3rd June 1913 | ||||
| MARRIAGE OF FREDERICK WILLIAM EDGE Was married on November 3rd 1896 when aged 23 years to Catherine Fanny Youtman aged 21 years at St Marys Church Southampton.... |
3rd November 1896 | ||||
| TITANIC RELIEF FUND MINUTE BOOK NUMBER 2, SOUTHAMPTON AREA Case number C550. The Committee resolved to increase allowance to 8/- per week. Apprenticeship Grant of £15 was authorised in respect of boy Edward Parsons.... |
23rd April 1914 | ||||
| New York Times | CHANGE IN COMMODORES Capt. Haddock to Head White Star Line at Increased Pay --- Capt. E. J. Smith, R. N. R., the Commodore of the White Star Line, who is to command the new mammoth liner Olympic, will retire at the end of the present year, it is understoo... |
6th June 1911 | |||
| PROBATE REPORT [from Liverpool Library] Parsons, Edward of 26 Roberts Road, Hill Lane, Southampton. Probate London 11th May to Clara Parsons, widow. Effects £451.1s.4d.... |
11th May 1912 | ||||
| BBC News | TITANIC KEY IS SOLD FOR £90,000 A tiny key that might have helped prevent the Belfast-built Titanic sinking has fetched £90,000 at auction. The key, with the tag "Crows Nest Telephone Titanic" opened the binoculars store, but was not on the ship when it sailed from Southampton. ... |
23rd September 2007 | |||
| PROBATE REPORT Hamblyn Ernest William, of 2 Norman Villas, Dyer Road, Shirley Southampton. Ships Steward. Probate registered London 3rd June 1912 to Henry Archibald Jamieson, journalist. Effects £320.0.0.... |
3rd June 1912 | ||||
| TITANIC RELIEF FUND MINUTES Book 2, Southampton Area Case number C489 That the sum of 2/6d per week for three months be paid to Mr. and Mrs. Kerley (partially dependent parents) on account of Mrs. Kerley's illness - bronchitis and lung trouble.... |
23rd April 1914 | ||||
| Southern Daily Echo | TITANIC DISASTER REMEMBERED About 100 people assembled to commemorate one of the darkest days of Southampton's maritime history.They gathered at Holyrood Church for a service remembering the victims of the Titanic which sank in the North Atlantic 96 years ago tomorrow.... |
14th April 2008 | |||
| The Sun | IT'S RETURN OF TITANIC A REPLICA of sunk liner Titanic is to be built in its home port as a tourist attraction.Southampton council hopes to finish the £15million project in time for the 100th anniversary of the disaster in April 2012. ... |
9th October 2008 | |||
| PROBATE REPORT Hodges, Henry Price, of "The Cotswolds", Highfield Lane Portswood, Southampton. Probate registered London 3rd September 1912, to Ellen Hodges, widow. Effects £16,694.5.3d. ... |
3rd September 1912 | ||||
| Daily Echo | TITANIC AUCTION SPARKS INTERNATIONAL INTEREST AMONG COLLECTORS An international bidding war is expected to break out when rare memorabilia from the ill-fated Southampton liner Titanic goes under the auctioneers hammer in the city.... |
6th November 2010 | |||
| Southern Daily Echo | LINK WITH THE TITANIC: DEATH OF LOOK-OUT MAN AT SOUTHAMPTON A notable figure among the survivors of the Titanic has been removed by death at the Sailors' Home at Southampton on Tuesday of Reginald Robinson Lee, on whom an inquest was held by the Borough Coroner (Mr. H. K. Pope) yesterday afternoon. Le... |
8th August 1913 | |||
| NORMANDIE SOUTHAMPTON 1936. MORE OF HER ROLL. Another Ralph Klein view of the Normandie in mid-roll.... |
1936 | ||||
| PROBATE REPORT Bochet - Guiuseppe Pietro of 5 Shakespeare Avenue, Southampton. Waiter. Probate Winchester 11th December 1912 to Maria Eugene Dolores Bochet, widow. Effects £120.16s.0d. ... |
1912 | ||||
| Tottenham, Wood Green and Edmonton Journal | THE TITANIC TALES THE TITANIC Tales, about the ill-fated British luxury liner, is written by Rory Thersby and is about nine individual characters out of the many thousands that boarded the ship that fateful night in Southampton in 1912. ... |
20th February 2007 | |||
| Surrey Advertiser and County Times | OTHER PASSENGERS Among others on board the vessel, and who, it is feared, has been drowned, was Mr. E. W. Hamblyn, of Southampton, elder brother of Mrs. H. A. Jamieson, of Portesbury Road, Camberley, Surrey. He was a steward on the liner, having been promoted from th... |
20th April 1912 | |||
| 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... |
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| bymnews.com | NEW PACKAGES FOR TITANIC MEMORIAL CRUISE GO ON SALE With just over eight months to go until the centenary of the sinking of the Titanic, more than 1309 passengers from all over the world are preparing to set sail on a replication of the fateful voyage. The original cruise leaving from Southampton is ...... |
2nd August 2011 | |||
| TITANIC'S FUEL The Titanic left Southampton with 5892 tons of coal.Some of the coal, including this fragment, was salvaged from the wrecksite and broken up for sale.... |
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| New York Times | CAPT. HADDOCK DEAD, OLYMPIC EX-MASTER SOUTHAMPTON, England, Oct. 5 (AP)---Capt. Herbert James Haddock, a former commodore of the old White Star Line, died today. His age was 85. During the first World War he commanded a dummy fleet of wooden dreadnoughts and battle cruise... |
6th October 1946 | |||
| Southern Daily Echo | DEATH NOTICE Wyeth, James. Fireman, Aged 25, Beloved Husband of Isabella Annie Wyeth, of 14 Millbank Street, Northam. [Also appeared in the Hampshire Independent 4th May 1912 and Southampton Times 11th May 1912]... |
1st May 1912 | |||
| TITANIC RELIEF FUND MINUTE BOOK NUMBER 2, SOUTHAMPTON AREA Case number A grant of 5/- per week be paid from the Compassionate Fund to purchase surgical appliances for Mr. Reed (Partially dependent father).... |
27th November 1913 | ||||
| this is hampshire,net | RECREATING THE VOICES OF THE TITANIC IT has already led to a Hollywood blockbuster, seen hundreds of valuable mementoes auctioned off and spawned a legion of enthusiasts worldwide.The sinking of the Titanic, when it hit an iceberg off the coast of Newfoundland during its maiden voyage from Southampton to New York, today continues to captivate generations.... |
13th February 2007 | |||
| Guernsey Evening Press | MR. J. DUQUEMIN The relations of Mr. Joseph Duquemin, reported to be one of the survivors of the Titanic Disaster, have not yet heard from him direct, but yesterday a letter was received from the White Star line's Southampton Office, confirming the telegram sent on ... |
20th April 1912 | |||
| ALLSOP: PROBATE INFORMATION ALLSOP Frank Richard of 78 Obelisk Road Woolston Southampton died at sea 15 April 1912 Administration London 29 June 1912 to Elizabeth Allsop widow. Effects £69 13s 7d. ... |
1912 | ||||
| PROBATE REPORT: WILLIAM FARQUHARSON Farquharson, William Edward, of 90 Wilton Avenue, Southampton. Ships engineer. Administration, London 24th May 1912 to Martha Ellen Farquharson, widow. Effects £428.7.0d.... |
24th May 1912 | ||||
| Western Morning News | UGBOROUGH MAN'S STORY J. Horswell (sic), a sailor, residing in Southampton, said though he was now lodging at Southampton, he hailed from Ugborough. He acted as bowman in one of the emergency boats, and among the passengers with them were Sir Cosmo and Lady Duff Gordon. ... |
29th April 1912 | |||
| MEMORIALS TO CAPTAIN SMITH At Beacon Park, Lichfield, Staffordshire there is a fine statue to Captain Smith. The statue was sculptured by Kathleen, Lady Scott, C.V.O and unveiled by the Captain's daughter Helen on 29th July 1914.There is a stained glass window to ... |
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| TITANIC BISCUIT A biscuit with an impressed image of the Titanic measuring 2 ½ in. diameter, made by Carr, Carlisle. Removed from the ship by Board of Trade official Captain Morris Harvey Clarke, Southampton 1912.... |
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| NORMANDIE STARBOARD SIDE SOUTHAMPTON 1936 Perhaps the most striking of Ralph Klein's Normandie photos is this one, looking forward along the starboard side, from aboard the Gracie Fields.... |
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| CREWMAN E. BROWN AND TWO OTHER TITANIC SURVIVORS Survivors from the Titanic disaster arrive in Southampton. The centre figure in the photograph is Mr E. Brown who was unable to swim but kept afloat for an hour by clinging to a lifebelt.... |
April 1912 | ||||
| Journal | JOHN JOSEPH DIAPER-CREW Geoff Knight Family historians uncover story of ‘lost’ Titanic survivor ... |
28th February 2010 | |||
| Liverpool Echo | TITANIC'S LINKS TO LIVERPOOL TITANIC had strong links with Liverpool although she never visited her home port – by 1912 the White Star Line's largest and fastest Atlantic steamers were sailing from Southampton.... |
31st October 2009 | |||
| Hampshire Advertiser | LINK WITH TITANIC - DEATH OF THE LOOK-OUT MAN AT SOUTHAMPTON A noticeable figure among the survivors of the Titanic has been removed by the death at the Sailors’ Home Southampton on Tuesday of Reginald Robinson Lee, on whom an inquest was held by the Borough Coroner (Mr. H. K. Pope) on Friday afternoo... |
9th August 1913 | |||
| GRAVE OF SARAH ELEANOR SMITH [Sarah Eleanor Smith was knocked down by a Taxi in Southampton in 1931 and subsequently perished.]... |
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| Staffordshire Advertiser | STAFFORDSHIRE VICTIMS OF THE DISASTER Captain E. J. Smith, the commander of the ill-fated vessel, was a native of Hanley, the son of Mr. E. J. Smith. He was educated at the British School, then under the mastership of the late Mr.... |
20th April 1912 | |||
| MILLVINA AT HOME Millvina Dean photographed at her Southampton home.... |
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| PROBATE INFORMATION SMITH John Richard Jago of 45 Atherley Road Southampton sorting clerk died 15 April 1912 at sea Administration Winchester 10 August 1912 to John Smith farmer. Effects £556 12s 1d. ... |
1912 | ||||
| bbc.co.uk | 100 YEARS SINCE TITANIC SET SAIL It was 100 years ago that the Titanic, the largest passenger ship ever made at the time, was launched in Belfast where it was built. The ship didn't make its doomed voyage from Southampton to New York until the following year, 1912...... |
13th April 2011 | |||
| Southern Daily Echo | WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO TITANIC PLAQUE? THE FUTURE of an important monument on Southampton's heritage trail has been thrown into doubt, the Daily Echo can reveal.Plans by Royal Mail to shut the city's main post office means the Titanic Postal Workers Memorial has an uncertain fate.... |
9th October 2007 | |||
| Tulsa World | ALL ABOARD FOR ONE TITANIC CELEBRATION She left Southampton April 10, 1912, bound for New York, with stops at Cherbourg and Queens-town — now Cobh, in southern Cork County, Ireland — in between. Before she sank famously about 400 miles south of the Grand Banks of Newfoundland, the RMS Titanic served, well, the meal of a lifetime.... |
15th April 2010 | |||
| RYDE PIER A postcard view of Ryde Pier, Isle of Wight, looking north towards the pierhead and Spithead, circa 1912. The Titanic would have passed this structure shortly after leaving Southampton on the first leg of her journey to Cherbourg. &nb... |
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| Southern Daily Echo | SOUTHAMPTON'S TITANIC STORY PLANS UNVEILED THE final plans for Southampton’s £15m Sea City Museum can today be exclusively unveiled. The museum, which will reshape the city’s Civic Centre forever, is expected to attract 150,000 visitors a year.... |
18th December 2009 | |||
| TITANIC RELIEF FUND Minute Book number 2, Southampton Area Case number C150. That Miss Carpenter, Police Court Missioner be requested to endeavour to persuade Mrs Worthman to go into a home for the inebriates and if Mrs. Worthman will not consent, then to... |
23rd April 1914 | ||||
| GuardOnline.com | TITANIC: THE LEGEND CONTINUES IN BRANSON MUSEUM BRANSON, Mo. - On April 10, 1912, the Royal Mail Ship Titanic set sail from Southampton, United Kingdom, on its maiden voyage to New York. At that time, it was the largest and most luxurious ship ever built.... |
22nd December 2006 | |||
| Daily Echo | ENGINEERS MEMORIAL TO BE UNVEILED TODAY AFTER RESTORATION BY TELEVISION COMPANY A NEWLY-restored memorial marking the bravery of the engineers who died when ill-fated Southampton liner Titanic sank 98 years ago is being unveiled tomorrow in East Park at 2pm. ... |
7th September 2010 | |||
| PARSONS: PROBATE INFORMATION PARSONS Edward of 26 Roberts Road Hill Lane Southampton died 15 April 1912 at sea Probate London 11 May 1912 to Clara Parsons widow. Effects £451 1s 4d.... |
1912 | ||||
| pocklingtonpost.co.uk | CHILDREN RAISE TITANIC'S AWARENESS WITH PROJECT Youngsters at Mount Pleasant Junior School in Market Weighton have submerged themselves into a topic looking at Titanic, the ship that sank in the Atlantic on its maiden voyage from Southampton to New York almost 100 years ago...... |
13th May 2011 | |||
| Southern Daily Echo | TITANIC SURVIVOR GETS MAYORAL TRIBUTE SOUTHAMPTON mayor John Slade said it with flowers when he visited Titanic survivor Millvina Dean.Millvina, 95, broke her hip in a fall at her bungalow and has spent the past few months in a nursing home at Woodlands, near Ashurst.... |
8th May 2007 | |||
| OLYMPIC CLOCK A study fot the Olympic's clock in the Grand Staircase, pictured at Southampton's Maritime Museum.... |
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| PERSONAL INFORMATION Miss Eliina Honkanen, 27, was born in Finland. She lived in Saatrjkvi, Finland and had a family in Helsingforfs. She boarded as a third class passenger at Southampton, her ticket cost £7 18s 18d. Her destination was 16 West Street, Q... |
1912 | ||||
| thisishampshire.net | TITANIC SURVIVOR DIES ONE of the two last survivors of the 1912 sinking of the ill-fated Southampton liner, Titanic, has died.Throughout her life, Barbara West Dainton shunned publicity, refusing to talk about the loss of the Titanic and in the end she insisted her funeral, held earlier this week in Truro, was to take place before any public announcement of her death.... |
7th November 2007 | |||
| MEMORIAL There is a large rock with attached anchor in the Common Cemetery, Southampton: In loving memory of Ernest William Hamblyn who was lost at sea through the foundering of the S.S. Titanic on April 15th 1912. Aged 46 years. ''We cannot bend before his g... |
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| Voyage | THE TUGS AT TITANIC'S DEPARTURE John P. Eaton Albert Edward, Hercules, Vulcan, Ajax, Hector Neptune Registered 10 September 1861, the Southampton, Isle of Wight and South of England Royal Mail Steam Packet Limited Company was known during its early years... |
6th February 2005 | |||
| LETTER BY FR BYLES TO MISS FIELD Dear Miss Field, On board ship one has little to do to fill up time so I start to write a letter to yo... |
10th April 1912 | ||||
| CAPTAIN SMITH ON THE BRIDGE OF THE TITANIC Captain Smith photographed by a newspaper photographer on the bridge of the Titanic. Southampton, April 1912. A Engine Telegraph is visible in the background.... |
April 1912 | ||||
| 1911 Census | EDITH AND TREASTEALL PEACOCK IN THE 1911 CENSUS Here is the 1911 census for Edith and her daughter, Treasteall. They were living in a four room house at 17 Orchard Place, Southampton. Name: Trea... |
2nd April 1911 | |||
| PROBATE REPORT FROM LIVERPOOL: EDWARD DODD Edward Charles Dodd of Bannisters Hotel, Queens Parade, Southampton. Marine engineer. Administration Winchester 21st October, 1912 to Henry Charles Dodd retired plumber. Effects £184.16.1d.... |
21st October 1912 | ||||
| Daily Echo | WEEK'S DELAY FOR TITANIC EXHIBITION ORGANISERS of an ambitious exhibition of rare Titanic memorabilia, due to go on display in Southampton tomorrow, have been forced to delay the opening until next week.... |
10th April 2010 | |||
| Canada.com | JOURNEY ON THE TITANIC I am handed a White Star Line boarding pass, bearing a name - my new identity for the next hour - before I enter the Titanic exhibit at the Ontario Science Centre.My name is Mrs. William Coutts, but you can call me Winnie. I'm from Southampton, England and I'm boarding the RMS Titanic here with my two young sons. We'll be staying in the third-class cabins.... |
3rd August 2007 | |||
| NORMANDIE SOUTHAMPTON 1936. SHOWING HER FAMOUS ROLL. Ralph Klein captured the Normandie's famous roll in this shot. Note that the ocean does not seem particularly rough.... |
1936 | ||||
| bbc.co.uk | TUG BOAT ON LAST VOYAGE TO HERITAGE MUSEUM In its heyday the tug manoeuvred grand liners, such as the Queen Mary, Queen Elizabeth, and Titanic's sister ship Olympic, in and out of Southampton. As a luxury tender it ferried the famous from anchored ships, including Winston Churchill...... |
5th April 2011 | |||
| Chicago Daily Journal | HARRY STROUD Harry Stroud, boarded steamer in Southampton, a steward on the Titanic, was expected to visit his brother, who lives at 217 East Thirty-First street; name missing from list of survivors. Chicago... |
19th April 1912 | |||
| Yeovil Express | TITANIC REMEMBERED: 95TH ANNIVERSARY THIS month commemorates the 95th anniversary of the sinking of RMS Titanic. Overnight April 14-15, 1912, the luxurious passenger liner sank en-route to New York from Southampton on her maiden voyage. Some 1,496 people were lost at sea, while only 712 passengers and crew members survived. One of those who did survive came from Yeovil.... |
25th July 2007 | |||
| GENERAL INFORMATION Hodge, Charles. WAS twenty-nine years of age, and held a second engineer's certificate. His birthplace was Devonport. He served his apprenticeship with Messrs. Davey, Sleep & Co., of Plymouth. He had been in the service of the White St... |
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| The Times | LAST VOYAGE OF THE OLYMPIC CIVIC RECEPTION ON BOARD AT JARROW The liner Olympic (45,439 tons gross) sailed from Southampton last evening on her last voyage to Jarrow, where she is to be broken up. Among the hundred people who waved the liner farewell were a ... |
12th October 1935 | |||
| Voyage | OCEANIC John P. Eaton White Star Line Not only was Oceanic operated by the same company that operated Titanic, she was also directly associated with Titanic at the beginning of her maiden voyage as well as during the first weeks following... |
11th July 2005 | |||
| BBC News | TITANIC MUSEUM DESIGNS UNVEILED Designs showing how Southampton's new museum, marking the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, will look have been unveiled.... |
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| NORMANDIE SOUTHAMPTON 1936 The Normandie seen in late summer 1936, from aboard the tender Gracie Fields. This series of photos was taken by an American tourist class passegner named Ralph Klein.... |
1936 | ||||
| Southern Daily Echo | HUMAN TRAGEDY OF THE TITANIC Neil Hotson Mrs Saunders, a widow, was walking down Bridge Street in the direction of Southampton Docks railway station. She was carrying her handbag, which contained six shillings. John Dixon was also walking in Bridge Street. He had arrive... |
16th February 2002 | |||
| HISTORY.COM : TITANIC The Titanic was a British luxury passenger liner that sank on April 14–15, 1912, en route to New York City from Southampton, England, during its maiden voyage, killing about 1,500 passengers and ship personnel. One of the most famous tragedies in modern history, it has inspired numerous stories, several films, and a musical and has been the subject of much scholarship and scientific speculation.... |
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| Southern Daily Echo | TITANIC PASSENGER'S LETTERS FETCH £19,000 LETTERS which tell the story of a passenger on the ill-fated Titanic fetched £19,129 when they went under the hammer today.Businessman Charles Jones, who worked for Colgate toothpaste company in New York, was returning to the United States after a trip to Britain to buy sheep when he died on the Southampton liner's maiden voyage in 1912.... |
11th April 2008 | |||
| Belfast Telegraph | TITANIC SALE SURVIVOR SELLS MEMORABILIA Titanic survivor Millvina Dean is to put up more of her family memorabilia for auction to raise money to pay for her nursing home fees. In an interview with Ronan Corrigan from the Nomadic Charitable Trust, the 96-year-old woman revealed that she has another 17 items available to put on the market and will be auctioning some of them at Devizes in Southampton next month.... |
6th February 2009 | |||
| PROBATE REPORT FROM WINCHESTER RECORD OFFICE: EDWARD DODD Dodd, Edward Charles, Bannisters Hotel, Queens Parade, Southampton. Engineer. At sea. Administration: Winchester 21 October 1912 to Henry Charles Dodd retired Plummer. Estate £184 16s 1d.... |
21st October 1912 | ||||
| The Stevens Point Journal | FATED SHIPS HOLD AFIRE Fireman Details How Flames Broke Out In Coal Bunkers After Leaving Southampton and Steamship Was Rushed Westward So That Blaze Might Be Extinguished in New York Port. ... |
27th April 1912 | |||
| New York Times | ROSTRON NOW CUNARD COMMODORE Captain Sir Arthur H. Rostron will succeed the late Sir James Charles as Commodore of the Cunard fleet and will hoist his flag on the Berengaria next Saturday when she leaves Southampton for New York. The Aquitania has been the flagship of the Cu... |
24th July 1928 | |||
| thisisstaffordshire.co.uk | 'TERRIBLE NEWS FROM THE ATLANTIC' THAT is how The Staffordshire Sentinel reported the sinking of the Titanic in ...Stoke & Staffordshire. The story read: 'The terribly alarming news reached us this morning that the new White Star Line Titanic, which was proceeding upon her maiden voyage from Southampton to New York, has been in collision with an iceberg, and was in a sinking condition. ...... |
26th May 2011 | |||
| HICHENS: PROBATE INDEX HICHENS, Robert of 40 Shirley Road, Southampton Died 23 September 1940 at Aberdeen Bay Aberdeen. Administration Winchester 20 January 1941 to Robert Hichens transport clerk and Phillis May Russell (wife of Alfred Sydney Russell). Effects £124 16s 10... |
1941 | ||||
| Irish Times | COBH SAILOR RECOLLECTED AT 'TITANIC' CEREMONY A NATIVE of Cobh, Co Cork, who died in the sinking of the Titanic was remembered at a special ceremony yesterday, 98 years after the Titanic stopped at on its maiden voyage from Southampton to New York. All of those who died when the ship sank were recalled at the commemoration in her last port of call.... |
13th April 2010 | |||
| Irish Times | COBH SAILOR RECOLLECTED AT 'TITANIC' CEREMONY A NATIVE of Cobh, Co Cork, who died in the sinking of the Titanic was remembered at a special ceremony yesterday, 98 years after the Titanic stopped at on its maiden voyage from Southampton to New York. All of those who died when the ship sank were recalled at the commemoration in her last port of call.... |
13th April 2010 | |||
| MEMORIAL PLAQUE In September 1998 a plaque to the memory of Mr. Hodges was unveiled at the County Hotel (now the Highfield House Hotel), Highfield Lane, Portswood, Southampton. SO17 1AQ, which is the site of the large house that Mr. Hodges lived with his wife and ei... |
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| thisishampshire.net | TITANIC VISION FOR £30M MUSEUM A MULTI-MILLION-POUND tourist attraction commemorating the Titanic disaster is today exclusively revealed by the Daily Echo.The west wing of the Civic Centre, home to the police station and old magistrates' courts, would be transformed into a £30m museum celebrating Southampton's history if the city council's vision is realised.... |
25th July 2008 | |||
| Ocala | OCALAN WENT TO GREAT LENGTHS TO SECURE TITANIC PASSENGER'S SIGNATURE Scanning a sea of more than 650 famous autographs on a tablecloth, one might ask: Who is Millvina Dean? Of all the personalities on the cloth, from Hank Aaron to Zig Ziglar, Walter Light Jr. said he found Dean the most captivating.... |
16th June 2009 | |||
| independent.ie | COMMEMORATIVE TITANIC CRUISE TO DOCK AT COBH, 100 YEARS ON Preparations are continuing in Cobh, Co Cork, to welcome a 100th anniversary commemorative cruise retracing the voyage of the ill-fated Titanic in 1912. The cruise, which has been completely sold out, will depart from Southampton on April 8 next year with 1,300 passengers from 22 different countries, including 35 from Ireland.... |
7th August 2011 | |||
| Southern Daily Echo | COURT MAY STAGE TITANIC EXHIBITION SOUTHAMPTON'S former magistrates' court could be used to stage a Titanic exhibition to commemorate the 95th anniversary of the liner's sinking next year, the Daily Echo can reveal.The idea emerged during a full council debate on the future of leisure and heritage services, held at the Civic Centre last night.... |
17th November 2006 | |||
| Western Morning News | TITANIC DISASTER, WESTCOUNTRY PASSENGERS AND CREW Mr Forbes Julian of Redholme, Braddons Road, Torquay, was a passenger on the Titanic. It is known that Mr Julian was on board when the liner left Southampton last Wednesday, it being his intention to spend several weeks in the United States. Up to ... |
17th April 1912 | |||
| Romsey Advertiser | TITANIC MEMORABILIA FROM THE GRAPES UP FOR AUCTION A FORMER Southampton pub's collection of Titanic memorabilia is to go under the hammer at a Dorset auction house today.The Grapes in Oxford Street was steeped in Titanic folklore and, according to city legend, was where six lucky crew were drinking when they forgot the time and missed the liner's doomed maiden sailing. ... |
2nd March 2009 | |||
| LETTER FROM CATERINA GILARDINO, NIECE OF VINCENZO GILARDINO I do not know the year Vincenzo Gilardino came to England but it must have been in the last years of the 1800s because in 1901 my father (Paulo) Gustavo, Vincenzo's brother, was sent to England by their father to try + persuade Vincenzo to return to ... |
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| CLEAN-SHAVEN MCQUILLAN, THE MYSTERY BLADE-DONOR? Senan Molony (William McQuillan, from a family photo)... |
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| OLYMPIC LEAVING FOR JARROW SCRAPYARD, OCT. 1935 The Olympic pictured on October 12th, 1935, in Southampton, hours before beginning her last trip to the Jarrow scrapyards. This striking view shows how impressive the Olympic was.... |
12th October 1935 | ||||
| MANSION HOUSE RELIEF FUND 1913 Number 96. Eagle, Ellen, Mother, received 17/6 per week as class G dependent. The Titanic Relief Fund Minute Book number 2, Southampton Area December 22nd 1913. Case number C96. That an application for additi... |
1913 | ||||
| PERSONAL INFORMATION Miss Erna Alexandra Andersson, 17, the daughter of Mr Anders Israelsson, was born in Finland. She lived in Kulla gard, Lovisa, Finland. Erna boarded as a third class passenger at Southampton, her ticket cost £7 18s 18d. Her destinatio... |
1912 | ||||
| Chicago Tribune | SAILOR, TITANIC SURVIVOR, DIES Reginal Lee, One of Seamen in the Lookout When Steamer Sank, Succumbs in London Reginald Lee, one of the two sailors in the lookout when the White Star liner Titanic met in disastrous collision with an iceberg a year... |
10th August 1913 | |||
| THE BABY OF THE TITANIC Don Mullan Talks to Millvina Dean "I first met Millvina Dean at a HMS Titanic Convention in Southampton in 1997 with my children. It was my eldest daughter Therese's fascination with the James Cameron's movie 'Titanic' that brought us there. From the moment we met Millvina, there was an instant friendship.... |
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| Liverpool Echo | WERE SALVAGED MIRRORS DESTINED FOR TITANIC? SALVAGE experts are trying to find out if mirrors discovered buried in mud in a Southampton junkyard were destined for the stricken Titanic.The mirrors were discovered buried at a yard where surplus stock from liners, said to be supplied by prestigious Liverpool china and glassware company Stonier & Co, ended up.... |
21st November 2007 | |||
| Liverpool Daily Post | TITANIC LUNCH FOR COMMEMORATION PLAN LIVERPOOL Lord Mayor Steve Rotheram yesterday hosted a lunch identical to the last meal eaten by passengers onboard the Titanic.It was part of the first gathering of the 'Titanic Cities' event, aimed at bringing together representatives from places with a connection with the ill-fated vessel. The ship was registered in Liverpool and had the city's name on her stern, although she was built in Southampton.... |
15th July 2008 | |||
| Book of Odds | OCEAN LINERS: TITANIC TO TODAY On April 15th, 2012, the passengers of the Balmoral, a cruise ship on the North Atlantic, will pause shortly after midnight to commemorate the loss of a vessel that sailed the same waters exactly 100 years before. The entire cruise, which departs Southampton on the 8th of April and is scheduled to arrive in New York 12 days later, is a memorial to a ship that never completed this particular journey: the RMS Titanic. ... |
14th April 2010 | |||
| Book of Odds | OCEAN LINERS: TITANIC TO TODAY On April 15th, 2012, the passengers of the Balmoral, a cruise ship on the North Atlantic, will pause shortly after midnight to commemorate the loss of a vessel that sailed the same waters exactly 100 years before. The entire cruise, which departs Southampton on the 8th of April and is scheduled to arrive in New York 12 days later, is a memorial to a ship that never completed this particular journey: the RMS Titanic.... |
14th April 2010 | |||
| irishtimes.com | COBH CEREMONY HONOURS VICTIMS OF 'TITANIC' - IRISH TIMES A COMMEMORATION of the victims of the Titanic's sinking was held in Cobh yesterday, one day short of 99 years after the liner called to the Cork town on her ill-fated voyage from Southampton to New York. On Thursday, April 11th, 1912, 123 steerage ...... |
11th April 2011 | |||
| New York Times | A PLAN TO FEED ENGLAND Cold Storage and Shipping Company's Plants in English Cities --- They Will Contain Products Worth Hundreds of Millions---Americans Conceive the Scheme --- J. M. Smart, who is connected with the Southampton Cold Storage Com... |
26th May 1901 | |||
| The Times | FIREMAN KILLED WIFE Western Assizes William Mintram, 33, a mariner, was tried for the wilful murder of Eliza May Rose Mintram, his wife, at Southampton, on October 18th [1902]. Mr Evans Austin, and Mr E. L. Craik appeared for... |
24th November 1902 | |||
| SOUTHAMPTON 1936-ROUNDING THE STERN The Gracie Fields rounds the Normandie's stern.... |
1936 | ||||
| The Evening Telegram | HAD LETTER LAST FRIDAY Newspaper article... |
16th April 1912 | |||
| GEORGE CHITTY'S MARRIAGE CERTIFICATE Juliette Walden married George Henry Chitty on April 8th 1880 in Hound Parish Church. George's profession is recorded as Army Service Corps. Their deaths are remembered o... |
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| Yorkshire Post | TITANIC MEMORABILIA FETCH £300,000 A bag belonging to the last living Titanic survivor and flask that once contained hot milk for lifeboat passengers were among memorabilia from the disaster which have fetched about £300,000 at auction. Millvina Dean, 97, of Southampton, who was lowered from the deck of the sinking ship as a baby in 1912, put her treasured items up for sale to help pay her nursing home fees.... |
25th April 2009 | |||
| Southern Evening Echo | OBITUARY TITANIC survivor Mr. Ernest Allen, of Salisbury Road, Highfield, Southampton, a stoker in the ill-fated liner, has died at his home at the age of 80. Mr. Allen nearly lost his life in an attempt to save his younger brother, who was at sea for the fir... |
30th December 1968 | |||
| TITANIC RELIEF FUND MINUTE BOOK, NUMBER 2, SOUTHAMPTON AREA Case number C557. Reference to the application for payment of one years school fees at Skerrys College at the rate of £2 2s 0d per term in respect of Dorothy Penrose (daughter). The Committee suggests that she should attend Evening School and that fo... |
19th June 1914 | ||||
| Southern Evening Echo | ARTICLE SATURDAY was a special anniversary for three Southampton men - Mr. Walter Hurst of 5 Granville Street, Mr. Leo James Hyland of 11 Burlington Road, and Mr. George Kemish of 14 Begonia Road. Exactly 46 years ago these three were part of the crew aboard... |
14th April 1958 | |||
| Voyage | NEW YORK (American Line) ex-City of New York, Inman Line As Titanic left Southampton 10 April 1912, the suction and wave action of her propellers and huge bulk tore New York loose from her mooring in tandem with Oceanic... |
20th July 2005 | |||
| Newark Evening News | MORE FROM JERSEY MAY HAVE PERISHED IN SEA PATERSON, April 20---Some residents of this city and of Hawthorne fear that several persons near to them perished on the Titanic. The supposed victims are John Mechan, of this city; Arthur Ford, formerly of th... |
20th April 1912 | |||
| STEPHEN & ANNIE HOLD Newly married at St. Keverne, Cornwall on 18 October 1909, Annie's first trip to America with her husband Stephen Hold was on board Teutonic. They arrived at New York on 24 November 1909 having departed from Southampton. The ship's manifest sh... |
1909 | ||||
| WALTER BISHOP INFORMATION (Death Notice - Southern Daily Echo 30th April 1912, and Hampshire Independent 4th May 1912) Bishop, Walter Alexander Under Castleman, Edward ... |
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| Hudson Observer | HOBOKEN MAN MAY BE AMONG THOSE DROWNED Among the passengers who may have lost their lives in the sinking of thesteamer Titanic is Len Moore, aged 20, of 509 Willow avenue, Hoboken,who was a second class passenger from Southampton.Mr. Moore, who made his home w... |
16th April 1912 | |||
| PARIS 1912 (BACK) Mr. Sonneborn and Mr. Schwabacher settle in Paris. Just over a month before the Titanic sails from Southampton, Henry shares with his nephew the difficulty he and Lee are having finding a suitable apartment. "Write me what time Grand Ma got our cable message. Paris. Mar.7.12 Had a fine trip over and we are both well but busy looking for an apartment, and it is no easy task to find something to suit us. The weather is ideal here like our May days. Hope your Mother &(?) are well. Love to them and all at home from Uncle Henry and Lee." ... |
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| TITANIC RELIEF FUND MINUTE BOOK, SOUTHAMPTON AREA November 1914 Case Number 557. Penrose. Annie Penrose, partially dependent sister, aged 48 years receiving 3/6d per week. She is a frail woman and injured her heart by lifting her heavy patient; in consequence, though she is boarded and lodged... |
1914 | ||||
| Southampton Times and Hampshire Express | TOUCHING MESSAGE FROM CAPTAIN'S WIFE Shortly before three on Thursday afternoon the following message from Mrs. E. J. Smith, the wife of the Captain of the lost liner, was posted on the notice-board at the White Star office, Canute Road, Southampton. TO MY POOR FELLOW SUF... |
20th April 1912 | |||
| MANSION HOUSE REPORT Case number 550. Parsons Clara, Widow. Parsons, Chas. Edward, child. Parsons, Elsie, child. (From the Titanic Relief Fund Minute Book number 2, Southampton Area) Date December 22nd 1913. Case number C550. That payments of Secondary Scho... |
22nd December 1913 | ||||
| Sphere | TITANIC ORPHANS ON WATER 1913 Children emulate lifeboat scene... |
30th August 1913 | |||
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