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News Letter (2007) BUILDING PLAN FOR TITANIC QUARTER PUTS ULSTER ON THE RECORD
NEWS that a state-of-the-art Public Record Office of Northern Ireland is to be located in Belfast's Titanic Quarter has been hailed as representing "the ideal occupant in the ideal location"....
24th August 2007  
Belfast Telegraph (2009) PUBLIC SCULPTURE UNVEILED AT THE TITANIC QUARTER
The first public artwork for the Titanic Quarter was unveiled as part of the Belfast festival at Queens. The “contemporary and innovative artwork” is called ‘Kit’ and is a site-specific light sculpture which is 13.5 metres tall and cast in bronze....
4th November 2009  
BBC News (2009) TITANIC THEMED HOTEL SET FOR CITY
A five-star Titanic themed hotel is to be created at the old headquarters of the Belfast shipyard where the doomed liner was built. A planning application has been lodged to turn the former Harland & Wolff headquarters - a liste...
8th September 2009  
  PROUDFOOT FAMILY INFORMATION
Richard Royston Proudfoot, signed on as a trimmer for the Titanic engine department in April 1912. His birth was registered at Plymouth, Devon in the September Quarter of 1890. He was the son of Royston Jesse Proudfoot and Jane Gendle (nee W...
   
  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...
   
BBC News (2007) TITANIC APOLOGY TO CITY SHIPYARD
The developer behind the Titanic Quarter has apologised to Harland and Wolff after a model showed the area occupied by the shipyard as apartments....
5th October 2007  
BBC News (2009) TOURING THE TITANIC QUARTER
Once one of the world's busiest ports, Belfast was where the Titanic was designed, built and launched. The vast shipyards employed more than 30,000 people in the 1950s. Now the land is being cleared and redeveloped in one of Europe's biggest waterside schemes. ...
30th April 2009  
Belfast Telegraph (2009) OFFICES WHERE TITANIC PLANS WERE DRAWN COULD BE A HOTEL
Developers behind the controversial Titanic Quarter project are considering turning the historic drawing rooms - where the liner was designed - into a hotel, the Belfast Telegraph can reveal today....
5th March 2009  
  MRS WINNIE (MINNIE) COUTTS
  Information Held on the COUTTS Family MARRIAGE Taken from UK BMD Index Vol 2a Page 1180 ...
   
BBC Northern Ireland (2007) 1BN TITANIC AREA PLAN SUBMITTED
Northern Ireland\'s biggest planning application has been submitted to develop Belfast\'s Titanic quarter. The 1bn plans include building a tourist centre with a target of attracting 500,000 visitors annually. ...
8th January 2007  
BBC News (2008) COUNCIL MAY SAVE TITANIC PROJECT
Belfast City Council may invest 10m of ratepayers' money to ensure the Titanic Quarter goes ahead.More than two-thirds of the funding has already been secured, but the development is in jeopardy after it failed to secure lottery money. ...
27th March 2008  
Belfast Telegraph TITANIC-LINKED SS NOMADIC RETURNS TO BELFAST BIRTHPLACE
The historic SS Nomadic, a tender that ferried passengers to the doomed Titanic, has been moved back to the place where she was built almost 100 years ago. Led by Belfast Harbour and Titanic Quarter, the process has been more than 12...
   
BBC (2008) TITANIC QUARTER
All of Northern Ireland will benefit from a Titanic themed tourist project, the first minister has said.Plans for a five-storey building are being backed by the executive, which will give more than 40m towards the 97m project. Also, the village of Comber (Thomas Andrews home village) will benefit as tours will be offered to visitors....
30th November 2008  
  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...
   
4NI.co.uk (2007) TITANIC QUARTER TO REVIVE CITY'S HERITAGE
Belfast is set to finally commemorate its full maritime and industrial heritage. It has just been revealed that one of the main objectives of a new initiative, the €˜Titanic Signature Project', is to record and celebrate the city's great maritime and industrial heritage....
23rd October 2007  
Unidentified Newspaper (1912) UNTITLED
Wexfordman Chief Purser Mr John J. Ennis JP; came to reside with his two daughters at his home place in Springwood (Ballymitty, Co Wexford). Last year one of his daughters, Miss Barbara Ennis, was married to Mr Hugh McElroy, who belongs to a very goo...
  1912  
BBC NEWS (2009) NOMADIC AT 'CRUCIAL' REPAIR STAGE
Work to restore a ship that ferried passengers to the Titanic has entered a "crucial" stage, according to the organisation overseeing the project. A team of engineers will look at how the SS Nomadic can be restored and become a tourist attraction in Belfast's Titanic Quarter. Denis Rooney, of the Nomadic Charitable Trust, said the work could take six months. ...
12th January 2009  
4NI (2007) FUNDING BLOW FOR TITANIC PROJECT
Belfast's Titanic Signature Project - showcasing the city's maritime and industrial heritage and likely to cost an estimated 90m, has suffered a setback. The initiative, which aims to attract thousands of tourists to the Titanic Quarter, had applied to receive 25m of lottery money and has now failed to reach the final funding shortlist for the lottery's Living Landmarks Fund....
19th October 2007  
  MACKIE FAMILY INFORMATION
The birth of George William Mackie was registered at Lambeth, London in the 1st quarter of 1878. He was the son of William and Mary Mackie. George married Mary Broomfield, the daughter of James and Martha Broomfield. James was a Devon dairy farmer...
   
Belfast Telegraph (2009) CENTENARY TRIBUTE TO TITANIC BUILDERS
The centenary of work beginning on RMS Titanic has been marked by a symbolic keel laying ceremony at Titanic Quarter. John M Andrews, great-nephew of Titanic designer Thomas Andrews and president of Belfast Titanic Society, unveiled a memorial plaque on a replica keel plate which has been erected on the exact spot on the Titanic slipway where construction began in 1909....
1st April 2009  
guardian.co.uk (2009) 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  
Belfast Telegraph (2006) NOMADIC : BRING HER BACK HOME
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13th January 2006  
The Times (1921) LORD PIRRIE TAKES OATH AS VISCOUNT
HOUSE OF LORDS --- WEDNESDAY, JULY 13 --- The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the Woolsack at a quarter to 4 o'clock. --- LORD PIRRIE VISCOUNT PIRRIE was introd...
14th July 1921  
The Times (1907) LAWN TENNIS: THE INTERNATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS
Page 12 Keen interest was shown yesterday in the Doubles match at Wimbledon between Australasia and America, for had the former succeeded in adding another win to their dual win of Saturday, they would have qualified to play the holder...
16th July 1907  
Irish Times (2009) LIKE THE LINER, BAD LUCK DOGS THE TITANIC SIGNATURE PROJECT
BELFAST BRIEFING: An ambitious attempt to capitalise on the city’s relationship with the Titanic is in deep trouble, writes FRANCESS McDONNELL THERE REMAIN many unanswered questions concerning the fate of one of Belfast’s proud...
14th July 2009  
  (1912) CAPTAIN ROSTRON'S HANDWRITTEN ACCOUNT OF THE DISASTER.
RMS Carpathia Cunard SS Co. Ltd., At Sea April 27th, 1912 At 12.35 am (ship's time) April 15th (Monday), 1912, I was called by the 1st Officer in company with Marconi operator and informed that the White St...
27th April 1912  
The Times (1906) PIRRIE TAKES OATH AS BARON
HOUSE OF LORDS --- MONDAY , JULY 23 The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the woolsack at a quarter-past 4 o'clock. NEW PEERS LORD EVERSLEY, who was introduced by LORD ...
24th July 1906  
  MR WILLIAM ANGLE
Family History of Mr William ANGLE In 1901 William is recorded as living at 23 Tower Road Ashton Manor Birming...
   
  POOK FAMILY INFORMATION
Percy Robert Pook was born in Torquay, Devon in 1876. His birth being registered at Newton Abbot in the June Quarter of that year. He was the son of Henry Pook (house decorator) and Kate (nee Manley) who had married at Torquay in early 1872....
   
  (1914) TITANIC RELIEF FUND MINUTES LIVERPOOL COMMITTEE
C. 523 Bird (or Morgan). In accordance with the resolution of this Committee of the 21st April, 1914, the Hon. Secretary submitted Dr. Oldershaw's report upon the case of Mrs. Margaret Bird (Widow). RESOLVED. That it be recommend...
8th June 1914  
  (1914) TITANIC RELIEF FUND MINUTES : LIVERPOOL COMMITTEE : WILDE
C.23. Wilde. Read letter dated 28th May, 1914, received from Mr. O. Jones Williams (one of the Guardians of the children of the late Chief Officer Wilde). The Hon. Secretary reported that he had requested Mr. Williams to attend at the ...
8th June 1914  
New York Times (1935) 2 MRS. FIERMONTES HAVE A TALK AT TEA
Husband's Mother, Who Also Is There, Likes Her Son's American Wife --- By The Associated Press --- ROME, Feb. 24---The two Mrs. Fiermontes, one American and one Italian, met for the first time today and sat right down to t...
25th February 1935  
Western Morning News (1912) 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  
Travel Daily News (2006) TITANIC TRAIL PUTS BELFAST AT HEART OF DIGITAL TOURISM REVOLUTION
Belfast City Council and Northern Ireland Tourist Board have launched the world's first interactive multi-media digital tourism trail and, appropriately, it is based around the city's most famous product, €˜Titanic'. The trail is launched at the same time as a new heritage guide focussing on the history of shipbuilding, and in particular Harland and Wolff also is published by the Council.The €˜Belfast Titanic Trail' uses the latest GPS-based technology, the Node Explorer, to take visitors €˜back to the future' leading them on a tour of the city sites associated with the Titanic story, from the grounds of City Hall to Queen's Island, finishing by presenting them with a vision of how Titanic Quarter will look. Using a portable, robust media player, which is both user-friendly and ultra-modern, the Node Explorer being used for the first time in Belfast uses a combination of the latest computer technology, still images, video footage, dramatic reconstructions, text and audio clips to take users on a fully interactive trip through time telling the story of the mighty Titanic and the people associated with her. ...
8th August 2006  
ET Research (2005) A BIRTHPLACE REBORN : THE TITANIC QUARTER
PLANS for the development of 185 acres of dockland in Belfast that include the cradle of the Olympic and Titanic have just been formally announced. Most of the Queen's Island site will be transformed over the next seven ...
21st October 2005  
Oxford Magazine (1912) THE REV. ERNEST COURTENAY CARTER
Vol. XXX, No. 17 A correspondent writes:- "The Rev. Ernest Courtenay Carter, of St. John's College, who perished, with his wife, in the Titanic disaster, was in many ways a remarkable man. Not specially gifted intellec- tually, he took...
2nd May 1912  
  BRISTOW FAMILY INFORMATION
Harry Bristow was a son of John Bristow and Mary Ann (nee Barnes). He was born in 1873 at the south Cornwall coastal town of East Looe in the part of the town known as Shutta. His father, John Bristow worked for British Railways and was born...
   
  THE ADDERGOOLE PARISH LOSS
John Bourke, his wife Katherine, his sister Mary, Honora Fleming and Mary Mangan were from the townland of Carrowskeheen (quarter land of the little bush), Lahardane, Addergoole Parish, Co Mayo, Irish Republic. All perished. Data from the 1911 cen...
   
New York Times (1918) CARPATHIA SUNK; 5 OF CREW KILLED
215 Saved from Cunard Liner, Which Is Sent Down Off the Coast of Ireland --- HIT BY THREE TORPEDOES --- Was Bound for an American Port to Take Some More Soldiers to the Other Side --- Copyight, 1918, by The N...
20th July 1918  
Belfast Telegraph (2009) TITANIC FANS WANT BELFAST MEMORIAL TO BE RELOCATED
The Belfast Titanic Society has hit out at plans for the Belfast wheel to remain at its current location because it obscures a memorial to the victims of the sea disaster.Currently the big wheel structure sits around and on top of the mem...
5th June 2009  
New York Times (1899) THOMAS HENRY ISMAY [LETTER TO THE EDITOR]
To The Editor of The New York Times: The death of Thomas Henry Ismay deserves more than a passing notice. In the extraordinary development of the commercial marine of Great Britain during the last quarter of a century he had been one o...
25th November 1899  
  GEORGE PELHAM FAMILY RESEARCH
George Pelham (Titanic survivor) 28yrs old born Bethnal Green Occupation Potman Wife ...
   
Belfast Telegraph (2009) GETTING A STEER ON THE NOMADIC'S HISTORY
By Linda McKee25 April 2009The ship's wheel once used to steer Titanic's €˜little sister' is about to return to Belfast. Volunteers who have been raising money to restore SS Nomadic have tracked down what th...
25th April 2009  
BBC News (2006) RETURN FOR 'LIVING HISTORY' SHIP
Return for 'living history' ship [Photo] The Nomadic took passengers out to the TitanicThe ship which was used to transfer first-class passengers to the Titanic is to return to Belfast on 17 July. The SS Nomadic was bought b...
5th July 2006  
Eastbourne Gazette (1912) HERO MUSICIANS : SUGGESTED MEMORIAL TO MR. J. W. WOODWARD
The Titanic Disaster While the horror of the Titanic disaster is still fresh in the public mind, and the nation is contributing with an almost unexampled generosity to funds for the survivors and the families of the crew, would it not ...
1st May 1912  
  RAISE THE TITANIC MODEL LANGUISHES IN MALTA
THE weather-beaten remains of the giant model used for the 1981 film flop "Raise the Titanic" is rapidly disintegrating in the village of Kalkara, Malta. The 55-foot-long steel hull now provides an uncanny above-sea-level glimp...
   
New York Times (1893) NOW ABRAHAM & STRAUS
BIG CHANGE IN A BIG STORE WHICH ALL BROOKLYN KNOWS --- One of the most interesting business changes of the year went into effect yesterday, when the retail dry goods firm of Wechsler & Abraham became the firm of Abraham & Straus, the ne...
2nd April 1893  
New York Times (1912) TRIBUTE TO J. C. SMITH
Col. Gracie Tells How He and Also E. A. Kent Died Bravely --- After reading letters in the morning papers from friends of James Clinch Smith, asking why no account had been written of the part he must have taken in the heroic work of res...
25th April 1912  
  (2005) LORD CROMER
Departed Stockton-on Tees, England 14 March, 1912 on her maiden voyage bound for Louisburg, Nova Scotia, in ballast. During her crossing she was badly damaged by ice and after 19 days of a voyage which should have taken no mor...
9th January 2005  
New York Times (1924) OLYMPIC CARRIES PIRRIES BODY HOME
White Star Liner Was Biggest Ship Ever Built in Viscounts Yards --- DIED ON WAY FROM TROPICS --- Great Shipbuilder, Near Death, Insisted on Being Carried Out to See Panama Canal --- The body of Viscount Pirr...
14th June 1924  
  MR WILLIAM ANGLE & MRS FLORENCE AGNES ANGLE NEE HUGHES
Mr William ANGLE & Mrs Florence Agnes ANGLE nee HUGHES Researching Mr William ANGLE I have been able to trace the following information. William Angl...
   
 

 
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