August 1917

143 items found relating to : August 1917


	PERSONAL INFORMATION Mr Abraham August Johannes Abrahamsson, 20, was born in Finland. He lived in Dalsbruk, Finland. August, as he was called, was single. He borded as a third class passenger at Southampton with his friends - Eino Lindqvist, Helga Hirvone...	1912
	MEMORIAL ON GRAVESTONE In Loving Memory of RICHARD ALLSOP died 30 November 1829 Aged 35 and of JAMES ALLSOP son of the above born 1 September 1827 died 6 April 1917 also of FRANK RICHARD ALLSOP so...
	ASHE FAMILY GRAVESTONE In loving memory of Harry, beloved husband of May Ashe who lost his life on the Titanic 15th April 1912. also our little girlie, Gladys May, who died 7th August 1917 aged 5 years "Peace Perfe...
	GEORGE RHEIMS PASSPORT 1917
	NOELLE, COUNTESS OF ROTHES Lady Rothes in 1917....	1917
Redditch Advertiser	TITANIC'S TRAGIC DEMISE BROUGHT TO LIFE AT FORGE MILL THE fateful voyage of the Titanic is being recreated by a Redditch arts group over the August bank holiday weekend. Indigo Arts Heritage project will be recreating scenes from the doomed voyage at Forge Mill Needle Museum next weekend - Sunday and Monday, August 30 and 31....
	REV. WYNELL HENRY CARTER (BROTHER OF REV. ERNEST CARTER) At the time of the tragedy in 1912 the Exeter Flying Post newspaper reported that Rev. Ernest Courtenay's brother was Rector of St Mary Arches Church in Exeter, Devon. Rev. Wynell Henry Carter was a younger brother, born at Compton Beauchamp, Berksh...
	DEATH CERTIFICATE Certified Copy of an Entry of Death Registration District ...	1913
The Times	ICEBERGS IN THE ATLANTIC Wild panic reported in August 1912 emergency...	14th August 1912
Sphere	SEAMEN'S ORPHANS ON HOLIDAY At sea in boats, August 1913...	30th August 1913
The Times	BEESLEY CLAIMS WAR COMPENSATION At the Defence of the Realm Losses Commission yesterday, Mr L. Beesley, described as a practitioner of Christian Science, claimed compensation in respect of the requisitioning by the War Office of rooms at Pembroke House, Oxford Street, in May 1917, ...	22nd January 1919
my.hsj.org	TITANIC SURVIVOR BECOMES PRINCIPAL OF AMES HIGH "How little did that happy group who with reverent thoughts were worshiping God realize that within a few hours the majority of them would meet him Albert Caldwell said in his book recounting the Sunday night service aboard the Titanic before its sinking. Only two years later would he become principal of Ames High school staying from 1914 to 1917....	7th March 2011
	MORRO CASTLE PHOTO TAKEN BY PASSENGER, AUGUST 1932
	BOHEMIA 1908 (BACK) Marienbad, August 1908. Letters cross in the mail. Just as Henry's mildly reproachful card arrives in the US, Herman's apparently delayed letter arrives in Marienbad. Henry sends a second card. "August 15, 1908. Mariendbad, Bohemia. Wr received your letter and was very glad to receive same. Hope you went to Atlantic City. Love to you and brother and Elsa. Love, Uncle Henry." Elsa was the young daughter of Henry's brother, Louis Sonneborn. Louis, his wife, daughter and son were living at the Battery Ave, address when the 1910 census was taken. Residing with Wilelmina Sonneborn were Herman Praetorius and his parents, Louis Sonneborn and his family, Henry Sonneborn, Lee Schwabacher and Hay Becker, Wilhemina's unmarried brother....
Sentinel	RELATIVES OF TITANIC COMMANDER VISIT FILM Only living first cousin of Captain E.J. Smith, Sarah Harris (my great grandmother) in her 94th ...	28th August 1953
	OLYMPIC POSTCARD Posted August 1912...	1912
The Guardian	TITANIC HISTORY OF THE FOX AND PELICAN From 1914 the landlord of the Fox and Pelican in Grayshott Letters 14 August was James Ashbrooke Holme a lay reader from Bishopstoke in Hampshire....	19th August 2010
	DODD FAMILY GRAVESTONE George Charles Dodd lost in RMS Titanic 15th April 1912 aged 45 years. George Dodd died 16th Jan 1915 aged 77 years. Richard Firman Dodd lost in HMS Laurentic 28th Jan...
www.physorg.com	TITANIC: SANK MORE QUICKLY THAN PREVIOUSLY THOUGHT After visiting the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean in August 2005, scientists have discovered that Titanic took just five minutes to sink ? much faster than previously thought....	31st December 2005
New York Times	OBITUARY: MRS. DOROTHY BRULATOR By Wireless to THE NEW TORK TIMES --- PARIS, Feb. 20---Mrs. Dorothy Brulator, an American who was residing here, was found dead in her hotel room today. Physicians reported that she had died of a congestion, having suffered recently fr...	21st February 1946
	PROBATE REPORT HOCKING Samuel James Metcalfe of 101 Fore Street Devonport died 15 April 1912 at sea Administration London 21 August 1913 to Ada Hocking widow Effects £70...
	BESSIE ALLISON : GENERAL INFORMATION Bess Waldo Daniels was the daughter of Arville F Daniels and Sarah J McCully. she had an older sister born in August 1883 called Mabel H Daniels. ...
	HARRISON FAMILY GRAVESTONE In loving memory of Swainston Harrison Junior, who died at Ibi, Central Africa, 16th March 1892 aged 24 years. also Norman Harrison, second engineer SS Titanic foundered off the coast of Newf...
	HOW DID TITANIC SINK? NEW EVIDENCE! A top-secret expedition by The History Channel to the Titanic wreck site, conducted in August, 2005, produced never-before-seen footage that could completely rewrite the final moments of the world's most famous sunken vessel....
	FAMILY INFORMATION Arthur Larned Ryerson was born on 12th January 1851 in Chicago, the son of Joseph Turner Ryerson (1813-1883) and Ellen Griffin Larned (1827-1881). He had three younger siblings: Edward Larned (b. 1855), Eleanor (b. 1858) and Josephine (b. 1865)....
	MONTREUX 1908 (BACK) Montreaux. August 8/1908. "This is a fine view here from our room. The water in the lake is just this color and we can see these snow caped mountains from our window. We would like to stay here a couple of weeks but must leave tomorrow. Lots of love to you all, Uncle Henry and Lee....
	MARIENBAD 1908 (BACK) Marienbad. 1908. "August 5/1908. Mariendbad Hotel Ott Bohemia I am sorry to know you can find no time to write us a card. This is a beautiful place & the city is in the valley. Love, Uncle Henry and Lee."...
	PROBATE REPORT CHAPMAN John Henry of St Neot Cornwall farmer died 15 April 1912 at sea Administration Bodmin 15 August 1912 to James Chapman farmer Effects £206 1s 11d...
	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
	ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Born August 18th 1893 (Ref. register Book no 327 at Kennington Sub District Office). After returning to the UK she later married, September 12th 1931 to one James Barrow, Company Director of M. Ralph paper merchant of Upper Thames Stre...
	PROBATE REPORT Probate Report...	1912
The Times	LAURELS ON STEAD'S OCEAN GRAVE The Franconia stopped on Sunday over the place where the Titanic went down, whilst wreaths of laurel, picked in the garden of the late Mr Stead, were cast to the sea. ...	1st August 1913
New York Times	MRS. DICK GETS DIVORCE Former Mrs. John Jacob Astor Silent About Future Plans --- MINDEN, Nev., July 21 (AP)---The former Mrs. John Jacob Astor was divorced here today from William K. Dick of New York City, remaining silent meanwhile on reported plans for a ...	22nd July 1933
The Times	NEW M.P. FOR EAST BELFAST Mr. Henry P. Harland, a director of Harland and Wolff, was yesterday returned as Conservative member of Parliament for East Belfast. No other candidate was nominated. The seat became vacant through the elevation to the peera...	9th February 1940
BBC News	REPLICA TITANIC ANCHOR PULLED THROUGH THE BLACK COUNTRY A piece of history will be re-created when a replica of the Titanic's anchor is pulled through Dudley and Netherton on Sunday 15 August 2010....	14th August 2010
Portugal News	TITANIC EXHIBITION TO THRILL VISITORS Lisbon is to host a Titanic exhibition from Saturday until August, the ??€?œTitanic ??€' The Artifact Exhibition??€?„?, showcasing several artefacts which were recovered from the shipwreck that took the lives of 1,500 people on April 15th 1912. ...	19th May 2009
New York Herald	TITANIC SURVIVORS KEEP THEIR WEDDING QUIET Mrs. E. H. Smith and Mr. R. W. Daniel Married in New York Last August --- [SPECIAL DESPATCH TO THE HERALD.] PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Monday---Mrs. Eloise Hughes Smith, survivor of the Titanic disaster, was married August 18 ...	27th October 1914
	PROBATE REPORT LOBB William Arthur of Bugle St Austell Cornwall engine driver died 14 April 1912 at sea Administration Bodmin 3 August 1912 to George Lobb clay labourer Effects £50 NB. Engine driver in this sense is a mine engine rather than conventional r...
	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 ...
Get Surrey	TITANIC MEMORIAL TO BE GIVEN A FACE LIFT THE tribute to Godalming Titanic hero Jack Phillips is set to benefit from major improvement works in time for the centenary of his death, Waverley Borough Council has announced. A group will be formed at a public meeting next Thursday (August 20) to help drive forward the plans, after a number of organisations wrote to officials to say they were worried about the condition of Bury Fields gardens....
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
Western Morning News	TITANIC DISASTER, WESTCOUNTRY PASSENGERS AND CREW Mr Turpin, of Plymouth, who was employed at Salt Lake City, came home with his wife last August principally for the purpose of seeing Mrs Turpin's father Mr Wonnacott, of Endsleigh Place, Plymouth. Mr Turpin's mother lives in Beaumont Road, Plymouth...	17th April 1912
	SIBONEY LIFEBOAT RESCUE 1 First of two photos showing the USS Siboney rescuing the survivors of the H.M.S. Dwinsk. These photos were printed in a commemorative book: Historical Souvenier of the U.S.S. Siboney April 8, 1918-August 1, 1919, which was made available after the...
The Times	DEATH NOTICE OF HELEN ANDREWS HARLAND HARLAND. On August 22nd, 1966, HELEN REILLY HARLAND, of Phoenix Lodge, Dunmurry, co. Antrim, daughter of John Barbour, of Conway, Dunmurry, widow of Thomas Andrews, of Comber, co. Down, ...	24th August 1966
	ERNEST WALDRON KING FAMILY INFO I believe E. W. King's father, Thomas Waldron King, was my great-great-grandfather John King's brother, and that their parents were Thomas King, who was a Church of Ireland scripture reader in Selerna, County Galway, and Elizabeth. Here's ...
Halifax News Net	HISTORIAN TO TALK ABOUT TITANIC SINKING, OAK ISLAND LEGENDS Author and historian Dave Drummond will give lectures on Oak Island and the Titanic at the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic in August. Drummond, author of The Shipyard: Will It Float?, is a retired shipbuilder, born into a shipbuilding family that spanned three generations. His anecdotal writings, narrations, and discussions are factual, often surprising, and sprinkled with humour....
Belfast Telegraph	TITANIC'S ¢&EURO;ËœLITTLE SISTER', NOMADIC, MAY BE SHIPSHAPE FOR SUMMER Titanic's ¢€Ëœlittle sister' could be opened to the public during the Tall Ships festival in August, according to the team behind her restoration. There is no completion date yet for the refurbishment of SS Nomadic's new home at Hamilton Dock, but Nomadic Charitable Trust says it hopes the work will finish during the summer. ...	26th January 2009
dudleynews.co.uk	RETURN FOR NETHERTON TITANIC ANCHOR DUDLEY councillors have given the thumbs up to the return of a piece of Netherton’s history. The replica lifesize Titanic anchor, which was made as part of last year’s Channel 4 documentary about the world’s most famous ship, will be heading back to Netherton for good, after members of the Development Control Committee agreed for a permanent plinth to be installed in the town’s centre at the meeting on August 30. ...	6th September 2011
	FAMILY GRAVESTONE IN MEMORIAM. MADELINE JOSEPHINE BELOVED CHILD OF E & L FREEMAN DIED MAY 19th 1896 AGED 12 MONTHS "JUST CAME TO WIN THY PARENT'S LOVE AND THEN TO HEAVEN WITHDREW". ALSO ERNEST EDWARD FREEMAN LOST IN TITANIC DISASTER APRIL 15th 1912 AGED 50 YEAR...
Bristol Times and Mirror	TITANIC'S THIRD OFFICER AN OLD MERCHANT VENTURER Mr. H. J. Pitman, third officer on the Titanic, who was one of the four officers saved from the wreck is an West Countryman, being born at Castle Cary, in Somerset. His age is 34, and he received the shore part of his nautical training in the navigat...	27th April 1912
San Francisco Bulletin	DR. DODGE DYING, IS REPORT Page 1, column 4 Dr. Washington Dodge, banker, former county Assessor and former Supervisor, who shot himself in the head Saturday night, is dying at the St. Francis Hospital, according to reports from his bedside today. Si...	28th June 1919
	FAMILY INFORMATION Elizabeth Walton Allen was born on 1st October 1882 in St. Louis, Missouri. She was the daughter of George Washington Allen (1853-1917)a Judge from St. Louis and Lydia Jeanette McMillen (b. 1853)from Indiana. They married on 21st June 1876 in St. Lou...
New York Times	MRS. THOMAS CARDEZA Page 21, column 1 Wife of Philadelphia Explorer, Kin of Racine, Red Cross Aide PHILADELPHIA, Nov 11 Mrs. Mary Racine Cardeza, wife of Thomas Drake Martinez Cardeza, Philadelphia sportsman and explorer, ...	12th November 1943
	GRAVESTONE In Ever Loving Memory of Evelyn Louisa Lammin Moody Born December 26th 1857 Died December 17th 1898 "Be Thou Faithful Unto Death And I will Give Thee A Crown of Life" Also In Lovi...
	NELLIE WALCROFT WAS NOT MARRIED IN 1920 more information from census...	18th August 2005
	CAPTAIN LORD 1961 INTERVIEWS TRANSCRIPT Leslie Harrison - Senan Molony Transcript of a recorded conversation between Leslie Harrison and Captain Stanley Lord, held at 13 Kirkway, Wallasey, [Lord’s Merseyside home] in February 1961 [6-8.30pm], and a further discussion recorded on 19 August 1961....	1961
	GENERAL INFORMATION AGED thirty-four years, was born in Manchester. His apprenticeship was served with Messrs. H. H. Hall & Co., of Liverpool after which he was employed by Messrs. Campbell and Isherwood, Ltd., Bootle, Hame Electric Company, Liverpool and the Northern E...
	MUNCHEN 1908 (BACK) Munchen. August 1908. Lee Schwabacher sends Herman Praetorius a friendly card, in which his apparent joke about Henry is obscured by a word I cannot decipher. "Munchen. Aug. 22, 1908. Your letter to ahnd, and we wre very much plased with same, and to learn that you were promoted and doing so (?) with your music. And I hope you play so well that Uncle Henry will not ruin it with his (?) Soon you will start back to school~ guess before we get home. Remember me to all at home. With lots of love which Uncle Henry joins me. Uncle Henry and Lee."...
	PERSONAL INFORMATION Miss Hildur Elisabeth Hirvonen, 2, was born in Finland on 15th February 1910 as the daughter of Alexander Hirvonen and Helga Elisabeth Lindqvist. She lived in Taalintelidas, Finland. Hildur boarded as a third class passenger at Southa...	1912
	FAMILY GRAVESTONE IN LOVING MEMORY OF MY DEAR HUSBAND ANDREW MAXWELL, WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE MARCH 17th 1895 AGED 46 YEARS "NOT LOST BUT GONE BEFORE". ALSO JOHN, ELDEST SON OF THE ABOVE WHO WAS DROWNED THROUGH THE FOUNDERING OF THE SS TITANIC APRIL 14th 1912 AG...
	WHITE STAR LINER ARABIC Returned Hartley's body in Great Britain...	1915
	PROBATE REPORT Calendar of all Grants of Probate and Letters of Administration made in the Principle Probate Registries of the King's Bench Division of the High Court of Justice Ireland -- 1912 ANDREWS Thomas (Junior) [405] 12 August ...	1912
	CAPT. WILLIAM CREESE Henry Creese's eldest brother, William Creese, was born in 1857 and was a mariner by occupation. He had married in about 1889 to Alice (formerly Smith) whom he had met whilst based in Barrow-in-Furness, Lancashire. Their first 2 children, Hen...
	PERSONAL INFORMATION Mrs Alexander Hirvonen (nee Helga Elisabeth Lindqvist), 22, was born in Finland on 2nd January 1890 as daughter Carl and Elisabeth Lindqvist. She lived in Taalintelidas, Finland. Helga was married to Alexander Hirvonen and had a daugh...	1912
The Times	LIGHTOLLER PROMOTED TO LIEUTENANT, R.N.R. FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE FRIDAY, AUGUST 15 ADMIRALTY, AUG. 13 ROYAL NAVAL RESERVE In accordance with the Regulatious for the Royal Naval Reserve Engineer M. H. Fisher has been placed on the ...	16th August 1913
com	JUDGE: SALVAGE FIRM HAS TITLE TO TITANIC ARTIFACTS A federal judge on Monday granted a company title to fine china, ship fittings and other artifacts worth about $110 million that it recovered from the Titanic in a half-dozen perilous expeditions to the famous shipwreck. U.S. District Judge Rebecca Beach Smith in Norfolk issued the order a little over a year after ruling that RMS Titanic was entitled to full compensation for the roughly 5,900 artifacts. In her August 2010 ruling, Smith postponed deciding whether to give RMS title to the artifacts or sell them and turn the proceeds over to the company....	15th August 2011
TV Guide	TITANIC'S FINAL MOMENTS: MISSING PIECES TITANIC'S FINAL MOMENTS: MISSING PIECESA New Breed Of Film Making Click HereA top-secret expedition by The History Channel to the Titanic wreck site, conducted in August, 2005, produced never-before-seen footage that could completely rewrite the final moments of the world's most famous sunken vessel. Using high-definition photographic equipment, an internationally acknowledged team of experts has located brand-new information that maritime historian Simon Mills has termed 'â€¦possibly the most significant pieces of evidence since the wreck was located in 1985.' ...	8th February 2006
	PENROSE: PROBATE INFORMATION PENROSE John Poole of 13 Southview Road Southampton steward merchant service died 15 April 1912 at sea Administration Winchester 2 August 1912 to Florence Annie Penrose widow. Effects £131 3s 4d. === PENROSE Florence Ann of Crosby Clock House...	2nd August 1912
	WILLIAM NEAL THOMAS FORD William Neal Thomas Ford was born in Five Ashes, near Mayfield, East sussex on the 20th August 1897. He was the fourth child of Margaret Ann Watson and Edward Ford. He was enrolled at Rotherfield Council School on the 30th May 1904 aged 6. He con...
New York Times	LOVE FOR SEA PREVAILS --- Chief Barber on the Titanic Obtains Post on the Lusitania --- Special to The New York Times --- PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 5---Unable to resist traveling over the sea, August F. Weikman of Palmyra, N. J., who was the ch...	6th August 1912
Indianapolis Star	TITANIC VOYAGE TOUCHED INDIANA PASSENGERS' LIVES Thirteen Titanic passengers had Hoosier connections. Here are six of their stories....	23rd September 2010
San Francisco Examiner	DR. WASHINGTON DODGE TRIES SUICIDE; MAY DIE Page 1, column 1, continued page 6, column 4 [Photo] Mind of S.F. Leader Fails; Shoots Self Former Assessor Uses Revolver in Garage at Home; Found by Wife; Taken to Hospital Suit Brought i...	22nd June 1919
irishtimes.com	TREASURE HUNTERS SAY IRISH WATERS HAVE VALUABLE WRECKS THE US marine exploration company which has located a British wartime shipwreck with £150 million worth of silver in the Atlantic has also been surveying southwest Irish waters where there are a number of "commodity" wrecks. The Naval Service has confirmed that it notified the company's research ship Odyssey Explorer some weeks ago that it should notify the Irish authorities of its activities. It said the Naval Service came across the vessel surveying some 25 miles west of the Blasket islands, in Co Kerry on August 2nd. Under international law, a ship undertaking scientific research should inform the relevant state, and should be licensed to tow a sidescan sonar in territorial waters....	28th September 2011
Chicago Tribune	VERDICT ON 'RAISE THE TITANIC' : "LIFE IS TOO SHORT" Aaron Gold TOWER TICKER ". . . . Film critic Pauline Kael, according to New York Post columnist Claudia Cohen, charged out of a press screening of "Raise the Titanic" mutterin...	5th August 1980
PR	TITANIC'S FINAL MOMENTS: MISSING PIECES In August 2005, a History Channel expedition team made a shocking discovery more than two miles beneath the Atlantic Ocean: large missing pieces of Titanic's bottom, more than 1,500 feet from the rest of the ship, so well preserved that even the original red paint is still clearly visible. These pieces were little known and never examined for their role in the sinking, and they tell a new and potentially more terrifying story of Titanic's final moments, rewriting the script that had previously been taken as fact. Relive the disaster, the history, and the deep-sea search for new clues in high-definition in TITANIC'S FINAL MOMENTS: MISSING PIECES, premiering Sunday, February 26th at 9:00 p.m. on The History Channel....	21st February 2006
	FAMILY GRAVE [The Church was demolished in 1860 but the churchyard still exists. The gravestones are next to the Storrow obelisk near the churchyards north-west gate.] Joseph Bell who departed this life on 8 December 1836, aged 69 years. Mar...
	IROQUOIS PASSENGER LIST COVER An unusual Iroquois passenger list cover from August 1934. Less than a month later, Iroquois was pressed into Ward Line service to replace the lost Morro Castle on her outbound September 8th voyage. About 50 passengers c...
	MUTINY ON TITANIC RESCUE VESSEL - 1937 TROUBLE ON SOUTH AFRICAN VESSEL 'Mutiny' on Titanic Rescue Ship The Admiralty was informed last night that a wireless message had been received by HMS Resolution from the Sherard Osborn, bound from Table Bay to Rotterdam, which ...	1937
	FAMILY GRAVESTONE In loving memory of Sarah Jane, the beloved wife of Robert Henry Davies who died 17th May 1914 aged 62 Years "Peace Perfect Peace". Also Gordon Raleigh, second son of the above who lost his life in Tita...
San Francisco Call & Post	DR. DODGE DIES AS RESULT OF WOUNDS Page 2, column 2 [Photo] Dr. Washington Dodge, former banker, supervisor, library trustee and assessor of San Francisco, died at 9:25 o'clock this morning at the St. Francis Hospital from a bullet wound self-inflicted a ...	30th June 1919
New York Times	MRS. A. H. RICE'S FUNERAL AUG. 11 Mr. and Mrs. George D. Widener have returned here from Newport to prepare for the opening of the home of Dr. Alexander Hamilton Rice before his arrival on the Europa Aug. 9 with the body of wife, Mrs. Eleanor Elkins Rice, mother of Mr. Widener, who d...	20th July 1937
	TITANIC POSTCARD FROM ONE SURVIVOR TO ANOTHER From Eugene Daly to Bertha Mulvihill...	20th August 1912
Montreal Gazette	HAPPY 150TH BIRTHDAY Railwayman's family passes along prized artifacts to museum Article Tools Printer friendly E-mail Font: * * * * ALAN HUSTAK, The Gazette Published: Thursday, August 03, 2006 Valuable family memorabilia once owned by industrialist Charles Melville Hays was donated to the railway museum in St. Constant yesterday by his great-granddaughter to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the U.S.-born railwayman's birth.Until Hays drowned in the sinking of the Titanic in 1912, he was one of Canada's leading magnates. As president of the Grand Trunk Railway, Hays was the architect of a second transcontinental railway line to rival Canadian Pacific, and the person responsible for building the Chateau Laurier Hotel in Ottawa and the Fort Garry Hotel in Winnipeg....	3rd August 2006
	NEBRASKAN SURVIVOR RARELY SPOKE OF TRAGEDY Einar Gervasius Carlson, formerly Karlsson was born in Oakarshamn, Sweden on June 19, 1890. He was 21 years old when he and a friend, Johan Charles Asplund boarded the Titanic for the United States. They were originally booked on the ship Adriatic...
Newark Evening News	HENRY BLANK, 76, GLEN RIDGE, DIES Head of Newark Jewelry Concern Was Titanic Disaster Survivor --- Henry Blank, board chairman of Henry Blank Co., Newark jewelry manufacturing concern, died today at his home, 138 Ridgewood avenue, Glen Ridge, after a short illness. He ...	17th March 1949
New York Times	INSIST TORPEDO SANK HER Hospital Ship Britannic Survivors Say Propellers Killed 45 Men --- Several survivors of the hospital ship Britannic, which was sunk in the Aegean Sea, were among the crew of the Adriatic, which arrived here...	28th January 1917
New York Times	KARL H. BEHR Karl H. Behr, one of the foremost tennis players in this country, is a son of Mr. and Mrs. Herman Behr of 777 Madison Avenue. He is a lawyer at 40 Wall Street, having been admitted to the bar soon after his graduation from Yale in 1905. Mr. Behr wh...	16th April 1912
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....
	BIRTH CERTIFICATE CERTIFIED COPY OF AN ENTRY OF BIRTH Registration District Southam...	1881
	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...
Voyage	TUNISIAN John P. Eaton Eastbound, St. John, New Brunswick to Liverpool. On 10 April reported heavy ice in the vicinity of an area that was later the disaster site. Port of Registry: Glasgow ...	12th November 2005
	WONNACOTT FAMILY INFORMATION Dorothy Wonnacott was born in Plymouth in 1885. She was a daughter of Arscott and Mary Jane Wonnacott. Her parents, both originally from the Holsworthy area of mid-Devon had married in about 1878 and were living in Plymouth from that time....
	JOYCE A. ROSENFELD Joyce Aks Rosenfeld, 62, of the 1800 block of Banning Road, died August 13, 1996, in her home. Mrs. Rosenfeld was a native of Portsmouth. She was member of Ohef Sholom Temple in Norfolk and had worked at Antell's Women's Clothing Stor...	14th August 1996
	MEMORIAL There is a new memorial in the Lifeboat House at Scarborough which was unveiled in April 2002 and reads: HMS Conway Trust Memorial James Paul Moody O.C. 6th Officer Titanic Born Scarborough, 21 August 1887...
New York Times	HOKAN B. STEFFANSON DIES AT 78; FINANCIER WAS ON THE TITANIC Page 45, columns 2-3 Hokan Bjornstrom Steffanson, a financier, died Monday night at Doctor's Hospital after a long illness. His age was 78 and he lived at 56 East Fifty-seventh Street. Mr. Steffanson was a survivor of t...	23rd May 1962
The Times	BEESLEY THE SCIENCE TEACHER ON SOLAR PANELS "Cookery by Sunlight" To the Editor of the Times Sir - Your leading article on this subject in to-day's issue reminds me that in 1913 I was the guest of friends in Pasadena, California, whose house was fitted with an apparatus f...	26th January 1922
San Francisco Chronicle	DR. WASHINGTON DODGE DIES AT LOCAL HOSPITAL Section 2, page 13, columns 7-8 [Photo] Gunshot Wound, Inflicted in Attempt to Kill Himself June 21, Causes Death RELATIVES AT BEDSIDE Financier and Ex-Assessor Unconscious for 3 Days Befo...	1st July 1919
Atlantic Daily Bulletin	MEMORIAL TO JAMES MOODY Memorial...	1993
	MR WILLIAM TAGGART – DELIVERY CREW TRIMMER Mr William Taggart was born in Belfast in 1889 and began work with the Harland & Wolff yard as an apprentice. He was one of the workers who helped to build Titanic from day one. He had also been a crewmember of the Olympic. When the Titanic was deli...
San Francisco Examiner	DR. DODGE DIES FROM WOUNDS HE INFLICTED Page 8, column 1 Former Banker, Assessor and Supervisor Succumbs Nine Days After Attempt at Suicide Funeral Service Will Be Held on Thursday Morning: Bishop Nichols Will Be in Charge Dr. Washington Dodg...	1st July 1919
	EDWARD HENRY BAGLEY (RESEARCH ABOUT HIS LIFE) Edward Henry Bagley was born to Edward Bagley and his wife Lucy Bagley (nee Longhurst) on the 4th March 1879. The family lived at 17 Wightman Street, Plaistow, London. His father worked as a labourer at a soap works, and by the time of the boy's bapt...	2003
	LETTER TO MRS. HARRIS Typed letter on letterhead from Theatrical Protective Union No. 1 of New York to Mrs. Henry B. Harris, presenting her with resolutions of sympathy and attached signatures of the organization’s membership. New York, August 17, 1912....	17th August 1912
New York Times	ROSENSHINE WILL HOLDS Court Dismisses Contest Over $1,000,000 Estate of Titanic Victim --- Surrogate Colahan dismissed from the bench yesterday the contest of the will of George Rosenshine, a feather importer, who perished in the wreck of the...	21st June 1912
New York Times	JOHN J. ASTOR 5TH, 79; SON OF BUILDER OF HOTEL John Jacob Astor 5th, a descendant of one of America's most fabled merchant princes, died yesterday at his home in Miami Beach. He was 79 years old. His death was reported by two of his cousins, R. Thornton Wilson, and Stephen Spencer,...	27th June 1992
New York Times	FIERMONTES SAIL ON THE SAME SHIP Former Mrs. Astor, With Friend, Books Passage for Italy at Last Moment --- The former Mrs. Madeleine Force Astor Dick, who was married to Enzo Fiermonte, Italian pugilist, more than a year ago, booked a last-minute passage Saturday on t...	29th January 1935
Redditch Advertiser	FORGE MILL'S TITANIC EXHIBITION REDDITCH residents are being taken on a dramatic trip back in time at the Titanic Honour and Glory exhibition at Forge Mill Needle Museum....
New York Times	JOHN JACOB ASTOR TO WED DEBUTANTE His Engagement to Miss Eileen S. S. Gillespie Announced by Her Parents --- CAME OF AGE IN AUGUST --- Fiancee, Noted in Newport as a Tennis Player, Is From an Old American Family --- Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Lew...	16th December 1933
New York Times	MRS. DICK MARRIED TO FIERMONTE, BOXER, IN CIVIL CEREMONY IN HOSPITAL ROOM HERE Mrs. Madeline Force Astor Dick and Enzo Fiermonte, Italian middleweight pugilist, were married at 5:45 o'clock yesterday afternoon in Mrs. Dick's room at the Doctors Hospital, East End Avenue and Eighty-seventh Street. Mrs. Dick is 40 years old; Mr. ...	28th November 1933
New York Times	R. W. DANIEL WED TO MRS. CAMPBELL Vice President of Liberty National Bank Marries Daughter of W. C. Durant in Newark *** Robert W. Daniel of 19 West Sixty-ninth Street, Vice President of the Liberty National Bank of this city, and Mrs. Marjorie Durant Campbell of 635 P...	7th December 1923
Voyage	BULGARIA John P. Eaton (aka Canada, Hercules, Philippines,Drachtenstein) Hamburg-Amerika Line On Tuesday, April 9, while traveling westbound Hamburg-Southampton-Baltimore, received a wireless message from the Caledonia ...	24th June 2005
	ABOUT MARY MCGOVERN AS TOLD BY A RELATIVE Date of Birth: April 1890 Place of Birth Clarbally, Corlough Co. Cavan, Ireland Mary was making the trip to New York alone, traveling by train from Ballinamore, Co. Leitrim to Queenstown to board the Titanic. Her ticket cost 7 po...
	LETTER SENT BY JOHN HARPER FROM THE TITANIC A letter written on board on company notepaper exists it reads: My Dear Brother Young, I am penning you this line just before we get in to Queenstown to assure you that I have not forgotten you and especially all your kindness while w...	11th April 1912
Voyage	WALLASEY John P. Eaton Wallasey assisted during Titanic’s sea trials and launch on May 31, 1911 and stood by on her sea trials out of Belfast on 2 April, 1912. Port of Registry: Liverpool Flag of Regi...	30th October 2004
	TURPIN FAMILY INFORMATION William John Robert Turpin was born in Plymouth, Devon in 1883. He was the son of John R Turpin (general labourer) and Mary Jane. They had married in about 1880 and were living in Commercial Street, Plymouth at the time of the 1881 census. Both wer...
	GENERAL INFORMATION Charles John Joughin, Titanic's chief baker was born in Patten Street, West Float, Birkenhead, Cheshire, England, on August 3, 1878, went to sea at age 11, later becoming chief baker on various White Star Line steamships. After surviving ...
	ARCHIE JEWELL, BUDE BOY Bill Headdon King Street was owned by the Blanchminster of Charity, rent c2 old shillings a week. Our house was built of cob ...	28th May 2008
Voyage	LORD CROMER John P. Eaton 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
Daily Chronicle	LAST WILL & TESTAMENT LOST ON TITANIC In the High Court of Justice Probate, Divorce and Admiralty Division (Before the Rt. Hon. Samuel Evans, President) In the goods of S. S. Jacobsohn, deceased. page 3 This was a motion by a wid...	23rd July 1912
Brooklyn Daily Times	KARL H. BEHR, TENNIS EXPERT, AMONG RESCUED Karl H. Behr is a prominent lawyer of 40 Wall street, Manhattan. Mr. Behr who is a member of the West Side Tennis Club, of Manhattan, is prominent in the sporting world. He gained prominence as a tennis player, winning several championships and some ...	16th April 1912
Titanic Stories	TITANICA EXHIBITION - THE ULSTER FOLK & TRANSPORT, NORTHERN IRELAND The Ulster Folk & Transport Museum is launching TITANICa: The Exhibition and TITANICa: The People’s Story to mark the centenary of Titanic’s launch on the 31st May, running until 31 August 2011....
Cornwall & Devon Post	AT SEA IN A BLIZZARD: BUDE SEAMAN FOUND WRAPPED IN THE MAINSAIL Adventure recalled by death of Mr. J. Jewell The passing of Mr. John Jewell early Sunday morning at 8, King Street, Bude, at the age of 79 years, recalls the old days of Bude shipping, consisting of small coasters of 35 to 80 tons, whi...	24th January 1936
	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...
La Voix du Nord	MME BOURLARD, LAST FRENCH SURVIVOR OF THE TITANIC, PASSED AWAY AT 88 IN OUR CITY Mme Bourlard who nearly met her death during two tragically famous accidents, passed away at the Sully home for elderly people in Béthune; she was going to turn 89 years old. Born in Hersin Coupigny in August 1884, the young Berthe Leroy was t...	8th July 1972
	CONFUSION OVER A NAME: YROIS OR YVOIS John Lamoreau Almost since the Titanic sank there has been confusion over the name of a second class passenger. What we know for positive was that her first name was Henriette. She was traveling with film maker William Harbeck. They both lost t...
The Times	THE RT. REV. ALOYSIUS SMITH The Rt. Rev. Aloysius Smith was the eldest brother of Reginald George Smith, one of the saloon stewards on Titanic. This is his obituary- FIRST ABBOT OF BODMIN The Rt. Rev. Abbot Aloysius Smith, C.R.L., First Abbot of Bo...	23rd August 1960
	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...
	TITANIC RELIEF FUND – CREW “MASTER LIST” CASE NUMBERS Lester Mitcham The assignment of Case Numbers has I understand always proved to be frustratingly difficult owing to the loss of so much of the original documentation including it seems the Master List of Case ...	29th April 2006
New York Times	THE SMART MYSTERY A young man of 20 years and a girl of 18 were the objects of a great deal of sympathy when the Titanic went down last April. They were the children, according to gossip, of JAMES MONTGOMERY SMART, who perished in the wreck. Orphaned and desolate, som...	8th January 1913
The Evening Telegram	J. BOREBANK KNOWN HERE Newspaper article...	16th April 1912
Titanic Research	ERNEST GILL IN AUSTRALIA Senan Molony Judiciously, Ernest Gill journeyed to Australia. The former Californian crewman, a profiteer from the Titanic disaster, plied his seafaring trade Down Under in years thereafter. A do...	29th July 2009
New York Times	CUNARD EMPLOYEES TO HONOR ROSTRON Fleet Is Taking Up Subscription for Testimonial to the Retiring Commodore --- DIGGLE HIS SUCCESSOR --- Captain Edgar T. Brltten Will Command Berengaria When She Returns In February --- Officers of the Scythi...	3rd November 1930
New York Times	SMART HEIRS SEEM NOW TO BE A MYTH No Mention of Widely Sought Children in Will of Wealthy Man Lost on Titanic --- HE NEVER SPOKE OF THEM --- His Friends Recall Now After World Search That They Merely Thought That He Had Two --- Two children,...	7th January 1913
	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...
The Toronto World	THREE MONTREAL MEN---VICTIMS OF TITANIC TRAGEDY Mr. H. J. Allison, the junior member of the firm of Johnston, McConnell & Allison, financial brokers, was a young man in the early 30's, clean cut and ambitious. His firm made remarkable progress during the past two or three years...	17th April 1912
	THE WRECK OF THE TITANIC The Titanic was a common subject for folk and blues singers in the 1920s and '30s. Artistes such as Leadbelly, Woody Guthrie, Ernest V. Stoneham and Vernon Dalhart all recorded Titanic numbers. Most had a common theme and derivation ...	1927
	PASCOE FAMILY INFORMATION Charles was born on the 18 March 1867 in the village of Breage, a few miles west of Helston in south-west Cornwall. He was baptised at the parish church on 18 August 1867 and was the son of Anthony and Jane Anne Pascoe. (The 1881 UK census shows his...
Encyclopaedia of Ships and Shipping (1908)	SOUTHAMPTON, PORT OF Southampton, Port of. The Southampton Docks, now owned and managed by the London and South-Western Railway Co., are situated within a perfectly sheltered harbour, and have the unusual natural advantage of double tides, with pract...	1908
New York Times	YOUNG ASTOR TELLS OF WEDDING PLANS Newspaper Group Is Informed That the Couple Will Return to Newport in August --- CHETWODE GIFTS SHOWN --- Famous Ring Given to Bride Will Be Reset for Her in a New Brooch --- Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES ...	29th June 1934
New York Times	HOPE HAMPTON KEPT HER WEDDING SECRET Film Star Married Jules E. Brulatour, Her Manager, Aug. 22---His Third Marriage --- To the surprise of their friends it became known yesterday that Hope Hampton, the motion picture actress who was last seen on the screen in "The Gold Di...	8th November 1923
San Francisco Chronicle	DR. DODGE ATTEMPTS SUICIDE Page 1, column 3, continued page 2, column 2 EX-ASSESSOR FIRES BULLET THROUGH HEAD Little Hope for His Recovery From Wound Inflicted in Garage Basement ILLNESS BELIEVED CAUSE Long Promine...	22nd June 1919
The Sydney Morning Herald	TITANIC SURVIVOR MR THOMAS TAVERNER Mario J. Borg Hi there all, it is me Mario J. Borg from Sydney Australia writing about the TITANIC Survivor Mr Thomas Taverner again and you you all can read this article: TITANIC Survivor Mr Thomas Taverner was invited to a special meeting in George Street at The Flying Angel Mission to Seaman in 1962 ...	7th April 1962
	LOBB FAMILY INFORMATION The correct origins of William Arthur Lobb, third class passenger on Titanic have now been established. The 1891 Cornwall Census shows that William Arthur Lobb was born in the parish of Luxulyan (5 miles NE of St. Austell) in 1881 and that he was th...
New York Times	NEW YORK YACHT CLUB New Members Admitted---Models for the Paris Exposition --- The adjourned third general meeting of the New York Yacht Club was held yesterday afternoon in Delmonico's, Beaver Street. The principal business transacted was the election of ...	16th June 1899