Charitable Institutions

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The Times	LADY HARLAND'S WILL Dame Rosa Matilda Harland, of Baroda, House Kensington Palace-gardens, W., who died at Tunbridge Wells on October 21, daughter of Mr. Thomas Wann, of Vermont, Belfast, and widow of Sir Edward Harland, Bt., M.P. for North Belf...	10th February 1912
Belfast Telegraph	TITANIC'S "LITTLE SISTER" MAY MISS ANNIVERSARY REFIT DATE The £7m restoration of a tender ship that ferried passengers on board the doomed Titanic may not be finished in time for the centenary of its launch, an official report warns today....	24th June 2009
New York Times	MANY GIFTS TO CHARITY Joseph Hirsch's Will Filed---W. A. Spencer Gives $1,000 to Library --- A large number of public institutions received bequests by wills filed for probate yesterday in the Surrogates' Court. [Description of the will of Joseph Hirsch omi...	29th May 1912
The Times	VISCOUNTY FOR LORD PIRRIE The following honours were conferred by the King on the occasion of the opening of the Northern Parliament:--- VISCOUNTY: UNITED KINGDOM. PIRRIE, THE RIGHT HON. BARON, K.P., LL.D., D.L., Ormiston, Strandtown, Belfast.---Valuable s...	23rd June 1921
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
UTV	BELFAST 'S TITANIC CENTENARY The crumbling boat which ferried passengers to the Titanic will be ship-shape again in time to mark the centenary of the ill-fated ocean liner. Repair work on the SS Nomadic which is now docked in Belfast shipyard, and will cost millions, could take five years to complete.A charitable trust set up to raise the money for the massive refurbishment is buying a temporary protective canvas in a bid to stop further deterioration. ...	29th November 2006
BBC NEWS	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
	HOME OF GEORGE WRIGHT, HALIFAX, NS CANADA The home of George Wright...
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
War Cry	SALVATIONISTS ON THE TITANIC: TWO RESCUED - Mother spends five hours on raft and sees sons drown - Died Like true Soldiers Commissioner Eva Booth Meets Survivors Indescribably Pathetic Scenes at Wharf - New York Stricken with Grief - Army Shelt...	27th April 1912
NI Dept. for Social Development	HANSON ANNOUNCES MEMBERS OF NOMADIC TRUST The members of the proposed charitable trust, tasked to oversee the restoration and fundraising for the SS Nomadic, have been announced.Minister for Social Development David Hanson MP said: "My Department, Belfast City Council, Belfast Harbour Commissioners and Belfast Industrial Heritage Society have all proposed representatives to form the trust. "...	13th October 2006
Irish Examiner	TITANIC'S FERRY BOAT SAVED The British government paid ?170,000 (?250,000) today to save a rusting boat which once ferried passengers on to the Titanic.The bid was accepted at an auction in Paris after fears that the SS Nomadic would end up in a breaker's yard instead of being brought back to Belfast.The ferry was the last White Star vessel to be built at the city's famous Harland and Wolff shipyard where the Titanic was launched in 1912.A special charitable trust will now be set up to oversee fundraising and the full restoration of the Nomadic....	26th January 2006
The Evening Telegram	WON'T AFFECT STOCK MARKET Newspaper article...	16th April 1912
icCoventry	PRESERVE THE MEMORY OF TITANIC TITANIC enthusiast Howard Nelson has achieved a lifetime's ambition by setting up the first trust dedicated to the doomed liner in his land-locked home city of Coventry.The 60-year-old, of Allesley, Coventry, has opened the Titanic Heritage Trust, at Coventry University's Technology Park in Puma Way.The trust is aiming for charitable status by the end of the year and wants to protect the Titanic wreck site and artefacts and preserve its history. ...	9th January 2006
ic Birmingham	LABOUR TO THE RESCUE he Government has stepped in to save a rusting boat which once ferried passengers on to the Titanic - following a campaign by a Coventry man.Titanic enthusiast Howard Nelson recently launched the world's only Titanic Heritage Trust in a bid to raise the money needed to save the SS Nomadic, the last remaining vessel with direct links to the ill-fated ship.Yesterday the Government's bid of ?170,000 was accepted at a Paris auction and the ship will now be taken back to Belfast's Harland and Wolff shipyard, where it was originally built in 1912, to be renovated, the cost of which must now be raised by the charitable trust set up by Mr Nelson. ...	27th January 2006
New York Times	MISS KORNELIA T. ANDREWS Miss Kornelia T. Andrews, eldest daughter of the late Robert E. Andrews of Hudson, N. Y., died of pneumonia at her home in that city yesterday. Miss Andrews was graduated from Oberlin College and had been for many years a leader in society and chari...	5th December 1913
Guernsey Weekly Press	REPORTED MISSING: E. H. WHEADON Mr. E.H. Wheadon was in his 67th year. He was the head of the agricultural firm of E.H. Wheadon and Sons, Couture. He was a man of most kindly nature and charitable disposition. Among the members of the family and their very wide circle of friends hi...	22nd April 1912
The Times	WOLFF, GUSTAV W. OBITUARY --- MR. G. W. WOLFF --- Mr. Gustav Wilhelm Wolff, for long a partner in Messrs. Harland and Wolff, of Belfast, died yesterday at his residence in Park-street, W. He underwent an operation on Tuesday. ...	18th April 1913
The Times	MR. BRUCE ISMAY "B. B. H." writes:--- As secretary for 13 years to a charitable fund for young people of which Mr. Ismay was chairman, I know something of the loss which has befallen us this week. One could not have wo...	21st October 1937
The Times	MR. CHARLES M. HAYS MISSING (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT) --- MONTREAL, APRIL 18 --- A message by wireless telegraphy from the Carpatlhia was received at the offices of the Grand Trunk Railway Company in Montreal this morning signed ...	19th April 1912
The Times	LORD PIRRIE'S WILL WILLIAM JAMES, first VISCOUNT PIRRIE, K.P., of Belgrave-square, W., and Witley Park, Surrey, chairman of Harland and Wolff, Belfast, Lord Mayor of Belfast, 1896-97, who died on board ship in t...	9th May 1925
Camden Post-Telegram	MANY MOURN FOR MR. FRED. SUTTON Haddonfield Man Who Went Down With Titanic in Numerous Corporations --- BUDGET OF GOSSIP FROM THE BOROUGH --- As no word has been received concerning Frederick Sutton, of Haddonfield, it seems certain that he perish...	20th April 1912
Camden Daily Courier	SURE SUTTON HAS PERISHED AT SEA Relatives Return From New York Feeling Sure He Went Down on Titanic --- A DAY'S EVENTS AT HADDONFIELD --- Haddonfield, N. J., April 20---No word has yet been received concerning the whereabouts of Frederick Sutton, and it ...	20th April 1912
New York Times	STRAUS MEMORIAL MEETING Mayor Gaynor, Bishop Gailor, and Andrew Carnegie Will Take Part in It --- A civic memorial meeting for Mr. and Mrs. Isidor Straus will be held in Carnegie Hall Sunday afternoon, May 12, at 4 o'clock. Justice Samuel Greenbaum, President ...	4th May 1912
Belfast Telegraph	TITANIC'S SISTER SHIP NOMADIC 'LEFT TO ROT' The Titanic's little sister has been left to all but rot away for three years as she awaits decisions on how she will be restored, it has been claimed. ...
Belfast Telegraph	EU FUNDING TO BOOST RESTORATION OF TITANIC TENDER SHIP The restoration of a tender ship which ferried passengers to the doomed Titanic was boosted today with the award of over Â£2 million in European funding. Last month auditors expressed concern that the Â£7 million refit of the derelict SS Nomadic may not be completed, on schedule, for the centenary of its launch in Belfast in 2011 due to a cash shortfall. ...
New York Times	STRAUS A FAMOUS MERCHANT Member Both of R. H. Macy & Co. and Abraham & Straus --- Isidor Straus, who, with Mrs. Straus, was aboard the Titanic, was born in Rhenish Bavaria on Feb. 6, 1845. His father's family came to this country in 1852, and settled at Talbott...	16th April 1912
Chicago Evening Post	CHICAGO HEARS ECHO OF NEW TITANIC WOE French Miner From Iowa Arrives Here and Learns Wife and Children Were Lost With the Liner Sons Ignorant of Wreck Passengers at Union Station Take Up Collec...	25th April 1912
New York Times	GUGGENHEIM ESTATE VALUED AT $3,551,994 Victim of Titanic Disaster Left Widow $785,199---Daughters Get About $500,000 Each --- MANY CHARITABLE BEQUESTS --- Sisters Receive Incomes from Trust Funds of $75,000 and Sisters-in-Law from $25,000 --- Benj...	18th January 1916
Chicago Tribune	WIDOW SUES TITANIC OWNERS Mrs. A. Willer of Chicago Asks $10,000 for Husband’s Death Family Left Penniless Red Cross Saves Them fr...	20th July 1912
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
Belfast Telegraph	FULL STEAM AHEAD FOR TITANIC'S 'LITTLE SISTER' NOMADIC Some 1,600 curious visitors have poured across the gangplank of Titanicâ€™s â€˜little sisterâ€™ since last week to see the vessel before wholesale restoration gets under way....
Worcester Evening Gazette	WORCESTER FRIENDS TAKE UP WORK OF AIDING TITANIC SURVIVORS An announcement was made in the G???mane Swedish Lutheran Church yesterday that a memorial service for victims of the Titanic disaster will be conducted in the church Sunday evening with Rev. John A. Eckstrom pastor, in charge. At thi...	22nd April 1912
Belfast Telegraph	GETTING A STEER ON THE NOMADIC'S HISTORY The 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 they believe to be her ship's wheel and will be handing it over to the team responsible for restoring her in the next fortnight. SS Nomadic is the last remaining White Star Line vessel and once ferried first class passengers onto the Titanic at Cherbourg on the mighty liner's ill-fated maiden voyage. ...	25th April 2009
BBC News	RETURN FOR 'LIVING HISTORY' SHIP The 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 by the Northern Ireland Office at an auction in Paris for £171,320 in January. It had lately fallen into disrepair and the government bowed to pressure to save it from the breakers yard. Social Development Minister David Hanson said: "Nomadic has the potential to bring living history of this period back to Belfast in a tangible way." ...	5th July 2006
New York Times	MRS. FRED J. SWIFT, WAS CLUB LEADER Ex-Head of National Council of State Garden Units Dies---Officer in Many Groups --- NYACK, N. Y., April 30---Mrs. Margaret Welles Swift, prominent club-woman and widow of Fred Joel Swift, died yesterday in her home here...	1st May 1948
New York Times	MEMORIAL NOTICE STRAUS--- A Special Meeting of the Board Of Directors of Montefiore Home, held April 21, 1912. The President, Jacob H. Schiff, announced the melancholy death of the Honorable Isidor Straus and his devoted wife in the dis...	22nd April 1912
New York Times	COL. ASTOR'S WIFE SEEKS SEPARATION Lawyer Appointed Referee by Justice Mills to Take Testimony in the Case --- GREAT SECRECY ABOUT IT --- Suit Comes Nearly a Year After Mrs. William Astor's Death---Col. Astor Yachting with His Son --- Mrs. Ava...	27th October 1909
New York Times	MORGAN FORTUNE NEAR $100,000,000 Financier Not Possessed of Vast Wealth of Rockefeller or Carnegie --- PUT $60,000,000 IN ART --- Lewis Cass Ledyard, His Counsel, Believed to Have Possession of His Will --- Mr. Morgan, in Wall Street's estimation, wa...	1st April 1913
New York Herald	BRAVERY OF TITANIC SURGEON DR. WILLIAM FRANCIS NORMAN O'LOUGHLIN In accounts printed about the Titanic and the bravery of her officers little has been said of one who probably was the most widely known and best beloved of all classes....	22nd April 1912
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....
	COLERIDGE FAMILY INFORMATION Reginald Coleridge was born in 1883 at 23 Bitton Street, Teignmouth, Devon. He was the only son of Charles Coleridge (cabinet maker) and Annie. He had a younger sister named Augusta. Reginald’s grandfather, James Coleridge (1824-1904...
New York Times	MEMORIAL NOTICE STRAUS---At a special meeting of the Executive Committee of the Educational Alliance, held on Friday, April 19, 1912, the following resolutions were unanimously adopted: After days of keenest anxiety, the Directors of the Educational A...	20th April 1912
Belfast Telegraph	TITANIC TENDER NOMADIC RECEIVES LOTTERY BOOST Plans to restore the SS Nomadic have moved a step closer to winning more than £2 million in lottery funding....	27th September 2010
New York Times	FUNERAL OF ISIDOR STRAUS The funeral of Isidor Straus, who died in the wreck of the Titanic, was held at noon yesterday at the family residence, an old frame house at 105th Street and Broadway, which is one of the landmarks of early New York. In order to avoid a great outpou...	9th May 1912
New York Times	FRIENDS OF MAJOR BUTT WOULD ERECT A MEMORIAL GYMNASIUM AT HIS ALMA MATER, SEWANEE, ... Friends of Major Butt Would Erect a Memorial Gymnasium at His Alma Mater, Sewanee, to Whose Endowment Fund J. P. Morgan Has Promised $150,000 --- High on the Cumberland plateau, midway between Nashville and Chatanooga, [sic] in ...	9th June 1912
	NOMADIC RETURNS Kathleen Neill The SS Nomadic is the last White Star Line vessel still afloat and the last real maritime link with Titanic. Built on No.1 Slip by Harland & Wolff Shipyard, Belfast, and fitted out in the Abercorn Basin, Nomadic attended ...	3rd January 2007
New York Times	FRANK D. MILLET'S CAREER Noted Artist Famed as War Correspondent and Traveler --- Frank D. Millet, a noted artist and correspondent, was born at Mattapoisett, Mass., in 1846. His adventurous temperament led him to enlist as a drummer boy at the beginning of the Civ...	16th April 1912
Belfast Telegraph	£7 MILLION RESTORATION OF TITANIC SHIP GOES AHEAD The £7 million restoration of a tender ship which ferried first-class passengers on board the Titanic is to begin early next year after the project today secured another £500,000 cash injection....	16th September 2009
Cleveland Plain Dealer	JOY AND SADNESS COME WITH NEWS Happiness or Gloom Seizes Ohio Relatives of Titanic Passengers Memorial Services to be Held for Youngstown Business Man Gladness mingled with grief yesterday when word came that two persons mourned by relatives in Clev...	20th April 1912
New York Times	AN UNPLEASANT INCIDENT AMERICANS OFFENDED BY A SPEECH BY MR. ISMAY ON THE TEUTONIC ---------- The maiden voyage of the splendid steamer, the Teutonic, of the White Star Line, which arrived at this port on Wednesday, seems to...	17th August 1889
Providence Journal	SEVERAL INTERVIEW EXCERPTS BY HELEN AND FAMILY DETAILS Shelley Dziedzic article excerpt...	11th August 2005