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Cheshire Online	PUPILS PUT IN TITANIC EFFORT TO STAGE PLAY PUPILS at Palacefields Primary School in Runcorn have teamed up to put on a production of Titanic.The school staged an evening of musical drama for parents and friends of the school....	10th August 2007
	JOHN BOURKE - SCHOOL REGISTER ENTRY John Bourke attended Rathkell School in Addergoole Parish. He was one of fourteen people from the parish who boarded RMS Titanic in Steerage...	24th September 1878
	MURDOCH MEMORIAL PRIZE STEWARTRY OF KIRKCUDBRIGHT COUNTY COUNCIL EDUCATION COMMITTEE DALBEATTIE HIGH SCHOOL Dalbeattie District School Management Committee hereby certify that CHARLES CONNOR has been the Winner of a Prize of FOUR POUN...
	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...
net	SINKING OF TITANIC HITS CLOSE TO HOME FOR VILONIA PRIMARY SCHOOL CUSTODIAN Fourth-grade students at the Vilonia Primary School on Friday learned about Sophie Abraham Halaut, a Titanic survivor, from her great-great niece who works at the school. “We knew her as Aunt Sophie, the aunt who was on the Titanic,” Tricia Gill told the students, regarding Halaut, who died in 1976....	13th September 2011
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
	MARY CANAVAN - SCHOOL REGISTER ENTRY Mary Canavan attended Massbrook School in Addergoole Parish. She was one of fourteen people from the parish who boarded RMS Titanic in Steerage at Queenstown (now Cobh). ...
	MARY BOURKE - SCHOOL REGISTER ENTRY Mary Bourke attended Rathkell School in the Parish of Addergoole. She was one of fourteen people from the parish who boarded RMS Titanic in Steerage...	29th May 1879
	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
Romsey Advertiser	TITANIC ART READY FOR MUSEUM LAUNCH SCHOOLCHILDREN combined art and history to create a display piece for Southamptonâ€™s new Sea City museum. The city council invited Wellow Primary School to put together a picture of the Titanic for one of the education rooms at the attraction ahead of its opening next year. Kerry Somers, history leader at the school, said the 10- and 11-year-olds jumped at the chance to create the exhibit. ...	1st December 2011
	GOODWIN FAMILY 1911 CENSUS Name Relationship To Head of Household ...	2nd April 1911
New York Times	JEAN SCHARIN ENGAGED Chicago Girl Will Be Married to Edward Cudahy Spalding ---- Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES --- CHICAGO, Feb. 21---Announce has been made by Mrs. J. Hippach Unander Scharin of this city of the eengagement [sic] of her daught...	22nd February 1946
Newark Evening News	FORMER SECRETARY OF PATERSON Y. W. C. A. LOST PATERSON, April 22---Returning from India, where she was engaged in missionary work, Miss Annie Funk, for several years secretary of the Young Women’s Christian Association, was one of those lost on the Titanic. This was her first furlough in five y...	22nd April 1912
Standard Speaker	WOMAN'S MOTHER, UNCLE AND BROTHER WERE ON TITANIC Eighty-six-year-old Mae Thomas recalls the first time she shared a story about her mother and infant brother surviving the sinking of the Titanic. "I was 6 years old and I went to the school teacher and told her my mom was a survivor from the Titanic," Thomas said Friday at a dinner event in Drums. "I was in history class and my teacher didn't believe me." When school let out that day, Mae's teacher showed up at her Stanton Street home in Wilkes-Barre and asked Mae's mother if the story was true. "My mother told her, 'My daughter does not lie. I am a survivor,'" Mae said. ...	1st October 2011
	ANNIE MCGOWAN - SCHOOL REGISTER ENTRY Annie McGowan attended ...
	BYLES AT ROSSALL SCHOOL (C.1889)
	THE ROSSENDALE BARD FROM ADDERGOOLE Andrew Houston was born in Doonbreedia in the parish of Addergoole, Lahardane, Co Mayo, Irish Republic on 1st May 1849, and would have attended Rathkell National School w...
Godalming and District News	POST OFFICE MEMORIAL At the Godalming Post Office, where Phillips was employed as a telegraphist for three years before leaving to enter the Marconi School at Liverpool, the Postmaster (Mr. W. R. Williams), and his staff have provided a suitable memorial to their ...	4th May 1912
New York Times	MRS. LOUISE U.-S. JONES IS ENGAGED TO MARRY Mrs. J. Hippach Unander-Scharin of Wianno, Mass., formerly of Chicago and Lake Forest, Ill., has announced here the engagement of her daughter, Mrs. Louise Unander-Scharin Jones, to John Maclay Mirkil, son of William I. Mirkil of Meadowlane Farm, New...	26th August 1953
Irish Times	A TITANIC DISCOVERY IN A SCHOOL LIBRARY Having climbed on a pile of old books to retrieve a tome about the â€˜Titanicâ€™ from a library top shelf, ROSITA BOLAND found more than she had hoped for...	13th April 2010
	AMERICAN RED CROSS EMERGENCY AND RELIEF BOOKLET No. 81 (English). Theological student, 25 years of age, coming to finish his studies, lost his books and baggage and suffered from exposure. He is obliged to work his way through school. ($300)....	1913
The Guardian	OBITUARY OF BARBARA DAINTON Barbara Dainton, who has died aged 96, was one of the last surviving passengers from the Titanic, though her family were brought up never to mention it. She was well into her 80s before she spoke in public about the tragedy. Barbara's pare...	14th November 2007
Daily Sketch	TEDDY SMITH HERO: BOYHOOD RECOLLECTIONS OF THE TITANIC'S CAPTAIN A Genial Schoolfellow "Teddy Smith has gone down with his ship, and out of the six of us lads who used to be schoolmates together only one is now left - myself." From every corner of England, Mrs. Smith, the widow of the...	25th April 1912
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	CENSUS in the 1900 census, Bess is living with her father Arville, mother Sarah and elder sister Mabel H. it says she was white, female, born in 1886 and was 13 years old, and she was at school....	11th June 1900
GoErie.com	SHIP COMES IN FOR ALL-SCHOOL SUMMER MUSICAL A total of 1517 men women and children lost their lives -- only 711 survived -- when the ship struck an iceberg en route to New York on her maiden voyage. ...	25th July 2010
New York Times	G. H. CLARKE JR. KILLED Lieutenant in Army Air Forces Was Completing Training --- Lieutenant George Hyde Clarke Jr., Army Air Forces, eldest son of Mrs. S. Beach Cooke of 530 Park Avenue and Cooperstown, N. Y. and of George Hyde Clarke of Hyde Hall, Cooperstow...	13th June 1943
KOLO	TITANIC MESSAGE: DREAM BIG The blue wall at Dilworth Middle School represents the Atlantic Ocean from Newfoundland to Ireland. It's a project the seventh grade was doing in preparation for the visit of the world famous explorer Dr. Robert Ballard....	22nd April 2010
Irish Times	A TITANIC DISCOVERY IN A SCHOOL LIBRARY Having climbed on a pile of old books to retrieve a tome about the Titanic from a library top shelf, ROSITA BOLAND found more than she had hoped for...	13th April 2010
SouthCoastToday.com	TITANIC DISCOVERER TO BE HONORED IN R.I. The man who discovered the wreck of the Titanic will be honored by the Smithfield School Department....	6th December 2007
New York Times	P. A. B. WIDENER GIVES $4,000,000 TO SCHOOL Endowment Is Announced Coincident with the Filing of His Son’s and Grandson’s Wills --- TO AID CRIPPLED CHILDREN --- George Widener, Lost on the Titanic, Left His Estate to Family---Harry’s Rare Books for Harvard --...	21st May 1912
New York Herald	MR. W. ROEBLING, 2D, AMONG PASSENGERS TRENTON, N.J. Monday - Washington Roebling, II a son of Charles G. Roebling, president of the John A. Roebling Sons Company, the Roebling Construction Company and the New Jersey Wire Cloth Company, who was a passenger on board the Titanic, togethe...	17th April 1912
	GENERAL INFORMATION Sofia was a maid. She was born in the village of Riistavesi, near Kuopio, in 1874. She moved to Helsinki in 1905, where she worked at the School For The Blind for three years. After this job she worked for some time at the Missionary House, and then ...
KLPC-TV	VOLUNTEERS NEEDED FOR TITANIC EXHIBIT The city of Lake Charles needs people to volunteer as attendants to help give educational tours for school field trips to the upcoming exhibit, Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition....	25th September 2007
	VARIOUS MEMORIALS Has a fine memorial in Dalbeattie County, Dumfries. also there is a stone to him in the Dalbeattie Cemetery. also a Prize at the local school in Dalbeattie, Dumfries is awarded in his honour every year....
Bizjournals.com	FAMED OCEAN EXPLORER SPEAKS TO STUDENTS Robert Ballard, the man who discovered the sunken Titanic luxury liner cruise ship in 1985, spoke to a group of Houston Independent School District students Thursday about his exploration adventures....	23rd February 2010
	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 ...
News 10 Now	'TITANIC' CONCERT TO DEBUT FRIDAY DEWITT, N.Y. -- It's never been done before. A concert version of the Broadway musical 'Titanic' is being performed by Jamesville-DeWitt middle and high school students....	22nd April 2009
Lancaster Newspapers	'TITANIC' TASK FOR A HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL Sweating under unforgiving stage lights, the Solanco teens imagine a frigid April night, when the North Atlantic's icy waters swallowed 1,500 souls aboard a doomed ship.Sometimes after a scene, the young actors crack a few jokes backstage, just to keep from crying....	7th April 2008
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
Belfast Telegraph	STRANMILLIS PUPILS DOCK FOR TITANIC HISTORY LESSON Stranmillis Primary School pupils have enjoyed a titanic experience at Belfasts maritime landmark sites courtesy of the Northern Ireland Science Park....	22nd February 2011
Herkimer Evening Telegram	'TITANIC, THE MUSICAL' OPENS THURSDAY The Ilion Central School production of 'Titanic, the Musical' will kick off Music in Our Schools Month this weekend, getting a jump start on the national celebration of music in education which runs throughout March....	27th February 2008
New York Times	CONSOLE PHILLIPS'S PARENTS blurb...	21st April 1912
The Evening Telegram	J. BOREBANK KNOWN HERE Newspaper article...	16th April 1912
Andover Townsman	ALL HANDS ON DECK: "TITANIC" SAILS IN ONE WEEK AT AHS Next week, 55 Andover High School students will become distinguished aristocrats, a ship captain, crewmen and third-class passengers aboard the ill-fated ocean liner Titanic. Opening night of the AHS fall musical, "Titanic," is Thursday, Nov. 15....	9th November 2007
	DIE DREILINDEN, ESTATE OF THE SPENCERS The Dreilinden estate in Lucerne, Switzerland, was the property of the Spencer family. Also known as the 'Villa Vicovaro, it now houses the City's School of Music (Conservatoire). Miss Elise Lurette used to stay at the Dreilinden when she was working...
deseretnews.com	'TITANIC' MUSICAL AT LAYTON HIGH The ill-fated "ship of dreams," Titanic, will set sail on the Layton High School stage starting Thursday. The story of the rise and fall of "the largest floating object in the world" has been told many times in books, TV specials and in three different movies....	5th March 2007
The Morning Sun	RETIRED TEACHER DONATES TITANIC MEMORABILIA TO LIBRARY Retired Alma High School Teacher David McMackin first became interested in the Titanic when he was looking for a non-fiction story his students could study. "It was 'A Night to Remember' by Walter Lord," he said. "That was available at the time." That one book got things started....	9th February 2010
Charleston Gazette	TITANIC ARTIFACTS EXHIBIT AN AMAZING ADVENTURE When I was in the third or fourth grade, I purchased Robert Ballard's "Exploring the Titanic: How the Greatest Ship Ever Lost Was Found" at a school book fair, thus beginning my interest in the Titanic. In fact, for several years, I wanted to be a marine archaeologist and go on expeditions like Ballard....	22nd December 2009
Paterson Morning Call	MISS FUNK ONE OF THE DEAD Former House Secretary of the Local Y. W. C. A. Was on Titanic ---------- COMING FROM INDIA ---------- Was Missionary There and Intended Spending Part of Furlough in Paterson ---------- A large number...	22nd April 1912
Fort Scott Tribune	'TITANIC' PRODUCTION OPENS THURSDAY The multitudinous human aspects of one of the worst maritime tragedies in history the 1912 sinking of the Titanic will be portrayed in the Nevada High School Drama Department's production of "Titanic Tragedy and Trial" at 7 p.m. Thursday Friday and Saturday....	10th November 2010
Baltimore Sun	BACKSTORY AUTHORS LECTURE STUDENTS ON AUTHOR WALTER LORD Two New York authors Jenny Lawrence and John Maxtone-Graham shook off the rain and chill of a dreary fall Thursday in Baltimore and quietly stood in the well of the Gilman School auditorium waiting for 255 sixth- seventh- and eighth-grade students to take their seats....	10th November 2010
bbc.co.uk	BELFAST CEREMONY MARKS TITANIC'S LAUNCH 100 YEARS ON A ceremony has taken place in Belfast to mark the moment the Titanic was launched 100 years ago. A large crowd of school children cheered as they attempted to re-enact the mood on the docks as those involved in building the ship watched her roll down ......	31st May 2011
	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...
New York Times	WM. K. DICK MARRIES MRS. VIRGINIA CONNER Chairman of the National Sugar Refining Co. Weds in Akron --- Word has been received here of the marriage of Mrs. Virginia Keniston Conner, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edwin S. Conner of this city, to William K. Dick of this city and Al...	25th December 1941
Staffordshire Advertiser	STAFFORDSHIRE VICTIMS OF THE DISASTER Mr. Leonard Hodgkinson, the fourth senior engineer, was a Stoke man, and has many relatives and friends in the district. As a boy he received his education at St. Thomas's School, Stoke. He served an apprenticeship with Messrs. Hartley and Arnoux, wh...	20th April 1912
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
	1891 CENSUS, CHARLTON, LONDON At the time of the 1891 census, Reginald G Smith, aged 11, was a school boarder at Park House, Cresswell Park, Charlton, London. ...	31st March 1891
New York Times	GUGGENHEIM LEGACY UNCLAIMED An application in the Surrogates' Court yesterday for the settlement of the estate of Benjamin Guggenheim revealed the fact that no owner can be found for a legacy of $5,000 to the Union Home and School for Soldiers' and Sailors' Orphans. The executo...	29th October 1919
1911 Census	THE SAGE FAMILY IN THE 1911 CENSUS The Sage family in 1911 were living at 246 Gladstone Street, Peterborough. The house had 5 rooms. Name: John G. Sage Relationship to ...	2nd April 1911
	DIE DREILINDEN, PROPERTY OF THE SPENCERS The Gardeners' Cottage...
Primitive Methodist Leader	OUR BOYS ON THE 'TITANIC' April 1912 There were three of them sailed with her - Percy (Bailey), Harry (Cotterill) and George (Hocking). The first named we knew well, for although all were brought up in our Sunday school the latter two had ceased attending regu...	1912
New York Times	MRS. LOUISE JONES WED IN BAY STATE Church in Barnstable Is Scene of Marriage to John Maclay Mirkil, Marine Ex-Officer --- Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES --- BARNSTABLE, Mass., Sept. 19---Mrs. Louise Unander-Scharin Jones, daughter of Mrs. J. Hippach Unander...	20th September 1952
	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
pendletoday.co.uk	TITANIC MUSEUM TO SET SAIL IN PENDLE A NEW museum opening in Colne will bring the stories of the people of Lancashire, on board the Titanic when it sank, to life. The Titanic in Lancashire Museum will be located in the old Colne Grammar School, off Church Street, and will feature photographs and models of the ship. Visitors will also be able to get a closer look at fittings identical to those seen on the Titanic from its sister ship, RMS Olympic....	7th June 2011
Royal Cornwall Gazette	ST. AUSTELL The most impressive gathering was that at the Baptist Sunday School, with which the family of the late Mr. W. H. Nancarrow, one of the Mount Charles victims, was connected. As the children were being dismissed the members of the adult classes lined u...	25th April 1912
Concord Journal	CAROLINE LAMSON BROWN The death of Mrs. John Murray Brown on Tuesday, June 26th, at the Emerson Hospital in Concord, removed from the scene a type of the handsome, accomplished woman who so well represented old New York in the late sixties and seventies of the last centur...	28th June 1928
Delco News Network	THE BRANDYWINE COOKING SCHOOL RECREATES TITANIC DINNER MENU The Queen of the Ocean luxury liner Titanic sank on its maiden voyage from Southampton England to the United States on April 14 1912. The unsinkable ship carrying 2229 passengers and crew hit an iceberg at 1140 p.m. and by 217 a.m. April 15 it had broken in half. Only 713 people survived most of them women and children. One of the ships most prominent passengers was Col. John Jacob Astor one of the richest men in America if not the world....	30th April 2010
Stirling Observer	IN MEMORIAM WILLIAM YOUNG MOYES The news received last week of the awful wreck of the Titanic seems to have stupefied the British and American nations - indeed, has cast a gloom over the whole world - and while the loss of every life is deplored, and every act of heroism and self-s...	23rd April 1912
	THOMAS HUGHES 1822-1896 (FATHER OF MRS. LILIAN CARTER) Lilian's father, Thomas Hughes was educated at Oriel College, Oxford. He was a Liberal MP and barrister and spent much time promoting Working Men's Education and the Co-operative movement. He is most well known as author of 'Tom Brown's School...
	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."...
thisislancashire.co.uk	BLUE PLAQUE TRIBUTE TO CHORLEY'S HIGH-RANKING TITANIC SURVIVOR A BLUE PLAQUE has been unveiled on the gates of a high school to commemorate Lancashire man who was the highest-ranking survivor of the Titanic disaster. Charles Lightoller, the son of mill owners, grew up at Yarrow House, Chorley on the site later occupied Albany Science College . He was 38 at the time of the ship’s maiden voyage and was Second Officer. On the night of April 14, 1912, he commanded the last bridge watch before the ship’s collision with an iceberg. ...	14th September 2011
Arcadia News Leader	BEHIND-THE-SCENES OF THE TITANIC April 15, 1912--One of the most infamous calamities in recent history occurs: the largest and most opulent ship of its time, and the vessel most people deemed to be unsinkable, British luxury passenger liner, the Titanic, meets its demise during its maiden voyage. 1,500 people were killed as the stricken vessel sank into the icy waters about 400 miles south of Newfoundland, its massive body snapping in two before becoming completely immersed. "The whole thing was a tragedy from start to finish," said Don Lynch, leading Titanic historian, during the presentation he held this week in the Arcadia High School auditorium....	25th April 2009
Hopewell Herald	MRS. EMILY THOMAS BLACKWELL Mrs. Emily Thomas Blackwell wife of Stephen Weart Blackwell of New York City was buried in the Old School Baptist Churchyard in this place saturday afternoon. The funeral was held from the residents of ex-Senator...	19th December 1906
New York Times	TRIBUTE TO TITANIC DEAD East Side Children Honor Memory of Mr. and Mrs. Isidor Straus --- On the eve of the second anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, in which Mr. and Mrs. Isidor Straus perished, 1,000 children, mostly public school boys and girls, gat...	15th April 1914
coventrytelegraph.net	COVENTRY MARKS LINKS TO TITANIC ON 100TH ANNIVERSARY OF TRAGEDY A RANGE of events have been scheduled for Coventry to mark 100 years since the Titantic sank. The city-based Titanic Heritage Trust has put together a fascinating programme of talks and theatrical events at Blue Coat School, Stoke, to mark the anniversary of RMS Titanic’s tragic sinking in 1912. The five-month programme begins this month. Events include the poignant reflections of David Haisman – a local relative of Edith Brown, the Titanic’s oldest survivor – who himself served in the Merchant Navy and worked as look-out on ice fields across the North Atlantic....	1st November 2011
lancashiretelegraph.co.uk	COLNE TITANIC MUSUEM WANTS TO ATTRACT 100000 VISITORS A NEW museum commemorating the RMS Titanic is hoping to attract around 100,000 visitors in the run up to the centenary of when the ship sank. Maritime enthusiast Nigel Hampson, 42, has brought the Titanic and her maiden voyage to life as he opened the Titanic in Lancashire Museum, in the old Colne Grammar School, off Albert Road, Colne on Wednesday. Nigel, of Humphrey Street, Brierfield is hoping to attract visitors from around the world with his display remembering the 71 Lancashire people who were on board the doomed vessel - including Wallace Hartley, the ship’s famous band leader from Colne. ...	14th August 2011
Philadelphia Inquirer	LOIS THAYER OF ROSEMONT; ACTIVE IN COMMUNITY AFFAIRS Lois Thayer, 82, a member of a prominent Philadelphia family, died Saturday a the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. She lived at 103 Airdale Rd., Rosemont, PA. The former Lois Buchanan Cassatt, she was a great-great-niece of Jame...	26th June 1977
	LETTER FROM CAPTAIN SMITH'S WIDOW Woodhead Winn Road Southampton Telephone 1400 Dear Frank, I'm sorry to be so long in answering your letter and picture of your family which I am pleased to have. What a lovely outlook from your home. By the "Olympi...	6th June 1912
Paterson Morning Call	BROTHER OF MISS FUNK STILL HOPES Newton, April 23---Persevering in the hope that Miss Annie Funk, formerly of Paterson, did not go down with the Titanic, Horace Funk, her brother, a teacher of the eleventh grade of the high school here, went to New York today to see if further infor...	24th April 1912
New York Times	TITANIC VICTIM'S ESTATE C. F. Gregory Asks for Letters---Smart's Children Not Found --- Clarence F. Gregory of 3,675 Broadway asked the Surrogate yesterday to grant him letters testamentary upon the estate of J. Montgomery Smart, who perished in the Titanic d...	13th May 1914
North American	FEAR BOYERTOWN GIRL, MISSIONARY, WAS LOST READING, Pa., April 21---Mr. and Mrs. James B. Funk, parents of Miss Annie C. Funk, a missionary to Janjgir, Central Province, India, have given up hope of seeing their daughter alive. The mother is seriously ill and the entire family is grief-stric...	22nd April 1912
	RED CROSS REPORT AND MEMORIAL McGowan, Annie, Miss (later Mrs. Straube). Saved in Lifeboat number 14. Born 5th July 1895, died 30th January 1990 and was buried in the All Saints Cemetery, Des Plaines, Illinois. (From The Emergency and Relief booklet by the ...
Gloucester Citizen	HODGES HENRY P. : GLOUCESTERIAN'S BROTHER UNLISTED WITH THE SAVED [Photo] Among the Titanic victims was Mr. H. P. Hodges, of The Cotswolds, Highfield Lane, Southampton, who is an elder brother of Mr. R. Hodges, of Melcombe, Vicarage Road, Gloucester, one of the staff at Hatherley Road Council Schools...	17th April 1912
Salford Reporter	THE FUNERAL OF MR ARTHUR GEE AN ACCOUNT OF HIS CAREER The remains of Mr. Arthur Gee, who was one of the passengers who lost their lives in the Titanic disaster were laid to rest on Monday afternoon in the graveyard of St. Johns Church the Height. Mr. Arthur Gee was born at the Height 47 years ago, his f...	23rd May 1912
Free Press	THE TITANIC FUND During the last week it has transpired that one of the bandsmen on board the Titanic was a man named J. W. Woodward, who was born and educated at Hill Top, West Bromwich. Woodward's father was at one time manager of the Hill Top Foundry, and W...	26th April 1912
	EDWARD HARRIS, PANTRYMAN Edward Harris was the 4th son of Thomas Harris, a part-time prison warder who lived at 13, Greenhill Avenue, Winchester. After leaving school Edward worked for several years at the town's railway station. His employers were S...
New York Times	SEEK THE CHILDREN OF TITANIC VICTIM John M. Smart's Son and Daughter at School in Europe, Ignorant of Father's Fate --- HE HAD JUST VISITED THEM --- But Said Nothing of His Personal Affairs to His New York Business Associates --- By Marconi Tra...	5th June 1912
New York Times	MARSHALL DREW Marshall Drew, a survivor of the Titanic, died Friday at Eastern Long Island Hospital in Greenport, L. I. He was 82 years old and lived in Westerly, L. I. Mr. Drew, who was born in Greenport, taught fine arts at Grover Cleveland High S...	11th June 1986
New York Times	MISS EVELYN BAYNE TO WED H. M. BLANK Junior League Girl's Betrothal Announced by Grandmother, Mrs. Lockwood --- Mrs. Williston D. Lockwood of 40 East Sixty-second Street has announced the engagement of her granddaughter, Miss Evelyn Bayne, to Henry M. Blank, son of Mr. and...	16th March 1929
	ANNIE MCGOWAN'S AGE The purpose of this note is to clarify Annie McGowan's age in the absence of a birth certificate. It was put together after reading several pieces of information on this site and other sources that can easily be construed from the t...
1911 Census	WILLIAM EDWARD BESSANT IN 1911 CENSUS Tracey Wellard William Bessant was residing at 36 Henry Road, FREEMANTLE, Southampton at the time of the 1911 census. He was recorded as being a labourer. He was arried to Emily Ellen for 17 years. They had five children Char...
	INFORMATION FROM THE WILLIAM SALT LIBRARY, STAFFORD Hodgkinson, Leonard. Engineer. Stoke man educated at St. Thomas's School, Stoke. With White Star for several years. WAS forty-six years of age and his birthplace Liverpool. His apprenticeship was served with Messrs. Hartley, Armour and Fanning...
Chicago Examiner	PASTOR AND WIFE MISSING Thomas Hughes' Daughter is Believed Among Titanic Dead. Topeka, Kan., April 17--The Rev. Ernest Carter and his wife of London were booked for the Titanic's first sailing on their way to Topeka to spend the Summer with Mrs....	18th April 1912
New York Times	MISS EMILY R. CLARKE A PROSPECTIVE BRIDE Cooperstown Girl Betrothed to Danilo Machado of Havana --- Announcement has been made here by Mrs. S. Beach Cooke of Cooperstown, N. Y., of the engagement of her second daughter, Miss Emily Ryerson Hyde Clarke, to Danilo Machado, son of...	4th October 1939
	FILLBROOK FAMILY INFORMATION Joseph Charles Fillbrook (k/a as Charles) was born in Truro, Cornwall in 1894. He was the son of William Fillbrook, a mason by occupation and Kate (nee Vincent). He had five siblings, Edward John, William Arthur, George, Rose Hetta (k/a Rosetta) and...
Daily Mail	FATE OF A FAMILY Parents and Nine Children in Titanic Page 6 On board the Titanic were eleven residents of Peterborough, Mr. and Mrs. John Sage, of Gladstone-street, and their nine children, whose ages range from twenty-two to five years. M...	18th April 1912
Elizabeth Daily Journal	ELIZABETHANS ON BOARD BIG LINER TITANIC News of Relatives Anxiously Awaited by Families In This City ---------- SCHOOL FLAGS ORDERED AT HALF-MAST ---------- Fred Jefferies, of 21B Florida street, is anxiously awaiting word of his sister, two brothers and...	16th April 1912
New York Times	MRS. DEAN MATHEY, TITANIC SURVIVOR, 72 Special to The New York Times --- PRINCETON, N. J., Sept. 7---Mrs. Helen Newsom Mathey, a survivor of the liner Titanic, sunk in 1912 by an iceberg in the Atlantic Ocean, with the loss of more than 1,500 lives, died today in Princeton H...	8th September 1965
Encyclopaedia of Ships and Shipping (1908)	ISMAY, JAMES [SIC] BRUCE Ismay, James [sic] Bruce (b. Liverpool, 1862). President and Managing Director of the International Mercantile Marine Co. Educated Harrow, and on leaving school entered the office of Messrs. Ismay, Imrie and Co. (White Star Line). After se...	1908
Brooklyn Daily Times	FRIENDS EXPECT TO HEAR FROM MRS. SWIFT SOON The relatives of Mrs. Margaret Swift, the widow of Fred Joel Swift, who lives at 171 Arlington avenue, are expecting momentarily to hear from her. Their hopes are based on the assurances given them at the offices of the White Star Line. ...	16th April 1912
Washington Times	CLARENCE MOORE, WHO MAY HAVE LOST HIS LIFE, WELL KNOWN IN CAPITAL Clarence Moore, of Washington, whose name is included in the list of first-cabin passengers on the Titanic, left Washington March 16. He was particularly interested in seeing the Liverpool steeplechase races while abroad, and if he remained to see th...	16th April 1912
	VARIOUS MEMORIALS TO JOHN WESLEY WOODWARD Named on the Musicians Memorial at the Old Library site, London Road, Southampton. also named on the St Marys Church Musicians Memorial, St Marys, Southampton. also he is mentioned on a plaque in the lobby of the Boston ...
New York Times	PROFANITY AMONG BOYS [EDITORIAL] The statement made in a letter to THE TIMES this morning by Mr. GEORGE WRIGHT that blasphemous and degrading language is increasing not only among the illiterate but "among those in the higher walks of life" may be doubted. Quite possibl...	30th June 1909
	DOWN WITH THE OLD CANOE Dorsey Murdock Dixon (14 October 1897 - 17 April 1968) - Guitar, Vocals Howard Dixon (19 June 1903 - 24 March 1961) - Steel Guitar Dorsey Dixon and his younger brother Howard were born in the South Carolina mill town of Darli...	25th January 1938
	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...
Evening Bulletin	MRS. BREWE COLLAPSES Widow 0f Physician Lost on Titanic in Serious Condition at Her Home Here --- Crushed under the news of the death of her husband, Dr. Arthur Jackson Brewe, on board the Titanic, Mrs. Brewe is in se...	20th April 1912
Newark Evening News	MR. FUNK STILL HOPES SISTER MISSED TITANIC Special Service of the NEWS NEWTON, April 23---Persevering in the hope that Miss Annie Funk, formerly of Paterson, did not go down with the Titanic, Horace Funk, her brother, a teacher of the eleventh grade of the High School here, wen...	23rd April 1912
	EDWARD JAMES WILLIAM ROGERS (FAMILY RESEARCH) Edward James William Rogers was born on 9th September 1880, to Robert James Rogers and his wife Priscilla Susan (nee Bagley). His father was a bricklayer and the family lived at 3 Robert Street, North Woolwich. Edward JW was baptized on 3rd November ...	2003
New York Times	VIRGINIA M. FRENCH HAS TWELVE ATTENDANTS AT HER MARRIAGE HERE TO WILLIAM F. DICK A marriage uniting two families of prominence in society here and in Newport, R. I., took place in the Episcopal Church of the Heavenly Rest yesterday afternoon when Miss Virginia Middleton French, daughter of Mrs. James Lenox Banks Jr. of 15 East Ni...	19th December 1941
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
The Times	SIR ARTHUR ROSTRON Captain Sir Arthur Rostron, K.B.E., R.D., R.N.R., for many years Commodore of the Cunard Fleet and one of the most famous of the commanders of the Mauretania, died at the Cottage Hospital, Chippenham, on Monday, after a ...	6th November 1940
The Times	FUNERAL OF MR. ISMAY In the presence of a large and representative gathering the remains of Mr. Ismay were buried yesterday in the churchyard at Thurstaston, Cheshire. The road along which the funeral cortége passed w...	28th November 1899
	AMERICAN RED CROSS EMERGENCY AND RELIEF FUND: KANTOR No. 228. (Russian). The husband, about thirty years of age, was drowned. He was travelling with his wife, who was saved. He had been a commission merchant, earning about $2,500 a year, and was bringing to this country several trunks of valuable furs ...	1913
	PROFILE FROM THE INSTITUTION OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERS William Edward Hipkins (1858 - 1912) MIMechE Elected: Member of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, 1898 Designation: Managing Director Business address: Soho Foundry, Smethwick, Birmingham ...	1898
New York Times	MEMORIAL NOTICE GUGGENHEIM---At the first meeting of the Board of Directors of the Hebrew Technical Institute held since the sinking of the Titanic, the following resolutions were unanimously adopted: Whereas, We have learned with deep sorrow of the u...	8th May 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
TDN	TITANIC'S HISTORY LIVES ON THROUGH LOCAL MAN Stuart's interest in the Titanic began when he encountered A Night to Remember as a freshman at West Bremerton High School. ...	5th June 2009
	JOHN FREDERICK PRESTON CLARKE Brian J. Ticehurst Clarke, John Frederick Preston. 22 Tunstall Street, Smithdown Road, Liverpool. Orchestra (Bass). (From: Mansion House Titanic Relief Fund Booklet, March 1913) ...
Gare Maritime	THE CAP ARCONA : GALLERY OF A LOVELY - DOOMED LINER Jim Kalafus Recalling the loveliest of the 'forgotten' liners...	14th July 2007
Chorley Guardian	THE TITANIC DISASTER: A NATIVE OF CHORLEY SAVED Mr. Charles Herbert Lightoller, the second officer of the ill-fated Titanic, who is among those who were saved, is a native of Chorley. He is the son of Mr. Fred J. Lightoller, and was born in 1874, receiving his education at the Chorley Grammar S...	27th April 1912
Evening Bulletin	MRS. A. H. RICE DIES IN PARIS AT 69 Wife of Explorer and Surgeon Was Widow of G. D. Widener --- Mrs. Alexander Hamilton Rice, the former Eleanor Elkins, of this city, died suddenly yesterday at her home in Paris. She was 69. Mrs. Rice's first husband was G...	14th July 1937
	INFORMATION ABOUT JOHN JAMES BOREBANK Borebank, Mr. John. J. Missing. First Class Passenger. Cabin D22/1. Occupation - Horticulturist, c/o Lodges of the World, Winnipeg, Canada. Real Estate agent. Left Winnipeg in the Spring of 1911 for the Coronation of King George V. Then was re...
Croydon Times	THORNTON HEATH FAMILY AMONG THE MISSING The loss of the Titanc has affected Croydon in at least one case, and that case a particularly pathectic one, it is believed that a whole Thornton Heath family has been lost, together with some relations who saild with them. Mr. and Mr...	20th April 1912
New York Times	3 OF RICE'S PARTY BACK FROM AMAZON Mrs. Rice, Professor and Mrs. Strong Return---Others in Expedition Go On --- STUDYING TROPICAL DISEASE --- Hope to Explore Regions in Brazil Never Before Traversed by White Men --- Among the passengers who ar...	4th October 1924
Surrey Advertiser and County Times	THE HEROIC WIRELESS OPERATOR The wireless operator who flashed out the terrible signal SOS, and gave the first intimation to the world of the appalling disaster to the Titanic, belongs to Farncombe, where he is well known and popular. He is Mr. John George Phillips, and his pare...	April 1912
New York Times	MRS. CARTER WEDS AGAIN Back from London, She Announces Her Marriage to George Brooke --- Special to The New York Times --- PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 31--The announcement today of the marriage of Mrs. Lucile Polk Carter, prominent in Philadelphia, New ...	1st September 1914
Titanic Review	E.J. THE STORY OF EDWARD J. SMITH. CAPTAIN OF THE TITANIC Brian J. Ticehurst THIS is Gary Coopers second book on the RMS Titanic's Captain. His first book The Man Wh...	5th May 2009
Titanic Research	THE ODELL TITANIC ALBUM Brian Odell Lily Odell, Kate Odell, Jack Odell, Richard May and Stanley May were all travelling together. Jack was eleven at the time and he and Kate brought along their cameras. Kate took a large number of photos, one of which was one of the last known ph...	13th September 2011
San Francisco Chronicle	DR. DODGE AND FAMILY MAY HAVE MISSED TITANIC Page 2 [Photo] Assessor Washington Dodge, Mrs. Washington Dodge Relatives of Assessor Received Word That He Would Stop Over in Paris Shortly before 2 o'clock this morning the "Chronicle" was notified by...	16th April 1912
Philadelphia Inquirer	MRS. POTTER DIES AT AGE OF 98 Mrs. Thomas Potter, Jr., honorary secretary of the Southeastern Pennsylvania Chapter of the Red Cross, died yesterday at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Allen Potter Crolius, the Cambridge Apartments, Wissahickon ave. and School House lane. She was 9...	2nd January 1954
	GENERAL INFORMATION Mr. Smart was the president of the American Cold Storage and Shipping Co., and lived at the Victoria Hotel in New York. When he travelled to England, he simply checked out of the hotel, and took all of his personal belongings with him. Some of those ...
	MEMORIALS TO JACK PHILLIPS Phillips, John George (Jack). Chief Wireless Operator. Has perhaps the largest Titanic memorial, namely 'The Phillips Memorial Cloister', by the River Wey, covering some three acres, at Godalming, Surrey. Inscribed on the memorial stone is: 'The Cloi...
New York Times	ACTRESS SUES DE CAMP Horace S. De Camp, who married the widow of Daniel V. [sic] Marvin, one of the victims of the Titanic disaster, a year ago, has been sued by Miss Florence E. Clark, an actress, for $50,000 for breach of promise. Yesterday an application was made in ...	19th December 1914
Chicago Tribune	THIRD SUICIDE IN FAMILY MYSTERY Northwestern ‘U’ Student Kills Himself Two years ago Dr. John R. Minahan, wealthy and prominent surgeon of Green Bay, Wis., was summoned to Chicago. His oldest son, John Jr., had ended his life in a frat...	20th February 1925
New York Times	WILLIAM T. STEAD English Editor and Author of "If Christ Came to Chicago." --- William T. Stead is the editor of the English Review of Reviews. He is known as an advocate of international peace and an investigator of psychical phenomena. He was born in...	16th April 1912
Trenton Evening Times	ROEBLING SAID GOODBYE TO FRIENDS AND THEN PERISHED WITH BLACKWELL, HIS COMPANION "You will be back with us on the ship again soon", were the last words of Washington A. Roebling, II, so far as Trenton relatives know. In an interview this morning at the Waldorf-Astoria between Miss Caroline Bonnell and Ferdinand W. Roebling,...	19th April 1912
New York Times	MRS. A. H. RICE DIES IN A PARIS STORE New York and Newport Society Woman, Wife of Explorer, Noted for Philanthropy --- A SURVIVOR OF TITANIC --- Lost First Husband and Son in Disaster---Gave Library to Harvard University --- Special Cable to THE ...	14th July 1937
Kerry Sentinel	THE TITANIC'S TRALEE DOCTOR FRIENDS TO HONOUR HIS MEMORY Queenstown, Monday. It is a pleasure to know that the many memorials which are to be raised in connection with the Titanic disaster, the popular Irish physician, Dr F N O'Loughlin is not to be forgot...	25th May 1912
	DYER FAMILY INFORMATION Henry Ryland Dyer, or Harry, was born in Jhansi, India on 21 December 1887 during the time that his father was serving with the 2nd Battalion Devonshire Regiment as a Quartermaster Sergeant. Harry’s father, Henry Thomas Dyer was born a...
New York Times	PARTNER SAYS SMART DIDN'T SIGN THE WILL This Document of Titanic Victim Was Much Discussed Because No Children Were Mentioned --- AND NONE WERE EVER FOUND --- Fortune Reputed Great, but it Turned Out to be Very Small---Constance H. Baldwin Brings Suit ---...	5th March 1913
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	MORGAN BUSY IN ROME Wishes the Papers Would Stop Saying He Is Ill --- By Marconi Transatlantic Wireless Telegraph to The New York Times --- ROME, April 6---This year J. Pierpont Morgan has not had his usual luck in regard to the wea...	7th April 1912
Worcester Telegram	FUND FOR RELIEF OF MRS. ASPLUND AND HER CHILDREN IS GROWING SLOWLY Money for the Worcester Titanic relief fund that is to be used for the financial assistance of Mrs. Charles Asplund and her two children who survived the Titanic disaster, in which her husband and three children were lost, is coming slowly to the rel...	30th April 1912
The Times	MR. ISMAY AND THE WHITE STAR LINE IMPENDING RESIGNATION OF THE CHAIRMANSHIP --- It is now officially announced that Mr. J. Bruce Ismay will retire from the presidency of the International Mercantile Marine Company as from June 30 next, and that he wil...	1st January 1913
	FREDERICK SHEATH Brian J. Ticehurst FREDERICK SHEATH was born in 1892 at number 12 Bell Street, Southampton, the house was a two-up, two-down terraced house with an outside toilet and no garden. Bell Street was situated in the lower, poorer part of town and not f...
New York Times Book Review	HOW WOMEN MAY EARN A LIVING HOW WOMEN MAY EARN A LIVING. By Helen Churchill Candee. 12mo. Pp. ix-342. New York: The Macmillan Company. $1. --- The day has surely come when women as well as men may put their shoulders to the wheel of fortune. To meet...	10th February 1900
New York Times	ALEXANDER RICE, EXPLORER, WAS 80 Physician and Author Dies---Made Trips on the Amazon and Taught Navigation --- Special to The New York Times --- NEWPORT, R. I, July 23---Dr. Alexander Hamilton Rice, explorer of the Amazon, author and member of the summe...	24th July 1956
Titanic Stories	THOMAS ANDREWS - TITANIC DESIGNER Titanic Stories The undoubted hero of the story of the titanic is Thomas Andrews, chief naval architect, managing director of the design department at Harland and Wolff and the leader of the Guarantee Group. ...	1st August 2011
New York Times	J. J. ASTOR MARRIES GERTRUDE GRETSCH Son of the Late Colonel John Jacob Astor Weds Alumna of Finch at Her Home --- The marriage of Miss Gertrude Gretsch, daughter of Mrs. Walter Gretsch of 3 East Seventy-seventh Street and the late Mr. Gretsch, to John Jacob Astor of 998 F...	19th August 1944
New York Times	WILLIAM DICK DIES; AN INDUSTRIALIST Director of the National Sugar Refining Co., Best Foods, Inc., and Irving Trust Was 65 --- Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES --- ISLIP, L. I., Sept. 5---William K. Dick, industrialist, banker and grandson of a pioneer in the f...	6th September 1953
New York Times	THOMAS HENRY ISMAY DEAD Founder and Chairman of Board of Directors of White Star Line---Gave £20,000 for Poor Sailors --- LIVERPOOL, Nov. 23---Thomas Henry Ismay, the founder and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the White Star Line Steamship Company, died...	24th November 1899