Joseph Bruce Ismay

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The London Gazette LEGAL NOTICE OF THE RETIREMENT OF THOMAS ISMAY
The London Gazette, Issue 26243, 8 January 1892.  NOTICE is hereby given, that the Partnership heretofore subsisting between us the undersigned, Thomas Henry Ismay, William Imrie, William Samuel Graves,...
8th January 1892
New York Times CLUBMEN AND THEIR CLUBS
[Note: This is extracted from a longer article about several prominent members of New York social clubs.] J. Bruce Ismay, who succeeds Charles [sic; should be "Clement"] A. Griscom as President of the International Mercantile Marine Co...
28th February 1904
Worcester Journal NEW PLAY ABOUT JOSEPH BRUCE ISMAY
NINETY-eight years after she sunk to the bottom of the Atlantic comes a play about the man who was in charge of the Titanic. The Man Who Left the Titanic, a new play by Patrick Prior, is performed at the Norbury Theatre this weekend....
21st October 2010
JOSEPH BRUCE ISMAY Le Petit Journal JOSEPH BRUCE ISMAY
17th April 1912
The Times DEATH NOTICE: BRUCE ISMAY
ISMAY---On Oct. 17, 1937, at his residence, 15, Hill Street, Mayfair, BRUCE, husband of FLORENCE ISMAY. Funeral service St. Paul's Knitsbridge, 2.30 to-morrow (Thursday). Interment (private) Putney Vale Cemetery....
20th October 1937
JOSEPH BRUCE ISMAY   JOSEPH BRUCE ISMAY
From 'Sinking of the Titanic'...
New York Times [OBITUARY OF MARGARET ISMAY]
DEATH LIST OF A DAY --- *** Mrs. T. H. Ismay --- LONDON, Apr...
10th April 1907
J. BRUCE ISMAY RETREAT FOR SALE Irish Independent J. BRUCE ISMAY RETREAT FOR SALE
A Titanophile's Dream for $1.5 million...
9th July 2004
Chicago Examiner NOT LOCKED IN CABIN ON CARPATHIA, SAYS ISMAY
I know that my personal conduct has been made the subject of a lot of unfavorable comment, and I court the fullest inquiry at the hands of your committee or any one else who has the right to ask such questions.  So far as the Carpathia is ...
1st May 1912
Chicago Daily Journal ISMAY TIRED TO ESCAPE ON CEDRIC, WIRELESS SHOWS
Explanation of why Senator William Alden Smith of Michigan, chairman of the senate committee named to investigate the Titanic disaster, hurried to New York Thursday night to begin the inquiry was made today when it  became known that a wir...
20th April 1912
New York Times J. BRUCE ISMAY ARRIVES HERE
J. Bruce Ismay, President of the International Mercantile Marine Company, arrived yesterday on the Cunard liner Mauretania.  With him was Vice President Harold A. Sanderson and E. C. Grenfell, the latter a Director of ...
27th February 1910
Worcester Evening Gazette SAYS ISMAY CHOSE OWN BOAT CREW
New York- April 19- According to Mrs. W.J. Cardeza, of Philadelphia, after she had arrived at the Ritz-Carlton with T.D.M. Cardeza, J.Bruce Ismay was not only safely seated in a lifeboat before it was filled, but he also selected the crew that rowed ...
20th April 1912
Chicago Daily Journal "I'M STARVED!" WAS ISMAY'S FIRST WORD
"For God's sake get me something to eat. I'm starved. I don't care what it costs or what it is, bring it to me." This was the first statement made by J. Bruce Ismay, directing head of the White Star line, o...
19th April 1912
The Times ISMAY RESIGNS CHAIRMANSHIPS
The Asiatic Steam Navigation Company announce the resignation of Mr. J. Bruce Ismay , chairman of the company and its associated company, the Delta Insurance Company.  Mr. Ismay has been a director of these companies for nearly 35 years....
30th July 1934
  J. BRUCE ISMAY RETURNS TO ENGLAND
J. Bruce Ismay, one of the owners of the White Star Line of steamships, and Hon. W. J. Pirrie of the shipbuilding firm of Harland & Wolff of Belfast, the builders of the White Star steamers, who recently came over on the C...
19th September 1901
New York Times SOCIETY---HOME AND ABROAD
Mr. and Mrs. J. Bruce Ismay of London, England, have announced the engagement of their daughter, Miss Margaret Ismay, to Capt. Ronald Cheape of the First Dragoon Guards of the English Army.  Mrs. Ismay was Miss Florence Schieffelin of this city.  ...
26th November 1911
The Times OBITUARY: MARGARET ISMAY
MRS. ISMAY, widow of Mr. Thomas Henry Ismay, the founder of the White Star Line, and mother of Mr. Bruce Ismay, head of the International Mercantile Marine Company, died yesterday morning, at the residence of her daughter, Mrs. Geoffrey Drage, in Cad...
10th April 1907
Washington Post OWNER WHO FLED STRICKEN TITANIC DIES AS RECLUSE
London, Oct. 18 (Monday).—Joseph Bruce Ismay, 74 years old, former owner of the White Star Line and former president of the International Mercantile Marine Co., who survived the Titanic disaster, d...
18th October 1937
The Times THE TITANIC: MR ISMAY'S RETURN
The Adriatic arrived at Liverpool on Saturday with Mr Bruce Ismay and other survivors of the disaster to the Titanic on board. A large crowd had assembled at the landing stage to meet the vessel. One of the White Star Company&rsq...
13th May 1912
The Times MR. ISMAY'S GIFT TO THE MERCANTILE MARINE
MESSAGE FROM THE KING --- The Mercantile Marine Service Association, Liverpool, having informed the King that Mr. Bruce Ismay had contributed £25,000 for the purpose of founding a ...
3rd January 1919
The Times ESTATE OF TITANIC SURVIVOR
Mr. JOSEPH BRUCE ISMAY, of Hill Street, Berkeley Square, W., a former president of the International Mercantile Marine Company and chairman of the White Star Line, a survivor of the Titanic disaster, who died on October 17, ...
4th December 1937
New York Times ISMAY AIDS SAILORS' WIDOWS
Will Provide Pensions for Those Who Lose Husbands at Sea --- By Marconi Wireless Transatlantic Telegraph to The New York Times --- LONDON, May 14---Exact information was obtained to-day as to J. Bruce Ismay's intentions in...
15th May 1912
New York Times J. BRUCE ISMAY, 74, TITANIC SURVIVOR
Ex-Head of White Star Line Who Retired After Sea Tragedy Dies in London --- LONDON, Oct. 18 (AP)---Joseph Bruce Ismay, former chairman of the White Star Line and a survivor of the Titanic disaster in 1912, died here last night. He was 7...
19th October 1937
J. BRUCE ISMAY Washington Times J. BRUCE ISMAY
24th April 1912
  NOTE BY FRANCES WILSON ON THE ISMAY FAMILY ARCHIVE
Frances Wilson
Frances Wilson, author of How to Survive the Titanic or The Sinking of J. Bruce Ismay discusses her enduring interest in the Titanic and her discovery of the Ismay family archive...
11th August 2011
New York Times JOSEPH BRUCE ISMAY
Chairman and Managing Director of the White Star Line --- Joseph Bruce Ismay has been considered one of the most prominent ship owners in the world. As chairman and managing director of the White Star line he took passage on the Titani...
16th April 1912
The Times MR BRUCE ISMAY - AN ANONYMOUS TRIBUTE
“Will you permit me to supplement the articles concerning the late Bruce Ismay, which have already appeared in your columns, by the publication of a short personal tribute by an old friend? In the world at large Bruce Ismay may possi...
23rd August 1937
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
Washington Herald PEUCHEN COMES BACK AT ISMAY
Charge of Negligence Preferred by Canadian Official Is Supported by Witness --- New York, April 20---Although J. Bruce Ismay branded the story as "absurd," Maj. Arthur Godfrey Peuchen, vice commodore of the Royal Canadian Yacht Club and...
21st April 1912
New York Times 3,000 ON THE ADRIATIC
Bruce Ismay, Bourke Cockran, and R. W. Perks Among the Passengers --- QUEENSTOWN, May 9---The White Star Line steamer Adriatic, which left Liverpool yesterday on her maiden voyage sailed from here to-day for New York with nearly 3,00...
10th May 1907
The Times MR. BRUCE ISMAY
A correspondent writes:--- Will you permit me to supplement the articles concerning the late Bruce Ismay, which have already appeared in your columns, by the publication of a short personal tribute by an old frien...
23rd October 1937
The Toronto World THINGS THAT ISMAY DID NOT OBSERVE
Bruce Ismay on the stand before senate investigating committee: "I saw no passengers in sight when I entered the lifeboat." "I did not see what happened to the lifeboats...
20th April 1912
Newark Evening News TITANIC SURVIVOR TO THE DEFENSE OF ISMAY
Special Service of the NEWS PLAINFIELD, April 23---Miss Georgette Alexander Magill, aged sixteen years, who was among the first of those rescued from the Titanic to be put aboard the Carpathia, yesterday at Plainfield defended J. Bruce...
23rd April 1912
The Times INSURANCE DIRECTOR'S RETIREMENT
Mr. J. Bruce Ismay, who has for many years been a director of the Liverpool and London and Globe Insurance Company and also for some time past a director of the Royal Insurance Company and of the Thames and Mersey Marine Insurance Company, has ...
29th January 1930
The Times MR. BRUCE ISMAY
AN ABLE SHIPOWNER --- Mr. Bruce Ismay, who died yesterday at his residence, 15, Hill Street, Mayfair, at the age of 74, was well known, particularly in Liverpool, as an able shipowner. His grandfather, Joseph Ismay, was a...
18th October 1937
The Syracuse Herald ISMAY AND OFFICERS OF TITANIC GO TO EUROPE
New York May 3 – In a state of near collapse, J. Bruce Ismay, managing director of the International Mercantile Marine, sailed for England yesterday on the White Star Liner Adriatic. He made only this brief statement to the newspaper men....
3rd May 1912
New York Times ISMAY IS TO QUIT
Will Retire June 30---Harold Sanderson to Take His Place --- by Marconi Transatlantic Wireless Telegraph to The New York Times --- LONDON, Dec. 31.---J. Bruce Ismay will retire from the Presidency of the International ...
1st January 1913
Chicago Daily Journal ISMAY GOT INTO BOAT
John R. Joyce, a banker of Carlsbad, N. M., a passenger on the Carpathia, said: "When the Carpathia reached the scene of the wreck, we saw eighteen boats and one raft on the water.  The Carpathia picked them all up. Four pe...
19th April 1912
New York Times $100,000 GIFT FROM ISMAY
Thank Offering for His Escape---To Start Fund for Disabled Seamen --- By Marconi Transatlantic Wireless Telegraph to The New York Times --- LIVERPOOL, May 13---The Liverpool Journal of Commerce states that J. Bruce Ismay h...
14th May 1912
The Times PRESUMED DEATH IN THE TITANIC
T. Franklin presumed deceased [Probate, Divorce and Admiralty Court hearing] This was a motion to swear the death of Thomas Parnham Franklin, of Sunningdale, Ceylon Road, Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex, who is believed to have lost his...
11th June 1912
The Times FUNERALS---MR. BRUCE ISMAY
The funeral service of Mr. Bruce Ismay was held yesterday at St. Paul's, Knightsbridge. The Rev. E. K. C. Hamilton officiated. Members of the family and others present included:---   Mrs. Bruce Ismay, Mr. and Mrs. ...
22nd October 1937
Washington Herald ISMAY LEFT SHIP AT WOMEN'S PLEA
White Star Official Described as Refusing to Enter Boat at First --- New York, April 18---J. [sic] D. M. Cardeza, of Philadelphia, who was among the rescued passengers of the Titanic, told how he said he witnessed Bruce Ismay’s departur...
19th April 1912
DOWNSHIRE HOUSE   DOWNSHIRE HOUSE
This is the house where in the summer of 1907, the Olympic & Titanic were conceived by Lord William Pirrie and J. Bruce Ismay....
New York Times ISMAY UPHOLDS STRIKE POLICY
President of Mercantile Marine Says His Company Will Not Advance Pay --- SAILORS DELAY A LINER --- Refuse to Sail on La Touraine Until Paid Full Wages for Loading and Unloading Cargo --- If the stri...
17th May 1907
MEMORIAL CARD FOR JOSEPH PHILIPPE LEMERCIER LAROCHE, 1912   MEMORIAL CARD FOR JOSEPH PHILIPPE LEMERCIER LAROCHE, 1912
Front picture of a memorial card in memory of Joseph Laroche...
1912
Dictionary of National Biography (1901) ISMAY, THOMAS HENRY
Prof. Sir John Knox Laughton, Litt.D.
ISMAY, THOMAS HENRY (1837-1899), shipowner, eldest son of Joseph Ismay, of Marypoint, [sic; should be "Maryport], Cumberland, was born there on 7 Jan. 1837. At the age of sixteen he was apprenticed to a firm of shipbrokers (...
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
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
  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 (in the chair) and others. During the meeting it was announced that the following cases were reported toget...
  ACCOUNT BY GERALD DUQUEMIN
His brother, Gerald, of Capelle's Building Stores, Guernsey, takes up the story: ''I was only ten years old at the time the Titanic went down but I can remember very well what results the sinking brought home. We heard about it on the ...
THOMAS H. ISMAY   THOMAS H. ISMAY
Portrait...
BACK OF MEMORIAL CARD IN MEMORY OF JOSEPH LAROCHE   BACK OF MEMORIAL CARD IN MEMORY OF JOSEPH LAROCHE
A mass was given in Villejuif in memory of Joseph Laroche in May 1912. A memorial card was issued. This shows the back. Joseph's family was Juliette (wife), Simonne and Louise (daughters)....
1912
  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 (in the chair) and others. During the meeting it was announced that the following cases were reported...
23rd July 1912
  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 (in the chair) and others. During the meeting it was announced that the following cases were reported toget...
  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 (in the chair) and others. During the meeting it was announced that the following cases were reporte...
23rd July 1912
  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 (in the chair) and others. During the meeting it was announced that the following cases were reported toget...
23rd July 1912
  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 (in the chair) and others. During the meeting it was announced that the following cases were reporte...
23rd July 1912
  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 (in the chair) and others. During the meeting it was announced that the following cases were report...
23rd July 1912
  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 (in the chair) and others. During the meeting it was announced that the following cases were reported togeth...
23rd July 1912
Chicago Tribune BRUCE HAS NO WRECK DETAILS
Wireless Operator Reports He Was Unable to Get Particulars of Titanic Sinking St. Johns, N. F., April 17---The steamer Bruce, which arrived in St. John's harbor at noon on Monday and r...
18th April 1912
  MINUTE BOOK OF THE WHITE STAR COMPANY: PENNY
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 (in the chair) and others. During the meeting it was announced that the following cases were reported to...
23rd July 1912
Rahway Daily Record STORY OF DISASTER TO MAMMOTH LINER FROM A SURVIVOR
William H. Randolph of This City Hears Sad Account of the Wreck From His Employer’s Widow ---------- MRS. WALTER DOUGLAS SAFE ---------- In Interview She States That Bruce Ismay, After Receiving Warning, Kept Boat at Full ...
19th April 1912
New York Times CAPT. BOWER ISMAY DIES
British Shipping and Racing Man Succumbs to Sleeping Sickness --- LONDON, May 25---Captain Bower Ismay, the shipowner and racehorse fancier, died today at Hazel Beech Hall, Northamptonshire. He had been ill since Feb. 8 with sleeping ...
26th May 1924
  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 (in the chair) and others. During the meeting it was announced that the following cases were reported toget...
23rd July 1912
  MINUTE BOOK OF THE WHITE STAR COMPANY: GEORGE FOX HOSKING
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 (in the chair) and others. During the meeting it was announced that the following cases were reported t...
23rd July 1912
  MINUTE BOOK OF THE WHITE STAR COMPANY: JAMES FRASER
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 (in the chair) and others. During the meeting it was announced that the following cases were reported togethe...
23rd July 1912
  MINUTE BOOK OF THE WHITE STAR COMPANY: JAMES SMITH
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 (in the chair) and others. During the meeting it was announced that the following cases were reported t...
23rd July 1912
Washington Times ISMAY CONDEMNED FOR TAKING BOAT
Daughter of Congressman Hughes Tells of Experience In Sea Disaster --- NEW YORK, April 19---Not only did J. Bruce Ismay, managing director or the White Star line, get into one of the first lifeboats to be launched, but he was escorted a...
19th April 1912
  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 (in the chair) and others. During the meeting it was announced that the following cases were...
23rd July 1912
The San Francisco Call PEOPLE OF ISMAY, TEX., THINK NAME A BLOT
"Call Us After Officer Who "Cussed Him," They Ask --- HOUSTON. April 29-The people of Ismay, Jackson county, Tex., a new town less than a year old, are preparing to ask for permission to change the village...
30th April 1912
The Times £25,000 FOR BRITISH MERCHANTMEN
The Times, 2 January 1919 MR. ISMAY'S MUNIFICENT GIFT --- Mr. J. Bruce Ismay, son of the founder of the White Star Line, has given £25,000 in War Loan stock to the Mercanti...
2nd January 1919
TITANIC CONNECTIONS WITH LIVERPOOL   TITANIC CONNECTIONS WITH LIVERPOOL
Titanic, Carpathia, Californian were all Liverpool registered ships. The Titanic was scheduled to visit the port on the voyage from Belfast to Southampton but this was cancelled almost at the last minute. ...
The Times T. ISMAY CONTRIBUTES TO PIRRIE HOSPITAL FUND
BELFAST, DEC 16 Much gratification is expressed in Belfast with regard to a letter received by the Lord Mayor, who is a partner in the large shipbuilding firm of Harland and Wolff, from Mr. Thom...
17th December 1896
  PROBATE REPORT: STOKES, PHILLIP JOSEPH
... of 91 Hawstead Road, Catford, Kent. Administration 24th May 1912, to Phillip Joseph Stokes, bricklayer. Effects £48.12.6d....
24th May 1912
Guernsey Evening Press MR. JOSEPH DUQUEMIN
A letter was received this morning by the father of Mr. Joseph Duquemin, who was a passenger on the Titanic. He states that he has been in hospital and on his recovery proceeded to his destination, Albany, New York, where he has arrived quite well. H...
2nd May 1912
The Times THE LATE MR. ISMAY'S WILL
THE LATE MR. ISMAY'S WILL---The will of the late Mr. THOMAS HENRY ISMAY, head of the White Star Line, has been proved. The value of the real and personal estate is sworn at £1,297,881 14s. 1d. g...
12th March 1900
JOSEPH BELL   JOSEPH BELL
Titanic Chief Engineer Joseph Bell...
Guernsey Evening Press MR. J. DUQUEMIN
c/o Porgos, St. Sampson, Guernsey. Reported Saved. News was received at noon today of the safety of Mr. Joseph Duquemin. Mr. Joseph Duquemin, of Portgrat, Vale, a quarryman, aged about 30. He accompanied M...
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
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
Mid Cumberland and Westmoreland Herald JOSEPH BELL
The Chief Engineer was Joseph Bell, son of the late Mr. John Bell, who at one time farmed at Farlam, but subsequently lived for many years in retirement at Bishoptown, Carlisle, before going to Bristol, where he died a few years ago. The latter was a...
20th April 1912
Worcester Telegram NO SIGN OF WRECK
Article...
18th April 1912
New York Times TWO MEN HURT ON OLYMPIC
President Ismay Sails on Her to Return on New Titanic...
25th January 1912
New York Times SEALBY DEFENDS ISMAY
Tribute from Republic’s Captain, Who Served Father and Son 25 Years --- Special to The New York Times ...
22nd April 1912
The Sydney Morning Herald INTERCOLONIAL LAWN TENNIS TOURNAMENT
At 11 o'clock to-day the intercolonial lawn tennis match between New South Wales and Victoria, commences at the Association Cricket Ground, Moore Park, and a very exciting contest is expected, bot...
30th April 1885
New York Times ADRIATIC TO SAIL TO-DAY
Biggest Liner's Cabins Full on Her First Voyage Eastward --- With her saloon apartments filled, the White Star liner Adriatic, biggest and newest of transatlantic liners at present in commission, will sail for Southampton ...
22nd May 1907
The Times DEATH OF MR. T. H. ISMAY
We regret to announce that Mr. Ismay died at his residence, Dawpool, near Birkenhead, about 6 o'clock last night, after a long illness. The immediate cause of death was collapse of the heart, following on operations performed for an internal trouble....
24th November 1899
The Times OBITUARY---MR. J. H. ISMAY
A NOTED AGRICULTURALIST --- We regret to announce that Mr. James Hainsworth Ismay died at Iwerne Minster House, Blandford, Dorset, yesterday. He belonged to the well-known family of shipowners, and was himself formerly a partner in th...
25th January 1930
Newark Evening News LIFEBOAT NOT FILLED, KARL BEHR DECLARES
NEW YORK, April 20---Karl H. Behr, the tennis player, who went to Australia in 1910 with the American team and was one of the Titanic’s survivors, tells that he was with a party of four, whom he hurried to the Titanic’s top deck at the first alarm....
20th April 1912
SAMUEL L. GOLDENBERG, TITANIC SURVIVOR, DIES Unidentified Newspaper SAMUEL L. GOLDENBERG, TITANIC SURVIVOR, DIES
This article was published at the time of Sam Goldenberg's death, in October 1936. The paper is unidentified, it could be The Herald Tribune, a paper published in Paris in English, for the English speaking community in France. ...
1936
The Times OBITUARY---MR. C. BOWER ISMAY
Mr. Charles Bower Ismay, of Hazelbeech Hall, Northampton, who had been ill for some weeks, died yesterday morning. He was well known on the Turf, and was the owner of Craganour, which ran in the famous Derby of 1913. His grandfather, Joseph Ismay was...
26th May 1924
New York Times THOMAS H. ISMAY LEFT £1,297,881
LONDON, March 11---The will of the late Thomas Henry Ismay, founder of the White Star Steamship Company, who died in Liverpool last November, has been proved, showing a personal estate of £1,297,881. Numerous legacies, in all about £2...
12th March 1900
Chicago American ISMAY ASKS TO LEAVE THE WRECK PROBE
Washington, April 24---The Senate investigating committee probing the Titanic horror today declined to act on a new request by J. Bruce Ismay,  managing director of the White Star Line, that owned the ill-fated ship, to quit t...
24th April 1912
The Star, Christchurch, New Zealand BRUCE ISMAY ARRIVES IN NEW ZEALAND, 1885
SHIPPING TELEGRAMS --- Auckland, Feb. 23. --- The Doric, S.S., Captain Jennings, arrived this evening. Left London Jan. 5 and Plymouth Jan. 8. Had fine weather to Teneriffe, arriving at 8a.m. Jan. ...
24th February 1885
  BETROS AND ZAHIE KHALIL
Betros and Zahie Khalil were married. Betros and his wife were going to Wilkes Barre to meet his brother, Joseph Harry (formerly Joseph Khalil) who was my grandfather. ...
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
GENUINE WHITE STAR LINE ENVELOPE SAVED BY MME LAROCHE   GENUINE WHITE STAR LINE ENVELOPE SAVED BY MME LAROCHE
Mme Laroche saved this 'second class' envelope in a pocket of the coat her husband Joseph put on her shoulders minutes before leaving the Titanic. This envelope had contained the passage tickets bought at the Paris offices of the White Star Line, at ...
1912
Newark Star WHY WAS THE NEWS SUPPRESSED
A reporter for The Newark Star managed to get aboard the Carpathia and made his way to the bridge, where he had an interview with Captain Rostrom [sic] as to why the news of the wreck and the condition of the survivors had been withheld. The followin...
19th April 1912
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
New York Times LINER DID NOT SPEED, ISMAY DECLARES
Not the Custom of the White Star Line to Try to Break Records --- TOOK LAST BOAT, HE SAYS --- Awakened by Crash --- Doesn't Know About Bulkheads --- Ship Sank in 2 Hours and 25 Minutes --- ...
19th April 1912
  FAMILY INFORMATION
Percy Andrew Bailey was born in Penzance, Cornwall in 1894, he was the eldest child of Joseph Bailey (butcher) and Edith Bailey. The 1901 British Census shows the family at 25 Gwavas Street, Penzance along with Percy's younger siblings, Ada (b...
ISMAY YACHT TORPEDOED! Daily Telegraph ISMAY YACHT TORPEDOED!
(Photo: HM Torpedo Boat Hunter) Action against a Naval Officer The hearing was begun on Saturday before His Honour Judge Percy Gye and a jury, at the Isle of Wight County Court, of an action broug...
1908
  PROBATE REPORTS
Bailey, Annie Margaret of Fourwynds, 2 Wellesworth Lane, Bowes Hill, Rowlands Castle, Hampshire (wife of Joseph Northey Bailey) died 1 March 1960. Probate Winchester 9 May 1960 to National Provincial Bank Limited. Effects £22894 6s 11d ...
Chicago Tribune THOMAS FOLEY'S BROTHER GONE
            Thomas Foley, 3157 Harrison street, a street car conductor, a well built young man, with an unspoiled Irish burr in his speech, called to ask if the ...
20th April 1912
New York Times BIG CROWD SAILS TO-DAY
Nine Hundred First Cabin Passengers on Olympic, Cedric, and Lapland --- More than 1,200 cabin passengers, of whom nearly 900 will be in the first cabin, will sail from New York for Europe to-day. This big crowd of travelers, in numbers ...
24th January 1912
  REMINISCENCES OF TRANSATLANTIC TRAVELLERS
Charles Spedding
There are a great many fallacies in connection with the loss of the Titanic, the chief one being that she was trying to break the record. As a matter of fact, she had not averaged twenty-one knots up to the time she struck, three knots le...
1926
MRS. T. W. CAVENDISH Washington Herald MRS. T. W. CAVENDISH
MRS. T. W. CAVENDISH Daughter of Henry Siegel, the millionaire merchant. She was brought in on the Carpathia with the rest of the survivors. In relating her exxperiences she said: "There were many lifeboats preparing to be launched w...
21st April 1912
Washington Herald ISMAY OUTLINES VIEW OF WRECK
Head of White Star Line, Under Guard, Makes First Statement --- New York, April 18---Mr. J. Bruce Ismay left the ship at about 11:15 o’clock to-night and went to the rear of the dock where the offices of the Cunard Line are located. He...
19th April 1912
JOSEPH BELL   JOSEPH BELL
JOSEPH LORING San Francisco Chronicle JOSEPH LORING
17th April 1912
New York Times GIRL SURVIVOR HAS PRAISE FOR ISMAY
Miss Rosenbaum Declares She Owes Her Life to White Star Head --- FORCED HER INTO LIFEBOAT --- Declares He Was Among Last to Leave Sinking Titanic, Calling "Any More Women?" --- Out of al...
23rd April 1912
The Times STORIES OF THE WRECK : CAPTAIN SMITH'S HEROISM
After the men had had dinner the taking of their statements was rapidly proceeded with, and it was soon announced that a number of them were at liberty to leave the dock premises if they wished to do so. Most of them availed themselves of this per...
29th April 1912
JOSEPH BOXHALL CARTOON   JOSEPH BOXHALL CARTOON
Daily Sketch THE SURVIVING OFFICERS OF THE TITANIC
The surviving officers of the Titanic - Messrs. Lightoller, Lowe, Boxhall and Pitman - reached Liverpool by the same ship as Mr. Ismay - the Adriatic. The fifth officer, Mr. Lowe, who told the American Court of Inquiry that he asked Mr. Is...
13th May 1912
16 CHARLES STREET   16 CHARLES STREET
photo of Joseph Fillbrooks house...
Passaic Herald News MRS. J. JOSEPH O'NEILL
CLIFTON Mrs. Margaret O'Neill, 82, died yesterday in St. Mary Hospital, Passaic. Mrs. O'Neill was born in Ireland and came to the United States in 1912. She lived in Jersey City and Montclair before moving to Clifton five y...
13th June 1974
Unidentified Newspaper UNTITLED
Joseph Duquemin of 47 Tormuck La., a veteran of World Ward I, died this morning at Stamford Hospital after a lingering illness. Born in England on November 24th 1892 Mr. Duquemin was a resident of Stamford, for 24 years. he was formerl...
6th January 1950
  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...
ST BART'S CHURCH IN DAWPOOL (THURSTASTON)   ST BART'S CHURCH IN DAWPOOL (THURSTASTON)
A picture of St Bartholomew's Church in the Village of Thurstaston Wirral (Diocese of Chester), where my Wife and I where married many years ago. The Lychgate was erected in m...
New York Times PASSENGERS FROM EUROPE GRIEVED
[Note: U.S. President William McKinley was shot by an assassin on 6 September 1901, and died on 14 September.] Heard with Amazement About the Shooting of the President ---------- News Casts Gloom Over Big Liner...
8th September 1901
North American SEVEN WILKES-BARRE PERSONS ARE MISSING
Special Dispatch to The North American --- WILKES-BARRE, Pa., April 18---Charles Thomas, a small storekeeper of this city; Mrs. Joseph Thomas and infant son, Anthony Yosbik, Joseph and Peter Simon and Brenton Harry, all of this city,...
19th April 1912
LETTER RE: LAROCHE FAMILY   LETTER RE: LAROCHE FAMILY
  Passenger Department 9 Rue Scribe, Paris. 14th. May, 1912 I the undersigned certify that the Laroche family, consisting of Mr. Joseph Laroche, Mrs. Laroche, Miss Simo...
14th May 1912
New York Times THOMAS HENRY ISMAY [LETTER TO THE EDITOR]
To The Editor of The New York Times: The death of Thomas Henry Ismay deserves more than a passing notice. In the extraordinary development of the commercial marine of Great Britain during the last quarter of a century he had been one o...
25th November 1899
Providence Journal STEAD'S BROTHER INDIGNANT-ASKS WHAT RIGHT ISMAY SAVED FROM WRECK
London, April 20, 1912- Alfred Stead, brother of William T. Stead who went down with the Titanic is thoroughly aroused over the circumstances under which so many persons went to their doom in the waters of the north Atlantic. He said yesterday: "Spe...
20th April 1912
HOW TO SURVIVE THE TITANIC. OR THE SINKING OF J. BRUCE ISMAY Titanic Review HOW TO SURVIVE THE TITANIC. OR THE SINKING OF J. BRUCE ISMAY
Senan Molony
Ismay as Ecce Homo...
11th August 2011
La Presse TWO SURVIVORS
Two Survivors This afternoon, the Daily Mail welcomed in their Parisian offices, rue des Capucines, the American doctor Joseph Leidy. Mr. Leidy was visiting the Daily Mail reporters in order to show them a wireless he had just received ...
17th April 1912
TITANIC AFTERMATH - A PLAY IN THREE ACTS   TITANIC AFTERMATH - A PLAY IN THREE ACTS
Authored by Michael B. Wehrli, Michael B. Wehrli Based on the Senate Hearing transcrip...
Daily Home News HOME NEWS GAVE CITY FIRST NEWS OF CARPATHIA'S LANDING
New Brunswick received the news of the landing of the Carpathia with the rescued Titanic passengers, from the Home News last night. The details of the landing and the passengers’ stories of the disaster, were wired to this office direct, and other bu...
19th April 1912
New York Times SURVIVOR SAYS ISMAY RULED IN TITANIC'S BOATS
Managing Director Had Charge Of Their Launching, Testifies Karl H. Behr....
26th June 1915
Cumberland News LOCAL VICTIMS OF THE DISASTER
Carlisle and Border men among the Crew Mr. Joseph Bell left the district when a youth to serve his apprenticeship as an engineer at the works of Mr. Robert Stephenson, on Tyneside, which were founded by the famous engineer of that name who inv...
20th April 1912
New York Times GRISCOM IS NO LONGER HEAD OF SHIP COMBINE
J. Bruce Ismay is Chosen for Its President --- FREE HAND FOR THE NEW MAN --- His Predecessor Remains in the Company as Chairman of the Board of Directors---Ismay to Live in New York --- Clement A. Griscom ...
24th February 1904
Washington Times SURVIVOR TELLS OF THE HEROISM OF CLARENCE MOORE
Robert W. Daniels Says Banker Went to His Death Like a Man --- Stories of the heroism and resignation with which Clarence Moore, the well-known local banker and horseman of international repute, went to his death on the deck of the Tita...
22nd April 1912
Atlantic City Daily Press AN ATLANTIC MAN FINDS EVIDENCE FAVORING ISMAY
D. W. McMillan’s Sister, Titanic Survivor, Says He and Astor Helped Women ---------- DESCRIBES DEATH OF DOUGHTY CAPTAIN ---------- In a letter to his wife, D. W. McMillan, of Pleasantville, who visited New Yor...
23rd April 1912
Surrey Advertiser and County Times TWO WITLEY VICTIMS
Widows sad experience Among those who were serving on board the ill-fated vessel was Mrs. Lucy Violet Snape, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. Leonard, of Well Lane, Sandhills, Witley, who was employed as a second class stewardess. At the ti...
20th 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
New-York Tribune ASTORS SAIL FOR EGYPT
The Astors are bound for Egypt on account of Mrs. Astor's health......
25th January 1912
Staffordshire Advertiser WEST BROMWICH MEN ON TITANIC
Three West Bromwich men, Alfred Davies, aged 21, John Davies, aged 22, and Joseph Davies, aged 17 years, all of Hardware Street, and a relative named James Lester, aged 39, of Wolverhampton are believed to be among the ill-fated passengers. They l...
20th April 1912
  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)....
  CHINESE SAILORS ON THE TITANIC
Eight sailors from Hong Kong, boarded the Titanic together at Southampton......
Worcester Evening Gazette BE BRITISH, MY MEN CAPT. SMITH'S ORDER
WASHINGTON, April 19- But for the unparalled self-sacrifice and heroism of Capt. Smith and the Titanic's officers, the sea would have claimed an even greater toll when the gigantic ship went down. From the bridge, Capt. Smith called through his megap...
20th April 1912
Atlantic City Daily Press LOCAL SURVIVOR DEFENDS ISMAY
City Clerk Donnelly’s Cousin Sends Sympathetic Note to Official ---------- NOT A COWARD, BUT BRAVE AND GALLANT ---------- “Ismay was unjustly critcised and abused for his actions regarding the Ti...
5th May 1912
Guernsey Evening Press MR. J. DUQUEMIN
The relations of Mr. Joseph Duquemin, reported to be one of the survivors of the Titanic Disaster, have not yet heard from him direct, but yesterday a letter was received from the White Star line's Southampton Office, confirming the telegram sent on ...
20th April 1912
MEMORIAL   MEMORIAL
IN LOVING MEMORY OF ARTHUR RYERSON OF RINGWOOD, OTSEGO COUNTY, NEW YORK ELDEST SON OF JOSEPH TURNER RYERSON OF CHICAGO AND ELLEN LARNED HIS WIFE BORN JANUARY 12, 1851, LOST ON S.S. TITANIC APRI...
The Shipwrecked Mariner Quarterly Maritime Magazine (1882) SHIPBUILDING IN IRELAND
SHIPBUILDING IN IRELAND.-Whatever may be said of other branches of Irish industry, its shipbuilding may, it would appear, compare not unfavourably with that of any other part of the kingdom. The Clyde claims pre-eminence, but Mes...
The Sydney Morning Herald INTERCOLONIAL LAWN TENNIS TOURNAMENT (#3)
...
5th May 1885
  PROBATE REPORT
Probate Report...
1912
New York Times DEATH NOTICE OF FLORENCE ANDERSON'S FIRST HUSBAND
DIED --- DAGGETT. On Aug. 27, 1916, Joseph Mory Daggett, after a short illness, in the 44th year of his age, beloved husband of Florence Daggett, nee Makley. Funeral private....
29th August 1916
The Times THOMAS ISMAY HONORED BY CITY OF BELFAST
BELFAST, July 20---Mr. Thomas H. Ismay, chairman of the White Star Line, was to-day presented with the freedom of the city in recognition of his services to Belfast ...
22nd July 1899
Hampshire Independent IN MEMORIAM: FAY
In ever loving memory of Thomas Joseph, the dearly beloved husband of Frances Fay . . . Three long years have now passed by. Since this great sorrow fell, Yet in my heart I mourn the loss, Of one I love so well. Time rolls on, the years pass by, What...
17th April 1915
OLE MARTIN OLSON FAMILY PORTRAIT   OLE MARTIN OLSON FAMILY PORTRAIT
Family portrait of Ole Martin Olson (c. 1898). Front row; Anna, holding Severen, Martha, Serena, Ole B. Back row: Julia, Joseph, Ole M....
1898
New York Times HAROLD SANDERSON, SHIPPING MAN, DIES
Former Head of International Merchant Marine Stricken While in North of Italy --- DIRECTED WHITE STAR LINE --- Came From a Family of Leaders in Maritime Matters Both Here and in England --- Special Cable to T...
27th February 1932
BRUCE ISMAY AND THE RING'S TAUNT Titanic Research BRUCE ISMAY AND THE RING'S TAUNT
Senan Molony
As Ismay pushed the brute oar, his eye fell on his ring. The ring inscribed:- Be Mindful....
13th January 2001
New York Times NO WIRELESS ORDER TO HOLD BACK NEWS
Sea Gate Operator Explains the Messages to Bride and Cottam on the Carpathia --- SHIP THEN IN THE HARBOR --- "Keep Your Mouth Shut" Not Official, but Friendly Words of One Operator to Another ---...
27th April 1912
New York Times MARRIED IN EARLY DECEMBER
A brilliant and fashionable assemblage gathered at noon yesterday in the Church of the Heavenly Rest, on Fifth-avenue, to witness the marriage of Miss Florence Schieffelin, a daughter of George R. Schieffelin and a great favorite in New-York society,...
5th December 1888
TOP 10 TITANIC LEGENDS Titanic Stories TOP 10 TITANIC LEGENDS
Speculation, exaggeration, propaganda and lies! Titanic has inspired many tall tales – but what is really true and what’s not?...
8th July 2011
MORRO CASTLE- SURVIVOR DR. JOSEPH BREGSTEIN   MORRO CASTLE- SURVIVOR DR. JOSEPH BREGSTEIN
Gare Maritime
  MARRIAGE CERTIFICATE: GOODWIN
1894 Marriage Solemnnized at the Parish Church in the Parish of...
25th December 1894
New York Times MINISTER WHO WED ASTOR QUITS CHURCH
The Rev. Joseph Lambert Resigns Pulpit in Providence Because of Criticism --- SAYS HE'LL GO INTO BUSINESS --- Many a Pastor Has Done for Poor Men What He Did for a Rich One and Escaped Censure, He Declares ---...
8th November 1911
New York Times SAYS ISMAY TOOK FIRST BOAT
Titanic Fireman Declares He Got in "with Millionaires" --- Harry Senior, a fireman on the Titanic, said last night: "I was in my bunk when I felt a bump. One man said. 'Hello, she has been struck.' I went...
19th April 1912
New York Times LORD ROTHES AWAITS WIFE
Was to Have Met Her at Pier When Titanic Arrived --- An intimate friend of Capt. Smith, a prominent shipping man, who was seen at the Plaza last night, said that Capt. Smith had been informed by the White Star Company that he was to ret...
16th April 1912
  FAMILY GRAVESTONE
In loving memory of Richard Fynney (of Wetton Staffordshire) the beloved husband of Frances Fynney who died July 16th 1894 aged 66 years "Gone but not forgotten" also Joseph, son of the above who was lost on...
The Sydney Morning Herald INTERCOLONIAL LAWN TENNIS (#6)
The last day's play in this tournament took place yesterday. The weather was threatening in the morning, and in the afternoon it rained steadily and persistently, which did not, however, prevent a fair number of spectators...
8th May 1885
Cornishman ANOTHER PENZANCE PASSENGER SAVED
Among the further list of passengers this morning appears the name of Ellen Wickes (Wilkes). Mr. Ludlow has received the following telegram: Name reported on Carpathia as Ellen Wickes. As we have no passenger of that name I think it must be E...
18th April 1912
Records of Grace Church, URI Archives, Special Collections EUGENE'S BAPTISM AT GRACE CHURCH
From the records of Grace Episcopal Church, Providence Rhode Island: Eugene Joseph Abbott was baptised on April 2, 1904, born March 31, 1898. Sponsors: Rhoda (Rosa) Abbott and Emil Shultey Presider: The Rev. Edmund Rousmaniere, Rector. Twenty...
1904
Liverpool Echo AMONG THE MISSING
One of the Titanic’s first-class passengers not yet accounted for is Mr. W. H. Parr, a young electrical engineer, whose wife, with her infant child, is now in Northwich on a visit to her father, Mr. Joseph Poole, a guardian over-seer and a well-known...
17th April 1912
Chicago Tribune UNCONFIRMED STORY OF HORROR
A report is current here which is said to have emanated from the trading vessel Bruce, which is on the way to Sydney, C. B., giving a version of the Titanic disaster which the trader obtained from various ships. This is to...
17th April 1912
  MEMORIAL
In Memory of William Stone, late Inspector of L & S W Railway, died November 13th 1909 aged 64. Also of Agnes Mary Jane, wife of the above, died March 3rd 1929 aged 85. Also of Edmund Stone, son of the above, who was lost ...
ISMAY'S DREAM   ISMAY'S DREAM
Belfast musician records Titanic themed album...
29th September 2011
Coventry Standard IRISH PRIESTS LOST
Newspaper article...
26th April 1912
La Tribune de Genève THE ARNOLD AND HAAS FAMILIES
Newspaper article...
21st April 1912
The Evening Post LEAPS FROM LINER'S DECK.
Major Walker Takes His Life at Sea   ...
20th April 1912
Daily Mining Gazette MRS. AGNES EDWARDS SUMMONED BY DEATH
Mrs. Agnes Edwards, 69 years old, well known Hancock matron, died at St. Joseph's hospital last evening at 5 o'clock. She had been a resident of the Copper Country for 21 years, residing on Railroad Avenue. Mrs. Edwards was a survivor of th...
5th August 1933
  GENERAL INFORMATION
Stokes, Mr. Phillip Joseph. Missing. c/o Thomas Cook & Son, Ludgate Circus, London, UK. Lived at 91 Hawstead Road, Catford, S.E. c/o Thomas Cook & Son, Paris, France. Bricklayer. En route to uncle Mr. Phillip O'Grady, Kewanee, Illinois. Aged 25 yea...
THE BOXHALL LETTERS Voyage THE BOXHALL LETTERS
Joe Carvalho & Shelley Dziedzic
The following five letters, written to Mr. Joe Carvalho of Massaschusetts by Commander Joseph G. Boxhall span the time period of April 1961 through July of 1962, and reveal the sentiments of the Titanic officer r...
23rd May 2005
The Gazette (Montreal) LAURENTIC IS HERE
The Gazette, Montreal, 8 May 1909 Maiden Voyage Upholds the Satisfactory Results Achieved on Trial Trip --- AN EPOCH IN SHIPPING --- P...
8th May 1909
The Sydney Morning Herald INTERCOLONIAL LAWN TENNIS TOURNAMENT (#5)
Yesterday proceedings in the tournament at the Association Ground, Moore Park, were considerably interfered with by the weather, which was threatening in the morning, a...
7th May 1885
BOXHALL LETTER TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD OF TRADE   BOXHALL LETTER TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD OF TRADE
A letter from Titanic Fourth Officer Joseph Boxhall to the President of the Board of Trade, Sydney Buxton, written in July 1912 while Boxhall was serving aboard the Adriatic. Boxhall complained about the fees paid to...
11th July 1912
Newark Evening News ELIZABETH RESIDENTS WERE ON THE TITANIC
ELIZABETH, April 17 --- Former Elizabeth residents on the boat were Mr. and Mrs. William E. Carter and their children, Lucille, aged thirteen, and William, aged ten, of Philadelphia. They were accompanied by a maid. Mr. Carter, who is t...
17th April 1912
LOST VOICES OF THE TITANIC : THE DEFINITIVE ORAL HISTORY Titanic Review LOST VOICES OF THE TITANIC : THE DEFINITIVE ORAL HISTORY
Dave Bryceson
Reviewed by Dave Bryceson...
21st October 2009
  INSTITUTION OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERS
Norman Harrison (1873-1912) AMIMechE Elected: Associate Member of the Inst...
17th November 1911
The Charleroi Mail MRS. HIRVONEN TELLS STORY OF HARROWING SCENES IN LATEST GREAT OCEAN DISASTER.
SAW BIG STEAMER SINK Hundreds Leaped Into Water When Gigantic Steamer Went Down ---Says Ismay Was In Same Boat Shuddering as she recalled the awful scenes of Monday morning when the fated steamer Titanic sunk with over 1,700 person...
23rd April 1912
New York Times HENRY SLEEPER HARPER
Henry Sleeper Harper was about 42 years old and lives at 131 East Twenty-first Street. He is the son of Joseph Wesley Harper, a member of the old firm of Harper & Brothers, which gave way in 1900 to the present publishing house of that name. Mr. Har...
16th April 1912
Daily Home News WRECK VICTIM KNOWN HERE
Henry B. Harris, the well-known theatrical man who lost his life in the sinking of the Titanic last week, was a very intimate friend of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph P. Tepper, of this city, and had been touring Europe in company with Mr. Tepper’s brother-in-l...
22nd April 1912
  TITANIC RELIEF FUND
(From the Minute Book of the White Star Company) The White Star Company had a Committee meeting on 23rd July 1912 at 10 Winter Street, Liverpool at 11.55am. Present Mr. J. Bruce Ismay...
Southern Evening Echo OBITUARY
Last Titanic officer dies, 83 Last surviving officer of the Titanic, which went down in the Atlantic in 1912 has died at his home in Christchurch at the ago of 83. Commander Joseph Groves Boxhall was the fourth officer, and the only officer on watch ...
27th April 1967
  HAROLD VICTOR GOODWIN BAPTISM
When Baptised Child's Christian Name Parent...
29th May 1904
  WILLIAM FREDERICK GOODWIN BAPTISM
When Baptised Child's Christian Name Parents Christian Names...
29th May 1904
WILLIAM MACQUITTY, BOXHALL AND PITMAN AT THE PREMIERE OF A NIGHT TO REMEMBER   WILLIAM MACQUITTY, BOXHALL AND PITMAN AT THE PREMIERE OF A NIGHT TO REMEMBER
Taken at the "Odeon" Leicester Square London July 3rd 1958 on the occasion of the premiere of the Titanic film "A Night to Remember". Left to Right. Wm McQuitty [sic] Director of th...
3rd July 1958
  JESSIE ALLIS MARY GOODWIN BAPTISM
When Baptised Child's Christian Name Parents Christian Names...
29th May 1904
New York Times TO HOLD ISMAY TO THE END
Senate Committee Decides on That Course Sailor's Weird Tale Special to The New York Times WASHINGTON, April 21. Chairman Smith of the Senate Subcommittee investigating th...
22nd April 1912
SHADOW OF THE TITANIC: THE EXTRAORDINARY STORIES OF THOSE WHO SURVIVED Titanic Review SHADOW OF THE TITANIC: THE EXTRAORDINARY STORIES OF THOSE WHO SURVIVED
Mark Chirnside
Mark Chirnside reviews Andrew Wilson's new book exploring the later lives of Titanic's survivors....
29th November 2011
New York Times $340 FOR 4 PERIOD CHAIRS
Parke-Bernet Begins Selling Items of Spedden Estate --- In the first sale of the new sea­son at the Parke-Bernet Galleries, 984 Madison Avenue, a set of four carved and bilded [soc] chairs in the style of Louis XVI was sold y...
23rd September 1950
Camden Post-Telegram MR. SUTTON'S BODY TO BE SENT HOME
Dr. Tomlin, of Haddonfield, in Halifax to Care for Corpse of Titanic Victim -- WIDENER'S BODY IS BURIED AT SEA --- Dr. F. H. Tomlin, of Haddonfield, is in Halifax, N. S., to receive the body of Frederick Sutt...
27th April 1912
Washington Times MAJOR BUTT'S MEMORY HONORED BY MASONS
The memory of Major Arcxhibald Butt, believed to be among those who went down with the Titanic, was honored last night at a meeting of Robert de Bruce Council, Kinights of Kadosh, No. 1 of Ancient and accepted Scottish Rite Masons. Cap...
18th April 1912
Greensburg Tribune-Review SURVIVOR OF TITANIC SUCCUMBS
Sophie Halaut Abraham, 82, of South Greensburg, one of the last survivors of the Titanic, died Saturday, Dec. 11. She was born on Feb. 10, 1894, in Shwahed, Syria, the daughter of the late John and Marian Abraham Easu. She was a member of ...
13th December 1976
Bergen Record ANNA JOSEPHSON
Titanic Survivor, Resident of Haworth, Dies At 71 Mrs. Anna J. E. Josephson, 71, a survivor of the sinking of the Titanic on April 15, 1912, died yesterday at her home, 3 Seneca Place. Born in Worcester, Mass., Mrs. Josephs...
20th February 1961
  FAMILY INFORMATION
William Tracy Eustis (1822-1906), from Boston, married to Martha Gilbert Dutton (1828-1900), also from Boston, on 3rd October 1849. The couple had six choldren: Eleanor Tracy (1851-1922), Henry Dutton (b. 1853), Mary St. Barbe (b. 1857), Elizabeth Mu...
Camden Post-Telegram ISMAY PRAISED BY TITANIC SURVIVOR
Ship's Head Barber Tells Camden Elks of His Thrilling Experience. --- BLAMES DISASTER ON WIRELESS JEALOUSY --- Bruce Ismay was defended last night by Gus Weikman at the home of Camden Lodge of Elks in Mr. Weikman's recital...
15th May 1912
New York Times TO DEDICATE NEW CAMPANILE
Italy's Invitation Includes Engraving by American Artist --- VENICE, March 27---J. Pierpont Morgan has written a cordial letter to the committee, announcing that he will be in Venice on April 23 for the inauguration of t...
28th March 1912
  FAMILY GRAVESTONE
For the love of the sacred heart pray for the soul of Alicia Ashcroft who died 27th March 1891 aged 69 years. also Austin Aloysius, grandson of the above lost in the Titanic 15th April 1912 aged 2...
Cedar Rapids Gazette MRS. WALTER DOUGLAS DIED IN CALIFORNIA
Page 1A Mrs. Walter D. Douglas died Saturday afternoon at her home in Pasadena, Calif., according to word received by Mrs. George B. Dutton, 2224 Country Club Parkway SE. Funeral services will be announced later. Mrs. Doug...
22nd April 1945
  CHARLES EDWARD GOODWIN BAPTISM
When Baptised Child's Christian Name Parents Christian Names...
29th May 1904
New York Times MINIA REPORTS TWO BODIES
Ship Returning to Halifax---Patrick O'Keefe's Story of Rescue --- The White Star Line agent at Halifax wired the New York office yesterday that the Captain of the steamship Minia had sent the following message: ["]Returne...
4th May 1912
Brighton Argus MR. PITMAN
Mr. Pitman, the third officer, who confirmed the statement that only two boats were lowered at the Board of Trade inspection. He did not see any ice before the disaster, but knew a wireless warning had been received. After the receipt of the w...
24th April 1912
Washington Herald THOMAS WHITELEY : DESCRIBES LAST MEAL ON TITANIC
“It Was the Gayest Night of Trip Among Diners,” Says Assistant Steward --- New York, N. Y., April 20---Propped up on pillows in a bed in St. Vincent's Hospital this afternoon, Thomas Whitely, an assistant steward in the f...
21st April 1912
New York Times WAR UPSETS WEDDING PLAN
P. E. Mock Unable to Leave Germany to Marry Miss Alvis Ehrman --- The plans for the wedding of Miss Alvis Constance and Philipp Edmund Mock have been upset by the European war. The wedding was to have taken place on Aug. 22 at Pocantic...
21st August 1912
  LILIAN AUGUSTA GOODWIN BAPTISM
    When Baptised Child's...
29th May 1904
PORTRAITS OF FAMOUS TITANIC PASSENGERS Excelsior PORTRAITS OF FAMOUS TITANIC PASSENGERS
From 'Excelsior', 17 April 1912...
17th April 1912
The New York Times SEALING THE LIPS OF TITANIC'S CREW
Detained Sailors Are Herded on the Celtic Under Close Guard of Detectives. --- HAVE ORDERS NOT TO TALK --- Men Forget Instructions, However, Long Enough to Defend Escape of J. Bruce lsmay ---...
21st April 1912
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
San Francisco Chronicle TITANIC CAPTAIN BLAMED FOR WRECK
Senate Committee Also Scores [sic] Captain of the Steamer Californian. COULD HAVE SAVED ALL. Praise for Carpathia Crew and Gold Medal for her Captain. WASHINGTON. May 28. –The Titanic disaster of April ...
29th May 1912
The Sydney Morning Herald INTERCOLONIAL LAWN TENNIS TOURNAMENT (#2)
The draw for the undermentioned matches has resulted as follows: 1.LADIES' CHAMPIONSHIP OF NEW SOUTH WALES Miss Lee plays Miss Rodd Miss Fitzgerald plays Miss Scarvell Miss Bloxsome plays Miss Lamb...
4th May 1885
New York Times CRITICISE PASTOR WHO MARRIED ASTOR
Bought to Do a Nasty Job, Says the Rev. Mr. Richmond, and Others Join Attack --- WEDDING CALLED AN OUTRAGE --- No Conscientious Minister Could Have Performed it, Say Congregational Official---Carpenter-Parson Not Paid...
11th September 1911
Peoria Journal Star RICHARD BECKER
Page E-8 Richard F. Becker, 65, 2139 N. Wellington, died at 5:10 A.M. yesterday in Proctor Hospital, where he was admitted Aug. 26. He was a retired safety supervisor for Caterpillar Tractor Co. Born in I...
7th September 1975
The Times LIFE-SAVING APPLIANCES COMMITTEE, 1888
MERCHANT SHIPPING ACT, 1888.-The first meeting of the comnmittee appointed under the provisions of the "Merchant Shippng (Life-Saving Appliances) Act, 1888," took place at the Board of Trade...
19th November 1888
The Times SWEARING-IN OF MR. JUSTICE BIGHAM
QUEEN'S BENCH DIVISION (Before MR. JUSTICE MATHEW, MR. JUSTICE WILLS, MR. JUSTICE LAWRANCE, MR. JUSTICE WRIGHT, MR. JUSTICE BRUCE, and MR. JUSTICE KENNEDY.) In the absence of the Lord Chief Justice, Mr. Justic...
New York Times RELATIVES ONLY AT CEREMONY OF DOROTHY DREY AND HORACE A. SAKS
The marriage of Miss Dorothy Isabel Drey, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Max Drey, to Horace Andrew Saks, son of Mrs. Andrew Saks and the late Mr. Saks, took place at 4:30 o'clock yesterday afternoon at the home of the bride's parents, 54 East Seventy-four...
30th April 1912
Hanford Sentinel RELIVING A TRAGIC NIGHT ON THE SEA
Doris Robertson Polley
Searching for one's roots has become a national pastime. What use to take years to research has become much simpler with the use of computers. Genealogy is no longer the sole intellectual occupation of a few scholars. Anybody can tract the history...
  STONE FAMILY INFORMATION
Edmund Stone was born in Southampton in 1879. He was the son of William Stone (Railway Inspector) and Agnes Mary Jane Stone. In 1881 the UK Census has the family at 7 Brinton's Terrace, Southampton. With William and Agnes Stone were their 4 ...
Newark Evening News ELIZABETH RESIDENTS WERE ON THE TITANIC
(Newark Evening News, 17 April 1912) ---------- ELIZABETH, April 17---Two residents of this city and several former residents are known to have been on the Titanic when she sailed for this country. Mr. and Mrs. Peter E. Renouf, of 20B...
17th April 1912
  BIRTH CERTIFICATE
CERTIFIED COPY OF AN ENTRY OF BIRTH Registration District Southam...
1881
Free Press WEST BROMWICH MEN MISSING
Among the passengers were the following West Bromwich people, who were on their way to America: Alfred Davies (24), of Harwood Street, West Bromwich: John Davies (22), of the same address; Joseph Davies (17) of the same address; James Lester (39) ...
19th April 1912
  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...
ROSTRON'S LOST REPORT Titanic Research ROSTRON'S LOST REPORT
Senan Molony
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13th June 2010
  STANLEY LORD IN CONVERSATION WITH LESLIE HARRISON
Leslie Harrison
Extracts from a conversation between Captain Stanley Lord and Leslie Harrison, held on 19 August 1961....
19th August 1961
R.M.S. TITANIC: UNIQUE ORIGINAL PLAN USED THROUGHOUT THE BRITISH TITANIC ENQUIRY.   R.M.S. TITANIC: UNIQUE ORIGINAL PLAN USED THROUGHOUT THE BRITISH TITANIC ENQUIRY.
A large scales plan of the Titanic used during the Titanic enquiry is offered for sale......
Oxford Times STEWARD'S STATEMENT
Propped up on pillows in bed at St. Vincent's Hospital, Thomas Whiteley, steward of the First Class Saloon of the Titanic, described the scene in the dining-room on the night of the disaster. ''We had made great time,...
27th April 1912
  ABOUT OLE OLSEN
Ole Olsen...
9th October 2007
  BIRTH RECORD OF JOSEPH BENEDIKT PERUSCHITZ
Joseph Benedikt Peruschitz Transcription and translation of Entry in Parish Register: St. Laurentius, Dingharting ...
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