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	Western Morning News	TITANIC DISASTER, WESTCOUNTRY PASSENGERS AND CREW Mr Turpin, of Plymouth, who was employed at Salt Lake City, came home with his wife last August principally for the purpose of seeing Mrs Turpin's father Mr Wonnacott, of Endsleigh Place, Plymouth. Mr Turpin's mother lives in Beaumont Road, Plymouth...	17th April 1912
		CENSUS In 1901 William Turpin (born in Plymouth, Devon) was aged 18 years. He worked as a Carpenter in Plymouth. ...	1901
		CENSUS In 1901 Miss Dorothy Wonnacott (born in Plymouth, Devon) was aged 15 years. She worked as a Stationers Shop Assistant in Plymouth....	1901
		HODGE FAMILY INFORMATION Charles Hodge (Snr. Asst. 3rd Engineer) was born in Plymouth, Devon in 1884. He was the son of Alfred and Emily Hodge. The 1891 census has the family living at 6 Princess Street in Plymouth and it was here that Charles' father ran his bakery ...
		1901 CENSUS - PLYMOUTH, DEVON At the time of the 1901 census Jane, aged 22, was unmarried and living with her widowed mother, Mary Ann Richards at 10 Phoenix Place, East Stonehouse, Plymouth. ...	31st March 1901
	Western Daily Mercury	A PLYMOUTH PASSENGER One of the second class passengers on the Titanic is Mr. Fred Banfield, who left Plymouth on 9th inst., to join the vessel. He spent some years in business with a well known firm in Bedford-street, Devonport, but previously had worked as a miner in ...	17th April 1912
	Western Morning News	BOUND FOR SALT LAKE CITY Mr. and Mrs. William Turpin, we understand left Plymouth for Salt Lake City. They resided at 59 Chaddlewood-avenue. Mr. and Mrs. Turpin, sen., live in Beaumont-road, Plymouth....	17th April 1912
		TURPIN FAMILY INFORMATION William John Robert Turpin was born in Plymouth, Devon in 1883. He was the son of John R Turpin (general labourer) and Mary Jane. They had married in about 1880 and were living in Commercial Street, Plymouth at the time of the 1881 census. Both wer...
	Chicago Examiner	POET KEMP LOCKED UP AS STOWAWAY Oceanic Officials to Prosecute Him at Souithampton Special Cable to the Examiner Plymouth, Oct. 3--Harry Kemp, the poet who eloped with the former wife of Upton Sinclair, was a stowaway on...	4th October 1913
		1891 CENSUS - PLYMOUTH, DEVON At the census date, Jane Richards, aged 12 is at home with her widowed mother, Mary Ann Richards, aged 52. They are living at 2 Wesleyan Place, East Stonehouse, Plymouth. Also with them is Jane's elder step-sister, Martha Maud Sowden (formerly Flowe...	31st March 1891
		WONNACOTT FAMILY INFORMATION Dorothy Wonnacott was born in Plymouth in 1885. She was a daughter of Arscott and Mary Jane Wonnacott. Her parents, both originally from the Holsworthy area of mid-Devon had married in about 1878 and were living in Plymouth from that time....
		OLYMPIC POSTCARD (AT PLYMOUTH)
	Exeter Flying Post	DEVONIANS ON BOARD Passengers: Plymouth: Mrs. Quick and two children (saved). ...	20th April 1912
	Western Morning News	UNTITLED A message has been sent to Mr. C Gilbert of 8 Pentyre-terrace, Plymouth confirming Mr. and Mrs. Turpin were amongst the missing....	23rd April 1912
	Western Morning News	UNTITLED Mr. Turpin was a member of the Masonic brethren of the Lodge of St. George, No2025, Plymouth....	24th April 1912
		PROUDFOOT FAMILY INFORMATION Richard Royston Proudfoot, signed on as a trimmer for the Titanic engine department in April 1912. His birth was registered at Plymouth, Devon in the September Quarter of 1890. He was the son of Royston Jesse Proudfoot and Jane Gendle (nee W...
	Torquay Directory	A FULFILLED DREAM. ECHO OF THE LOSS OF THE TITANIC One of the stewards on board the Titanic was a son of the late organist and choirmaster of a church in Torquay. He leaves an aged widowed mother, who was dependent upon him. His sister narrates a strange dream. She says that for several nights pri...	15th May 1912
		MILLET'S LITTLE ARTIST STUDIO IN EAST BRIDGEWATER ON PLYMOUTH RD.
	Liverpool Echo	ART ON THE HIGH SEAS SHIPS often feature beautiful artworks from the majestic figureheads of the sailing era to stunning displays on great liners.A painting by Norman Wilkinson is perhaps the most famous artwork on a ship. The Approach to Plymouth Harbour hung above the mantelpiece in the First Class smoking room on the Titanic....	23rd February 2008
	Southern Daily Echo	DEATH NOTICE: PARSONS Parsons, Edward. Aged 37 years. Chief Storekeeper of the Titanic, and Dearly beloved Husband of Clarsia Parsons, 26, Roberts Road, Plymouth. Liverpool and London papers please copy. [Also Hampshire Independent 27th April 1912]...	22nd April 1912
		CREESE FAMILY GRAVESTONE Family Gravestone at Ford Park Cemetery, Plymouth, Devon. The grave is that of Henry Creese's parents, Charles and Jane Creese....
		GENERAL INFORMATION Hodge, Charles. WAS twenty-nine years of age, and held a second engineer's certificate. His birthplace was Devonport. He served his apprenticeship with Messrs. Davey, Sleep & Co., of Plymouth. He had been in the service of the White St...
	Washington Times	WOMAN FAINTS WHEN TOLD BUTT IS AMONG MISSING NEW YORK, April 18---A woman claiming to be the second cousin of Major Archibald Butt, military aide to President Taft, from Plymouth, Mass., called at the White Star line office this morning to inquire whether anything had been heard of her missing ...	18th April 1912
		1901 CENSUS, POOLE, DORSET Frank Couch, aged 16, born Port Isaac, Cornwall is shown as a ships cook on board a vessel named 'Deveron'. Moored at Poole Quay, Dorset at the time of the census the Master was shown as Charles Couch, aged 24, born in Plymouth, Devon ...	1901
	Herts Advertiser & St. Albans Times	ACCOUNT OF THOMAS THRELFALL Leading Fireman T, Threlfall, one of the Titanic survivors, who was in boat No. 14, in the course of a narrative told to a pressman on landing at Plymouth, said: "From the wreckage we picked up four men. Then Mr. Lowe called out, 'There's...	4th May 1912
	Western Daily Mercury	NO NEWS OF MR F. ANDREW, OF REDRUTH Among the passengers of whose fate nothing is yet definitely known is Mr. Frank Andrew (30), of Pencoys, near Redruth. Mrs. Andrew, who lives at Pencoys, with one little child about two years of age, received a postcard from a friend in Plymouth, on ...	19th April 1912
	Western Morning News	TITANIC DISASTER, WESTCOUNTRY PASSENGERS AND CREW A Truro passenger, Charles P Fillbrook, resided at Charles Street, with his parents, was on his way to join an uncle at Howder County, Michigan, with the intention of becoming a miner, or of following his trade as a painter. He had not long finished...	18th April 1912
		SHIERS FAMILY INFORMATION Alfred Charles Shiers was born in Devonport, Plymouth, Devon on 11th June 1886, the son of Alfred and May Shiers. His siblings were Frederick (b.1888) and Michael (b.1890). Shortly following his birth the family left Devon and settled at Southampton...
	New York Times	MORGAN IN PARIS London Didn't Know Financier was on the Olympic --- Special Cable to THE NEW YORK TIMES --- LONDON, Jan. 5---When the Olympic's passengers reached London to-night some surprise was occasioned by learning that J. Pi...	6th January 1912
	The Witney Gazette	TITANIC SURVIVORS' STORIES ON ARRIVAL AT PLYMOUTH One hundred and sixty-seven survivors of the crew of the Titanic landed at Plymouth on Sunday from the Red Star liner Lapland. They told a large number of full and graphic stories of the disaster. One of the chief facts brought to light i...	4th May 1912
		1881 CENSUS, WEYMOUTH, DORSET Reginald George Smith was born in Weymouth, Dorset in the summer of 1879. At the time of the 1881 census he was living with his mother and brothers at 5 Salisbury Terrace, Melcombe Regis, a suburb of Weymouth. His moth...	31st March 1881
		HUSBAND OF HELEN ALICE WILSON Axel Johannas Rosenquist was the husband of Helen Alice Wilson who survived the sinking of the Titanic, the following information gives brief details of how their lives continued after the disaste...
	Detroit Journal	MRS. JANE QUICK Mrs. Jane Quick, wife of Frederick Quick 383 Brooklyn Avenue, with her two daughters, one aged eight and the other three years, all survivors of the Titanic, also arrived on the same train with Mrs Hamlin. ''Jane''! cried a mans voice as Mrs....	20th April 1912
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		POOK FAMILY INFORMATION Percy Robert Pook was born in Torquay, Devon in 1876. His birth being registered at Newton Abbot in the June Quarter of that year. He was the son of Henry Pook (house decorator) and Kate (nee Manley) who had married at Torquay in early 1872....
		MUTINY ON TITANIC RESCUE VESSEL - 1937 TROUBLE ON SOUTH AFRICAN VESSEL 'Mutiny' on Titanic Rescue Ship The Admiralty was informed last night that a wireless message had been received by HMS Resolution from the Sherard Osborn, bound from Table Bay to Rotterdam, which ...	1937
	Torquay Directory	TORQUAY RESIDENT LOSES HER SON Mrs. Parsons, of Hardene, Bronshill Road, has lost her son. Mr. Edward Parsons, who was chief storekeeper on the Titanic. He had been in connected with the White Star Line for many years, and had previously served on the Oceanic, Teutonic, and Maje...	24th April 1912
	New York Times	IRISH M. P.'S PROTEST Want White Star Liners to Continue Calling at Queenstown --- LONDON, March 7---The Postmaster General, Mr. Buxton, to-day received an influential deputation of Irish members of Parliament and representatives of the com...	8th March 1907
	Barking Chronicle	THE TITANIC DISASTER. EAST HAM RESIDENTS MISSING We learn that Mr and Mrs R.J. Rogers, of 11 Southchurch Gardens, East Ham, have a son and a nephew amongst the crew of the Titanic, the deplorable sinking of which has created such widespread consternation...	19th April 1912
	Western Morning News	WESTCOUNTRY CONNECTIONS A representative called at the residence of Mr. J. A. Pascoe, Crownhill, whose brother, Mr. C. H. Pascoe, is believed to be the only Westcountry member of the crew saved in the Titanic disaster, and had the pleasure of an interesting conversation wit...	29th April 1912
	Daily Mirror	TITANIC DEATH FALL A TOURIST may have been copying a Kate Winslet pose from the film Titanic when she fell off a ferry and drowned.Emma Blackwell, 31, plunged from the ninth deck 80 miles off France heading home from Spain. ...	1st January 2006
	The Evening Post, Wellington, New Zealand	ARRIVAL OF THE R.M.S. COPTIC [AT WELLINGTON WITH E.J. SMITH IN COMMAND] The S.S. & A. Company's R.M.S. Coptic anchored in the harbour at 8.40 this morning. She left London on 12th December, Plymouth 14th, and reached Teneriffe on 19th; left again on the following morning, crossed the Equator o...	31st January 1890
		HAMBLYN FAMILY INFORMATION Ernest William Hamblyn was born in Plymouth, Devon and his birth was registered there in the December Quarter of 1865. He remains elusive in early life but has been traced to Shirley, Southampton in the England & Wales 1901 census. It h...
		CAPT. WILLIAM CREESE Henry Creese's eldest brother, William Creese, was born in 1857 and was a mariner by occupation. He had married in about 1889 to Alice (formerly Smith) whom he had met whilst based in Barrow-in-Furness, Lancashire. Their first 2 children, Hen...
	Chicago Tribune	TITANIC GOT WARNING OF PERIL FROM ICEBERGS Amerika Encountered Menace in the Path of Ill-Fated ship and Sent Wireless Messages of Position...	17th April 1912
		PARSONS FAMILY INFORMATION Edward Parsons (Chief Storekeeper) was born in Barnstaple, North Devon in 1875. He was the son of James Hill Parsons and Rebecca. One of 6 children his siblings were Edith (b.1865 Bradworthy, Devon), Richard (b.1868 Exeter, Devon), James (b. ...
	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
		LETTER FROM JACK BUTTERWORTH Prior to leaving on the Titanic, Jack had been courting his fiancee (a Miss May Hinton of Woolston, Southampton) and they had agreed to become engaged. Jack wrote the following letter (actual letter see next column) which was posted at Queenstown: (n...	1912
		ERNEST WALDRON KING : GENERAL INFORMATION King, Ernest Waldron. Lived at Currin Rectory, Clones, Ireland. Occupation - Clerk, Pursers Assistant. 28 years old. (Born in Dublin, Ireland). Body number 321. Interred at Fairview Cemetery, Halifa...
	St Ives Times	HAYLE MAN'S NARRATIVE TRIBUTE TO A KIND HEARTED CAPTAIN...
	The Times	SURVIVORS OF THE CREW AT PLYMOUTH DETENTION FOR THE TAKING OF EVIDENCE A strange welcome awaited the surviving members of the crew of the Titanic on their arrival at Plymouth today. Instead of a popular demonstration of sympathy and b...	29th April 1912
		REV. HARRY PARSONS (YOUNGER BROTHER OF EDWARD PARSONS) Rev. Harry Parsons was born on 26 November 1878 in Barnstaple but spent his early years living with his family in Plymouth. He entered the Ministry of the Bible Christian Church in 1899 and subsequently spent a short time at Cheriton F...
		PASCOE FAMILY INFORMATION Charles was born on the 18 March 1867 in the village of Breage, a few miles west of Helston in south-west Cornwall. He was baptised at the parish church on 18 August 1867 and was the son of Anthony and Jane Anne Pascoe. (The 1881 UK census shows his...
	Voyage	OCEANIC John P. Eaton White Star Line Not only was Oceanic operated by the same company that operated Titanic, she was also directly associated with Titanic at the beginning of her maiden voyage as well as during the first weeks following...	11th July 2005
	Cornwall & Devon Post	AT SEA IN A BLIZZARD: BUDE SEAMAN FOUND WRAPPED IN THE MAINSAIL Adventure recalled by death of Mr. J. Jewell The passing of Mr. John Jewell early Sunday morning at 8, King Street, Bude, at the age of 79 years, recalls the old days of Bude shipping, consisting of small coasters of 35 to 80 tons, whi...	24th January 1936
	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
	Voyage	NEW YORK (American Line) ex-City of New York, Inman Line As Titanic left Southampton 10 April 1912, the suction and wave action of her propellers and huge bulk tore New York loose from her mooring in tandem with Oceanic...	20th July 2005
	Southern Daily Echo	HUMAN TRAGEDY OF THE TITANIC Neil Hotson Mrs Saunders, a widow, was walking down Bridge Street in the direction of Southampton Docks railway station. She was carrying her handbag, which contained six shillings. John Dixon was also walking in Bridge Street. He had arrive...	16th February 2002
	Atlantic Daily Bulletin	THE STORY OF TITANIC SURVIVOR MR. THOMAS KNOWLES Brian J. Ticehurst SOME of you who were on the Titanic's re-enactment voyage on the Waterfront Ferry Hotspur VI, out of Southampton docks back at the Convention in April, may remember that the Captain of the Ferry we were aboard passed me a note sa...	1992
		E. J. SMITH, COPTIC AGROUND AND RIO---TWO OUT OF THREE AIN'T BAD? Mark Baber E. J. Smith, Coptic Aground and Rio---Two out of three ain’t bad? There are several standard White Star history volumes which associate E. J. Smith...
		FRANK ANDREW FAMILY INFORMATION The following biography has been compiled with the assistance of descendants of Frank Andrew who reside in Cornwall. It should be pointed out that no birth certificate exists for Frank despite extensive searching and it should also be made known tha...
	South Devon Herald Express	TRUE IDENTITY OF TITANIC VICTIM HISTORIAN Mike Holgate has discovered the answer to a mystery surrounding the identity of a Torquay man who died on the Titanic....	29th April 2009