Proportionate Loss

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  THE ADDERGOOLE PARISH LOSS
John Bourke, his wife Katherine, his sister Mary, Honora Fleming and Mary Mangan were from the townland of Carrowskeheen (quarter land of the little bush), Lahardane, Addergoole Parish, Co Mayo, Irish Republic. All perished. Data from the 1911 cen...
ADDERGOOLE TITANIC MEMORIAL   ADDERGOOLE TITANIC MEMORIAL
The Addergoole Titanic Society erected this memorial in St Patrick’s Church, Lahardane, Addergoole, Co Mayo, Irish Republic on...
The Washington Post TITANIC CLAIMS $10,000,000
Mrs Irene Harris Asks $1,000,000 for Loss of Husband New York, Jan 12 – A flood of petitions for damages through the loss of the steamer Titanic, filed today; included one Mrs Irene Wallach Harris, who claims $1,000,000...
16th January 1913
New York Times MONEY LOSS NOTHING---MORGAN
But He Is Upset by Loss of Life, Due to Faith in Boat --- By Marconi Transatlantic Wireless Telegraph to The New York Times --- PARIS, April 21---An interesting interview was obtained by a correspondent at Aix w...
22nd April 1912
Torquay Directory LETTER FROM HIS MAJESTY THE KING
The Late Mr. Forbes Julian.-Mrs. Forbes Julian, of Redholme, has been honoured by receiving, through Viscount Knollys, a letter expressing the sympathy of his Majesty the King with her in the loss of her husband in the Titanic disaster. The letter r...
15th May 1912
Western Morning News THE FEARS OF RELATIVES
In connection with the Women’s Missionary Auxiliary at the Zion United Methodist Church, St. Austell, on Wednesday evening, Mr. W. J. Nicholls, who presided, referred to the loss of the Titanic. There were those in their own neighbourhood who had be...
19th April 1912
The Times ECHO OF THE TITANIC DISASTER
Action in the French courts Nice, February 9th (1914). An action against the White Star Line arising out of the loss of the Titanic began today before the Civil Court here. The Plaintiff, Mme Navr...
10th February 1914
  LETTER TO MRS. HARRIS
Typed letter on letterhead from Theatrical Protective Union No. 1 of New York to Mrs. Henry B. Harris, presenting her with resolutions of sympathy and attached signatures of the organization’s membership. New York, August 17, 1912....
17th August 1912
New York Times FUTRELLE'S MOTHER IS DEAD
Sinks from Grief Following Loss of Son on the Titanic --- Special to The New York Times --- ADRIAN, Ga., July 29---Grief over the death of her son, Jacques Futrelle, the author, who went down in the Titanic disaster, is be...
30th July 1912
Trenton Evening Times SKETCH OF BLACKWELL
Mr. Blackwell was the eldest son of former Senator and Mrs. Jonathan H. Blackwell of 167 West State Street. He was a widower and associated with his father in the wholesale grocery business. Besides his parents, Mr. Blackwell is survived by a sister,...
19th April 1912
New York Times THE LOSS OF JAMES CLINCH SMITH
Amid the maelstrom of mourning in connection with the recent disaster, (which was indeed "Titanic,") the city press seems to have overlooked the loss of one of our most estimable citizens. I refer to Mr. James Clinch Smith, a bro...
24th April 1912
Chicago Inter Ocean MARINE INSURANCE LOSS $9,980,000 IN THREE MONTHS
The Daily Consular and Trade Reprt issued tonight publishes this statement credited to the London Financial Times: "During the first three months of this year, forty-seven vessels, representing $8,813,000, became losses under Ma...
19th April 1912
The Toronto World ROYALTY'S DEEP SYMPATHY
------- London, April 16. (Can Press.) ---King George has sent the following message to the White Star Co.: "The Queen and I are horrified at the appaling disaster which has happened to the ...
17th April 1912
Antioch News WIFE CAN'T COLLECT DAMAGES
Mrs. Elsbury, Wife of Titanic Victim, Unable to Collect Damages for Death VICTIM LIVED AT GURNEE Attorney Finds That Amount for Which Co. is Liable is Insignificant; Will Receive only Fare Paid Mrs. Jam...
1st January 1913
GUGLIELMO MARCONI Je Sais Tout GUGLIELMO MARCONI
About eighteen months after this picture was taken, Marconi would be a key witness at the Senate enquiry into the loss of the Titanic....
15th December 1910
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
  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...
New York Times MEMORIAL NOTICE
HAYS---At a special meeting of the Board of Directors of the United States Mortgage and Trust Company held April 25, 1912, it was resolved that the following minutes be adopted and transmitted to the family of Mr. Charles M. Hays: CHAR...
28th April 1912
Washington Times MEMORIAL SERVICE FOR MAJ. BUTT TO BE HELD MAY 5TH
President and Senators Pay High Tributes to Dead Hero --- Memorial services for Major Archibald Butt, whose name is one of the most prominent among the Titanic’s heroic dead, will be held in this city on May 5 under the auspices of Temp...
19th April 1912
Washington Times TAFT FEELS LOSS OF AIDE AS IF HE HAD BEEN BROTHER
President, In Statement, Praises Fidelity of Late Military Aide --- President Taft today issued another statement relative to the fate of Major Butt, in which he dwelt particularly on his incapability to indulge in “intrigue or insincer...
19th April 1912
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
Toronto Daily Star A TITANIC SUIT
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28th August 1912
Chicago Tribune LOSS OF TITANIC PREDICTED - CAPTAIN SMITH
Capt. Smith Declared to Friends He Would Sink with the Vessel A woman living here whose husband is an officer on the White Star liner Irishman, tells an incident about the steamship Olympic, at the time commanded by ...
18th April 1912
Asbury Park Evening Press MRS. GWINN IS NOT AT POINT OF DEATH
Wife of Titanic’s Mail Chief Feels Loss Keenly but is Not Ill ---------- Metropolitan newspapers this morning all published stories to the effect that Mrs. William Logan Gwinn, wife of the chief mail clerk of the lost Titanic, w...
26th April 1912
Brooklyn Daily Times BAYSIDE'S LOSS IN DEATH OF HENRY B. HARRIS
BAYSIDE, L. I., April 17---All Bayside is saddened by the belief that Henry B. Harris, the theatrical manager, perished with the sinking of the Titanic. Mr. Harris had a charming home in Broadway, Bayside, and was a regular summer resident of the vil...
17th April 1912
MOHAWK - VICTIM JULIAN PEABODY   MOHAWK - VICTIM JULIAN PEABODY
"The last time I saw or spoke to my parents probably was the week-end before they embarked on the Mohawk. The effect of the sinking and the loss of my parents was catastrophic...   Julian L. Peabody jr, Nov 15, 2005...
Gare Maritime
MRS. TYRELL W. CAVENDISH Washington Herald MRS. TYRELL W. CAVENDISH
MRS. TYRELL W. CAVENDISH One of the unfortunate survivors of the Titanic disaster, who, although her life was saved, is heart-broken because of the loss of her husband, Tyrell W. Cavendish, who also gave up his life that the women and children...
20th April 1912
Western Morning News TITANIC DISASTER, WESTCOUNTRY PASSENGERS AND CREW
Shaldon has a particular interest in the loss. George Fox Hosking is senior third engineer on the Titanic. He is the eldest son of Captain and Mrs Hosking of The Green, Shaldon, and resides in London. He has a wife and three children. The parents...
17th April 1912
Exeter Flying Post THE TITANIC DISASTER
At a special meeting of the St. David’s (Exeter) District Committee of the National Deposit Friendly Society a vote of condolence was passed with Mr. and Mrs. Dyer in the loss of their son in the Titanic disaster. The deceased was a member of the St...
27th April 1912
Sligo Times SLIGO MOURNS
In Sligo we have not been saved from mourning as four promising young men and women have given up their toll to the ocean. One of the saddest cases is that of our fellow townsman, as we may almost call him, Mr. Alfred Middleton of Ballisodane. Mr. Mi...
20th April 1912
New York Times PEACE MEN MOURN THEIR LOSS
Andrew Carnegie Signs Resolutions of Regret for Five Members --- The National Committee for the celebration of the one hundredth anniversary of peace among English-speaking peoples in 1914-1915 sent out yesterday this resolution passed ...
21st April 1912
Galesburg Republican Register UNKNOWN TITLE
Frank Karun, a member of the Austrian immigrant colony in this city, will have some stirring things to tell when he returns to the city of the loss of the big steamship Titanic and his rescue later by the Carpathia . Just at present Mr. Karun is at t...
22nd April 1912
Washington Herald FIRST CLAIM PAID
Buffalo, N. Y., April 19---What is declared to be the first claim paid for the loss of a life in the Titanic disaster was recorded to-day, when the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, in this city, paid $1,000 to a brother of Henry Sutehill, [sic] o...
20th April 1912
Worcester Evening Gazette SHOCK OF LOSS PROVES FATAL
Brockton Woman Dies Soon After Being Informed That Nephew Is Among Titanic's Victim's Brockton, April 17- Miss Katherine E. Maguire, aged 50, heartbroken by the news that her nephey [sic], John E. Maguire, was among those probaly lost...
18th April 1912
Southern Evening Echo ARTICLE
SATURDAY was a special anniversary for three Southampton men - Mr. Walter Hurst of 5 Granville Street, Mr. Leo James Hyland of 11 Burlington Road, and Mr. George Kemish of 14 Begonia Road. Exactly 46 years ago these three were part of the crew aboard...
14th April 1958
FRANCIS DAVIS MILLET GRAVESTONE   FRANCIS DAVIS MILLET GRAVESTONE
Francis Davis Millet Born at Mattapoisett, Massachusetts, on the 3rd of November 1846. And drowned in the loss of the ship "Titanic" on the...
Torquay Directory LETTER FROM HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN
The Late Mr. Forbes Julian.-Mrs. Forbes Julian has been honoured by receiving a gracious letter of sympathy from her Majesty the Queen from Buckingham Palace. It reads: “Her Majesty feels very much for you in the irreparable loss which you have sus...
8th May 1912
Cambridge Chronicle A CAMBRIDGE VICTIM
Mr. A. W. Barringer [photo] The greatest sympathy is felt with the relatives of Mr. A. W Barringer, whom as reported in last week's issue, was amongst those who lost their lives in the terrible Titanic disaster. The dece...
26th April 1912
TITANIC SOCIETY TO COMMEMORATE 99 YEARS SINCE THE LOSS OF THE SHIP Belfast Titanic Society TITANIC SOCIETY TO COMMEMORATE 99 YEARS SINCE THE LOSS OF THE SHIP
On Friday 15th April at 12 noon, members of the Belfast Titanic Society will gather at Belfast City Hall to remember those from the city who were lost aboard RMS Titanic in 1912. Wreaths will be placed at the Titanic Memorial, on the Donegall Square East side of the City Hall grounds....
13th April 2011
  AMERICAN RED CROSS EMERGENCY AND RELIEF
No. 76. (English). A dairy man, 29 years old, was drowned. He was accompanied by his wife, who was saved, and intended to settle in California. There are no children. The widow estimated the property loss at $1,200; from other relief funds in this co...
1913
CHEROKEE   CHEROKEE
1930s snapshot of the Mohawk's sister ship Cherokee. She proved to be the least lucky of the Clyde-Mallory sisters. She  collided with a  sailing vessel, the Bright in 1927, and rammed and sank the British vessel Welcombe off Jacksonville Florid...
Gare Maritime
Folkestone, Hythe, Sandgate, and Cheriton Herald MR. WILLIAM PENNY
We regret to hear that Mr. William Penny, eldest son of Mrs. A. Penny, of 4, Waverley Villas, Cheriton Road, was among the victims in the catastrophe to the Titanic. Mr. Penny had been a medical steward in the service of the White Star Lin...
25th April 1912
New York Times MEMORIAL NOTICE
STRAUS---At a special meeting of the Executive Committee of the Educational Alliance, held on Friday, April 19, 1912, the following resolutions were unanimously adopted: After days of keenest anxiety, the Directors of the Educational A...
20th April 1912
New York Times MORGAN STOPS FESTIVITIES
Deeply Affected by the Disaster, He Halts Aix Celebration  --- AIX LES BAINS, France, April 19 --- J. Pierpont Morgan, who has arrived here to participate in to-day's inauguration of the sanitarium he has had built in honor of his ...
20th April 1912
Unidentified Newspaper BAPTIST MINISTER DROWNED
At the Baptist Church, Pastor Whitter said the disaster had filled two continents with sorrow, and affected in some way or other their fellows all over the world. He specially referred to the loss of a brother minister who had frequently preached in ...
26th April 1912
Somerset Standard JOHN GILL
The John Gill, one of the Titanic victims, whose body was recovered the other day, was late chauffeur to the Rev. C R Braithwaite, vicar of Hewish St Ann, near Puxton. He met his death exactly two months after his wedding day. He left his bride with ...
1912
Newark Evening News TELLS OF HER FINANCIAL LOSS
Special Service of the NEWS BERNARDSVILLE, April 24---Mrs. Jane Herman, wife of Samuel Herman, who lost his life in the Titanic disaster, said yesterday that her husband had with him a check for a large sum, a gold watch and chain belo...
24th April 1912
Folkestone, Hythe, Sandgate, and Cheriton Herald HYTHE MOURNERS
Page 11 There are at least two Hythe residents mourning the loss of relatives who were on the ill-fated Titanic. One is Mr. W. R. Wood, the popular Postmaster, whose brother, Mr. J. T. Wood, aged 49 years went down with the great major...
25th April 1912
Hudson Observer HOBOKEN MAN LOSES BROTHER IN DISASTER
In a little flat at 509 Willow avenue, Hoboken, John Moore is grievingto-day over the loss of his nineteen year-old brother, Leonard, who wasone of the victims of the Titanic disaster.The boy came to America last April an...
20th April 1912
Daily Mirror IN THE TOWN OF SORROW
(From our Special Correspondent) Southampton April 29th. Joy and sorrow, elation and depression are mingled in the homes here of the seamen, firemen and stewards of the Titanic. Feelings of compassion for the heroes who died and ...
30th April 1912
Newark Star FATHER TITANIC VICTIM; SON LOSES HIS MIND
JERSEY CITY, N. J., April 18---Frederick Myles, 30 years old, of 256 Grove street, whose father, Thomas F. Myles, of Cambridge, Mass., was a passenger on the Titanic, is today locked up at the Seventh street police station for safe keeping because he...
19th April 1912
  AMERICAN RED CROSS RELIEF BOOKLET
[Case no 286] (English). An aged English woman was drowned while coming to this country, after the recent death of her husband, to make her home with her only daughter. The daughter's husband, a waiter, at the time of the disaster was recoveri...
New York Times TITANIC LOOKOUT IS DEAD BY HANGING AFTER WIFE'S DEATH
SOUTHAMPTON, England, Jan. 11 (Reuters)--- Authorities today ordered an inquest into the death of Fred Fleet, a lookout on the liner Titanic, who hanged himself yesterday two weeks after his wife's death. The body of Mr. Fleet, who was 76 years o...
12th January 1965
Chronicle BOUND BROOK INTEREST IN THE WRECK
Aside from the deep interest in the loss of the Titanic, Bound Brook had a special anxiety to know the fate of the Ryerson family, of Philadelphia, Mrs. Arthur Ryerson being a daughter of Mrs. John J. Borie and a sister of Adolph E. Borie, of Piedmon...
19th April 1912
Associated Press PROFOUND GRIEF FELT OVER PARIS - LADY DUFF GORDON AND HER HUSBAND PROBABLY AMONG THE DEAD
By Associated Press. Paris, April 16. - The American colony in Paris was plunged into profound grief by definite news of the stupendous loss of life caused by the wreck of the Titanic. Hundreds of prominent American residents and Ameri...
16th April 1912
Cambridge Independent Press HUNTS. VICAR'S LOSS
Page 5 A daily contemporary contained the following on Friday:- ''On his arrival at St. John's (Nova Scotia) yesterday by the steamer Corsican, the Rev. A. C. Crosfield, of Hartford Vicarage Hunts., learned for the first time of the di...
19th April 1912
Elizabeth Daily Journal SURVIVOR OF TITANIC DISASTER PASSES AWAY
Mrs. Lillian E. Stead, wife of Arthur Stead, of 128 Reid street, died last night at her home after a lingering illness. Mrs. Stead was a survivor of the "Titanic" disaster twenty-one years ago. Born in England, she came to this country twenty-five ...
8th July 1933
New York Times RECITES CLOSE CALL OF TITANIC RESCUE
Sir Arthur Rostron Tells How Radio Man Got S 0 S as He Prepared to Quit Post --- RECALLS 46 YEARS AT SEA --- Carpathia's Former Master, in New Autobiography, Describes "Most Memorable Night" of Career --- If ...
27th October 1931
Worcester Telegram FROM POPE AND KING
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18th April 1912
Buda Plain Dealer TITANIC SURVIVOR
Edward Dorking, the young man from Oglesby who survived the terrible experiences of the "Titanic" disaster, will speak in Opera Hall in Buda, Saturday evening May 18. He gave his first address in Princeton, where it was heard with intense interest, f...
17th May 1912
Leeds Mercury SORROW IN JEWISH HOME
In the case of Mr. Herbert Klein, his home, his parents, his wife and children, are all in Leeds, and the Jewish community in the city has been moved to sympathy by the feared loss of one of the most popular of their young men. Mr. He...
19th April 1912
The Times INVENTIONS SURGE AFTER TITANIC DISASTER
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19th April 1913
Guernsey Weekly Press REPORTED MISSING: E. H. WHEADON
Mr. E.H. Wheadon was in his 67th year. He was the head of the agricultural firm of E.H. Wheadon and Sons, Couture. He was a man of most kindly nature and charitable disposition. Among the members of the family and their very wide circle of friends hi...
22nd April 1912
The Times A VICTIM OF THE TITANIC.
MEMORIALS OF HENRY FORBES JULIAN. By HESTER JULIAN (Griffin & Co. 6s. net.) There is no way of summing up the total loss to the nation and to the world of such a disaster as the wreck of the Titanic. The mere tale of the number...
19th June 1914
New York Times COL. ASTOR'S $300 RIDE
Paid the Owner of a Horse Which Was Frightened to Death by His Automobile --- Special to The New York Times --- POUGHKEEPSIE, N. Y., May 21---Henry Gormand of Rhinebeck received $300 from Col. John Jacob Astor the other da...
22nd May 1902
Jersey Journal BROTHER CLAIMS DISTRACTED SON OF WRECK VICTIM
Frederick Myles of 256 Grove Street, the young man who was picked up for safe keeping Wednesday night by Patrolman May of the City Hall station, grief-stricken because of the loss of his father, Thomas F. Myles, in the Titanic...
19th April 1912
New York Times MORE TITANIC CLAIMS FILED
Belgian Consul Asks $46,250 for Lost Natives of His Country --- More claims against the White Star Line for damages inflicted by the wreck of the Titanic were received yesterday in the Federal District Court here. Pierre Mali, Belgian C...
13th September 1913
  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...
A TITANIC COINCIDENCE Titanic Research A TITANIC COINCIDENCE
Gavin Murphy
How the gala opening of two hotels was disrupted two maritime disasters....
9th July 2002
  BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION
Brian J. Ticehurst
Mr. William Lahtinen a minister of religion aged 30 years lived in Minneapolis USA. He was returning from a visit to relatives in Kemi, Finland with his wife and Lyyli Silven whose father was Reverend Lahtinens cousin. During the visit...
New York Times PEARLS WORTH $5,000 LOST
Miss Barbara Guggenheim, Debutante, Offers No Reward --- Miss Barbara Hazel Guggenheim, daughter of Mrs. Benjamin Guggenheim of 270 Park Avenue, lost two or three days ago a long string of seed pearls, valued at about $5,000. While Miss...
18th April 1921
THE LATE MR FRANK ANDREW Cornubian THE LATE MR FRANK ANDREW
MR. FRANK ANDREW, of Pencoys, formerly of Lanner, who is missing. There is now no hope that he was saved....
25th April 1912
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
SILVA LETTER FROM CUNARD LINE   SILVA LETTER FROM CUNARD LINE
Dear Madam,In reply to yours of the 26th- inst. we beg to say that we greatly regret being unable to give you any information in reference to Mr Silva and can only state that up to the present time there has been no indication that any of t...
29th May 1915 Gare Maritime
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
New York Times WIDOW OF TITANIC'S COMMANDER IS DEAD
Husband Was Captain E. J. Smith, Who Went Down in Sea Tragedy of 1912 --- Wireless to THE NEW YORK TIMES --- LONDON, April 29---The Titanic disaster was recalled today with the death of Mrs. Sarah Eleanor Smith, widow of C...
30th April 1931
Washington Times LIVED NOT IN VAIN, SAYS BUTT'S FRIEND
American People Can Learn Lesson From Major’s Life, Is Captain’s Opinion --- INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., April 22---Major Archibald Butt did not give his life in vain in the Titanic disaster, if the American people will take the lesson of his l...
22nd April 1912
Semi Weekly Iowegian FRENCHMAN HAD TOO MANY WIVES - MAN WHO LOST WIFE ON TITANIC SEEMS TO HAVE ELOPED WITH ANOTHER FROM FRANCE
Frank Levevre, the Mystic Frenchman who lost his wife and four children on the Titanic, is now in jail here and with him is the woman he is alleged to have run off with when he came from France to this country. It will be remembered that ...
16th July 1912
New York Times SPENCER CODICIL ADMITTED
Surrogate Recognizes Duplicate of Document Lost with Titanic --- Surrogate Fowler has admitted to probate a copy of the lost codicil of the will of William Augustus Spencer. Mr. Spencer and the codicil went down on the Titanic, April 1...
9th October 1912
  MICHAEL ROGERS - 'STEWARD TO THE MARCONI DEPARTMENT'
Michael Rogers was a 27 year old steward from Dublin, generally resident between voyages at the family home of Mr Thomas Harris at 13, Greenhill Avenue, Winchester. Mrs Harris had been a close friend of Michael's mother, and ...
Connaught Telegraph WRECK OF THE TITANIC
The White Star Liner, Titanic, which sailed from Southampton on Wednesday, after calling at Queenstown for passengers for New York, collided with an iceberg on Monday morning and was wrecked. She had 1,455 passengers and 903 of a crew, was on her ...
20th April 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
Aberdeen Daily Journal MR. F. D. MILLET
In modern times at any rate the life of a successful artist is unusually placid and uneventful; few have crowded into it such variety as Mr. F. D. Millet, whose loss in the disaster which has befallen the Titanic will be deeply felt by many, both ...
20th April 1912
Asbury Park Evening Press COMPTONS TELL OF TITANIC DISASTER
NEW YORK, APRIL 20---Mrs. Alexander T. Compton and her daughter, Miss Alice Compton, of Lakewood and New Orleans, two of the Titanic’s rescued, reached here completely prostrated over the loss of Mrs. Compton’s son Alexander, who went down with the...
20th 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
New York Times MEMORIAL NOTICE
STRAUS--- A Special Meeting of the Board Of Directors of Montefiore Home, held April 21, 1912. The President, Jacob H. Schiff, announced the melancholy death of the Honorable Isidor Straus and his devoted wife in the dis...
22nd April 1912
Rahway Daily Record ARTHUR KEEFE MAY BE MISSING ON LINER TITANIC
Rahway people, while horrified at the astounding disaster which overtook the gigantic ocean liner Titanic and at the terrible loss of life which accompanied the disaster, have a close personal feeling in the matter, inasmuch as one of its citizens, a...
16th April 1912
New York Times MEMORIAL NOTICE
HARRIS-At a special meeting of the Association of Theatre Managers of Greater New York, held on Saturday, April 20th, 1912, the following resolutions were adopted: Owing to the sad and sudden death of Henry B. Harris, our honored Vice ...
21st April 1912
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
St. Ives Times & Express MR. CARBINES INTERRED
Through the courtesy of Mr. Carbines — brother of the late Mr. William Carbines, a passenger on the "Titanic" and who has only just arrived in St. Ives from America — we are able to give some information from a letter which Mr. William Cogar, loca...
10th May 1912
New York Times C. H. LIGHTOLLER,78, OFFICER ON TITANIC
Sole Ranking Member of Crew to Survive Disaster Dies---Aided Dunkerque Evacuation --- Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES --- LONDON, Dec. 8 --- Comdr. Charles Herbert Lightoller, the only officer of the White Star liner Titanic...
9th December 1952
New York Times MARGARET MOORE, 83, SURVIVOR OF TITANIC
Margaret Graham Moore of Greenwich, Conn., a passenger on the Titanic when the ship sank on her maiden voyage in April 1912, died in Greenwich Hospital yesterday. She was 83 years old. The 882-foot luxury liner, crowded with celebriti...
27th April 1976
Hudson Dispatch MRS. LYNCH, 65; WAS SURVIVOR OF TITANIC SINKING
Mrs. Bridget Lynch, 185 Lexington av., Jersey City, who always related with pride her rescue from the disastrous sinking of the “Titanic,” dies yesterday afternoon in Jersey City Medical Center. She was 65. Mrs. Lynch was a young immi...
4th October 1959
Washington Times ACTOR IS WORRIED OVER FATE OF MAN ON UNFORTUNATE SHIP
"Rene is safe; am uncertain about Harry; will wire you definite information as soon as received." This is the only comforting word received by Frank McIntyre, now appearing at the National Theater in “Snobs” and his company, which is a...
17th April 1912
Rahway Daily Record WITH FLAGS AT HALF STAFF RAHWAY SHOWS HER SORROW
Honor to the dead who went down in the ill-fated Titanic is being is being paid in this city today. The flags on the police station and on all the public schools were half-staffed by order of Councilman-at-Large John Farrell. Rahway has felt the fo...
18th April 1912
The Times LORD MERSEY - NEW VISCOUNT
His Majesty has been pleased to confer the dignity of a viscounty of the United Kingdom upon:--- THE RIGHT HON. LORD MERSEY Lord Mersey's reputation as a Judge and as an authority on inte...
1st January 1916
New York Times 12 DEAD IN CEDAR RAPIDS
But Searchers Still Hunt for 20 More Missing --- CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa, May 23---With twelve bodies recovered from the ruins of the Douglas Starch Company's plant, wrecking crews today and tonight searched the debris for the...
24th May 1919
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
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
The Times THE TITANIC INQUIRY: LADY DUFF GORDON'S EVIDENCE
The inquiry into the loss of the Titanic was resumed yesterday by Lord Mersey and his Assessors. There was no diminution in the public interest taken in the proceedings. Among those present were Prince Albert of Schleswig-Holstein, Lady St. Helier, L...
21st May 1912
Dumfries and Galloway Standard and Advertiser MR. WILLIAM MURDOCH
Mrs. Murdoch the widow of the late Lieutenant Murdoch, First Officer of the ill-fated liner, has received the following letter: Hotel Continental, Washington, April 24th, 1912. Dear Mrs. Murdoch, - I am writing on behalf of the surviving officers to ...
11th May 1912
Chicago Evening Post ANOTHER CHICAGOAN HIT IN TITANIC WRECK
Mrs. Oren E. Taft, Who's in Europe, Loses Her Father, A. A. Stewart, New York...
20th April 1912
Newark Evening News SAY LIFEBOAT COULD HAVE HELD TEN MORE
Special Service of the NEWS BERNARDSVILLE, April 20---That the lifeboat which bore them from the Titanic might easily have contained ten more passengers, is the statement of Mrs. Jane Herman and her twin daughters, the Misses Kate and ...
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
  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...
Newark Evening News MRS. COMPTON TELLS OF TITANIC DISASTER
NEW YORK, April 19---Mrs. Alexander T. Compton and her daughter, Miss Alice Compton, of Lakewood, N. J., and New Orleans, two of the Titanic’s rescued, reached here completely prostrated o...
19th April 1912
The New York Times NEWS SUPPRESSED ON CELTIC
Loss of Titanic, Reported Monday, Told on Wednesday --- The Celtic, the first vessel of the White Star Line to reach New York from Europe since the sinking of the Titanic, arrived here yesterday. The Celtic ...
21st April 1912
Washington Herald MAJ. BUTT TOLD FRIENDS HE HAD FEAR OF MISHAP
Remarks of the President's Aid Before Going Abroad Are Recalled --- President Taft yesterday made earnest efforts to obtain news of Maj. Archibald Butt, his military aid. He communicated two or three times with the White Star offices i...
17th April 1912
Jersey Journal BAYONNE MAN SAVED, HOBOKEN BOY LOST
Joy and Sorrow in Hudson County Homes---Son of Victim Temporarily Insane from Grief ---------- With the latest revision of the lists of saved and lost from the Titanic disaster, joy and sorrow were brought to several ho...
18th April 1912
The Times MOURNING IN BELFAST : CAPTAIN SMITH'S PREDICTION
The shipbuilding works of Messrs Harland and Wolff (Limited) at Queen’s Island were closed on Saturday, which was regarded as a day of mourning for the members of the staff lost in the Titanic. With one exception all the me...
22nd April 1912
New York Times CLEARS HOTEL MEN IN PALM BEACH FIRE
Florida Commissioner After Inquiry Says That They Provided All Necessary Safeguards --- GUESTS’ LOSS $2,000,000 --- Thousands of Dollars in Scattered Belongings Reclaimed---First of Victims Arrive HERE --- Special to ...
21st March 1925
Camden Post-Telegram MANY MOURN FOR MR. FRED. SUTTON
Haddonfield Man Who Went Down With Titanic in Numerous Corporations --- BUDGET OF GOSSIP FROM THE BOROUGH --- As no word has been received concerning Frederick Sutton, of Haddonfield, it seems certain that he perish...
20th April 1912
Chicago Record-Herald RUSE SCENTED TO AVOID CLAIM
Titanic Survivor Says She Signed Paper Thinking It Railroad Tickets Alleged unfair tactics used by the owners of the steamship Titanic to avoid damage claims from survivors were explained yesterday by Miss Annie Kelly, one of...
25th April 1912
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 TAFT CONCERNED FOR BUTT
Chance of Major's Safety a Faint One, but President Holds to It --- WASHINGTON, April 16---The White House was not a cheerful place to-day, for President Taft, most of his Cabinet, and many callers were deeply concerned over the probabl...
17th April 1912
Adams County News LOCAL INTEREST IN TITANIC LOSS
Wife of Lutheran Missionary Returning Home with Three Children All Saved in Midnight Transfer to Life Boats Many Gettysburg people are keenly interested in the welfare of four passengers who were o...
20th April 1912
  GENERAL INFORMATION
Charles John Joughin, Titanic's chief baker was born in Patten Street, West Float, Birkenhead, Cheshire, England, on August 3, 1878, went to sea at age 11, later becoming chief baker on various White Star Line steamships. After surviving ...
Chicago American UNEXPLAINED FEATURES OF WORLD'S GREATEST STEAMSHIP DISASTER
Whence came the wireless messages of Monday assuring the world of the rescue of passengers and crew from the Titanic without the loss of a life? What was the origin of the report—by wireless via Cape Race—that the steamer Virgi...
16th April 1912
New York Times EDITH RUSSELL OBITUARY
Edith Russell, Writer, 98, Dead; Fled Titanic with Lucky Toy Pig...
6th May 1975
Bournemouth Echo A SWANAGE MAN'S STORY OF THE DISASTER
Iceberg mistaken for a cloud The Two Swanage survivors of the ill-fated Titanic messers J W. Gibbons of Studland and Charles Burgess arrived in England on Sunday in the "Lapland". They both arrived in Swanage on Tuesday afternoon and e...
1912
Camden Daily Courier SURE SUTTON HAS PERISHED AT SEA
Relatives Return From New York Feeling Sure He Went Down on Titanic --- A DAY'S EVENTS AT HADDONFIELD --- Haddonfield, N. J., April 20---No word has yet been received concerning the whereabouts of Frederick Sutton, and it ...
20th April 1912
Newark Evening News JOHN HARDY DIES AT 82
New Providence Resident Survived the Sinking of Liner Titanic --- John Hardy of 71 Gales drive, New Providence, who was chief steward of the second class accommodations aboard the White Star liner Titanic when it sank in 1912, died yest...
8th October 1953
Elizabeth Daily Journal LEARNS SISTER WAS LOST ON FATED TITANIC
Mrs. Thomas Cuffe Prostrated Over Fate of Miss Julia Barry Mrs. Thomas Cuffe, of 148 Livingston street, is prostrated with grief at her home to-day as a result of the loss of her sister, who perished when the waters of the Atlantic cl...
20th April 1912
Progress PORT SUNLIGHT
Progress : the Journal of Lever Brothers Port Sunlight was directly and indirectly associated with the great suspense, and subsequent sorrow, which thrilled this country and the world when the new and gigantic White Star Liner Tit...
July 1912
Elizabeth Daily Journal ELIZABETHANS ON BOARD BIG LINER TITANIC
[Links to the earlier parts of this article can be found on the summary pages for the members of the Renouf/Jefferys family and the Carter family.] Among those who visited the White Star steamship offices in New York to-day in an endea...
16th April 1912
Unidentified Newspaper LAST MALE SURVIVOR OF TITANIC DIES
One of the last known survivors of the Titanic, Michel Navratil, has died in southern France at the age of 92. He was just three years old when the ship hit an iceberg in the north Atlantic and sank shortly before midnight on 14 April 1912. ...
2nd February 2001
Elizabeth Daily Journal LONE SURVIVOR IS PENNILESS
Mrs. Peter Reniff is Left Destitute ---------- SAW NO LIGHTS OF OTHER SHIPS AS TITANIC SUNK Made penniless by the recent Titanic disaster in which she lost her husband, two brothers, cousin and two friends, Mrs. Peter Ren...
26th April 1912
Hamilton Spectator HIS THOUGHTFULNESS SAVED GIRL'S LIFE
Dr . Pain's Last Act Made Possible The Romance Of Titanic. In the midst of all the bitter disappointment and sorrow which have come into the lives of Mr and Mrs Albert Pain, of this city, through the loss of thei...
June 1912
Daily Home News JERSEY PEOPLE WHO HAD RELATIVES ON BOARD
PERTH AMBOY, April 17---Great anxiety in [sic] felt in this city by the members of the Parker, Jaudon, Marsh and Hechheimer families, who had near and distant relatives among the passengers on the ill-fated Titanic. Owner of Local Plan...
17th April 1912
The Independent THE PERILS OF PASSENGERS
ANOTHER very terrible wreck of an iron steamship has been reported and a loss of human lives has been the consequence, which must cause a shudder to the intending passengers to Europe this season. The unfortunate ship was the "Vicksburg"...
24th June 1875
Elizabeth Daily Journal TWO BROTHERS NOT ON TITANIC
Benjamin Peacock Learns They Are Still in England ---------- HIS MOTHER SEEKS NEWS OF HIS WIFE AND CHILDREN A letter postmarked “Merton, county Surrey, England,” has brought some happiness to Benjamin Peacock, of 609 Sout...
6th May 1912
SAMUEL GOLDENBERG'S FIRST DISASTER   SAMUEL GOLDENBERG'S FIRST DISASTER
Had already experienced disaster in 1910...
26th May 1910
Western People AWFUL SHIPPING DISASTER. LOSS OF THE TITANIC WITH OVER 1200 SOULS
The great White Star liner, Titanic, the largest ship in the world, which left Southampton on Friday of last week on her maiden trip to New York, collided with an iceberg off the Newfoundland coast on Tuesday last and sank in 1200 fathoms of water (o...
20th April 1912
Castle Carey Visitor CARYITES ON BOARD
The loss of the Titanic has been keenly felt in Castle Cary: as apart from its being a National Disaster, there were a number of Caryites on board. Mr. Sam Herman, for many years a butcher in the town, and for some years proprietor of the Britannia H...
April 1912
Progress - the Journal of Lever Brothers PORT SUNLIGHT DIRECTLY AND INDIRECTLY ASSOCIATED
Port Sunlight was directly and indirectly associated with the great suspense, and subsequent sorrow, which thrilled this country and the world when the new and gigantic White Star Liner Titanic heir of all the ages of constructive ...
July 1912
New York Times PHILADELPHIA SURVIVORS ILL
Two in Hospital, Hysterical---Mrs. Widener Has Severe Cold --- Special to The New York Times --- PHILADELPHIA, April 22---Philadelphia survivors of the Titanic are under the care of physicians, several of them in a serious...
23rd April 1912
The Evening Post BRITISH INQUIRY INTO TITANIC TRAGEDY BEGINS
Based on 26 Questions and Much Like That of Our Senate LONDON, May 2 – Lord Mersey in his capacity as wreck commissioner and five assessors who ...
2nd May 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
Concord Enterprise TO INSTITUTE SUIT
Miss Frances M. Ford of this town, who lost nine relatives in the wreck of the Titanic, including her mother, two brothers, two sisters, an uncle and an aunt, and their small children, is one of those to institute suit against the steamship company i...
12th February 1913
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
New York Times MEMORIAL NOTICE
STRAUS---At the first meeting of the Board of Directors of the Hebrew Technical Institute held since the appalling disaster of the loss of the Titanic, this minute was, by unanimous vote, adopted: We cannot refrain from mingling our la...
8th May 1912
New York Times 25 DEAD, 100 HURT IN BIG EXPLOSION AT CEDAR RAPIDS
Fire Follows, Causing $1,500,000 Damage to the Douglas Starch Works --- SCORES ARE STILL MISSING --- Company of Soldiers Hold Back Relatives of Workers and Assist Rescuers --- CAUSE REMAINS UNKNOWN --- Windo...
23rd May 1919
  FAMILY INFORMATION
Henry Philip Creese was born in Falmouth, Cornwall in 1868. He was the son of Charles and Jane Creese. He had an elder brother, William Creese who was to lose his life on 19 November 1917 when the submarine, SS Jutland, was torpedoed off the Britta...
New York Times THREE BRAVE OFFICERS
In telling the story of the loss of the Titanic more light is being shed upon the conduct of the ship's officers....
23rd April 1912
New York Times MEMORIAL NOTICE
STRAUS-Resolutions of the Board of Directors of the Hebrew Sheltering Guardian Society (Orphan Asylum,) passed at a meeting specially called for the purpose of considering the tragic and untimely death of Isidor Straus: Isidor Straus t...
4th May 1912
Whitehaven News LOCAL CONNECTION WITH TITANIC DISASTER
The Blackburn Times of the 20th inst. contains the following account of an interview with Mr. James Shepherd, son of the late Mr. Jonathan Shepherd, formerly of Whitehaven, and now residing at Blackburn, whose son, Mr. Jonathan Shepherd, was one of t...
2nd May 1912
  TITANIC RELIEF FUND – CREW “MASTER LIST” CASE NUMBERS
Lester Mitcham
The assignment of Case Numbers has I understand always proved to be frustratingly difficult owing to the loss of so much of the original documentation including it seems the Master List of Case ...
29th April 2006
Paterson Morning Call MET DEATH LIKE A HERO
---------- William Johnson, Nineteen-year-old Hawthorne Boy, Went Down on the Titanic ---------- NEWS CAME YESTERDAY ---------- Not Known Until Then That He Took Passage on the Ill-Fated Ship---Borough Grieved...
3rd May 1912
 

 
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