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culture24.org.uk	CURATOR'S CHOICE: WILLIAM BLAIR ON A SIGNED PHOTO OF A TITANIC PASSENGER IN ULSTER - CULTURE24 William Blair, Head of Human History for National Museums Northern Ireland, talks about his favourite object – a signed photo of a third-class passenger on the Titanic. “My favourite object is a poignant, signed photograph of a third class passenger. It takes you to the heart of the tragedy of Titanic. ...	20th June 2011
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
The Bookseller	THE HISTORY PRES The History Press has signed its 10th new title on the sinking of the Titanic to be published in the run-up to the centenary of the disaster in 2012....	29th November 2010
Irish Central	100 IRISH ON BOARD FOR THE TITANICS MEMORIAL CRUISE - SEE VIDEO More than 100 Irish have signed up to the cruise which will commemorate the Titanic. The cruise will follow the exact fateful route that the Belfast-built Titanic took 100 years ago....	1st September 2010
AOL Travel News	IS TITANIC CRUISE MEMORIAL OR VOYEURISM? Are cruise passengers signed up to take a 100th anniversary "Titanic Memorial Cruise" in 2012 exhibiting bad taste? ...	4th September 2010
Chicago Daily News	MESABA WARNED DOOMED TITANIC OF ICEBERGS Mesaba Reports That It Warned The Doomed Ocean Vessel of Presence of Icebergs in Vicinity and Got "Thanks" ...	18th April 1912
	CARD WRITTEN BY JACK PHILLIPS Written just a few months before he joined the Titanic...	1911
Worcester Evening Gazette	LANDING MOST PATHETIC SIGHT New York, April 19. Worcester Evening Gazette. Worcester, Mass. Have just left Cunard docks after witnessing arrival of Titanic's rescued passengers on the Carpathia. It was the most pathetic and tr...	20th April 1912
thetelegram.com	A TITANIC BOOST The man who brought â€œTitanicâ€ to the big screen will promote events at Cape Race marking the 100th anniversary of the shipâ€™s sinking. James Cameron, who directed the 1997 Oscar-winning film on the ill-fated luxury liner, has signed on as an ambassador for next yearâ€™s Receiving Titanic commemorations. Thatâ€™s according to Larry Daley, a St. Johnâ€™s-based Titanic enthusiast and entrepreneur....	2nd December 2011
New York Times	FELDMAN SIGNS FOR BOUT HOLLYWOOD, Calif., Sept. 4 (AP)---Abe Feldman, Brooklyn heavyweight, and Petri Georgi, Buffalo, were signed today to meeet in a ten-round bout at the Legion Stadium here Sept. 14. Enzo Fiermonte, husband of Mrs. Madeline [sic] F...	5th September 1934
Discovery Channel News	TITANIC LETTER RECOUNTS HORROR The darkness and terror on the night the Titanic sank are described in a letter, released yesterday, written by survivor Laura Mabel Francatelli shortly after the disaster.The letter, along with her official affidavit during a subsequent legal inquiry and her life preserver, will be sold at a Christie's auction on May 16. The life preserver was signed by men and women aboard the ...	13th April 2007
Cork Examiner	REMARKABLE STATEMENT Liverpool, Wednesday. Messrs. Quilliam, Liverpool, solicitors, acting on behalf of relatives of Thos. Hart, marine fireman, of Liverpool, supposed to have been lost in the Titanic disaster, have recieved a statement from his mother. Sh...	9th May 1912
Southampton Times and Hampshire Express	TOUCHING MESSAGE FROM CAPTAIN'S WIFE Shortly before three on Thursday afternoon the following message from Mrs. E. J. Smith, the wife of the Captain of the lost liner, was posted on the notice-board at the White Star office, Canute Road, Southampton. TO MY POOR FELLOW SUF...	20th April 1912
u.tv	PUBLIC ACCESS TO TITANIC DRAWING OFFICE - U.TV The seven-year agreement between the Department of Enterprise and developers at Titanic Quarter is expected to be signed soon. It is hoped the building could be open to tourists for the centenary of the ship's sinking next April, after Titanic Belfast opens its doors to the world at the end of March. The attraction is expected to be thronged with visitors - but until recently all those enthusiasts could not have expected to get inside the historic drawing offices nearby where the vessel was designed....	12th December 2011
	BIRTH CERTIFICATE : WILLIAM DUFFY Diocese of Tuam Parish of Castlebar. Postal Address: Main Street Castlebar. I certify that according to the Register of Baptisms kept in this parish. William L. Duffy was born on 8th of October 1875 and was bap...	8th October 1875
Scotsman	WATCH OF TITANIC VICTIM ON SALE FOR ?25,000 A POCKET watch discovered on the frozen body of a Scot who was the last victim to be recovered from the Titanic is being auctioned for ?25,000.The silver watch was found on Thomas Mullin, whose corpse was plucked from the sea the day before it became too treacherous for rescue vessels to continue searching. The 20-year-old, who was born in Maxwelltown, Dumfries, had signed on for the ill-fated voyage on 6 April, 1912, as a third-class steward.More than 1,500 died when the Titanic hit an iceberg and sank off Newfoundland on the night of 14 April, 1912. ...	5th January 2006
New York Times	MRS. ASTOR OBTAINS DIVORCE QUIETLY No Names Mentioned in Proceedings Before Justice Mills, Who Grants Interlocutory Decree --- ALL PAPERS IN CASE SEALED --- It Is Understood Counsel Had Earlier Agreement on Disposition of Children and Financial Settlement...	9th November 1909
Chicago Inter Ocean	JAY YATES, GAMBLER, ONE OF THE HEROES Goes to His Death With Sinking Titanic After Helping Women and Children to Safety—Sends Good-By to Mother Special Dispatch to The Inter Ocean New York, April 20—That Jay Yates, gambler, confidence man...	21st April 1912
San Francisco Chronicle	DR. DODGE AND HIS FAMILY ARE SAFE Page 1 Assessor Sends Two Messages From Carpathia to His Son Here-- Mayor Wires Reply Relieving the deep anxiety of his relatives and thousands of friends in this city, Dr. Washington Dodge, Assessor of San Francisco, ...	18th April 1912
	A POSTCARD FROM TITANIC On 11 April 1912, John Adams (real name Richard May) posted a card to his sister in Holsworthy, Devon. It read - "Dear Ethel, Just a few lines to tell you that I have found Jack and we are going on all right. We are having it fairly c...	11th April 1912
Toronto Daily Star	FORCED TO SIGN, SHE SAYS newspaper cutting...	25th April 1912
	JOHN QUINN: A BRIEF BIOGRAPHY John Quinn was born in Belfast on 3rd March 1876 the son of a shoemaker, he was one of ...
New York Times	SEALED ASTOR PAPERS FILED Rockland County Sends Them to Dutchess---Everything Secret --- Special to The New York Times --- POUGHKEEPSIE, N. Y., Nov. 10---The sealed papers in the divorce action of Ava Willing Astor against John Jacob Astor were fil...	11th November 1909
Boston Daily Globe	WHITELEY FINDS UNCLE INTERVIEW WITH TITANIC SURVIVOR BRINGS TELEGRAM FROM NAMESAKE IN PROVIDENCE NEW YORK,April 21 - Through the publication of an interview with him to a Providence, R.I. paper, Thomas Whiteley, ...	22nd April 1912
Bucks Free Press	CHARLES E. JUDD [BUCKINGHAMSHIRE TITANIC SURVIVOR] Fireman Judd was formerly on the Olympic but owing to that vessel being laid up, owing to the coal strike, he signed on for the Titanic....	26th April 1912
Journal	JOHN JOSEPH DIAPER-CREW Geoff Knight Family historians uncover story of ‘lost’ Titanic survivor ...	28th February 2010
Daily Mail	THE MAY FAMILY Mrs May, across the way, lost her husband and eldest son. The son was married a year ago and his wife had a baby six weeks ago... Crossing the road I had a talk with the elder Mrs May, a slight, pale woman with dark sorrowful eyes. She ask...	18th April 1912
	THE MILLER'S SON Albert Barker was born in the village of King's Worthy on the River Itchen in Hampshire, just a few miles upstream from the dock where Titanic would begin its voyage 19 years later. His father was a miller at nearby Abbot's W...
Worcester Telegram	FUNDS FOR SURVIVORS Article...	18th April 1912
	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 ...
	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 ...
New York Times	IDA STRAUS ESTATE $260,000 All Is In Personal Property and Will Be Divided Among Children --- Application for letters of administration on the estate of Mrs. Ida Straus, who perished with her husband Isidor Straus in the wreck of the Titanic on April 15, was made...	22nd June 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...
Worcester Telegram	NAME NOT ON LIST BUT WOMAN IS SAFE The Associated Press Mrs. Edgar Meyer Wires New York That She Is Returning on Carpathia and That Her Husband Is Missing NEW YORK, April 17.- A wireless message was received today by relatives of Mrs Edgar Meyer, daughter of the late Andrew Saks, reporting ...	18th April 1912
	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...
Southern Evening Echo	UNTITLED GOING through the contents of a war damaged safe after returning from his recent Australian tour Mr. Hector Young, O.B.E., former Southampton Mayor, came across a tattered postcard and a letter which brought back memories of the ill-fated White Star ...	9th December 1952
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
	SPECIAL DAY FOR OSCAR SCOTT WOODY It seems that the heroism of one of Titanic's postal clerks has been a source of inspiration for the governing officials of North Carolina. Oscar Scott Woody was a native of Roxboro, North Carolina. He had been a postal clerk on trains betwee...	2004
Press Association	TITANIC SURVIVOR'S ACCOUNT FETCHES £20,000 A woman's account of escaping the sinking Titanic in 1912 sold for £20,000 at auction. Laura Francatelli from London said she heard an "awful rumbling" as the liner went down and "then came screams and cries&...	20th October 2010
Chicago Tribune	JUST MISSED TITANIC'S FATE: TEUTONIC VEERS OFF ICEBERG JUST MISSED TITANIC'S FATE: TEUTONIC VEERS OFF ICEBRG By Quick Reversal of Engines and with Helm Hard Aport Liner Grazes Huge...	28th October 1913
Chicago Daily Journal	SUFFERED IN TITANIC HORROR, IS PAID $25 Girl Says She Signed Waiver of Further Damages While Semiconscious Twenty-five dollars is the estimate put on the damages suffered by one survivor of the Titanic...	24th April 1912
Standard Union	COL. ASTOR BURIED IN GRAVE BESIDE MOTHER Body Brought to Manhattan After Funeral Services at Rhinecliff --- The body of John Jacob Astor was buried this afternoon beside the grave of his mother in Trinity Cemetery, on Washington Heights. The funeral services were held at Rhin...	4th May 1912
	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
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
New York Times	MARITAL RIFT OVER, FIERMONTE RADIOS Italian Boxer Sends Word From Ship on Which Wife Sailed Suddenly on Saturday --- A DIVORCE WAS RUMORED --- Couple Were Wed Here Late in 1933---She Is the Former Mrs. Madeleine Force Astor Dick --- Enzo Fierm...	31st January 1935
	GENERAL INFORMATION Mr. Smart was the president of the American Cold Storage and Shipping Co., and lived at the Victoria Hotel in New York. When he travelled to England, he simply checked out of the hotel, and took all of his personal belongings with him. Some of those ...
Rahway Daily Record	NO TRACE IS FOUND OF KEEFE'S BODY Survivor of Titanic Wreck Tells of Being With Him In a Life Boat ---------- It had for several days been hoped that among the bodies recovered from the wreck of the Titanic would be found that of Arthur Keefe. This hope is now ...	26th April 1912
Chicago American	TITANIC STEERAGE PASSENGERS LEFT TO DIE, SAYS GIRL Fears are entertained by Dr. Thomas J. O’Malley, who is attending Miss Annie Kelly, the seventeen-year-old girl survivor of the Titanic, that she will never gain her normal condition as a result of her harrowing experiences when the sh...	25th April 1912
Shepton Mallet Journal	REDISCOVERED POSTCARD STRENGTHENS LINK BETWEEN TOWN AND TITANIC Castle Cary's connection with the world's most famous shipping disaster has been strengthened still further. This is because a New Forest pensioner has discovered a postcard found on the ship, which was to be sent to the wife of a local butcher....	2nd March 2000
Newark Star	MR. STENGEL SENDS WORD HE IS SAFE Nothing Heard of Three Other Essex Men Who Were on Doomed Ship --- Friends and relatives of Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Henry Stengel were rejoiced yesterday when a wireless message was received from Mr. Ivan Stengel stating that his father and ...	18th April 1912
	PRIDEAUX FAMILY INFORMATION John Arthur Prideaux (k/a Jack) was born at Southampton, Hampshire on 24 April 1888 at a house in Victoria Road, Woolston. He was the son of John Davey Prideaux and Annie Elizabeth (formerly Slade). His father, originally from Teignmouth, Dev...
	TITANIC DISCHARGED CREW Crew members, most of whom had "signed-on" but, for one reason or another, failed to board the ship or were not aboard when the accident occurred. ...
Worcester Evening Gazette	MRS ASPLUND AND CHILDREN SAFE IN HOSPITAL AT N.Y. Article of Interest...	19th April 1912
Dowagiac Daily News	CARPATHIA LANDS IN NEW YORK CITY AND THE BISHOPS WIRE THEY'RE SAFE Mrs. Bishop Is First Lady to Leave the Wrecked Ocean Liner SEND A WIRELESS First Direct Tidings Came Last Night, and Again This Morning They Send a Message Home --------------- Mr. and Mr...	19th April 1912
	PENNAL FAMILY INFORMATION Thomas Frederick Pennal (to use his full and correct names) was known as Frederick and because of uncertainty with his surname, for example, he appears on the Titanic Engagement Sheet as F. Pumal (Ref. No 178, 1st Class Victualling Dept.) he has unti...
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
	MME. AUBART: LUXURY LOST After her rescue from Titanic, French singer Leontine Pauline ("Ninette") Aubart, better remembered as the mistress of American millionaire Benjamin Guggenheim, wrote the following letter to the White Star Line, itemizing her lost possessions: ...	1st May 1912
New York Times	SUES FOR LIFE PENSION Estate of B. Guggenheim, Who Died on Titanic, Asked to Pay $7,500 a Year --- Mrs. Amy T. Lucrati, who says that her home is in San Remo, Italy, through her attorney, John S. Wise, Jr., of this city, yesterday started suit in the Surroga...	10th August 1915
	LETTER FROM CATERINA GILARDINO, NIECE OF VINCENZO GILARDINO I do not know the year Vincenzo Gilardino came to England but it must have been in the last years of the 1800s because in 1901 my father (Paulo) Gustavo, Vincenzo's brother, was sent to England by their father to try + persuade Vincenzo to return to ...
Associated Press	TITANIC SHOULD BE ?MARITIME MEMORIAL,' U.S. SAYS Washington - The United States, Canada, Britain and France will work together to increase protection for the Titanic and its wreck site under legislation the U.S. administration sent to Congress Friday.State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said concerted action by the four countries most closely associated with the Titanic would effectively foreclose financing for and the technical ability to conduct unregulated salvage and other potentially harmful activities.Much of what remains of the Titanic rests underwater, about 560 kilometres from Newfoundland, where the British liner sank on April 15, 1912, after hitting an iceberg. A total of 1,522 passengers and crew were killed in the wreck. More than 700 survived....	10th June 2006
	WILLIAM MCMASTER MURDOCH Mark Garfien William McMaster Murdoch was born 28th February 1873 in Dalbeattie, Scotland. He was the fourth of seven children of Captain Samuel Murdoch and his wife Jeanie. The Murdochs had been a se...
The Evening Post	HOLDING BACK FACTS OF DISASTER STIRS CRITICISM Charges ranging from indifference to deliberate suppression of news are being made against the White Star officials on both sides of the Atlantic . As ground for these charges one needs to go back only to the rapid sequ...	18th April 1912
New York Times	FIGHT FOR ASTOR ESTATE MIRRORS BATTLE 50 YEARS AGO The son of Brooke Astor, late widow of Vincent Astor (son of Titanic victim John Jacob Astor and his first wife), stands accused of elder abuse and theft of the Astor fortune. Fifty years ago, John Jacob Astor VI, son of JJA and survivor/2nd wife Madeline, accused Brooke Astor of undue influence over Vincent to claim the Astor fortune....	26th April 2009
New York Times	UNSEALED DECREE IN ASTOR DIVORCE On Final Judgment Court Does Away with Secrecy by Order to Dutchess County Clerk ---- CROWD IN THE COURTROOM --- Report That Mrs. Astor Receives Only $50,000 a Year Not Contradicted --- The terms of the final...	5th March 1910
	1976 LETTER FROM MRS. SNYDER ABOUT HER EXPERIENCE ON TITANIC Dennis Foley By letter postmarked 11/22/76, Mrs. Rawley Miller (Mrs. Snyder's daughter) was so wonderful as to send me the following typewritten letter, signed by Mrs. Snyder, with a handwritten note from Mrs. Miller. ...
Titanic Research	THE HART OF THE MATTER Senan Molony FIREMAN Hart stands on the deck of the Titanic, knowing he has no entitlement to a lifeboat place, and prepares to die…...	11th October 2010
Titanic Research	ON ROOTING ABOUT IN A SWEDISH TITANIC FAMILY TREE Alan Ruffman The search for geneaological data relating to the Palaeo-DNA Project...	10th May 2002
	BAPTISM CERTIFICATE Livro de Baptismos da Paróquia de São Brás, Arco da Calheta, Calheta Número 63. Aos vinte e nove dias do mez de Junho do ann...	1874
The Times	MRS. PIRRIE AWARDED FREEDOM OF THE CITY OF BELFAST BELFAST, APRIL 20 The freedom of the city of Belfast, unanimously voted by the council some weeks ago, was formally presented to Mrs. Pirrie at the town-hall to-day in the presence of a large and distinguished company. The mu...	21st April 1904
	REPORT TO MARCONI TRAFFIC MANAGER [EXTRACT] Harold Bride, Junior Marconi operator in his Report of April 27th to W. B. Cross, Traffic Manager, Marconi Co. says: Just at this moment the Captain said: ''You cannot do any more; save yourselves.'' Leaving the Captain we climbed on top of th...
Titanic Crew Biography	CHARLES S. REED, 2ND CLASS BEDROOM STEWARD Peter Northover New research reveals the identity of a Titanic steward....	10th December 2011
New York Times	RUSH TO CONSOLE LADY DUFF-GORDON Stream of Visitors to Her Shop, Where Government Says Undervalued Gowns Were Shown --- SECOND ARREST IS MADE --- Abraham Merritt Surrenders to Answer Charge of Undervaluation in Customs Cases --- Abraham Merritt, f...	27th May 1911
	BAPTISM CERTIFICATE CHRISTENING CERTIFICATE (ORIGINAL) Livro de Baptismos da Paróquia de Santa Maria Madalena do Mar, Ponta do Sol Número 19. ...	1891