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News Letter	BUILDING PLAN FOR TITANIC QUARTER PUTS ULSTER ON THE RECORD NEWS that a state-of-the-art Public Record Office of Northern Ireland is to be located in Belfast's Titanic Quarter has been hailed as representing "the ideal occupant in the ideal location"....	24th August 2007
Belfast Telegraph	PUBLIC SCULPTURE UNVEILED AT THE TITANIC QUARTER The first public artwork for the Titanic Quarter was unveiled as part of the Belfast festival at Queens. The â€œcontemporary and innovative artworkâ€ is called â€˜Kitâ€™ and is a site-specific light sculpture which is 13.5 metres tall and cast in bronze....	4th November 2009
newsletter.co.uk	BEHIND THE SCENES AT OUR ICONIC TRIBUTE TO TITANIC - BELFAST NEWSLETTER It has been claimed there is no project currently under way in Britain, or indeed Europe, that can match up to Titanic Belfast in terms of scale or grandeur. LAURA MURPHY enjoys a tour of the iconic building in the heart of the city’s Titanic Quarter and draws her own conclusions ACCORDING to Noel Molloy, the man who is tasked with the mammoth responsibility of overseeing the Titanic Belfast project, once you come to visit the finished exhibition, you’ll be there “for anywhere between two hours and two days - literally.” And having been fortunate enough to get a sneak preview of the work in progress at Titanic Quarter, I can confirm he isn’t lying....	30th August 2011
BBC News	TITANIC THEMED HOTEL SET FOR CITY A five-star Titanic themed hotel is to be created at the old headquarters of the Belfast shipyard where the doomed liner was built....	8th September 2009
	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...
	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...
BBC News	TITANIC APOLOGY TO CITY SHIPYARD The developer behind the Titanic Quarter has apologised to Harland and Wolff after a model showed the area occupied by the shipyard as apartments....	5th October 2007
BBC News	TOURING THE TITANIC QUARTER Once one of the world's busiest ports, Belfast was where the Titanic was designed, built and launched. The vast shipyards employed more than 30,000 people in the 1950s. Now the land is being cleared and redeveloped in one of Europe's biggest waterside schemes. ...	30th April 2009
Belfast Telegraph	OFFICES WHERE TITANIC PLANS WERE DRAWN COULD BE A HOTEL Developers behind the controversial Titanic Quarter project are considering turning the historic drawing rooms - where the liner was designed - into a hotel, the Belfast Telegraph can reveal today....	5th March 2009
Belfast Telegraph	TITANIC PROJECT STILL ON COURSE The £97m Titanic Signature Project is on its way to becoming a world class destination, Enterprise Minister Arlene Foster said, during a visit to the Titanic Quarter yesterday....	5th December 2009
	MRS WINNIE (MINNIE) COUTTS Marion James Information Held on the COUTTS Family MARRIAGE Taken from UK BMD Index Vol 2a Page 1180 ...
BBC Northern Ireland	£1BN TITANIC AREA PLAN SUBMITTED Northern Ireland\'s biggest planning application has been submitted to develop Belfast\'s Titanic quarter. The £1bn plans include building a tourist centre with a target of attracting 500,000 visitors annually. ...	8th January 2007
Belfast Telegraph	WEATHER PUTS TITANIC PROJECT ON COURSE FOR 2012 OPENING Construction of the Titanic Signature project is a month ahead of schedule with the landmark building on course to open in the first quarter of 2012....	3rd July 2010
U.TV	TITANIC DEVELOPER MAY SEEK DAMAGES A property development company may seek damages if buyers are unable to complete on apartments in Belfast's Titanic Quarter the High Court has heard....	25th May 2010
BBC News	COUNCIL MAY SAVE TITANIC PROJECT Belfast City Council may invest £10m of ratepayers' money to ensure the Titanic Quarter goes ahead.More than two-thirds of the funding has already been secured, but the development is in jeopardy after it failed to secure lottery money. ...	27th March 2008
Belfast Telegraph	TITANIC-LINKED SS NOMADIC RETURNS TO BELFAST BIRTHPLACE The historic SS Nomadic, a tender that ferried passengers to the doomed Titanic, has been moved back to the place where she was built almost 100 years ago....
BBC	TITANIC QUARTER All of Northern Ireland will benefit from a Titanic themed tourist project, the first minister has said.Plans for a five-storey building are being backed by the executive, which will give more than £40m towards the £97m project. Also, the village of Comber (Thomas Andrews home village) will benefit as tours will be offered to visitors....	30th November 2008
	THE PARENTS OF WILLIAM JEFFREY WARE William Jeffrey Ware was the only child of Samuel Ware and Ann Louisa (formerly Witheridge). Their marriage was registered at Tavistock, Devon in the December Quarter of 1888. His father Samuel worked as a blacksmith at one of the copper mine...
4NI.co.uk	TITANIC QUARTER TO REVIVE CITY'S HERITAGE Belfast is set to finally commemorate its full maritime and industrial heritage. It has just been revealed that one of the main objectives of a new initiative, the ¢€ËœTitanic Signature Project', is to record and celebrate the city's great maritime and industrial heritage....	23rd October 2007
Unidentified Newspaper	UNTITLED Article in Unidentified Wexford Newspaper...	1912
BBC NEWS	NOMADIC AT 'CRUCIAL' REPAIR STAGE Work to restore a ship that ferried passengers to the Titanic has entered a "crucial" stage, according to the organisation overseeing the project. A team of engineers will look at how the SS Nomadic can be restored and become a tourist attraction in Belfast's Titanic Quarter. Denis Rooney, of the Nomadic Charitable Trust, said the work could take six months. ...	12th January 2009
4NI	FUNDING BLOW FOR TITANIC PROJECT Belfast's Titanic Signature Project - showcasing the city's maritime and industrial heritage and likely to cost an estimated £90m, has suffered a setback. The initiative, which aims to attract thousands of tourists to the Titanic Quarter, had applied to receive 25m of lottery money and has now failed to reach the final funding shortlist for the lottery's Living Landmarks Fund....	19th October 2007
	MACKIE FAMILY INFORMATION The birth of George William Mackie was registered at Lambeth, London in the 1st quarter of 1878. He was the son of William and Mary Mackie. George married Mary Broomfield, the daughter of James and Martha Broomfield. James was a Devon dairy farmer...
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
Belfast Telegraph	CENTENARY TRIBUTE TO TITANIC BUILDERS The centenary of work beginning on RMS Titanic has been marked by a symbolic keel laying ceremony at Titanic Quarter. John M Andrews, great-nephew of Titanic designer Thomas Andrews and president of Belfast Titanic Society, unveiled a memorial plaque on a replica keel plate which has been erected on the exact spot on the Titanic slipway where construction began in 1909....	1st April 2009
belfasttelegraph.co.uk	£100M TITANIC BELFAST BUILDING TAKES VISITORS ON AMAZING VOYAGE - BELFAST TELEGRAPH Here is the first glimpse of what the new iconic Titanic Belfast building will look like inside. Opening in April 2012, the £100m structure in the Titanic Quarter, east Belfast, will be the largest man-made tourist attraction in Northern Ireland’s history. The people behind the building believe the "spirit that built Titanic is reborn". ...	24th May 2011
Titanic Stories	TITANIC BELFAST:OPENING MARCH 2012 A new building is currently pushing its way towards the sky in Belfast’s Titanic Quarter...
belfasttelegraph.co.uk	TITANIC QUARTER: UNSINKABLE ADVENTURE Titanic Belfast will take each visitor on an interactive journey from Boomtown Belfast, through to Titanic Beneath, which will have live feeds to Professor Ballard’s expeditions to the wreckage and his other ongoing ocean explorations. It will encourage people to interpret the story for themselves. “The Titanic story really draws you in. It is essentially a human story about the people who built the ship and those passengers and crew who were on board. The main draw is the authenticity of Titanic Belfast. ...	6th September 2011
Belfast Telegraph	NOMADIC : BRING HER BACK HOME Eamonn Holmes is backing the campaign to bring the Titanic-era Nomadic ferry back to the city where the Harland and Wolff vessel was built.The Ulster-born Sky News presenter says that if Belfast is going to have a sector named Titanic Quarter it needs to house attractions linked to the Titanic.The only remaining White Star Line ship, which is moored at Le Havre in northern France, may go for scrap if a buyer is not found when it goes under the hammer in less than two weeks....	13th January 2006
guardian.co.uk	TITANIC MUSEUM TO OPEN IN SOUTHAMPTON BY 2012 It is 97 years next month since she went down, but the Titanic - the supposedly unsinkable liner that scraped an iceberg in the north Atlantic on her maiden voyage and sank with the loss of 1,500 people - continues to exercise a huge public fascination. There have been several films and myriad books and documentaries, Belfast has its Titanic quarter around the docks where she was built - and now Southampton, the city which provided most of the crew, is planning its own interactive museum, to open in time for the centenary in 2012....	31st March 2009
bbc.co.uk	SS NOMADIC The Titanic's tender ship, the SS Nomadic has celebrated its centenary. The ship, which is undergoing restoration at the Hamilton Dock in Titanic quarter in Belfast was used to transport first and second class passengers to Titanic at the French port of Cherbourg. The Nomadic, like the Titanic was built by Harland and Wolff in Belfast. ...	25th April 2011
The Times	LORD PIRRIE TAKES OATH AS VISCOUNT HOUSE OF LORDS --- WEDNESDAY, JULY 13 --- The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the Woolsack at a quarter to 4 o'clock. --- LORD PIRRIE VISCOUNT PIRRIE was introd...	14th July 1921
nationalpost.com	THIS SHIP SAILS AGAIN A couple years back during a trip to Belfast, I was urged to visit the shipyards where the Titanic was built. The offer didn't seem all that appealing, since everyone knows the story: big ship, unsinkable, hubris, irony, birth of a metaphor and all that. But I went to the area now called Titanic Quarter, saw the massive dry dock where the vessel was created, took the tour and by the end had to admit the visit was interesting and fun, and not just because of the "Built by the Irish, Sunk by the British" T-shirts. Almost 100 years after it went down in the North Atlantic, the story of the Titanic remains compelling. The challenge is to find enough new to say....	14th November 2011
The Times	LAWN TENNIS: THE INTERNATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS Page 12 Keen interest was shown yesterday in the Doubles match at Wimbledon between Australasia and America, for had the former succeeded in adding another win to their dual win of Saturday, they would have qualified to play the holder...	16th July 1907
Irish Times	LIKE THE LINER, BAD LUCK DOGS THE TITANIC SIGNATURE PROJECT BELFAST BRIEFING: An ambitious attempt to capitalise on the city's relationship with the Titanic is in deep trouble, writes FRANCESS McDONNELL THERE REMAIN many unanswered questions concerning the fate of one of Belfast's proudest but ultimately most tragic achievements, the RMS Titanic ....	14th July 2009
The Times	PIRRIE TAKES OATH AS BARON HOUSE OF LORDS --- MONDAY , JULY 23 The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the woolsack at a quarter-past 4 o'clock. NEW PEERS LORD EVERSLEY, who was introduced by LORD TWEEDMOUTH and LOR...	24th July 1906
The Guardian	NORTHERN IRELAND LOOKS TO TITANIC FOR ECONOMIC BOOST The most famous ship to sink is being used to refloat Northern Ireland's flagging economy. On the banks of the river where the Titanic was constructed, a leisure and education project is almost complete. The Stormont government hopes it will attract 50,000 extra tourists a year. With its gleaming glass, curved shape and illuminated roof, the Titanic building resembles the Bilbao Guggenheim. Like the Basque country museum, the tourist centre on the Lagan represents a society moving on from ethnic conflict and terrorism....	10th October 2011
	CAPTAIN ROSTRON'S HANDWRITTEN ACCOUNT OF THE DISASTER. RMS Carpathia Cunard SS Co. Ltd., At Sea April 27th, 1912 At 12.35 am (ship's time) April 15th (Monday), 1912, I was called by the 1st Officer in company with Marconi operator and informed that the White St...	27th April 1912
	MR WILLIAM ANGLE Marion James Family History of Mr William ANGLE In 1901 William is recorded as living at 23 Tower Road Ashton Manor Birming...
	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....
	TITANIC RELIEF FUND MINUTES LIVERPOOL COMMITTEE C. 523 Bird (or Morgan). In accordance with the resolution of this Committee of the 21st April, 1914, the Hon. Secretary submitted Dr. Oldershaw's report upon the case of Mrs. Margaret Bird (Widow). RESOLVED. That it be recommend...	8th June 1914
	TITANIC RELIEF FUND MINUTES : LIVERPOOL COMMITTEE : WILDE C.23. Wilde. Read letter dated 28th May, 1914, received from Mr. O. Jones Williams (one of the Guardians of the children of the late Chief Officer Wilde). The Hon. Secretary reported that he had requested Mr. Williams to attend at the ...	8th June 1914
New York Times	2 MRS. FIERMONTES HAVE A TALK AT TEA Husband's Mother, Who Also Is There, Likes Her Son's American Wife --- By The Associated Press --- ROME, Feb. 24---The two Mrs. Fiermontes, one American and one Italian, met for the first time today and sat right down to t...	25th February 1935
Western Morning News	UGBOROUGH MAN'S STORY J. Horswell (sic), a sailor, residing in Southampton, said though he was now lodging at Southampton, he hailed from Ugborough. He acted as bowman in one of the emergency boats, and among the passengers with them were Sir Cosmo and Lady Duff Gordon. ...	29th April 1912
Travel Daily News	TITANIC TRAIL PUTS BELFAST AT HEART OF DIGITAL TOURISM REVOLUTION Belfast City Council and Northern Ireland Tourist Board have launched the world's first interactive multi-media digital tourism trail and, appropriately, it is based around the city's most famous product, ¢€ËœTitanic'. The trail is launched at the same time as a new heritage guide focussing on the history of shipbuilding, and in particular Harland and Wolff also is published by the Council.The ¢€ËœBelfast Titanic Trail' uses the latest GPS-based technology, the Node Explorer, to take visitors ¢€Ëœback to the future' leading them on a tour of the city sites associated with the Titanic story, from the grounds of City Hall to Queen's Island, finishing by presenting them with a vision of how Titanic Quarter will look. Using a portable, robust media player, which is both user-friendly and ultra-modern, the Node Explorer being used for the first time in Belfast uses a combination of the latest computer technology, still images, video footage, dramatic reconstructions, text and audio clips to take users on a fully interactive trip through time telling the story of the mighty Titanic and the people associated with her. ...	8th August 2006
herald.ie	TITANIC SISTER SHIP MARKS 100 YEARS The ship was launched from Hamilton Dock on April 25, 1911. It was luxuriously equipped and was the tender ship for the Olympic class transatlantic liners. In January 2006, the Department for Social Development purchased the SS Nomadic at a Paris auction. The vessel was brought back to it's home city and it is being restored to its former glory in Hamilton Dock, Belfast....	25th April 2011
	TITANIC SCHOOLS PROJECT Terry Madill conducts a schools visit to the Titanic Quarter, Belfast, helping to educate young people about what life was like for those who worked on the building of the Titanic, the world's most famous ocean going liner...	30th August 2011
Oxford Magazine	THE REV. ERNEST COURTENAY CARTER Vol. XXX, No. 17 A correspondent writes:- "The Rev. Ernest Courtenay Carter, of St. John's College, who perished, with his wife, in the Titanic disaster, was in many ways a remarkable man. Not specially gifted intellec- tually, he took...	2nd May 1912
Titanic Research	A BIRTHPLACE REBORN : THE TITANIC QUARTER Senan Molony PLANS for the development of 185 acres of dockland in Belfast that include the cradle of the Olympic and Titanic have just been formally announced. Most of the Queen's Island site will be transformed over the ne...	21st October 2005
	BRISTOW FAMILY INFORMATION Harry Bristow was a son of John Bristow and Mary Ann (nee Barnes). He was born in 1873 at the south Cornwall coastal town of East Looe in the part of the town known as Shutta. His father, John Bristow worked for British Railways and was born...
	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...
New York Times	CARPATHIA SUNK; 5 OF CREW KILLED 215 Saved from Cunard Liner, Which Is Sent Down Off the Coast of Ireland --- HIT BY THREE TORPEDOES --- Was Bound for an American Port to Take Some More Soldiers to the Other Side --- Copyight, 1918, by The N...	20th July 1918
Belfast Telegraph	TITANIC FANS WANT BELFAST MEMORIAL TO BE RELOCATED The Belfast Titanic Society has hit out at plans for the Belfast wheel to remain at its current location because it obscures a memorial to the victims of the sea disaster....	5th June 2009
Unidentified Newspaper	DIGBY COUNTY AND THE TITANIC DISASTER... Question: What do the sinking of the Titanic and Digby County have in common? Answer: The rescue ship, Carpathia's Chief Officer was Thomas W. Hankinson. Thomas William Hankinson, born 1857, was ...
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
Belfast Telegraph	GETTING A STEER ON THE NOMADIC'S HISTORY The ship's wheel once used to steer Titanic's "little sister" is about to return to Belfast. Volunteers who have been raising money to restore SS Nomadic have tracked down what they believe to be her ship's wheel and will be handing it over to the team responsible for restoring her in the next fortnight. SS Nomadic is the last remaining White Star Line vessel and once ferried first class passengers onto the Titanic at Cherbourg on the mighty liner's ill-fated maiden voyage. ...	25th April 2009
	GEORGE PELHAM FAMILY RESEARCH Marion James George Pelham (Titanic survivor) 28yrs old born Bethnal Green Occupation Potman Wife ...
BBC News	RETURN FOR 'LIVING HISTORY' SHIP The ship which was used to transfer first-class passengers to the Titanic is to return to Belfast on 17 July. The SS Nomadic was bought by the Northern Ireland Office at an auction in Paris for £171,320 in January. It had lately fallen into disrepair and the government bowed to pressure to save it from the breakers yard. Social Development Minister David Hanson said: "Nomadic has the potential to bring living history of this period back to Belfast in a tangible way." ...	5th July 2006
Eastbourne Gazette	HERO MUSICIANS : SUGGESTED MEMORIAL TO MR. J. W. WOODWARD The Titanic Disaster While the horror of the Titanic disaster is still fresh in the public mind, and the nation is contributing with an almost unexampled generosity to funds for the survivors and the families of the crew, would it not ...	1st May 1912
	RAISE THE TITANIC MODEL LANGUISHES IN MALTA Article...
New York Times	NOW ABRAHAM & STRAUS BIG CHANGE IN A BIG STORE WHICH ALL BROOKLYN KNOWS --- One of the most interesting business changes of the year went into effect yesterday, when the retail dry goods firm of Wechsler & Abraham became the firm of Abraham & Straus, the ne...	2nd April 1893
New York Times	TRIBUTE TO J. C. SMITH Col. Gracie Tells How He and Also E. A. Kent Died Bravely --- After reading letters in the morning papers from friends of James Clinch Smith, asking why no account had been written of the part he must have taken in the heroic work of res...	25th April 1912
Voyage	LORD CROMER John P. Eaton Departed Stockton-on Tees, England 14 March, 1912 on her maiden voyage bound for Louisburg, Nova Scotia, in ballast. During her crossing she was badly damaged by ice and after 19 days of a voyage which should have taken no mor...	9th January 2005
Bucks Free Press	EXPERIENCES OF A TITANIC SURVIVOR (CHARLES E. JUDD) ‘Mr Wm Judd of Parkfield Villas, 166 Hughenden-road, High Wycombe, has received a letter from his brother, Mr Charles E Judd, who was one of those rescued from the Titanic, in which he gives an account of his experiences. He writes:- ...	3rd May 1912
	THOMAS WHITELEY'S TITANIC LECTURE I was just about to go to bed and had my pajamas on when I heard a grating noise and the vessel came to a stop. I slipped on a pair of trousers and rushed on deck. I saw a lot of ice on the forward deck, the well deck, about twenty tons of it, ...	1912
New York Times	OLYMPIC CARRIES PIRRIE'S BODY HOME White Star Liner Was Biggest Ship Ever Built in Viscount’s Yards --- DIED ON WAY FROM TROPICS --- Great Shipbuilder, Near Death, Insisted on Being Carried Out to See Panama Canal --- The body of Viscount Pirr...	14th June 1924
	MR WILLIAM ANGLE & MRS FLORENCE AGNES ANGLE NEE HUGHES Marion James Mr William ANGLE & Mrs Florence Agnes ANGLE nee HUGHES Researching Mr William ANGLE I have been able to trace the following information. William Angl...