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The Witney Gazette GAMBLERS ON TITANIC ESCAPE BY DRESSING AS WOMEN
An extraordinary story is reported in New York of the escape from the sinking Titanic of two well-known gamblers who, for some years, have frequented the Atlantic liners, and against whose card-sharking tricks notices have been posted on ...
11th May 1912
Washington Times DUE TO CARELESSNESS, SURVIVOR DECLARES
NEW YORK, April 19---C. H. Stengle, one of the first passengers off the vessel, said that the collision of the Titanic with the iceberg was the result of "criminal carelessness." "The ship was going 22 knots an hour when she struck," h...
19th April 1912
Washington Herald MRS. CANDEE LAUDS MAJ. BUTT'S HEROISM
Mrs. Churchill Candee
"The Action of Men of the Titanic Was Noble," She Writes --- By MRS. CHURCHILL CANDEE, Of Washington. --- New York, April 18---The action of the men on the Titanic was noble. They stood back in every instance that ...
19th April 1912
Newark Evening News HAWTHORNE YOUTH ON TITANIC WAS A HERO
HAWTHORNE, May 3---Through Frank Turnquist, one of the stewards of the Titanic, Mr. and Mrs. William C. Johnson, of Diamond Bridge avenue, have learned that their son, William C. Johnson Jr., who was a petty officer on the ill-fated steamship, mig...
3rd May 1912
The Washington Post RESCUED WOMAN PAYS TRIBUTE TO HEROIC MEN ON TITANIC
From the lips of the woman who was saved from the Titanic came today one of the most glowing tributes yet paid to the heroism and self-sacrifice of the brave men who gave their lives that women and children might be spared a watery grave. ...
20th April 1912
Toronto Daily Star JUMPED INTO LIFEBOAT
H.B. Stephenson Account...
19th April 1912
Bristol Times and Mirror GRAPHIC STORIES OF HEROISM
The New York correspondent of the ''Daily Telegraph'' cables a special and graphic message regarding the heroism of some of the women in the wreck. According to this source of information: The heroism of Edith Evans, who gave up her own life that ano...
27th April 1912
Daily Mirror AUBART ACCOUNT
May 13, 1912 : I had in my cabin jewels worth 4,000 (GPB) as well as many trunks of dresses and hats. One does not come from Paris and buy one's clothes in America. That is understood, is it not? Nothing could I take with me; not...
13th May 1912
Chicago Tribune DULUTH WOMAN TELLS STORY
. . . Miss Constance Willard of Duluth, Minn., who left the Titanic twenty minutes before the vessel sank, arrived in Chicago during the day over the Lake Shore limited. "One subject talked of after we were on board the Carpathi...
21st April 1912
  MEMORIAL PLAQUE
Erected by the People of Winnipeg in memory of Their Fellow Citizens Mark Fortune; John Hugo Ross; Thompson Beattie; Charles A. Fortune; George E. Graham; and J. J. Borebank Who with 1484 others lost their lives when the Steamship Titanic Founded in ...
Gloucester Citizen HODGES HENRY P. : GLOUCESTERIAN'S BROTHER UNLISTED WITH THE SAVED
[Photo] Among the Titanic victims was Mr. H. P. Hodges, of The Cotswolds, Highfield Lane, Southampton, who is an elder brother of Mr. R. Hodges, of Melcombe, Vicarage Road, Gloucester, one of the staff at Hatherley Road Council Schools...
17th April 1912
Washington Times DRESSED IN SKIRTS MAN LEFT TITANIC
Mrs. Fortune and Daughter Say a Coward Was in Last Lifeboat --- NEW YORK, April 22---A man in women’s clothes was among the survivors in lifeboat 10, according to Mrs. Mark Fortune, Winnipeg, who was rescued with her three daughters on ...
22nd April 1912
Semi Weekly Iowegian GIVES UP HOPE OF CHILDREN - MYSTIC MAN FINDS THAT THOSE FROM TITANIC WERE NOT HIS - RETURNS A SAD MAN
With the hope gone that the French children rescued from the Titanic and under care in New York might be his, Francois Lefebre, the Mystic man who started east with hopeful anticipations, has returned without the children. He stopped at C...
30th April 1912
  AMERICAN RED CROSS EMERGENCY AND RELIEF BOOKLET
Case number 302. (English). A mother, sixty-three years of age, was drowned, while coming to this country to make her home with her daughter, whose husband had recently died, leaving two children aged six and two years. These children were to have be...
1913
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
Unidentified Newspaper WOMAN RELATES THRILLING RACE OF CARPATHIA
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20th April 1912
Atlantic City Daily Press AN ATLANTIC MAN FINDS EVIDENCE FAVORING ISMAY
D. W. McMillan’s Sister, Titanic Survivor, Says He and Astor Helped Women ---------- DESCRIBES DEATH OF DOUGHTY CAPTAIN ---------- In a letter to his wife, D. W. McMillan, of Pleasantville, who visited New Yor...
23rd April 1912
New York Times CREW BEHAVED ADMIRABLY
Miss Elizabeth Allen of St. Louis was one of the first women passengers to leave the Carpathia. She was accompanied by Mrs Edward Roberts and Miss E A Mardell, also of St Louis. The three women appeared to be cool. Miss Allen who is a young woman of ...
19th April 1912
Akron Beacon Journal AKRON WOMEN TELL THRILLING STORIES OF THEIR RESCUE FROM THE DOOMED SHIP
HOCKING AND RICHARDS FAMILIES SAT IN WATER A FOOT DEEP IN A LIFE BOAT Mrs. Emily Richards Tells a Thrilling Story of the Escape of Herself and Her Relatives From the Titanic (Special Dispatch to the Beacon Journal)...
20th April 1912
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
Western Daily Mercury A SIDMOUTH FAMILY. FATHER DROWNED: WIFE & CHILDREN SAVED
Mr. and Mrs. Dean, of Branscombe near Sidmouth, with their two children, were passengers in the Titanic. Mrs. Dean and children were among the saved, but Mr. Dean perished....
23rd April 1912
New York Times J. BRUCE ISMAY, 74, TITANIC SURVIVOR
Ex-Head of White Star Line Who Retired After Sea Tragedy Dies in London --- LONDON, Oct. 18 (AP)---Joseph Bruce Ismay, former chairman of the White Star Line and a survivor of the Titanic disaster in 1912, died here last night. He was 7...
19th October 1937
Newark Evening News TELLS OF SEEING MEN SHOT DOWN ON TITANIC
Special Service of the NEWS ELIZABETH, April 19---Almost prostrated by the terrible experiences which she had undergone since the Titanic went down, Mrs. Peter Renouf, of 21b Florida street, returned to her home here today. She told o...
19th April 1912
MKKZ UNTITLED
'In the Titanic were two Catholic priests: Professor Byles, an Irish man [sic], who wanted to act in the marriage of his brother and his bride and a German monk (Padre). They helped women and children, climbing into the boats. The people on the last ...
12th April 1987
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
TITANIC ORPHANS ON WATER 1913 Sphere TITANIC ORPHANS ON WATER 1913
Children emulate lifeboat scene...
30th August 1913
TITANIC WOMEN MEMORIAL IN WASHINGTON DC   TITANIC WOMEN MEMORIAL IN WASHINGTON DC
Memorial...
TITANIC WOMEN MEMORIAL IN WASHINGTON DC - DETAIL   TITANIC WOMEN MEMORIAL IN WASHINGTON DC - DETAIL
Memorial...
  HUGH FITZPATRICK'S CHILDREN
Hugh Fitzpatrick had two children, Rose and Rev. Dan Fitzpatrick, S. J. Rose was born on 10th October, 1912 6 months after the sinking. Rose married Joe Fitzpatrick and family (Joe, Dan, Margaret, Maura, Paul, Brian, Denis, and Eugene)...
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
Trenton Evening Times GIVE UP HOPE FOR ROEBLING AND BLACKWELL
Failure to receive word from either Washington A. Roebling II or Stephen W. Blackwell, following the arrival of the Carpathia with the Titanic’s survivors in New York tonight seems to confirm what has been generally believed from the first, that thes...
18th April 1912
DESIGN FOR AMERICAN TITANIC MEMORIAL   DESIGN FOR AMERICAN TITANIC MEMORIAL
Rejected submission by Dana Gibson...
Worcester Telegram FUND FOR RELIEF OF MRS. ASPLUND AND HER CHILDREN IS GROWING SLOWLY
Money for the Worcester Titanic relief fund that is to be used for the financial assistance of Mrs. Charles Asplund and her two children who survived the Titanic disaster, in which her husband and three children were lost, is coming slowly to the rel...
30th April 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
New York Times MRS. ASTOR IS ABLE TO TELL OF RESCUE
birds...
22nd April 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
Women's Wear Daily EDITH L. ROSENBAUM
New York - Edith L. Rosenbaum - It was previously reported that Miss Rosenbaum, representative buyer for a number of New York firms and Paris correspondent of "Women's Wear," was among the survivors of the "Titanic" disaster. This morning the followi...
18th April 1912
New York Times TITANIC SAILOR IN COURT
Man Who Saved 45 Persons Says He Can't Support His Wife --- CHICAGO, Jan. 16---Albert Horswill, who said he was in charge of the last lifeboat to leave the Titanic, and saved forty-five women and children, told Judge Uhlir in court to-d...
17th January 1914
Primitive Methodist Leader OUR BOYS ON THE 'TITANIC'
April 1912 Extract ‘…anxiously we have waited for tidings, and now they are come. George (Hocking) a member of the Young Men’s Christian Association Choir, was accompanied on the voyage by his widowed mother and two sisters, one of wh...
1912
Chicago Daily Tribune STORY OF RESCUE BY A CHICAGOAN
Dr. Frank Blackmarr Tells Scenes When Survivors Reached Carpathia WOMEN AT BOAT OARS Spot Where the Titanic Went Down Covered with All Sorts of Debris BY DR. FRANK BLACKMARR OF CHICAGO (A passeng...
20th April 1912
Akron Beacon Journal MRS. ADDIE WELLS THOUGHT IT WAS BOAT DRILL UNTIL SHE SAW OFFICER'S PISTOL
Stood Up All Night Long in Lifeboat, Nestling Her Babies in Her Skirts to Keep Them Warm and Dry and Alive (Special Dispatch to the Beacon Journal) New York, April 20--Mrs. Addie Wells and her two chidlren, Joan, aged ...
20th April 1912
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
Chicago Record-Herald MRS. CROSBY OF MILWAUKEE, ON WAY HOME, TELLS OF EXCITEMENT IN LOWERING BOATS
Mrs. E. G. Crosy, wife of Captain E. G. Crosby of the Crosby Lake Steamshipp Company, and her daughter, Miss Hattie Crosby, of Milwaukee, who were in the ill-fated ship, arrived in Chicago yesterday afternoon.  Captain Crosby was drowned.&nbs...
23rd April 1912
New York Times DR. ALEXANDER H. RICE GETS WIFE'S MILLIONS
Will of Former Eleanor Elkins Leaves All to Two Children After His Death --- NEWPORT, R. I, Aug. 16 (AP)--The will of Eleanor Elkins Rice, leaving an estate estimated variously at from $5,000,000 to $50,000,000, was filed today in Proba...
17th August 1937
New York Times TRIBUTE TO TITANIC DEAD
East Side Children Honor Memory of Mr. and Mrs. Isidor Straus --- On the eve of the second anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, in which Mr. and Mrs. Isidor Straus perished, 1,000 children, mostly public school boys and girls, gat...
15th April 1914
Lake County Times LAKE CO. MAN TELLS TERRIBLE STORY
Survivor of Titanic Now in Indiana Harbor Owes Life to Mrs. Astor....
27th April 1912
  TITANIC RELIEF FUND MINUTES: LIVERPOOL COMMITTEE
C 83 Chisnall Mrs. Alice H. Address for cheques: East branch, Prescot Street. Net monthly allowance to widow: £5.19.2d: children 2 - £1.3.0d. Total monthly allowance for widow and children £7.3.0d....
1st December 1915
The Times ON BOARD THE CARPATHIA
HOW THE PASSENGERS WERE RECEIVED A passenger on board the Carpathia made the following statement:- I was awakened at 12.30 in the morning by a commotion on the decks which seemed unus...
20th April 1912
New York Times SMART HEIRS SEEM NOW TO BE A MYTH
No Mention of Widely Sought Children in Will of Wealthy Man Lost on Titanic --- HE NEVER SPOKE OF THEM --- His Friends Recall Now After World Search That They Merely Thought That He Had Two --- Two children,...
7th January 1913
  CHINESE SAILORS ON THE TITANIC
Eight sailors from Hong Kong, boarded the Titanic together at Southampton......
Brighton Argus MR. PITMAN
Mr. Pitman, the third officer, who confirmed the statement that only two boats were lowered at the Board of Trade inspection. He did not see any ice before the disaster, but knew a wireless warning had been received. After the receipt of the w...
24th April 1912
Chicago Daily Tribune MERCHANT FAINTS FROM JOY
page 3 Business Man Swoons on Learning Relatives Were Rescued from Titanic Wreck Aurora, Ill., April 17- [Special]- Oscar W. Johnson, 32 years old, a business man living at St. Charles, Ill., fell over in a dead faint ...
18th April 1912
Chicago Examiner MISTAKEN FOR WOMAN; FORCED INTO LIFEBOAT
Hartford, Conn., Apr. 18--Resolved to die after having done his utmost to aid in placing the women and children of the Titanic aboard the lifeboats Councilman William T. Sloper, clad in a white night robe, was himself taken for a woman and thru...
19th April 1912
Washington Times SENATOR GUGGENHEIM FEARFUL THAT HIS BROTHER IS DEAD
Senator Simon Guggenheim of Colorado waited eagerly and anxiously today for some word that would indicate the fate of his brother, Benjamin, who was a Titanic passenger. Senator Guggenheim this forenoon had not given up all hope, but he was fearful t...
16th April 1912
New York Times MRS. FRED J. SWIFT, WAS CLUB LEADER
Ex-Head of National Council of State Garden Units Dies---Officer in Many Groups --- NYACK, N. Y., April 30---Mrs. Margaret Welles Swift, prominent club-woman and widow of Fred Joel Swift, died yesterday in her home here...
1st May 1948
Washington Herald ISMAY LEFT SHIP AT WOMEN'S PLEA
White Star Official Described as Refusing to Enter Boat at First --- New York, April 18---J. [sic] D. M. Cardeza, of Philadelphia, who was among the rescued passengers of the Titanic, told how he said he witnessed Bruce Ismay’s departur...
19th April 1912
Semi Weekly Iowegian MYSTIC MAN LOSES WIFE AND CHILDREN - MRS. FRANK LEFEBRE COMING ON TITANIC FROM FRANCE REPORTED AMONG THOSE MISSING
Frank Lefebre, of Mystic, has almost given away to despair of ever seeing his wife and four children who were on board the ill fated Titanic. They were coming from France to join him after separation of a year while he worked hard in the mines to ...
19th April 1912
Semi Weekly Iowegian FRENCH CHILDREN MAY BE HIS - FRANK LEFEBRE GOES TO NEW YORK FROM MYSTIC TO IDENTIFY TWO UNKNOWN FRENCH CHILDREN
Believing that two unknown French children saved from the Titanic are his, Frank Lefebre has started from Mystic for New York to identify them. The two little tots are in the hands of Miss Margaret Hays, a survivor of the Titanic, who took them in...
23rd April 1912
FOR THE CHILDREN The Daily Banner FOR THE CHILDREN
Two Baby Waifs Rescued From the Sunken Titanic. When the steamship...
9th May 1912
New York Times ANOTHER MYTH OF SMART
Titanic Victim Not Only Had No Children, but No Fortune --- It was disclosed recently that the Smart children, heirs of a wealthy lawyer who perished on the Titanic, were a myth, and yesterday it was developed that the supposedly wealth...
16th January 1913
New York Times TITANIC VICTIM'S ESTATE
C. F. Gregory Asks for Letters---Smart's Children Not Found --- Clarence F. Gregory of 3,675 Broadway asked the Surrogate yesterday to grant him letters testamentary upon the estate of J. Montgomery Smart, who perished in the Titanic d...
13th May 1914
Bridgwater Mercury T. THRELFALL, LEADING FIREMAN
T. Threlfall, leading fireman, told a stirring tale of how his watch went down to their duty in the stokeholds after the ship had struck, how on an order from the bridge they were sent up on deck at 1.20 am by the engineers, who themselves stayed ...
April 1912
New York Times MORGAN AIDS PREVENTORIUM
Institution to Combat Tuberculosis Receives $5,000 from Egypt. --- J. Pierpont Morgan was so much interested in the colony of tenement children who are being saved from acquiring tuberculosis by the Tuberculosis Preve...
19th March 1912
San Francisco Bulletin SAN FRANCISCO'S ASSESSOR TELLS STORY OF THE WRECK OF THE TITANIC
From Which He Escapes After Thrilling Experience NEW YORK, April 19.-Dr. Washington Dodge of San Francisco, at the Hotel Wolcott here, gave the following account of the wreck: "We had retired to our stateroom, and the ...
19th April 1912
Denver Post PANIC TERRIBLE JUST BEFORE VESSEL SANK
'Seemed as If All the Devils of Hell Had Been Let Loose,' When People Realized Worst, Says Doctor. Mr. Henry W. Frauenthal of New York declared all of the women on board the Titanic were thought to have been safely lowered to the boat...
19th April 1912
Bath Journal FREDERICK GOODWIN AND HIS WIFE AND SIX CHILDREN
MELKSHAM Frederick Goodwin and his wife and six children were on board. They had been living in Melksham for some years. Goodwin was a machine hand at the foundry, and about 40 years of age. The eldest of the children, a g...
20th April 1912
Worcester Evening Gazette BE BRITISH, MY MEN CAPT. SMITH'S ORDER
WASHINGTON, April 19- But for the unparalled self-sacrifice and heroism of Capt. Smith and the Titanic's officers, the sea would have claimed an even greater toll when the gigantic ship went down. From the bridge, Capt. Smith called through his megap...
20th April 1912
  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 ...
Coventry Standard UNTITLED EXTRACT
George Green, husband of Mrs Theresa Green, a native of Coventry, had decided to emigrate to America and booked his passage on the Titanic. Mr Green and his family had resided at Dorking for some years. His home there had been broken up just before h...
26th April 1912
Centerville Daily Citizen FEDERAL WARRANT FOR MYSTIC COUPLE FRANK LEFEBRE AND MARY DUPONT TO BE GIVEN A HEARING
A federal warrant to hold the Mystic couple, Frank Lefebre and Mary Dupont and children pending a hearing on charges looking toward their deportation to France, their native country, has been received by Sheriff Dowis. The warrant alleges...
17th July 1912
TITANIC SURVIVOR ARRIVES Toronto Daily Star TITANIC SURVIVOR ARRIVES
Widow says husband at the rail with Butt and Millet at the end...
25th April 1912
  CENSUS
Edward Parsons was living at 5 Eleanor Road, Litherland, Liverpool with his wife, Clara at the time of the 1901 census. At this date 3 of his 5 children had been born, their birthplaces were shown as Bootle. The children were - Charles...
1901
The Witney Gazette CAPTAIN'S SUICIDE ON THE BRIDGE
The latest news of the terrible disaster is published this (Friday) morning by The Daily Telegraph who, at 4.00 am, received the following telegram, containing a statement issued by a Committee of the Survivors:- We, the...
20th April 1912
  FAMILY MEMORIES
Family memories...
New York Times WALDMAN DEATHS AGAIN HELD ACCIDENT
Police After Second Inquiry Stick to Original Theory of Children's Fall --- WORKMEN TELL OF TRAGEDY --- Describe the Mother's Frantic Efforts to Save Sons---Norris Investigation to Go On --- The second police...
24th October 1928
THE STATISTICS OF THE DISASTER Titanic Research THE STATISTICS OF THE DISASTER
Lester Mitcham
An in-depth analysis of the number of Titanic passengers lost and saved....
14th February 2001
Chicago Daily Journal SIPPED HIGHBALL AT CRASH
C. H. Romacue of Georgetown, Ky, one of the first cabin passengers had just stepped from the deck to the smoking room and stood at a table with a highball in front of him when the crash came. “We had been crunching through ice...
19th April 1912
New York Times Book Review HOW WOMEN MAY EARN A LIVING
HOW WOMEN MAY EARN A LIVING. By Helen Churchill Candee. 12mo. Pp. ix-342. New York: The Macmillan Company. $1. --- The day has surely come when women as well as men may put their shoulders to the wheel of fortune. To meet...
10th February 1900
New York Times THE SMART HEIRS FOUND?
Children of Titanic Victim Believed to be in Belgian Convent --- BRUSSELS, Aug. 29---The long-sought son and daughter of the late Montgomery Smart of New York, a Titanic victim, are believed to be in a Belgian convent. Their names are G...
30th August 1912
New York Times ETHEL BEANE, WHO SURVIVED TITANIC SINKING, DEAD AT 90
ROCHESTER, Sept. 19 (AP)---Ethel Beane, who survived the sinking of the liner Titanic in 1912, died over the weekend in a Rochester nursing home. She was 90 years old. The Titanic sank the night of April 14 on its maiden voyage from So...
20th September 1983
Gettysburg Complier RESCUE OF MRS BECKER
Dr L. B. Wolf Secretary of Foreign Missionary Board of The General Synod Lutheran Church, tells that he met Mrs Becker, a Lutheran missionary from India, returning on the ill-fated Titanic, at New York when the Carpathia docked with the Titani...
15th May 1912
New York Times 2 GUGGENHEIM HEIRS WILL BE BURIED TODAY
Mother of Grandsons of Titanic Victim Still Suffers From Shock of Children's Fall --- Funeral services for the two children of Mr. and Mrs. Milton S. Waldman, Terence, 4, and Benjamin, fourteen months old, grandchildren of Benjamin Gugg...
21st October 1928
Denver Post LADY DUFF-GORDON TELLS OF SINKING OF GREAT LINER
Lady Duff-Gordon dictated the following: I was asleep. The night was perfectly clear. I was awakened by a long grinding sort of shock. It was not a tremendous crash, but more as though someone had drawn a giant finger all along the side of the boat. ...
19th April 1912
Washington Times MEN SNEAKED INTO BOATS, SAYS WOMAN
Mrs. Jacques Futrelle, Wife of Novelist, Says Many Were Brave, However --- NEW YORK, April 19---Mrs. Jacques Futrelle, who was rescued, but whose husband, the novelist, went down with the Titanic, declared today that the men who were sa...
19th April 1912
New York Times EDGAR J. MEYER ANOTHER HERO
Helped Mrs. Harris Into a Boat and Died with Her Husband --- Edgar J. Meyer is a name to be added to the list of those who perished nobly on the Titanic. His wife was saved. It has been impossible to interview her, but through ...
23rd April 1912
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
Daily Home News LOST HIS BROTHER ON TITANIC
James Van Billings, of South Wales, Pa., and Two Children Lose Lives in Disaster---Brother Here Receives the Sad News ---------- Monroe Van Billings, of this city, this morning received the sad news that his brother, James, and his two ...
22nd April 1912
West Briton and Cornwall Advertiser UNKNOWN TITLE
The party of seven adults and four young children from Penzance were all bound to Akron. Mr. George Hocking, his mother (Mrs. Guy), who is a widow, and his sister, Miss Hocking, were of St Mary-street, and with them were Mrs. Emily Ri...
18th April 1912
New York Times PARTNER SAYS SMART DIDN'T SIGN THE WILL
This Document of Titanic Victim Was Much Discussed Because No Children Were Mentioned --- AND NONE WERE EVER FOUND --- Fortune Reputed Great, but it Turned Out to be Very Small---Constance H. Baldwin Brings Suit ---...
5th March 1913
  FAMILY INFORMATION
Re: Liverpool Echo article. "Henry had four children and his wife died on 24th December 1910, hardly shortly before sailing!. Of the four children, Jane, Harry, Arnold, and Nancy, Arnold is the sole survivor - he also happened to be ...
23rd June 1987
New York Times MRS. M. S. WALDMAN WINS PARIS DIVORCE
Two Other American Women Also Receive Decrees From the French Courts --- TRAGIC ACCIDENT RECALLED --- Waldman Children Fell to Death From Penthouse Apartment Here in October, 1928 --- PARIS, Feb. 25 (AP)---Th...
26th February 1930
New York Times SEEK THE CHILDREN OF TITANIC VICTIM
John M. Smart's Son and Daughter at School in Europe, Ignorant of Father's Fate --- HE HAD JUST VISITED THEM --- But Said Nothing of His Personal Affairs to His New York Business Associates --- By Marconi Tra...
5th June 1912
New York Times STARTS NEW SEARCH FOR SMART CHILDREN
Friend of Man Lost on the Titanic Has Found Many Persons Who Heard Father Speak of Them --- A FORMER QUEST IN VAIN --- Lawyer Ryan Thinks Children Provided for by Mother's Will May Not Want Father's Estate ---...
9th March 1913
New York Times THE SMART MYSTERY
A young man of 20 years and a girl of 18 were the objects of a great deal of sympathy when the Titanic went down last April. They were the children, according to gossip, of JAMES MONTGOMERY SMART, who perished in the wreck. Orphaned and desolate, som...
8th January 1913
Daily Enterprise LINER'S LAST MOMENTS GRAPHICALLY DESCRIBED
---------- Palmyra Resident, Titantic's [sic] Barber, Tells of Thrilling Experience; Shock on Striking Iceberg was Slight; Saw Officer Shoot Man Who Tried to Climb Into Life Boat; Two Explosions Occurred ---------- August...
20th April 1912
Washington Times MISS GRACIE HEARS FATHER IS AMONG PASSENGERS SAVED
Capital Resident Said to Be Aboard the Carpathia With Others Taken From the Titanic --- STEAMER IS NOW HEADED FOR SOME AMERICAN PORT --- Col. Archibald Gracie, 1627 Sixteenth street, is saved from the wreck of the Titanic ...
16th April 1912
Daily Home News VAN BILLIARD BOYS MAY HAVE STUCK TO FATHER
Relatives, However, Hope That They May Be Among the Titanic Waifs in New York---Father Was Returning Home With Many Diamonds. ---------- Many tales of heroism displayed by men, women and children aboard the Steamer Titanic during the la...
23rd April 1912
New York Times PRAISE ASTOR AND BUTT
Women Compare Their Conduct to That of "Miserable Specimens" --- Special to The New York Times --- EAST ORANGE, N. J., April 19---High praise was given to-day to John Jacob Astor, Maj. Butt, Vice President Thayer of the P...
20th April 1912
AN ACCOUNT OF THE TITANIC DISASTER BY A SURVIVOR The Sphere AN ACCOUNT OF THE TITANIC DISASTER BY A SURVIVOR
Joseph Scarrott
"The night of April 14, 1912, will never be forgotten. It was a beautiful starlight night, no wind, and the sea was as calm as a lake, but the air was very cold." "Everybody was in good spirits and everything throughout the ship ...
1912
  RED CROSS FUND REPORT ON ASPLUNDS
(From: Mansion House Titanic Relief Fund Booklet, March 1913) Number P. 114. Asplund. Widow, two children and mother received a grant of £150. Farmer from Sweden, returning from visit to relatives. Aged 40 years, born 7th ...
Elizabeth Daily Journal PEACOCK STILL HOPING TO FIND BROTHERS
Benjamin Peacock, who lost his wife and two children in the Titanic disaster, returned to his work in the Public Service power house on South avenue, Cranford, yesterday. He told his friends that his wife and two children had been placed in one of t...
23rd April 1912
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
Washington Times MRS. LUCILLE CARTER AND HER FAMILY ARE SAVED FROM DEEP SEA
Mrs. Stilson Hutchins, of this city, has received word that her cousin, Mrs. Lucille Carter, of Philadelphia, has been rescued. Mr. Carter and their two children also are among the saved. "I have just received a long distance phone fro...
16th April 1912
New York Times WOMEN REVEALED AS HEROINES BY WRECK
*** --- COUNTESS ROTHES BRAVE --- Took Charge in Her Boat-Mrs. Cornell Among Those Who Worked at the Oars --- *** --- COUNTESS IN CHARGE OF BOAT --- Sat at Tiller Five Hours--Survi...
20th April 1912
New York Times WALDMANS SEEK DIVORCE
Mother of Children Who Fell to Death Here Sues in Paris --- Copyright by The Chicago Tribune Co. --- PARIS, Nov. 27---Mrs. Barbara Guggenheim Waldman, whose two children were killed in a thirteen-story fall from the roof o...
28th November 1929
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
  MANSION HOUSE TITANIC RELIEF FUND
(From: Mansion House Titanic Relief Fund Booklet, March 1913) Number 451. Hewett, Ada, widow. Children: Edna and Leslie. All class B dependants. (From the Minutes of Titanic Relief Fund, Liverpool Area Committee, December 1st 19...
Greensburg Herald Tribune YOUNG GREENSBURG WOMAN WAS PASSENGER ON ILL-FATED SHIP
"Oh, I feel bad, ver' bad, los' money, los' friend. When I stand up I see ship come again, when I shut my eyes. I see people go down, down, down--Oh ver' bad time." And, with the remembrance of it, Mrs. Sophie Abraham, 20 years old, shuddered and bur...
22nd April 1912
Chicago Tribune FILM STORY OF TITANIC SINKING GETS THE GREEN LIGHT
LOOKING AT HOLLYWOOD by Hedda Hopper Film Story of Titanic Sinking Gets the Green Light Hollywood, Feb. 22--Darryl Zanuck has given the green light to Charlie Brac...
22nd February 1952
JESSIE LEITCH'S STORY Chicago Tribune JESSIE LEITCH'S STORY
TELLS MISS LEITCH'S STORY     Nana Harper, the 6 year old daughter of Dr. John Harper, who was on his way to Chicago to preach at the Moody church will return to England...
21st April 1912
Weekly Irish Times BELFAST MEMORIAL DECIDED UPON
Article...
7th September 1912
New York Times CAN FIND NO TRACE OF SMART CHILDREN
Estate of Titanic Victim Cannot Be Settled Until They Have Been Notified --- SUPPOSED TO BE IN EUROPE --- Father Was Returning from a Visit to Them and All His Private Papers Were Lost with Him --- Frederick ...
14th July 1912
New York Times WOMEN REVEALED AS HEROINES BY WRECK
*** --- Mrs. Cornell Among Those Who Worked at the Oars --- WOMEN MANNED LIFEBOATS --- Forced to Oars by Lack of Proper Crew---Girl Who Gave Up Her Seat --- Magistrate Robert C. Cornell said yes...
20th April 1912
Washington Times ISMAY CONDEMNED FOR TAKING BOAT
Daughter of Congressman Hughes Tells of Experience In Sea Disaster --- NEW YORK, April 19---Not only did J. Bruce Ismay, managing director or the White Star line, get into one of the first lifeboats to be launched, but he was escorted a...
19th April 1912
NIEUW AMSTERDAM : FIRST CLASS PLAYROOM. 1938.   NIEUW AMSTERDAM : FIRST CLASS PLAYROOM. 1938.
THE PLAYROOM: A playroom, where the real children may also have a good time, is on the same deck. Designed by Fritz Spanjaard, it is decorated with leaded glass windows and a humorous frieze, by Ruscha Wijdeveld. An electric train, a juvenile stage...
Gare Maritime
Newark Evening News ELIZABETH MAN'S WIFE AND CHILDREN PERISH
Special Service of the NEWS ELIZABETH, April 19--- The wife and two children of Benjamin Peacock, of 609 South Broad street, perished on the Titanic, according to the list of those who were on the boat and whose names do not appear in ...
19th April 1912
Washington Times J. J. ASTOR ACTED BRAVELY, DECLARE MANY WHO SAW HIM
Millionaire Kissed His Bride Good-by, Saluted, and Then Stepped Back to Allow Women to Get Into Boats --- NEW YORK, April 19---Col. John Jacob Astor kissed his bride good-by as he placed her in the waiting lifeboat. Then he drew himself...
19th April 1912
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
Washington Times WASHINGTON MAN TELLS HARROWING DETAILS OF WRECK
Col. Gracie Describes Scenes on Titanic After the Accident --- Last of the survivors to leave the sinking Titanic, Col. Archibald Gracie, of Washington, tells a story of horrible hardship in the icy waters after he was swept, clinging t...
19th April 1912
North American NORTH WALES VICTIMS OF THE TITANIC ARRIVE
NORTH WALES, Pa., May 7---The bodies of Austin Van Billiard and one of his children, lost on the Titanic, which were picked up at sea by the Mackay-Bennett, reached here today and will be buried on Wednesday from the residence of his father, Burgess ...
8th May 1912
Chicago Daily News SAVED BY MRS. ASTOR FROM DEATH IN OCEAN
Ernest Person, Titanic Passenger, Arrives at Indiana Harbor And Relates Rescue Struggled in the Water Declares Widow of Millionaire New Yorker Begged Crew to Drag Him Into Lifeboat ...
27th April 1912
Arlington Advocate A W NEWELL OF LEXINGTON
Among the passengers were A. W. Newell, of 20 Percy road, Lexington, and two of his daughters, Misses Madeline and Marjorie. Mr. Newell is president of the Fourth National Bank of Boston, and is well known and widely acquainted in business circ...
20th April 1912
Washington Post OWNER WHO FLED STRICKEN TITANIC DIES AS RECLUSE
London, Oct. 18 (Monday).—Joseph Bruce Ismay, 74 years old, former owner of the White Star Line and former president of the International Mercantile Marine Co., who survived the Titanic disaster, d...
18th October 1937
SEAMEN'S ORPHANS ON HOLIDAY Sphere SEAMEN'S ORPHANS ON HOLIDAY
At sea in boats, August 1913...
30th August 1913
Chicago American ISMAY ASKS TO LEAVE THE WRECK PROBE
Washington, April 24---The Senate investigating committee probing the Titanic horror today declined to act on a new request by J. Bruce Ismay,  managing director of the White Star Line, that owned the ill-fated ship, to quit t...
24th April 1912
Rahway Daily Record STORY OF DISASTER TO MAMMOTH LINER FROM A SURVIVOR
William H. Randolph of This City Hears Sad Account of the Wreck From His Employer’s Widow ---------- MRS. WALTER DOUGLAS SAFE ---------- In Interview She States That Bruce Ismay, After Receiving Warning, Kept Boat at Full ...
19th April 1912
Chicago Tribune PASSENGER ON TITANIC RECALLS 1912 TRAGEDY
Mrs. Hans Christensen, 72, keenly remembers a cold April night in the Atlantic ocean nearly 54 years ago when she sat in a bobbing lifeboat and helplessly watched the liner, Titanic, quietly slip beneath the frigid waters off the coast of Newfou...
3rd April 1966
Western Daily Mercury STEWARDESSES INTERVIEWED
Shortly before the special train steamed out of the docks, two of the stewardesses who are returning to their homes – Mrs. Gold and Mrs. Martin – granted a brief interview, in which they narrated their experiences. They were first-class stewardesses ...
30th April 1912
  ST KEVERNE CHURCH, CORNWALL, BAPTISM REGISTER
The baptism register for St Keverne reveals that Hayden Sobey (son of Richard & Mary Jane Sobey nee Hayden)was one of 8 children, strangely though, both he and his sister Amelia do not feature in the register. The children that do, with their date...
Guernsey Evening Press MR. JOSEPH DUQUEMIN
A letter was received this morning by the father of Mr. Joseph Duquemin, who was a passenger on the Titanic. He states that he has been in hospital and on his recovery proceeded to his destination, Albany, New York, where he has arrived quite well. H...
2nd May 1912
Chorley Guardian THE TITANIC DISASTER: A NATIVE OF CHORLEY SAVED
Mr. Charles Herbert Lightoller, the second officer of the ill-fated Titanic, who is among those who were saved, is a native of Chorley. He is the son of Mr. Fred J. Lightoller, and was born in 1874, receiving his education at the Chorley Grammar S...
27th April 1912
GOD MOVES ON THE WATER   GOD MOVES ON THE WATER
Blind Willie Johnson
Blind Willie Johnson was born in Marlin, Texas c.1902. A Gospel singer and guitarist, he recorded just 30 pieces at a variety of locations between 1927 and 1930. He was accompanied on some songs by his wife Angeline. During the depression rever...
11th December 1929
IAN AND CLIVE TELFER   IAN AND CLIVE TELFER
Gare Maritime
Exeter Flying Post DEVONIANS ON BOARD
Passengers: Plymouth: Mrs. Quick and two children (saved). ...
20th April 1912
New York Times MISS ASTOR AT FESTIVAL
Sees 1,000 Children In Folk Dances and a Maypole Romp --- RED BANK, N. J., June 14---Miss Muriel Alice Astor, daughter of John Jacob Astor, who lost his life on the Titanic, was one of the interested spectators at the playground festiva...
15th June 1915
  ABOUT MARY MCGOVERN AS TOLD BY A RELATIVE
Date of Birth:  April 1890 Place of Birth  Clarbally, Corlough Co. Cavan, Ireland Mary was making the trip to New York alone, traveling by train from Ballinamore, Co. Leitrim to Queenstown to board the Titanic. Her ticket cost 7 po...
New York Times STEAD'S FAREWELL TALK
We're So Busy, He Thinks, We Don't Realize What Our Mission is --- William T. Stead, editor of The London Review of Reviews, made his last address on his present visit to this country before the Young Men's Christia...
6th May 1907
New York Times GIRL SURVIVOR HAS PRAISE FOR ISMAY
Miss Rosenbaum Declares She Owes Her Life to White Star Head --- FORCED HER INTO LIFEBOAT --- Declares He Was Among Last to Leave Sinking Titanic, Calling "Any More Women?" --- Out of al...
23rd April 1912
The Charleroi Mail MRS. HIRVONEN TELLS STORY OF HARROWING SCENES IN LATEST GREAT OCEAN DISASTER.
SAW BIG STEAMER SINK Hundreds Leaped Into Water When Gigantic Steamer Went Down ---Says Ismay Was In Same Boat Shuddering as she recalled the awful scenes of Monday morning when the fated steamer Titanic sunk with over 1,700 person...
23rd April 1912
Trenton Evening Times ROEBLING AROUSED SLEEPERS TO FLIGHT AND SCORNED TO SAVE HIMSELF
Mother and Daughter Tell How Young Trentonian and London Friend Excelled in Gallantry and Cheerfulness in the Time That Tried the Souls of All Aboard the Sinking Liner ...
20th April 1912
West Briton and Cornwall Advertiser UNTITLED
Mr. W. A. Lobb, a miner, and his wife of Bugle, who have no children, were returning to New York after a visit....
18th April 1912
Washington Herald CAPT. ROSTRON TELLS OF RESCUE
CAPT. R. [sic] H. ROSTRON
The Chief Officer of Carpathia Relates His Thrilling Experiences --- SIGHTED AT DAYLIGHT --- By CAPT. R. [sic] H. ROSTRON --- Statement by the captain of the Cunard steamship Carpathia, rescuer of the Titanic...
19th April 1912
Washington Times MRS. CANDEE TELLS OF TRAGIC SCENES AS STEAMER SANK
Washington Woman Says Officers Demanded That Women Go First --- By GORDON MACKAY, Staff Correspondent --- NEW YORK, April 19---From the feeble, trembling lips of an aged woman comes the story that tears away the veil of my...
19th April 1912
Bridgwater Mercury WEST COUNTRY PEOPLE IN THE TITANIC: CASTLE CARY
The third officer was Mr. H. J. Pitman of Castle Cary, who was reported yesterday (Thursday) to be amongst the officers saved, having presumably been in charge of one of the boats containing the women....
20th April 1912
Worcester Telegram FUTRELLE MET DEATH LIKE HERO SAYS WIFE
New York, April 19.- Mrs. May Futrelle, whose husband, Jacques Futrelle, the short story writer and novelist, went down with the ship, was met here by her daughter, Miss. Virginia Futrelle, who was brought to New York, from the convent of Notre Dame ...
20th April 1912
Maidenhead Advertiser AN ACCOUNT OF MY JOURNEY ON THE TITANIC
Nellie Walcroft
Sir, I am sending the account of my journey on the Titanic thinking that it will interest those at Maidenhead whom I know. I left Maidenhead on April 9th., stayed in London and caught 'the special train to Southampton at...
29th April 1912
Washington Times SURVIVOR TELLS OF THE HEROISM OF CLARENCE MOORE
Robert W. Daniels Says Banker Went to His Death Like a Man --- Stories of the heroism and resignation with which Clarence Moore, the well-known local banker and horseman of international repute, went to his death on the deck of the Tita...
22nd April 1912
Surrey Advertiser and County Times AN ASHTEAD VICTIM SAFE AGAINST ANYTHING BUT AN ICEBERG
Another Surrey passenger on the Titanic was Mr. George H. Hunt, head-gardener at Ashtead Park. Mr. Hunt, who has for about four years been working in Philadelphia as head-gardener on a large estate, and who has a wife and two children living in that ...
April 1912
Chicago Inter Ocean 50 TITANIC BELLBOYS DIED SMOKING AS WOMEN FILLED BOATS
New York, April 20—Among the many hundreds of heroic souls who went bravely and quietly to their end were fifty happy-go-lucky youngsters shipped as bellboys or messengers to serve the first cabin passengers. James Humphries, a quartermaster...
21st April 1912
New York Times PUZZLED BY GAY MODELS
Women Imported by Lady Duff Gordon Teased Immigration Inspector --- Too much levity carne near causing five young Englishwomen to spend the night on the White Star liner Adriatic instead of coming ashore with the other passenger...
5th March 1910
Denver Post LADY DUFF-GORDON AND HUSBAND AMONG THOSE ON TITANIC
New York, April 17--When the first passenger list of the Titanic was published in Monday's papers there was much curiosity over the identity of "Mr. and Mrs. Morgan," who were named as among those on board. The reporters on duty at the offices of the...
17th April 1912
Elizabeth Daily Journal AWAIT COMING OF CARPATHIA WITH RESCUED
Relatives of Titanic Passengers Here Grief-Stricken Because of Suspense. ---------- SISTER OF ENGINEER SUFFERS NERVOUS SHOCK ---------- Almost crazed by grief and anxiety over the fate of relatives who are known to have be...
18th April 1912
1911 Census EDITH AND TREASTEALL PEACOCK IN THE 1911 CENSUS
  Here is the 1911 census for Edith and her daughter, Treasteall. They were living in a four room house at 17 Orchard Place, Southampton.   Name: Trea...
2nd April 1911
  MY GREAT GREAT GRANDFATHER JOHN WEIR
Col John Weir was my Great Great Grandfather. He was born on May 14th 1852 to parents John Weir and Jane Gillies. He had two brothers and two sisters: James b. 28/5/1856, Sarah b. 16/2/1858, George b. 29/1/1862 and Jane b. 30/7/1864. John marri...
  MANSION HOUSE TITANIC RELIEF FUND
Number P267. Sivic, widow and three children grant £100....
March 1913
Atlantic City Daily Press LITTLE DISORDER ON TITANIC
E. Z. Taylor, of London, Gives Graphic Story of Shipwreck and Rescue ---------- E. Z. Taylor, of Philadelphia and London, and stockholder in the American Mono- Service Co., told his story of the disaster and rescue in a cal...
20th April 1912
Falmouth Packet FALMOUTH MAN DROWNED
The name of Mr. H. Creece (sic), deck engineer, does not appear amongst the survivors and he has been given up as lost. The deepest sympathy is felt for the widow and her two children in their great sorrow. Obituary WAS born at ...
26th April 1912
Folkestone Herald ELIZABETH NYE : FOLKESTONE PASSENGER'S GRAPHIC ACCOUNT
Mrs. Nye's account of the catastrophe Captain Smith and the little girl His last words: 'I must go with the ship'. Mrs. Elizabeth Nye, daughter of Mr. Thomas I. Ramell, coach builder, Dover Road, Folkesto...
4th May 1912
Oak Leaves TITANIC DISASTER : OAK PARK TOUCHED BY GREATEST SHIPWRECK
TITANIC DISASTER Oak Park Touched by Greatest Shipwreck Carelessness on Lake The Atlantic Wreck of 1873 Oak Park, like hundreds of o...
20th April 1912
TITANIC SCHOOLS PROJECT   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
  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 Times STORIES OF THE WRECK : CAPTAIN SMITH'S HEROISM
After the men had had dinner the taking of their statements was rapidly proceeded with, and it was soon announced that a number of them were at liberty to leave the dock premises if they wished to do so. Most of them availed themselves of this per...
29th April 1912
HUGH WOOLNER'S US EVIDENCE IS HIGHLY UNRELIABLE. ET Comment HUGH WOOLNER'S US EVIDENCE IS HIGHLY UNRELIABLE.
Senan Molony
The US evidence of Hugh Woolner is highly unreliable. He claims that he and Hakan Bjornstrom Steffanson saw Boat D "about to lower", then went across to the starboard side, and saw an officer fire two shots to get men out of a collapsible...
6th November 2006
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
Gazette and Bulletin WOMEN'S VARIED INTEREST
Ann Ross
short item...
15th June 1928
Newark Evening News THREE STILL SUFFER FROM PERILS AND COLD
Still suffering from the hardships they endured, Miss Cornelia T. Andrews, Mrs. John C. Hogeboom and Miss Gretchen F. Longley, who survived the Titanic disaster, are at the home of Mrs. Arthur H. Flack, of 458 Central avenue, East Orange. ...
19th April 1912
Washington Times PRESIDENT AND FRIENDS OF MAJOR BUTT FEAR HE WENT DOWN WITH SHIP
"The White Stare [sic] Line Company his searched its list of survivors for the name of Major Archibald Butt. We regret to say that his name does not appear up to the present time among those known to be saved.” The above message, in e...
16th April 1912
San Francisco Bulletin DR. DODGE'S WIFE TELLS STORY OF TITANIC WRECK
Reaches Home with Husband and Son after Terrible Experience at Sea. Seated in the library of her home on Washington street, amid a profusion of flowers sent by friends to express their welcome home, Mrs. Washington Dodge again told th...
30th April 1912
  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
  FAMILY INFORMATION : GEORGE PELHAM
George Pelham was one of six children, having four sisters and one brother: Thomas Walter (born Jan [1867]?), Ann (born 1 April 1869), Caroline (born 26 July 1872), George was next, Elizabeth (born 26 October 1875) and Louis...
11th August 2005
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
  FAMILY INFORMATION
Arthur Larned Ryerson was born on 12th January 1851 in Chicago, the son of Joseph Turner Ryerson (1813-1883) and Ellen Griffin Larned (1827-1881). He had three younger siblings: Edward Larned (b. 1855), Eleanor (b. 1858) and Josephine (b. 1865)....
Western People THE TITANIC DISASTER
Moy Salmon
The lamentation, mourning, and woe for the ill-fated Titanic shall rise in hundreds of sorrow-stricken hearts for at least half a century. In a little while and its unparalleled awfulness shall be well nigh forgotten by the world at large --shall be ...
11th May 1912
Newark Star TITANIC VICTIM'S HUSBAND MISSING
Elizabeth Man Strangely Disappears After Learning of Her Death at Sea --- ELIZABETH, April 21---Benjamin Peacock, of 609 South Broad street, who lost his wife and two children in the Titanic disaster, disappeared on Friday at noon and ...
22nd April 1912
West Briton and Cornwall Advertiser UNTITLED
Mr. W. H. Nancarrow, an engine driver, who had previously been abroad, was returning to some friends. His wife and nine young children reside at Mount Charles, St Austell....
18th April 1912
Christian Science Monitor WOMAN SURVIVOR OF TITANIC TELLS OF THE LAST HOURS OF SHIP
Miss Caroline Bonnell Says Great Vessel Stood Still in Tracks and Then Gave a Great Shiver SAW NO CONFUSION (Written for the United Press by Miss Caroline Bonnell) (Copyright 1912 by the United Press) M...
19th April 1912
New York Times WOMEN REVEALED AS HEROINES BY WRECK
*** --- TWO YOUNG MEN'S HEROISM --- Woman Tells How Roebling and Case Saved Her---Others' Tribute to Dead --- Among the chivalrous younger heroes of the Titanic disaster were Washington A. Roebling, 2d, of Tr...
20th April 1912
  AMERICAN RED CROSS EMERGENCY AND RELIEF BOOKLET
No. 205. (English). The husband, a fireman on the Titanic was drowned. He is survived by his wife living in Canada and earning a living for her two children as a charwoman. Her eldest boy, fourteen years of age, works in an office, earning five dolla...
1913
New York Times P. A. B. WIDENER GIVES $4,000,000 TO SCHOOL
Endowment Is Announced Coincident with the Filing of His Son’s and Grandson’s Wills --- TO AID CRIPPLED CHILDREN --- George Widener, Lost on the Titanic, Left His Estate to Family---Harry’s Rare Books for Harvard --...
21st May 1912
Evening World HEROIC PRIESTS GAVE UP LIVES TO QUIET CROWDS
Went Down on Titanic With Men and Women Grouped About Them. ------------- ALL CREEDS IN PRAYER ------------- Three Girl Survivors Tell How They Chose Death to S...
22nd April 1912
  MANSION HOUSE TITANIC RELIEF FUND
March 1913 Number P. 55. Hodges, Ellen, widow and Henry, Leo and Richard, children received £2 7s 0d. weekly....
1913
Daily Mail FATE OF A FAMILY
Parents and Nine Children in Titanic Page 6 On board the Titanic were eleven residents of Peterborough, Mr. and Mrs. John Sage, of Gladstone-street, and their nine children, whose ages range from twenty-two to five years. M...
18th April 1912
  GENERAL INFORMATION
ALLEN, Miss Elisabeth Walton. Saved. Cabin B5. (Saved in Lifeboat number 2). (Niece of Mrs. E. S. Roberts and cousin of Miss Georgette Madill, which see). Home address: Tunbridge Wells, England. (Mrs. J. B. Mennell). Insurance c...
  GREEN FAMILY INFORMATION
Details of the early years of George Green have yet to be firmly established but it has been found that he married Theresa Jean Morris in late 1901, the marriage being registered at Dorking, Surrey. The births of their 3 daughters were also ...
Exeter Flying Post DEVONIANS ON BOARD
Edward Parsons, chief storekeeper, son of Mrs. Parsons, Torquay, leaves a widow and five children....
20th April 1912
ALFRIDA KONSTANTIA ANDERSSON ANDERS JOHAN ANDERSSON WITH CHILDREN   ALFRIDA KONSTANTIA ANDERSSON ANDERS JOHAN ANDERSSON WITH CHILDREN
  MANSION HOUSE TITANIC RELIEF FUND
March 1913 Number 331. Bessant, Mary Jane, Widow. Edward Geo and Winifred, children. All class C dependants. ...
1913
  MANSION HOUSE TITANIC RELIEF FUND
March 1913 Number 440. Hamblyn, Lily, widow. Children: Gladys; Archibald; Stanley. All class C dependants....
1913
  MANSION HOUSE TITANIC RELIEF FUND
Number 378. Dyer, Frances, widow; children Lillian Ada; Rosaline Emma; Winifred Alice. All class D dependants....
March 1913
Worcester Telegram TWO OF THE ASPLUND CHILDREN ARE LOST
Charles and Selma and Three of their Little Ones, Lillian, Clarence and Felix, are Safe. Charles and Selma Asplund and their children, Lillian, Clarence and Felix Asplund, survive the Titanic disaster. Philip and Carl, the other childr...
19th April 1912
Worcester Evening Gazette MRS ASPLUND AND CHILDREN SAFE IN HOSPITAL AT N.Y.
Article of Interest...
19th April 1912
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
  MANSION HOUSE TITANIC RELIEF FUND
Number 127. Hurst, Louisa, Mary, widow. Children: Edwin; Lewis; Leonard; Herbert; Gladys. All class G dependants....
March 1913
Daily Sketch DEATH OF LUCILE
Page 1 Lucy, Lady Duff Gordon, famous as "Lucile," the fashion expert whose articles in the Daily Sketch were for years a notable and most popular feature has died in Putney. Her husband Sir Cosmo Duff Gordon, Bt., died in April four y...
22nd April 1935
Exeter Flying Post DEVONIANS ON BOARD
George Fox Hosking, 36, senior third engineer, eldest son of Captain Hosking, The Green, Shaldon, leaves a wife and three children....
20th April 1912
THESE TWO MEN JUMPED OVERBOARD JUST BEFORE TITANIC SANK; ALL LIGHTS LIT WHEN SHE FOUNDERED Calgary Herald THESE TWO MEN JUMPED OVERBOARD JUST BEFORE TITANIC SANK; ALL LIGHTS LIT WHEN SHE FOUNDERED
Special Dispatch to the Herald...
21st April 1912
North American BARBER THROWN FROM TITANIC AS IT SANK
Charles Weikman, of Palmyra, N. J., to Quit Sea After 750 Voyages --- HE CLUNG TO WRECKAGE --- A graphic account of the sinking of the Titanic was told yesterday by Charles Weikman, chief barber on the liner, at his home i...
20th April 1912
Cleveland Plain Dealer SAYS MUSICIANS KNELT AS THEY PLAYED HYMN
Mrs Ada M Clarke, one of the survivors, went to the White Star offices today to arrange for her passage back home to Southampton, England. Her husband, Charles S. Clarke, with whom she was on her way to California to make her...
20th April 1912
  MANSION HOUSE TITANIC RELIEF FUND : ARTHUR WILLIAM MAY
Number 190. May, Ann, widow. Children: Joy; Grace; Mabel; Annie Louisa; Philip Nelson, Gladys. All class G dependants....
March 1913
Worcester Telegram MRS. CHARLES ASPLUND AND THREE CHILDREN ARE SAVED
Her Husband and Two of Their Sons Are Believed to Be Among Those Lost on the Titanic, Though Names Sent Show Slight Varience Charles Asplund, formerly of Worcester, his son Carl, 6 years old, and a baby boy 2 years old, are pro...
18th April 1912
  THE VIEW FROM THE CARONIA
Charles Spedding
At 10:30 that night we received a message from the Titanic to say that she had struck an iceberg. She would then be about two hundred and forty miles away. We established communication with the German steamer Breslau, about fo...
1926
Democrat and Chronicle ROCHESTER WOMAN TELLS OF TITANIC SINKING IN 1912
Mrs. John Black Barely Reached Last Boat To Leave Ship, And Tiny Craft Was Nearly Drawn Into Great Vortex by Samuel B. Covey "No, I am not averse to another ocean voyage, although I have not been on one since, for I re...
15th April 1931
New York Times 2 GUGGENHEIM HEIRS DIE IN 13-STORY FALL
Baby Boy and Brother Drop From Arms of Mother on Hotel Surrey Roof --- SHE IS STRICKEN BY SHOCK --- Mrs. M. S. Waldman, Daughter of Benjamin Guggenheim, Unable to Explain Accident --- Terrence and Benjamin W...
20th October 1928
  MANSION HOUSE TITANIC RELIEF FUND
March 1913 Number 569. Rogers, Elizabeth, widow. Children: Edward James; Arthur Vernon; Norman Robert. All class F dependants....
1913
New York Times SAYS ISMAY TOOK FIRST BOAT
Titanic Fireman Declares He Got in "with Millionaires" --- Harry Senior, a fireman on the Titanic, said last night: "I was in my bunk when I felt a bump. One man said. 'Hello, she has been struck.' I went...
19th April 1912
New York Times WEIR HEIRS' DISPUTE ENDED
Estate of Mining Engineer, a Titanic Victim, Now Appraised --- Col. John Weir, the mining engineer, who lost his life in the Titanic disaster, left a net estate of $26,876, part of which consisted of stocks and bonds he had with him on ...
29th April 1914
Coventry Standard MR AND MRS W. E. CARTER
Others saved Mr and Mrs W.E. Carter and Lucille and William Carter their children, who we understand are relatives of Mr and Mrs Mackay of Beauchamp Hall, Warks. ...
19th April 1912
  MANSION HOUSE TITANIC RELIEF FUND
March 1913 Number 124. Hodge, Mabel, widow. Children: Esther Mabel; Vera Pauline; All class B dependants....
  MANSION HOUSE TITANIC RELIEF FUND
March 1913 Number 299. Barringer, Ethel Isabel, Widow. Dorothy, Ethel and Eric, children. All class D dependants. ...
1913
  MANSION HOUSE TITANIC RELIEF FUND BOOKLET
Number 125. Hodgkinson, Sarah, widow. Children: Caroline: Stanley. Hodkinson, Caroline, Mother. All class B dependants, ...
1913
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
New York Times FILES GUGGENHEIM REPORT
Cornelius J. Sullivan, referee in the application of George J. Gillespie as guardian for Marguerite and Barbara, infant children of the late Benjamin Guggenheim, to the Surrogates' Court to determine whether the estate of their father had received th...
30th June 1918
  MANSION HOUSE TITANIC RELIEF FUND
March 1913 Number 224. Reeves, Jessie Rosina, widow. Children: Edwin Anton and Violet Rosina. All class G dependants....
1913
  MANSION HOUSE TITANIC RELIEF FUND
March 1913 Number 529. Mackie, Mary, widow. Children: Elsie Mary; Jessie Martha; Geo. William. All class C dependants....
1913
  MANSION HOUSE TITANIC RELIEF FUND BOOKLET
March 1913 Number 415. Franklin, Blanche, widow. Children: Alan Vincent and Blanche Elsie. All class D dependants....
1913
New York Times CAPT. ROSTRON GUEST OF MRS. J. J. ASTOR
Rescuer of Titanic Survivors Meets Again Mrs. Thayer and Mrs. Cumings --- GOES TO SEE MRS. WIDENER --- With the Crew of the Carpathia He Will Attend Concert for Musicians' Families --- Capt. Arthur Henry Ros...
1st June 1912
  MY MAIDEN VOYAGE
Roberta Maioni
When I say that I am a survivor of the Titanic you will know at once that my story is to be one of great tragedy, for even after fourteen years, the name of that ill-fated vessel brings a shudder of horror to those who remember it's wr...
1926
Newark Evening News SURVIVOR VISITS MONTCLAIR
One of the survivors of the Titanic, Miss Edwina Trout, of Bath, England, is the guest of Miss Jennie Holwell, of 209 Bellevue avenue, Upper Montclair. “I can never forget the experience,” said Miss Trout today. “As we pulled away fro...
20th April 1912
Worcester Magazine WALTER C. PORTER, 46 YEARS, 11 MO. AND 2 DAYS OLD OF S. PORTER & CO., DROWNED AT SEA.
Worcester's Toll in Titanic Disaster Walter C. Porter, of the Samuel Porter Company, a Member of this Board on Ill-fated Ship, Returning from European Business Trip. His Body Found by Crew of Mackay-Bennett after the Mighty Ocean Liner...
May 1912
New York Times YESTERDAY'S WILLS
*** ROSETTA WOLF died Jan. 3; left $1,000 personalty equally to her children, Clara Strauss, Rosy Kohn, Tillie Taussig, Blanche Bergstein, and Eugene and Jacob Wolf. ***...
3rd February 1912
  MINUTES OF TITANIC RELIEF FUND, LIVERPOOL AREA COMMITTEE: WILLIAM FARQUHARSON
No. 98. Farquharson, Mrs. Martha: Address for cheques: Head office. net monthly allowance to widow £7 13 10 two children £1 3 10 total £8 17 8d....
1st December 1915
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
New York Times THANKS FOR A TITANIC SURVIVOR
This notice comes to THE TIMES from an address in Gothenberg, Sweden: TITANIC---To Dr. Frauenthal's Hospital and the Women's Relief Committee, New York: This opportunity is taken to convey our respectful and hearty thanks to the above...
11th July 1912
  EDWARD JAMES WILLIAM ROGERS (FAMILY RESEARCH)
Edward James William Rogers was born on 9th September 1880, to Robert James Rogers and his wife Priscilla Susan (nee Bagley). His father was a bricklayer and the family lived at 3 Robert Street, North Woolwich. Edward JW was baptized on 3rd November ...
2003
Chicago American FOUR TITANIC SURVIVORS SCORE SHIP'S OFFICIALS
Four women who were rescued from the Titanic passed through this city on their way to their Western homes.  They were: Mrs. H. F. Chaffee of Amenia, N. D.; whose husband was drowned; Mrs. Walter Clark of Los Angeles, who also lost her husban...
22nd 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
1911 Census THE SAGE FAMILY IN THE 1911 CENSUS
The Sage family in 1911 were living at 246 Gladstone Street, Peterborough. The house had 5 rooms. Name:  John G. Sage Relationship to ...
2nd April 1911
  MANSION HOUSE TITANIC RELIEF FUND: WILLIAM FARQUHARSON
Number 98. Farquharson, Martha, widow. Children: George; William; Millicent. All class A dependants....
March 1913
Atlantic City Daily Press ALARMED COUNTY MAN FINDS SISTER WAS RESCUED
D. W. McMillan, of Pleasantville, Reassured as Carpathia Docked ---------- MRS. THOMAS POTTER TELLS ABOUT ASTORS ---------- Weikman, Titanic Barber, Saved, Known to George Lipipncott [sic] ---------- ...
20th April 1912
  MANSION HOUSE TITANIC RELIEF FUND : GEORGE FOX HOSKING
Number 123. Hosking, Ada Alice. Children: Iris May; George Thomas; William Bock. All class B dependants....
March 1913
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