Miss Maria Youssef ("Mary Thomas") Touma
Born: Thursday 16th October 1902
Age: 9 years
Last Residence: in Tibnin Lebanon
3rd Class passenger
First Embarked: Cherbourg on Wednesday 10th April 1912
Ticket No. 2650 , £15 4s 11d
Destination: Dowagiac Michigan United States
Rescued (boat C)
Disembarked Carpathia: New York City on Thursday 18th April 1912
Died: Wednesday 12th August 1953
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Maria Youssef Touma, 9, from Lebanon, was born 16 October 1902. She boarded the Titanic at Cherbourg with her mother Hanna and brother Georges. They were travelling to Dowagiac to join her father Darwis who had previously settled there.
The family travelled as third class passengers and were rescued in Collapsible C.
The family name was later anglicized to "Thomas" and Maria later went by "Mary Thomas", she was later married to Nicholas Haddad and she kept home for them in Flint, Genesee County, Michigan.
Maria Haddad (née Touma) died in 12 August 1953.
Notes
She is sometimes listed as "Hannah Touma".
Documents
Dowagiac Daily News, May 3, 1912, Article
Michigan Department of Health Certificate of Death
Sources
Contract Ticket List, White Star Line 1912 (National Archives, New York;
NRAN-21-SDNYCIVCAS-55[279])
South Bend Tribune, 13 February, 1998, Titanic Recollections
Acknowledgements
David Bronson, USA
Phillip Gowan, USA
Travelling Companions (on same ticket)
Mrs Hanna Youssef Touma
Master Georges Youssef ("George Thomas") Touma
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