Miss Mary Delia Burns
Miss Mary Delia Burns [1], 15 or 18 [2], came from Kilmacowan, Knocknahur, Ballysadare, County Sligo, Ireland
She boarded the Titanic at Queenstown as a third class passenger (ticket number 330963, £7 17s 7d) with her friends Margaret Devaney and Kate Hargadon. Delia was emigrating to America where she hoped to get employment as a housemaid for a well to do family.
Miss Burns died in the sinking. Her body, if recovered, was never identified.
Notes
1. She was called Delia by her family as most first born Irish girls were christened
Mary.
2. "Marriages Birth Deaths ...", the Queenstown passenger list
and Ray 1999 give her age as 18. Bracken (2000) as 15
References
Robert L. Bracken (2000) Irish Titanic Passengers
Contract Ticket List, White Star Line 1912 (National Archives, New York;
NRAN-21-SDNYCIVCAS-55[279])
Marriages, births, deaths and injuries that have occurred on board during the
voyage (PRO London, BT 100/259-260)
Names and Descriptions of British Passengers Embarked at the Port of
Queenstown, 11 April 1912 (PRO London, BT 27/776/2).
Noel Ray (1999) List of Passengers who Boarded RMS Titanic at Queenstown, April
11, 1912. The Irish Titanic Historical Society
Contributors
Robert L. Bracken, USA
Joe McDonagh (nephew of Mary Delia Burns)
Roberta McGowan (relative by marriage
of Mary Delia Burns)
Noel Ray, Ireland
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Summary
Born: Thursday 15th November 1894
Age: 17 years
Last Residence: in Kilmacowen Ireland
3rd Class passenger
First Embarked: Queenstown on Thursday 11th April 1912
Ticket No. 330963 , £7 17s 7d
Destination: New York City New York United States
Died in the sinking.
Body Not Recovered
Travelling Companions
.htmlMiss Margaret Delia Devaney friend
.htmlMiss Catherine "Kate" Hargadon friend