Mrs Mary Dunbar Hewlett (née Kingcome)
Mrs Mary Dunbar Hewlett (née Kingcome), 56, was born in Clifton, Bristol in 1855. In 1875 she was married to Frederick Rufford Hewlett and by 1881 had four children. One of her sons had moved to Lucknow in India and she was returning from a visit to him in early 1912 to see another son, Francis, in Rapid City, South Dakota. In England she had visited her daughter, Mrs E. Villiers, Riverbank, Lymington, Hampshire.
For the journey to America she travelled second class on the Titanic having embarked Southampton. She travelled under ticket number 248706 which had cost £16.
Mrs Hewlett survived the sinking. She was rescued by the Carpathia in lifeboat 13. On the Carpathia she sent a telegram to London on 18 April at 4.21 pm:
Groves - Avenue - Brondesbury London. Rescued
unhurt
Carpathia
After visiting her son, she intended to return to Lucknow, India.
The widowed Mary Dunbar Kingcome Hewlett died in Naini Tal, India of Septicaemia on 9 May 1917 and was buried the next day in in Kaladhungi Road Cemetery at the foot of the Himalayas.
Documents
Death Certificate
References
Contract Ticket List, White Star Line 1912 (National Archives, New York;
NRAN-21-SDNYCIVCAS-55[279])
List or Manifest of Alien Passengers for the United States Immigration Officer
At Port Of Arrival (Date: 18th-19th June 1912, Ship: Carpathia) - National
Archives, NWCTB 85 T715 Vol 4183
United States Senate (62nd Congress), Subcommittee Hearings of the Committee on
Commerce, Titanic Disaster, Washington 1912
John Booth & Sean Coughlan (1993) Titanic Signals of Disaster. White Star
Publicatons, Westbury, Wiltshire. ISBN 0 9518190 1 1
Contributors
Robert L. Bracken,
USA
Steve Coombes, UK
Michael A. Findlay,
USA
Phillip Gowan, USA
Hermann Söldner, Germany
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Summary
Born: Sunday 8th July 1855
Age: 56 years
Marital Status: Married.
Last Residence: in Lucknow India
2nd Class passenger
First Embarked: Southampton on Wednesday 10th April 1912
Ticket No. 248706 , £16
Destination: Rapid City United States
Rescued (boat 13)
Disembarked Carpathia: New York City on Thursday 18th April 1912
Died: Wednesday 9th May 1917
Cause of Death: Septicaemia
Buried: Kaladhungi Road Cemetery
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