Mr Percy Andrew Bailey
- Biography
| Name: Mr Percy Andrew Bailey
Born: 1893 Age: 15 years Last Residence: in Penzance Cornwall England Occupation: Butcher's Assistant 2nd Class passenger First Embarked: Southampton on Wednesday 10th April 1912 Ticket No. 29108 , £11 10s Destination: Akron Ohio United States Died in the sinking. Body Not Recovered |
Mr Percy Andrew Bailey, 18, was born in Cornwall in 1893. The son of James Bailey of 25 Gwavas Street , Penzance.
He was travelling to New York City to visit his uncle (Harry Jennings) before going on to Akron, OH to the home of a friend of his father, Mr J. Bailey. He had been hired by a firm in that city as an apprentice butcher.
Bailey initially booked on the White Star Line vessel Oceanic, but transferred to Titanic when he heard that several friends were booked for that steamer. He travelled as a second class passenger (ticket number 29108, £11 10s.).
He arrived in Southampton on April 9th from where he sent a postcard to his parents.
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Dear Mother and Father, |
The following day he boarded the Titanic and penned a longer letter to his parents.
| April 17th (sic) 1912 On board RMS Titanic
Dear Father and Mother, |
(The 'Wills' referred to was William Wills, the brother of Mr Arthur Henry Wells who had married Addie Dart Trevaskis and it was she that 'Wills' had come to Southampton to see. Addie was en route to her husband who was already in Akron, Ohio. William Wells at a later date joined his brother and sister-in-law in Akron).

Bailey shared a cabin with Harry Cotterill and George Hocking also from Penzance, none of whom survived the sinking.
The following account appeared in a New York newspaper shortly after the sinking:
| Titanic Disaster felt in Home of Bronx Man Harry Jennings, Alexander Avenue Butcher Mourns Loss of Nephew Who Was to Make His Home In America. The echo of grief and horror which can be heard the world round, as the result of the greatest sea disaster in history has reached a Bronx fireside at 213 Willis avenue, where lives Harry Jennings, a butcher for H. Walger, at 333 Alexander avenue, and whose nephew Percy Bailey, was among the second cabin passengers that went down to Neptune's grave with the biggest ship afloat. |
References and Sources
Cleveland Plain Dealer (Ohio), 21 April 1912
Western Morning News, April 17, 1912
Credits
Steve Coombes, UK
Homer Thiel, USA
Per Kristian Sebak, Norway
Brian Ticehurst, UK
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