Mrs Thamine "Thelma" Thomas

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Name: Mrs Thamine "Thelma" Thomas
Born: Wednesday 25th December 1895
Age: 16 years
Last Residence: in Hardin Lebanon
3rd Class passenger
First Embarked: Cherbourg on Wednesday 10th April 1912
Ticket No. 2625 , £8 10s 4d
Destination: Wilkes Barre Pennsylvania United States
Rescued (boat 14)
Disembarked Carpathia: New York City on Thursday 18th April 1912
Died: Monday 7th January 1974

Mrs Alexander Thomas (Thamine "Thelma" ~) (1), 16, was born 25 December 1895 in the Lebanon.

She boarded the Titanic at Cherbourg with her 5 month old son Assad and her brother Charles. Travelling as third class passengers Thamine and her son held ticket No. 2625, price £8, 10s, 4d. Mrs Thomas and her son her husband (his father) in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania.

Thamine and her son became separated during the sinking and Charles carried the baby to lifeboat 16. He begged for the child to be rescued and Winnie Troutt took it upon herself to take the child into the lifeboat. Meanwhile Thamine boarded another lifeboat (? #14 or C).


Mrs Thomas in 1960
(Courtesy of Arne Mjaland, Norway)

Thamine "Thelma" Thomas died 7 January 1974.


(Courtesy of Michael A. Findlay, USA)

Notes
Thamine, "Thamin", or "Tamin" as her name is variously spelled, presumably anglicized her name to "Thelma Thomas" after her arrival in America.

References
Contract Ticket List, White Star Line 1912 (National Archives, New York; NRAN-21-SDNYCIVCAS-55[279])
Judith Geller (1998) Titanic: Women and Children First. Haynes. ISBN 1 85260 594 4

Contributors
Michael A. Findlay, USA

Travelling Companions (on same ticket)
Master Assad Alexander Thomas/Tannous

Related Articles and Documents

North American  (1912)  SEVEN WILKES-BARRE PERSONS ARE MISSING  
Newark Star  (1912)  SIX BULLET HOLES TITANIC MEMENTOES  
Washington Post  (1974)  THELMA THOMAS, 78, SURVIVOR OF TITANIC  
Standard Speaker  (2011)  WOMAN'S MOTHER, UNCLE AND BROTHER WERE ON TITANIC  

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