Mr Thomas William Solomon Brown
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Mr Thomas William Solomon Brown, 60, a hotelier from the Cape Colony, South Africa, boarded the Titanic at Southampton as a second class passenger together with his wife and his daughter. They bought ticket number 29750 for £39. Their destination was Seattle.
Mr Brown was a successful hotelier at Cape Town, South Africa, but his business had declined and he decided to make a new start at Seattle, where his sister-in-law lived. His wife Elizabeth was 20 years younger than he, and she his second. The couple had two daughters, one of them died at the age of 8 from diphteria, the other one,
Edith Eileen, went with them. Mother and daughter, together with two other Ladies, occupied a four-berth cabin, whereas Thomas Brown was accommodated in another. In the night from 14th to 15th T. Brown placed his wife and daughter in lifeboat 14 and stepped back, just smoking a cigar and awaiting his fate.
He died in the sinking. His body, if recovered, never was identified.
References and Sources
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
Judith Geller (1998) Titanic: Women and Children First. Haynes. ISBN 1 85260 594 4
James Pellow with Dorothy Kendle (1995) A Lifetime on the Titanic. The Biography of Edith Haisman, Britains Oldest Survivor of the Titanic Disaster. Island Books. ISBN 1 898198 10 1
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Hermann Söldner, Germany
Summary
Born: 1852
Age: 60 years
Last Residence: in Cape Town South Africa
Occupation: Hotelier
2nd Class passenger
First Embarked: Southampton on Wednesday 10th April 1912
Ticket No. 29750 , £39
Destination: Seattle Washington United States
Died in the sinking.
Body Not Recovered
Travelling Companions (on same ticket)
Mrs Elizabeth Catherine Brown
Miss Edith Eileen Brown
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