Miss Berta Olivia Nilsson
- Biography
| Name: Miss Berta Olivia Nilsson
Born: Thursday 22nd February 1894 Age: 18 years Marital Status: Single. Last Residence: in Ransbysäter Sweden 3rd Class passenger First Embarked: Southampton on Wednesday 10th April 1912 Ticket No. 347066 , £7 15s 6d Destination: Missoula Montana United States Rescued (boat D) Disembarked Carpathia: New York City on Thursday 18th April 1912 Died: Monday 27th December 1976 Cause of Death: Cerebral Vascular Accident (Stroke) Buried: Mt. Olive Cemetery Chicago Illinois United States |
Miss Berta Olivia Nilsson, 18, was born 22 February 1894, she was the daughter of Nels Nelson and Ingeborg Johnson and lived in Ransbysäter, Lysvik, Värmland, Sweden.
Berta Nilsson boarded the Titanic at Southampton as a third class passenger (ticket number 347066 £7, 15s, 6d). She was accompanied by her fiancé Edvard Larsson-Ronsberg from Ransbysäter to Missoula, Montana.
Larsson died, but Berta was rescued in Collapsible D. The "Women's Relief Committee" in New York gave her $50. On 26 April she passed St Paul, Minnesota on her way Westwards with Carl Olof Jansson, Oscar Hedman and Anna Sjöblom.
After the disaster she never dared to travel over the Atlantic ocean again. She married a Mr Christensen and died in Chicago 27 December 1976.
Certificates
State of Illinois Certificate
of Death
Sources
Contract Ticket List, White Star Line 1912 (National Archives, New York;
NRAN-21-SDNYCIVCAS-55[279]).
References
Claes-Göran Wetterholm (1988, 1996, 1999) Titanic. Prisma, Stockholm. ISBN
91 518 3644 0
Acknowledgements
Claes-Göran Wetterholm
Contributors
Phillip Gowan, USA
Leif Snellman, Finland
Related Articles and Documents
| Chicago Tribune (1966) | PASSENGER ON TITANIC RECALLS 1912 TRAGEDY | |
| Chicago Tribune (1976) | MRS. BERTHA CHRISTENSEN |
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