Mr Edward Beane
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| Name: Mr Edward Beane
Born: Wednesday 19th November 1879 Age: 32 years Last Residence: in New York City New York United States 2nd Class passenger First Embarked: Southampton on Wednesday 10th April 1912 Ticket No. 2908 , £26 Destination: New York City New York United States Rescued (boat 13) Disembarked Carpathia: New York City on Thursday 18th April 1912 Died: Sunday 24th October 1948 Cause of Death: Heart Failure / Disease Buried: White Haven Memorial Park Perinton New York United States |
Mr Edward Beane, 32, was born 19 November 1879 in England, the son of George Beane and Mary A. Cox.
Beane moved to New York where he worked as a a bricklayer. He had returned to his home town of Norwich to get married to Ethel Clarke. The ceremony took place some days before the Titanic would leave. The newlyweds had ticket number 2908 and paid £26. They boarded the Titanic at Southampton as second class passengers.
(Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, April 15, 1931 / Phillip Gowan, USA)
Mr Beane, survived the sinking together with his wife. They were one of a few "honeymooners" that were not parted by the rule "women and children first". Both were rescued in lifeboat 13.
He died in Rochester, New York on 24 October 1948.
Travelling Companions (on same ticket)
Mrs Ethel Beane
References and Sources
The Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, April 15, 1931, Sinking of Titanic Still Horror to Couple Honeymooning on Ship
New York State Department Of Health Certificate Of Death
The Rochester Democrat October 26, 1948, Obituary
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
Peter Boyd-Smith (1994) Titanic, From Rare Historical Reports. Southampton, Steamship Publications.
Credits
Phillip Gowan, USA
Hermann Söldner, Germany
Related Articles and Documents
| New York Times (1912) | WOMEN WORK HARD FOR RESCUED FOLK | |
| Rochester Democrat and Chronicle (1931) | SINKING OF TITANIC STILL HORROR TO COUPLE HONEYMOONING ON SHIP | |
| Rochester Democrat and Chronicle (1948) | BEANE | |
| New York Times (1983) | ETHEL BEANE, WHO SURVIVED TITANIC SINKING, DEAD AT 90 |
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