Mrs Sigrid Lindström (née Posse)
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| Name: Mrs Sigrid Lindström
(née Posse) Born: Thursday 18th December 1856 Age: 55 years Last Residence: in Stockholm Uppland Sweden 1st Class passenger First Embarked: Cherbourg on Wednesday 10th April 1912 Ticket No. 112377 , £27 14s 5d Rescued (boat 6) Disembarked Carpathia: New York City on Thursday 18th April 1912 Died: 1946 |
Mrs Carl Johan Lindström (Sigrid Posse), 55, was born 18 December 1856 the daughter of late major and count Knut Lage Posse and niece to late Swedish prime minister Arvid Posse.
Married to Carl Johan Lindström, ex captain of Swedish grenadier guards, and lived in Stockholm, Sweden.
She came from Paris on her way to New York. She was on her way to her sister, Mrs Norbert in New York. On the Titanic, which she boarded at Cherbourg as a first class passenger, she got to know Mauritz Håkan Björnstrom-Steffanson, who escorted her to Lifeboat 6. She later sued White Star for some 6000 francs of lost cloths. She was widowed 1917 and died in 1946.
References and Sources
Claes-Göran Wetterholm (1988, 1996, 1999) Titanic. Prisma, Stockholm. ISBN 91 518 3644 0
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Leif Snellman, Finland
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