Miss Hulda Amanda Adolfina Veström
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| Name: Miss Hulda Amanda Adolfina Veström
Born: Sunday 11th July 1897 Age: 14 years Last Residence: in Salmunds Sweden Occupation: Servant 3rd Class passenger First Embarked: Southampton on Wednesday 10th April 1912 Ticket No. 350406 , £7 17s 1d Destination: Los Angeles California United States Died in the sinking. Body Not Recovered |
Miss Hulda Amanda Adolfina Veström, 14, was born 11 July 1897, the daughter of Emma Josefina Veström from Salmunds, Vänge, Stånga, Bjärges, Gotland Island, Sweden.
Hulda Veström's father lived in the USA and her aunt Hulda Kristina Eugenia Klasén had come to bring her to Los Angeles. They travelled via Copenhagen where they bought their tickets, and boarded the Titanic at Southampton as third class passengers.
Both ladies died in the sinking, their bodies were never recovered. In the newspaper Gotlands Allehanda (29 April 1912) the mother had the following announcement of death inserted on the front page alongside one for Hulda Klasén:
Enlargement Translation
Courtesy Jonas Söderström
The Mansion House Fund paid 875.52 Kr (£48) to her mother. Damage claims of 455.50 Kr (£25) were paid to her mother on 12 June 1914.
References
Gotlands Allehanda (Sweden), 29
April 1912
Claes-Göran Wetterholm (1988, 1996, 1999) Titanic. Prisma, Stockholm. ISBN
91 518 3644 0
Acknowledgements
Leif Snellman, Finland
Jonas Söderström, Sweden
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