I hope I am not breaking any unwritten rules of this message board by mentioning my new book, due to be published in early March. It is entitled ‘Who Sailed on Titanic?’ It’s a very different book from anything so far published on Titanic. The foreword is written by Rear Admiral John Lang, Chief Inspector of Marine Accidents, Marine Accident Investigation Board.
I have transcribed onto a computer database the various lists of Titanic passengers held in archives worldwide, some apparently unused by the majority of Titanic researchers. Constraints of space meant that I could not reproduce each list in its entirety but the main biographical data from each has been included, allowing researchers to compare each individual record. Each list has been described and its provenance explained in detail.
I specialise in the study of British passenger records at the Public Record Office in Kew, England. For the first time, the various procedures for the registration of deaths at sea, the ticketing processes, and the compilation of the British pre-embarkation passenger records has been discussed at length with particular emphasis on the foreign passengers. I have also included an in-depth discussion of Titanic’s American and Canadian passenger arrival records. I hope that this study of the records compiled for RMS Titanic and others during the early years of the 20th century will provide a new insight into the transportation not only of Titanic’s transmigrant passengers but of all foreigners arriving in Britain en route for the United States, Canada, South Africa, Australasia and other destinations in the years leading up to WWl. For readers hoping to learn more of their own migrant ancestors, or wishing to further their understanding of travel from, to and through Britain, these and other sources explained here for the first time will prove to be valuable tools for their own research. As a result of my own research I have included a small amount of new information clarifying or correcting that already published for some of Titanic’s foreign passengers, and offer a probable identity for another passenger about whom so far nothing whatsoever has been discovered — including their name!
I should like publicly to thank Hermann Soeldner, Lester Mitcham and Bob Bracken for their tremendous help with the White Star contract ticket list, which threatened to turn into a Titanic mystery of its own. I really would have been lost without their generous help, advice and photocopies. I’d also like to thank Philip Hind for his generous permission to use some information from this wonderful website. I wasn’t given the space to acknowledge each individual in person, but my appreciation of the website is mentioned in various places throughout the book, and specifically cited in the acknowledgements and bibliography.
Debbie Beavis (currently in Australia with sporadic internet/email access
I have transcribed onto a computer database the various lists of Titanic passengers held in archives worldwide, some apparently unused by the majority of Titanic researchers. Constraints of space meant that I could not reproduce each list in its entirety but the main biographical data from each has been included, allowing researchers to compare each individual record. Each list has been described and its provenance explained in detail.
I specialise in the study of British passenger records at the Public Record Office in Kew, England. For the first time, the various procedures for the registration of deaths at sea, the ticketing processes, and the compilation of the British pre-embarkation passenger records has been discussed at length with particular emphasis on the foreign passengers. I have also included an in-depth discussion of Titanic’s American and Canadian passenger arrival records. I hope that this study of the records compiled for RMS Titanic and others during the early years of the 20th century will provide a new insight into the transportation not only of Titanic’s transmigrant passengers but of all foreigners arriving in Britain en route for the United States, Canada, South Africa, Australasia and other destinations in the years leading up to WWl. For readers hoping to learn more of their own migrant ancestors, or wishing to further their understanding of travel from, to and through Britain, these and other sources explained here for the first time will prove to be valuable tools for their own research. As a result of my own research I have included a small amount of new information clarifying or correcting that already published for some of Titanic’s foreign passengers, and offer a probable identity for another passenger about whom so far nothing whatsoever has been discovered — including their name!
I should like publicly to thank Hermann Soeldner, Lester Mitcham and Bob Bracken for their tremendous help with the White Star contract ticket list, which threatened to turn into a Titanic mystery of its own. I really would have been lost without their generous help, advice and photocopies. I’d also like to thank Philip Hind for his generous permission to use some information from this wonderful website. I wasn’t given the space to acknowledge each individual in person, but my appreciation of the website is mentioned in various places throughout the book, and specifically cited in the acknowledgements and bibliography.
Debbie Beavis (currently in Australia with sporadic internet/email access
