Blackpool Chemist's Son Missing
Among Titanic passengers unaccounted for was Charles W. Sedgwick, who a few days before setting sail was married at Liverpool to Miss Adelaide Carrington, of Aigburth. Mr Sedgwick, who was the son of a Blackpool Chemist, and went to Sunderland from Blackpool Corporation Electricity Works, some years ago, had been appointed electrical engineer to a large oil refinery at Minatálan [sic, Minatitlán], Mexico. his bride originally intended accompanying him, but was persuaded to remain behind for a time.—Burnley Gazette, 20 April 1912
One of the Second Class passengers who perished was a Mr Charles W. Sedgwick, an electrical engineer, who four or five dys before the Titanic sailed from Southampton, was married at Aigburth, Liverpool, to Miss Adelaide Carrington, cousin to Miss Maggie Carrington of 48, Railway street, Nelson, and a niece of Mrs Carrington, the widow of Mr Carrington, the first stationmaster at Nelson.
Mr Sedgwick was originally a chemist at Blackpool—where his father was the well-known licensee of the Victoria Hotel—and afterwards was engaged as an engineer at St. Helens, Sunderland and Liverpool.
He recently obtained an important appointment as manager of some oil-refining works in Mexico, and he sailed with the Titanic to take up the appointment. Mrs Sedgwick was to have accompanied him, but at the last moment on account of the bad weather, she delayed her journey out. In doing so she probably escaped her husband's fate. Mr Sedgwick's name was not in the list of survivors, and it is now certain that he lost his life in the wreck of the liner.
Singularly enough, Miss Carrington's brother-in-law, Mr Hartley Smith, is a cousin to Mr Wallace Hartley, formerly of Colne, the heroic bandmaster of the great ship.—Burnley Gazette, 27 April 1912
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