Miss Asuncion Durán i Moné, 27, a domestic, was born in San Adrian, Prov. Lérida, Spain. She had been visiting her father Ramon Duran at Tamaset 167 Piso 2°-1a- in Barcelona and was going to Tomas Benedicto, Plaza del Vapor, Havana, Cuba.
She boarded the Titanic at Cherbourg as second class passenger together with her sister Florentina. She held ticket number SC/PARIS 2149, price: £13 17s 2d.
Asuncion and her sister survived the sinking. They were rescued by the Carpathia in lifeboat 12. To travel from New York to Havana, she bought ticket number 1508 for £3 1s 9d on 6 April 1912 from White Star Agent N. Martin in Paris. She was to travel via Ward Line.
Notes
- Usually listed as Asuncion Duran y More.
References and Sources
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.
Titanic Passenger List, maiden voyage booklet (1997). 7 C's Press, Ludlow.
United States Senate (62nd Congress), Subcommittee Hearings of the Committee on Commerce, Titanic Disaster, Washington 1912.
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