Miss Fatīmah Muhammad Muslamānī (Fatima Moslimani) was born in Tibnīn, al-Janub, Lebanon on 12 January 1890.1
She was the daughter of Muhammad Muslamānī and Zaynab Katamay and she grew up in a Shi'a Muslim family in Tibnīn and had at least two siblings.
Fatīmah boarded the Titanic at Cherbourg as a third-class passenger (ticket number 2649 which cost £7, 4s, 6d) having already made the voyage from Beirut to Marseille. Travelling with her were two male cousins, Mustafà Nasr 'Almā and Yūsuf Ahmad Waznah, also of Tibnīn, and she gave her destination as Michigan City, Indiana where several siblings lived. On the Titanic she reportedly shared a cabin with an unidentified woman and her four-year-old daughter.
Fatīmah survived the sinking but both her cousins were lost.
Treated in New York for the effects of exposure, Fatīmah continued to Indiana and was married the following month on 7 May to Mohammad Mustafa Ajamy (b. 1890), seemingly also a native of Tibnīn. The couple are not believed to have had any children and they were later divorced. Mohammad was apparently later remarried and had a family, dying in the 1940s.
Fatīmah anglicised her name to Fatima Muselmanie and continued to live in Michigan City and was naturalised as a US Citizen in January 1927, giving her address as 317½ Washington Street. By the time she appeared on the 1930 census she was described as divorced and still listed under married name, continuing to live in Michigan City where she was renting out rooms to make ends meet. She was remarried in Ohio on 22 September 1936 to Charley Salem2 (b. 1896), also from Lebanon, but that marriage was also brief.
In the 1940s Fatima paid a return visit to Lebanon; she returned to the USA and arrived there on 1 December 1947, having departed from Beirut aboard the Marine Carp.
Fatima moved to Dearborn, Michigan from Michigan City in the early 1950s; a July 1958 Canadian border crossing list states that her Dearborn address was 2147 Canabear (?) Street.
Fatima spent the remainder of her life in Dearborn, Michigan where she was surrounded by her extended family. She died on 16 February 1971 in a nursing home and is buried in Roseland Park Cemetery, Berkeley, Michigan with her brother Hassan (1892-1968).
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whatever became of Mrs. Fatima Musselmani Musselmani?
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/I am very much interested in finding out information on the third class passenger of Fatima Musselmani/Musselmani
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Hi Cindra, Fatima Masselmany died in Dearborn, Michigan on February 16, 1971. I hope that helps. Phillip
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Cindra, She still has relatives in the Detroit area--a number of researchers have contacted them in the past and they are non-responsive. Her nephew and his wife, the last to carry the surname, have died just within the last few years but there are cousins living in Dearborn. Phillip
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Hello everyone, I already posted this comment under an article but I doubt it will be seen so I’ll ask it here again: On this website . Fatima is listed among people with some sort of „criminal“ backround, but nothing is clarified. It just says: „Exact details of her misdemeanours are unknown, further research needed“ If no research has been done, how did people come to the conclusion there were any „misdemeanours“? If nothing is factually reported to have happened, then she shouldn’t be brandmarked with no evidence. Maybe someone could enlighten me what is meant with the above statement, thank you very much.
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That is indeed an odd and cryptic statement for this website to make without providing any evidence. There's nothing in Leila Salloum Elias' entry on Fatima in The Dream and Then the Nightmare about...
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Maybe I’ll contact Leila and ask her about it, maybe she knows.
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From the little research I could do I found nothing with regards to any „misdemeanours“ of Fatimah. Sad that this rumour is written on this website with no basis.
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And finally, the best expert with regards to all the arabic passengers (Leila Salloum), has confirmed to me now on FB that there were no criminal charges against Fatimah that she could find. If she was truly problematic, this information would have been public by now. I guess this claim is really in need of correction.
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