Louise Laroche

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1. Oh, and Adam, I think the idea was to catalog and document the current condition of the wreck in a more precise, hi-tech way before it is too late, and also compare it with current data to calculate rate of deterioration.
2. Steven: Ah righteo, thanks for that. Yes, it'll be interesting to see what the ocean has to serve up on April 15, 2012. If it's rough, it'll be scary - if it's calm, a-la a century earlier, it'll be eerie!
3. >>Well I suppose Bob is getting on for 70 years old now and might want to wind the roster down a bit as well...
4. Michael: Well, 70 by the time the centenary comes around anyway!
5. Click on: Black Titanic Passenger Has Chicago Kinship - Local News - Chicago, IL - msnbc.com Click on: Corey @ I'll Keep You Posted: Titanic Proportions: The Laroche Family Tragedy Click on :Print Haiti-born Nashville Actor Max Desir Takes Historic Approach to Role in TITANIC THE MUSICAL - Printer-Friendly () Click on: ' Titanic: The Untold Story' to tell tale of disaster' s only victim of African-descent
6. Hello to all.. my name is Marjorie Alberts (yes, u can Google me!!) I'm actually working on writing a novel, based on my ancestor Joseph LaRoche. But am looking to produce a documentary of my life events that lead me to uncovering this history I written a script and registered with the writers guild of America. So please reach out via, Facebook/Instagram/Twitter MarlieStyles Thanks and u all are so awesome, I hope to make most all satisfied with what I intend on delivering.
7. I've always wondered what would happen to this family if Titanic never sunk. Cincinnatus Leconte, Joseph's uncle, was killed in August 1912! How would they react? What would the first days be like in a country so different from France? I'm also interested in the story of his country, how a biracial family would experience the events that occurred there? I wonder if there were similar families in Haiti at that time
8. I think Mrs. Laroche befriended Edith Rosenbaum, on the Carpathia. But, her coat, with the few memories or valuables Joesph Laroche was able to give her.
9. "Second class passenger, Joseph Laroche, a Black Haitian engineer who was leaving France with his family because racism was preventing him from getting a good job there. Laroche died in the wreck, but his wife and two daughters were rescued in a lifeboat." I read this in a book (pg. 25-26 in History Smashers: The Titanic by Kate Messner). Then I found him on here too: I learned his family's names on here. He and Juliette's daughters are named Simonne and Louise, plus precious cargo: an unborn child on the way. :) The baby would be named after his father: Joseph (according to Wikipedia: Joseph Philippe Lemercier Laroche - Wikipedia). There's a nice family photo on Wikipedia, which is the same one in the book. His wife has a page on here too: ). I know that many, many men were denied lifeboats, but to be honest I wish they had saved the one Black... Read full post
10. There is no evidence of that at all. He just wasn't lucky I'm afraid.
11. Poor Joseph. R.I.P.
12. I was just thinking today about the experiences of Joseph Laroche. As most of us know, he was the only black passenger aboard the ship and was in 2nd Class and perished in the sinking. It being the 1910s, racial attitudes were a lot different then? Would he have encountered racism on the ship from other passengers and possibly crew? How did other passengers feel about an interracial couple aboard?
13. You might find this thread which has some recent posts interesting. The Mods might merge your post with the main thread about the Laroche family.
14. Good prediction, Arun. :-)
15. I've searched to see whether this has already been covered here, but haven't found anything, so here it is: Joseph Philippe Lemercier Laroche. Born into a prosperous and powerful family in Cap-Haitien, Haiti on May 26, 1886, Joseph was the nephew of Haitian president Dessalines Cincinnatus Leconte.

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