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Rosalie Bidois

osalie Bidois (May 10th, 1865 - September 24th, 1938) was a First Class passenger of the *Titanic*. She served as a personal maid to Madeleine Talmadge Force Astor. She escaped the sinking in Lifeboat 4.

## On board the *Titanic*

She accompanied Mrs. Astor and Colonel John Jacob Astor on their honeymoon to Europe and was one of three servants traveling in the party, the others being Mr. Astor's manservant Victor Robbins and Caroline Endres, a nurse charged with looking after the pregnant Mrs. Astor's wellbeing. The entire party boarded *Titanic* at Cherbourg as First Class passengers (ticket number 17757 which cost £247, 10s, 6d).

Miss Bidois accompanied Mrs. Astor and Caroline Endres in Lifeboat 4 and was saved; Mr. Astor and Victor Robbins were among the lost.

## In Popular Culture

As a servant to the wife of the wealthiest and well known on the *Titanic*, Rosalie Bidois appears at least three times in film portrayals.

### *1943* *Film Titanic*

In the 1943 film, character Jenny is based on her.

### *1996* *Miniseries Titanic*

In the 1996 miniseries, character Marge Miller is based on her and Caroline Endres.

### *1997 Film Titanic*

In the 1997 film, Rosalie Bidois only appeared once during the boarding at Cherbourg with their party. However, her actress is uncredited.
Johan Emil Petterson

Johan Emil Petterson was a passenger on the *Titanic*.

## Early life

Johan Emil Petterson was born in Västermo, Närlunda, Södermanland Sweden. He was born to his father Per Larsson and mother Anna Stina Larsdotter in 1886 on the 19th of November.

Father Per was a crofter and both parents originated from Sweden.

Johan had no less than 8 elder siblings and 1 younger sister. The eldest child was Johanna Persdotter, born in 1871. Another sister came in 1873, Emma Sofia. Their first son, Carl Oscar, followed in 1875. Another girl was born in 1877 and named Augusta. Proceeding them were Per Viktor and Emma Christina in 1881 and 1883 respectively. After Johan, Hulda Maria was born in 1889.

In 1910, Johan helped his brother Carl Oscar on his farm.

He was still unmarried and lived with his brother when, in 1912, he traveled with his eldest sister Johanna, who had been married and emigrated to the United States in the early 1900s and was now going home to her own family in Minnesota after visiting her parents in Sweden. Johan left the farm on March 28. Their destination was 4947 Lincoln Ave. in Chicago, where she and her husband had their residence.

## *Titanic*

Johanna had apparently convinced her 15 years younger brother to migrate as well. He was 25 years old when he joined her on a journey by train to Göteburg to take a sea voyage on a ship to England, where they would board the *Titanic*, departing from Southampton on April 10. They had tickets for Third Class.

On April 14, the well-known disaster occured, when *Titanic* had ran against the iceberg on her starboard side. It was just a graze but small crevices appeared under the water line in her hull. Tons of water entered the ship rapidly and soon the ship’s Captain

On April 15, after midnight, Captain Smith ordered his crew to start an evacuation.

Johan and his sister didn’t survive the ordeal. Not much is known of their whereabouts but they perished after the mighty ship sank 2 hours and 40 minutes after her collision. No trace was left of the two siblings.

## After his death

Father Per received SEK 1,000 from Johan Emil's life insurance on July 2nd, 1912. The charity fund paid SEK 874:08 (£48) to the parents on January 23, 1913 and they also received compensation of SEK 1366:50 (£75) on the 31st of May 1914.
John Thompson

**John William Thompson** (October 16th, 1876 - 19??) was an Englishman who was employed on *Titanic* as a Fireman.

## Early Life

John Thompson was born in Liverpool, England, on April 6th, 1871. Although it is still not known for sure, his parents were likely Robert Thompson, a dock laborer, and Ann Thompson, his wife. At the time he signed on to the *Titanic*, he gave his address as 26 Howe St., Liverpool, England.

Before the *Titanic*, he was employed as a fireman on the *Castleford*.

## *Titanic*

John worked as a Fireman on board *Titanic*, earning monthly wages of £6.

When the ship started to sink, he went to the Boat Deck, but was soon after called back to the boiler room by Leading Fireman William Small.

Eventually he left the ship onboard Collapsible A, which was half-swamped. After several hours, he was rescued by Lowe's boat 14. When climbing the rope ladder to the *Carpathia*, he noticed his arm was broken. Apparently, he broke it somehow during his struggle to survive in the harsh conditions on board Collapsible A.
George William Beauchamp

**George William Beauchamp** (9 March 1888 – 5 April 1965) was a British sailor and *Titanic* survivor. On the *Titanic*, he worked as a Fireman and was rescued in a lifeboat (ordered onboard by an officer to handle an oar), which was launched from the vessel at 1:43 A.M, less than half an hour before she would go down.

He was born in Totton, England, UK, in March 1888 as the son of George Beauchamp and Maria Jane Walton. He had five siblings.

On the *Titanic* he was paid £6 a month.

He later recalled that the water was up to his feet. Beauchamp ran towards the topside and positioned on the starboard deck. Beauchamp's boat was later rescued by the *Carpathia* around 6.30 am.

He said at the British inquiry that immediately after the collision, the watertight doors and dampers began to block and that there was an order to "stop" (it all). He also testified that as a stoker, he was given the order to draw fires in the boilers (the fires that normally kept the ship's steam machinery running). After drawing the fires, he was relieved and escaped using a ladder. He later recalled helping ladies and children into the boats before being given the order to board lifeboat 13. He said there were around 60 to 70 people on board, among them many men. As a last thing he said there was no lantern on the boat.

## British inquiry

Beauchamp gave evidence at the British Wreck Commissioner's inquiry into the sinking of the RMS Titanic before counsel Raymond Asquith, where he responded to several questions with blunt and short responses:

"I went ... on to the boat deck and across to the starboard side, I had one foot on the deck and one on the lifeboat and I was helping ladies and children into the lifeboat. We had difficulty keeping the lifeboat away from the ship's side and prevent water coming in."

"We pulled on the oars to get away as far as possible from the suction of the ship as it went down. I saw the ship go down bow first and I could still see the stern and then that went too. It was a roar like thunder as it went down and I heard cries as the ship sank."

"We would have gone back for others but we were full up."

## Later life

George Beauchamp continued to work at sea into the 1920s and beyond. His family has said that he survived another maritime disaster, the sinking of the RMS Lusitania on May 7 1915, that was torpedoed in World War 1, by a German U-boat, just off the coast of Old Kinsale, Ireland. He later served on the Cape Mail boats for the Union Line as a leading fireman.

Later in life, Beauchamp became a docker in Southampton.

He became friends with Bertram Vere Dean, who was the brother of the last *Titanic* survivor, Millvina Dean.

Beauchamp died in April of 1965 at the age of 77.
Johan Henrik Kvillner

Johan Henrik Kvillner, born as Johan Henrik Johannesson on Monday April 11, 1881 in Svenneby Varmland, Sweden. His father was Johannes Olausson and his mother was Elizabeth Olssen. Johannes was a grocer and shoemaker. Henrik had one older brother, Oscar, and two older sisters: Olivia and Hilma. All born in the same town.

Henrik had taken his name from his home parish Kville in Bohuslän. In his early career as a young lad he had a variaty of interesting jobs, and was a waiter for a while. At the same time he attended a study at Chalmers Technological High School for which he graduated in 1907, getting an engineer's degree.

In 1912, Kvillner was an engineer at Trollhätte Kanalverk, a hydro-electric powerstation. He was now 31 years old and one of the company's youngest engineers at Linjebyggnadsbyrån.

He made a trip to America as a government scholarship to study iron structures. He was engaged to Signe Kjellberg in Gothenburg during that period, and the idea was that Henrik and Signe would get married when he returned from his study trip. Kvillner left Gothenburg and was supposed to take voyage on another ship on April 6, but this crossing was cancelled.

He mentioned this in a postcard he sent, talking about a new ship on her Maiden Voyage, who could probably cross the Atlantic Ocean in 5 days. As it appears, Henrik traveled on *Titanic* in Second Class, and boarded in Southampton. He got to know some other Swedes such as Dagmar Bryhl with her fiance Ingvar Enander and Dagmar's brother Kurt. Johan must have celebrated his birthday on the ship.

On April 14, the ship had collided with an iceberg and started sinking.

Later that night, on April 15, the group were all at lifeboat 12, which Dagmar was allowed to board, but none of the men were allowed to go in the boat. Officer Lightoller strictly enforced the "women and children only" rule and hardly any men on the *Titanic*'s port side got into a lifeboat. Lifeboat 12, which could take 65 people, rowed away with 28. Kvillner, Enander and Kurt Bryhl perished. Kvillner's body was found, the body was given the number #165, and was buried in Halifax with various other recovered *Titanic* victims. His items that were found on his body were returned to the family. Signe Kjellberg got her engagement ring back.

On January 23 1913, the Mansion House Fund paid £78 to Signe and £48 to Elizabeth. Johan's mother was also given £ 156 for damages.

Henrik Kvillner's clock was shown at the Halmstadt Titanic Exhibition in 2014.
Johan Cervin Svensson

Johan Cervin Svensson was a Swedish 19-year old young man, blonde with blue eyes, and a Third Class Passenger on Titanic,  who travelled all on his own. He was very self-reliant.  He sneaked onto the First Class part of the Boat Deck and tried to get into a lifeboat, but was denied access twice. He was persistent enough so he kept trying and a third time, he managed to get off by eventually leaping into lifeboat 13. He had to jump from at least 10 feet.

Johan's father and elder sister Jenny had gone to South Dakota in 1911 with the remainder of the family (sister Anna, and brothers Johan Rudolf, Leonard, Reinhold, and Gösta) planning to follow. His father sent for Johan, so he took the train from Knäred to Gothenburg, Sweden, then a small boat to Hull, England.  He boarded the Titanic in Southampton, He had taken a train from Knäred to Gothenburg and a small boat to Hull in England, and he boarded Titanic in Southampton. His mother had given him extra cash in case he needed it. He shared a cabin with three other Swedes.

When the collision happened,  he was still asleep.  He got woken by a knock on his door. He remembers lot of yelling and he couldn’t understand a word of English. The lifebelts that were put on by others were his clue that he should go and also find one.

When he arrived in South Dakota he changed his name to John C. Johnson and worked as a farmhand.   The man known as "Titanic" Johnson later moved to California where he worked as a ship welder for a marine construction company based in the Long Beach harbor, not far from the Queen Mary. He and his wife Hazel G. (Lindley) lived in a simple one story house on the corner of Termino Avenue and Stearns Street in Long Beach, not far from the infamous Long Beach Traffic Circle.

His daughter Joy Johnson tells us that the disaster had a large impact on her father Johan. He suffered very often from nightmares and always wondered:  "Why was I saved when so many others were lost?"

He made only one visit to Sweden in 1961.

He died there on July 4, 1981.  He and his wife are now buried side by side on a slight slope in the beautiful Rose Hills cemetery near Whittier, California, which is about 20 miles north of Long Beach. His gravemarker mentions that he was a Titanic survivor.
Juho Niilonpoika Strandén

Juho Niiloson or Nilionpoika Strandén was born on 20 April 1881 in Muljula, Kitee, Eastern Finland, the son of Niilo Strandén and his wife Inka Musikka.

Juho Strandén worked as a farmer, he was unmarried when he boarded the Titanic at Southampton as a Third Class passenger (ticket no. STON/O 2. 3101288, £7 18s 6d). His destination was Duluth, Minnesota.

Juho had never been on the Atlantic Ocean before. His cabin was in the bow of the ship. He was woken by the impact of the iceberg, rushed up on Forward Deck where he saw ice. Later he saw people with lifebelts and rushed down again. He woke his cabin-mate Johan Niskanen, they moved up to boat deck where they, according to them, assisted in loading a lifeboat on starboard side before entering the same boat. Some say it was lifeboat 9 but it could also have been lifeboat 15.

In New York he was quartered at St. Vincent Hospital.

His mother passed away on 20 December 1915. On 14 December 1925 Juho moved from Kitee to Pyhäselkä, near Joensuu in Finland. From 1928 Juho lived with his wife in Ruskeala. eastside of the nowadays border of Finland. The couple had no children.

He stayed there untill he died on Saturday 28th August 1943, aged 62 years.
Olive Earnshaw

Mrs Olive Earnshaw was traveling aboard *Titanic* as a First Class passenger, making her way home from a trip to Europe.

Olive Earnshaw was born on 9th September 1888 in Mt. Airy, Pennsylvania. Her parents were Thomas Potter jr. and Lily Alexenia Wilson. She married Boulton Earnshaw (born on 8th November 1880), but, it is said that by the time she left their home in Philadelphia her marriage was in difficulties. She would go on her trip to Europe.

She boarded *Titanic* at Cherbourg on 10th April 1912, accompanied by her mother Lily Potter, and her friend Margaret Hays. Olive Earnshaw shared cabin C-54 with Margaret.

When *Titanic* struck the iceberg on at 11.40 P.M. on 14th April 1912, Olive was in bed in her cabin. After the collision she went to her mother’s cabin with Margaret, and the women went on to investigate.

When the order was given to load the lifeboats, Olive Earnshaw, her mother and Margaret Hays were placed into lifeboat 7, the first to leave *Titanic* during the sinking.

Olive divorced her husband soon after the *Titanic* disaster.

In 1920 she remarried to Allen Crolius (born on 31st March 1889), and they had two sons together.

Olive Crolius died on 21st April 1958. Her cause of death is said to have been from cancer. She was buried at Laurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Her husband, Allen Crolius, had died on 3rd May 1936.
Gerda Ulrika Dahlberg

Gerda Ulrika Dahlberg was a passenger on *Titanic*.

Gerda Ulrika Dahblerg was a native of Västerhaninge in Stockholm, Sweden in Stockholm, Sweden, where she was born on May 2th, 1890 to Karl Magnus Dahlberg and Margareta Ulrika. Her dad had been a sailor, a former Quartermaster.

Gerda had many siblings, of which a lot died young. The family was very poor.

She received her moving certificate for emigration on 26 March 1912. Gerda was on her way to her sister Signe Dahlberg or to her  sister Augusta Spetz, both were living in Chicago.

It was April 10th, when she left the Southampton docks on the ship, traveling in Third Class. Dahlberg was 22 years of age when she sailed with the mighty steamer. On board the *Titanic*, she shared a cabin with another Swede named Olga Lundin. She also became acquainted to Swedish passenger Carl Olof Jansson.

On April 14, the ship fatally struck an iceberg and started sinking. Where she was and what she did after the collision is not known.

She ended up in the water, near Carl Jansson. He later said that he had tried to talk to her but her lifeforce faded quickly and she must have frozen to death after a while. Carl was fortunate enough to be picked up by a lifeboat and miss Lundin was saved by boarding a lifeboat during the evacuation.

Afterwards, it was reported in newspapers in the United States that sister Signe who had been frantically doorstepping the White Star Line office for the last three days, finally received news about the fate of her sibling, which crushed her last hopes. Gerda’s body was lost.

Gerda’s boy would not be recovered and her parents received 875:52 (£48) from the charity funds. On 30 June 1916, they also received SEK 911 (£50) in damages, as Gerda was their hope of lifting them out of poverty.
Catherine Buckley

**Catherine Buckley** was a Third Class passenger on the RMS *Titanic* who perished in the sinking of the ocean liner.

She came from a Catholic family who spoke fluent English. Catherine was born on March the 6th, 1889 in Springmount, Ovens, County Cork, Ireland. he daughter of Jeremiah Buckley, who worked on a farm, and Julia Mahony, both from Cork and married around 1883. Catherine had a brother, Daniel, born on July 22, 1886.

His father married for the first time Ellen Collins, with whom he had a daughter, Margaret, born on February 21, 1880. The family lived in Ovens in 1901. Catherine worked as a maid in the service of Annie and Emma Evans at the 'Adelaide Terrace*'* in Cork.

Catherine had plans to join her half-sister Margaret, who had emigrated to America after the turn of the century and was living at 71 *Montwiev Street* in Roxbury, near Boston, Massachusetts. Catherine had initially bought a ticket to travel aboard the SS *Cymric*, which would have taken her directly to Boston, but a coal strike forced her to change her plans, obtaining a Third Class ticket aboard the RMS *Titanic*, which she paid for thanks to the money sent by Margaret.​ She boarded the ship on Thursday April 11 in Queenstown. She was travelling by herself, being 25 years old at the time.

On the night of April 14, 1912, the ocean liner hit an iceberg, sinking in the early hours of April 15. Catherine perished in the shipwreck, her body being recovered by CS Mackay-Bennett on April 28, noted as number #299. It was delivered to Margaret in Boston.

Poor Margaret unfairly received the blame for her demise and her parents disowned her. It seems that Catherine was due to work in the home of a wealthy Boston businessman, but her family was opposed to her leaving.

After being sent off at Christmas from the Buckley's home, Margaret returned to Massachusetts in 1914. There, she fell in love with another Irish immigrant named Maurice Dowd, and they married. They started their life together in Boston and she gave birth to 3 children. Margaret died in the 1920s.
Maria Nackid

**Mariyam Nakid** was a Lebanese child, and one of the youngest survivors of the sinking of the *Titanic*, but sadly the first survivor to die after the disaster. She would later be renamed Maria Nackid.

It appears that she was born in May 1910 in Ihdin, Zaghartā, Lebanon, but her date of birth isn't certain. She was the daughter of the Lebanese marriage formed by Sa'īd Antūn Nakid (b. 1891) and Wadi'ah Muawwad. Mariyam traveled in Third Class on the *Titanic.*

Her grandmother, Cattur Habīb Nakid was already living in America, so Mariyam's parents bound for her home in Waterbury Connecticut to also go and live there.

On April 14, late at night, *Titanic* had a collision with an iceberg, which caused her to founder.

On April 15, Mariyam and her parents escaped the sinking ship, in which lifeboat and how, is unclear. The family were taken care of in the St. Vincent's Hospital upon arriving in New York on the *Carpathia*, and $62.30 was given to them, and clothes. Meanwhile Cattur was rushing on her way to meet them after learning that they had been *Titanic* passengers.

They changed the spelling of their name to Nackid after they came to the United States and she was called Maria from now on. She contracted Meningitis and died on 30th July 1912, 76 days or 2 and a half months after the shipwreck. She was only 2 years old.

Her remains were interred in Calvary Cemetery, Waterbury.

The parents would go on and live in Waterbury for the remainder of their lives. After the tragic death of their young child, five more kids would follow later.
C-Deck

The C-Deck, also called the Shelter Deck, was the highest deck to run uninterrupted from stem to stern. It included the two well decks. It was the fourth deck, counting from the highest deck, the Boat Deck. The C-deck lays 15 meters above the water line. It started to flood at around 1:00 A.M at the bow of the ship. Around 1:15 A.M. she also started to take on water in the First Class area with the State Rooms, whilst the water started creeping up on the Forward Grand Starcase in the D-deck Reception Room.

## Notable Areas

* Windlass gear
* Forward Well Deck
* First Class Cabins
* Purser's Office
* First Class Cabins
* First Class Barber Shop
* Maid's and Valet's Saloon
* Postal Workers and Marconi Operators Saloon
* Second Class Enclosed Promenade
* Second Class Library
* Aft Well Deck
* Third Class Promenade
* Third Class Main Entrance
* Third Class Smoke Room
* Third Class General Room
* Steering Gear Room
Hudson Joshua Creighton Allison

Joshua Creighton Allison Hudson was born in Chesterville, Ontario, Canada in 1881. Lean and saturnine, with a good head for figures, he was imbued with the Protestant work ethic. He worked for a time as a clerk at Chester Casselman's General Store in Chesterville, but at age 19, he was hired by his uncle, George "Frank" Johnston, to run the brokerage firm's junior division in Montreal, Canada.

Hudson was sent to Buffalo, New York, to learn shorthand. There he worked as a life insurance agent for his uncle and was later sent to Winnipeg (Canada), where he opened an office. Throughout her 2 years in Winnipeg, she met Mark Fortune and Thomson Beattie. During one of his frequent trips to Montreal, he met Bessie Waldo Daniels. They were married in Milwaukee (Wisconsin, USA) on December 9, 1907.

The Allisons were devout Methodists; they taught Sunday school, Bible classes, and Hudson often served as a lay preacher. In 1909, their first daughter, Helen Loraine Allison, was born and in 1911 their son Hudson Trevor Allison was born. That same year, they decided to open the Allison Stock Farm near Winchester, Ontario, and built a new home in Westmount, Canada.

Mr. Hudson Allison served on the board of directors of the British Lumber Corporation and sailed to England for a meeting of directors. While the family was there, they hired domestic staff for their 2 residences: George Swane as Chauffeur, Amelia Mary Brown as Cook, Alice Catherine Cleaver as Trevor's nanny. Sarah Rebecca Daniels as a maid for Lady Bessie.

The Allisons had altered travel plans to sail back with old friends on the Titanic. They boarded the ship in Southampton, England, bound for Montreal, Canada. Mr. Hudson and Mrs. Bessie were in one suite, Sarah and Helen Loraine in another suite, and Alice and Trevor in another suite. The other employees traveled Second Class. On the last night of their lives, Hudson and his wife sat down to dinner with Commander Arthur Godfrey Peuchen and Harry Markland Molson. Bessie then briefly took Loraine into the dining room so she could see how pretty it was.

Unfortunately, on the night of April 14-15, 1912, Titanic struck an iceberg and the family was not worried. Except Sarah Rebecca Daniels and nursemaid Miss Cleaver, who took Trevor with her into a lifeboat. Hudson and his wife suddenly realised they couldn't find their baby and searched everywhere, which caused them to miss out on a chance to get off the ship. Hudson, Bess and their little daughter Lorraine perished in the sinking. Hudson's body was recovered and is buried in the Allison family plot at Maple Ridge Cemetery near Winchester, Ontario, Canada.
Andrew Emslie Johnston

Andrew Emslie Johnston was a native of Bodham, Aberdeen in Scotland. He was born there in 14 May 1876. His father was a meal miller by the name of William Johnston and his mother was Catherine Emslie, both originated from Aberdeenshire. Andrew had four brothers and two sisters. Their names (in order of birth) were William, William Charles, Catherine, Helen, James Tythler and Peter.

They all went to the same local New Machar school and on leaving school, Andrew became apprenticed to a plumbing business and in time became a master plumber. During that time he met Elizabeth Watson. On 24 December 1902 he married her in Glasgow. The couple settled in Croydon, Surrey, England and had two children: William Andrew and Catherine Nellie.

Elizabeth had an older sister, Margaret, living in Sussex. Margaret's daughter Frances Ford, had been working in the United States and would share wonderful stories that got Margaret hooked to the idea of also starting a new life in the States. Elizabeth got keen as well.

The family made plans to emmigrate to the US in October 1911 on board the *Philadelphia* but with difficulties caused by the coal strike they decided to wait for Elizabeth's sister, Margaret and her family, and rearranged their journey on the *Titanic*. They boarded her in Southampton. Travelling with him was his wife Elizabeth, their children William and Catherina, Eliza's sister Margaret Ford with 4 of her children: Margaret, Edward, William and Robin. A friend of the Ford family, Alice Phoebe Harknett, joined them. Andrew Jonston at the time was 35 years old.

Margaret and Elizabeth planned to meet their brother Thomas in New London, Connecticut prior to reuniting with Frances.

Their plans were quickly crossed out as the ship fatally hit an iceberg which caused her to sink. The entire party was lost in the disaster and none of their bodies were ever recovered.
Percival Stainer Deslandes

Percival Stainer Deslandes was a member of the victualling crew on *Titanic*.

## Early life

Percival Stainer Deslandes was born in Islington, London in 1874. Both his parents were from the Channel Islands. His father Theodore Philip Deslandes was a draper from St Helier, Jersey and his mother, Clara Chamberlain, was from Guernsey. Percival had one older sister. His friends and family often called him Percy.

By 1881, the family had moved to Weymouth in Dorset and Theodore was working as a commercial traveller. In 1897 he worked on *Victoria* as the Third Steward.

When he worked as second steward on another ship in 1901, he moved to Southampton. In 1910 he he married Elizabeth Myra Jones, a local girl. The couple settled at 495 Portswood Road. They would have no children. Percy last ship he worked on before the famous liner was the *St Louis*.

## *Titanic*

On April 4, 1912 went to join *Titanic* as a First Class Saloon Steward. He 37 at the time, and was hoping for tips from the rich passengers on *Titanic* which could have doubled his wages of £3 15s a month.

On April 14, later at night, the ship had met its terrible fate by hitting an iceberg. The damage that was sustained below the water line meant that she would flood full of water and sink. On April 15, after midnight the commander of the ship realised she was going to founder, and ordered for evacuation. At 2:20 A.M, the great ocean liner, which was deemed unsinkable, slipped beneath the waves.

Exactly what happened to Percy when the ship sank isn’t certain but it is likely he was on deck, perhaps helping to load the lifeboats. He became a victim of one of the greatest maritime disasters in British history.

## After his death

His body was later recovered from the sea by the CS *Mackay-Bennett.* Percy was the 212th body that they identified. He was still wearing his First Class Steward’s uniform and had a knife with him as well as corkscrews and an empty purse in his pocket. This suggests he was probably on duty at the time of the collision.

Percy was buried at Fairview Lawn Cemetery, Halifax, Nova Scotia on 6 May 1912. He left his estate, worth £185 3s 8d, to his wife Elizabeth, who never remarried and stayed in Southampton until her death in 1961.

Tragically, Percy’s sister, Ada, died in June 1912. Losing both their children in such a short space of time must have been a terrible blow to the Deslandes family. Percy’s grieving parents continued to live in Dorset until their deaths in the 1920s.

## Source

Special thanks and credits to Marie Keates for allowing me to use a large part of this information on her blog:

https://iwalkalone.co.uk/the-final-titanic-tales-from-portswood-part-two/ The final Titanic tales from Portswood part two – I Walk Alone
Mathilde Lefebvre

Mathilde Lefebvre was a French fatality of the *Titanic* disaster on 15 April 1912. She traveled with her mother, brother and two sisters as Third Class passengers.

## Biography

Mathilde Lefebvre was born in Liévin, Pas-de-Calais on 4 May 1899. Her mother was Marie Daumont and her father was Franck Marie Joseph Lefebvre.

In 1910, her father had emigrated with his pre-marital children Marie, Franck and Celina from France to the United States and worked in a mine in Iowa. From there, he brought over his wife and his other four children (Mathilde (12), Jeanne (8), Henri (5) and Ida (3) from Liévin. The family embarked on the *Titanic* in Southampton on April 10 as Third Class passengers. They all perished in the sinking of the *Titanic*.

Mathilde's body was never found.

## Message in a bottle

In 2017, a glass bottle containing a note was found on a beach in Hopewell Rocks, New Brunswick, on Canada's Bay of Fundy. The note was written in French, dated April 13, 1912, and signed by Mathilde Lefebvre. The text states that the bottle was thrown into the sea in the middle of the Atlantic and that the writer hopes to arrive in New York in a few days. The seeker of the bottle is requested to inform the Lefebvre family in Liévin.

The note says: 'I am throwing this bottle into the sea in the middle of the Atlantic. We are due to arrive in New York in a few days. If anyone finds her, tell the Lefebvre family in Lievin.'

These objects were examined by scientists at the University of Québec in Rimouski. The bottle markings and the chemical composition of the bottle glass are compatible with early 20th century manufacture. C14 dating of the cork, paper and ink also failed to disprove authenticity. However, all these analyzes do not rule out counterfeiting, as it is possible that an old bottle, cork and paper may have been used.

On the basis of the sea currents, one would expect that the bottle would wash up in Europe, but the location in Canada cannot be completely excluded on the basis of the sea currents. Another element that was examined is the handwriting. For this there was no comparative material from Mathilde Lefebvre available. But experts say the handwriting used seems too personal for a 12-year-old and too far removed from the handwriting that was taught in French schools at the time.
Arthur Burroughs

Arthur Peckham Burroughs was born in Lewisham, London on October 13, 1877 to Mary Jane Agnes Peckham from Lymington and Arthur Burroughs, a draughtsman from Lewisham. His parents never married, which must have caused quite a scandal at the time. Later that year Mary married Tom Rickman, a carpenter from Lymington. Mary and Tom married in Southampton and set up home in Bullar Street. They had two more children in quick succession. Arthur would have a brother and a sister, named Harry and Rose. The little family lived at various addresses around St Mary’s and Northam during Arthur’s childhood.

By 1901, Arthur appears to have found work at sea, probably as a fireman. Two years later he married Harriett Jane Howells, a Lymington girl like his mother. The couple married in St Denys, and moved into 73 Adelaide Road. Over the next seven years they had three children, Arthur John, Harry and Gwendoline Agnes.

He was 34 years old at the time.

Arthur left the *Philadelphia* to join the Firemen on *Titanic* on April 6th*.* He would have earned £6 a month for the hard, hot and dirty work of shovelling coal into the ship’s boilers.

On April 14, *Titanic* had an unfortunate collision with an iceberg. Water gushed into the ship and she couldn't stay afloat.

Like the majority of the Firemen on board, Arthur was lost when the ship sank. It’s likely he was still down in one of the Boiler Rooms trying to keep the pumps and lights working to ensure that as many passengers as possible would be evacuated safely. His body was never identified but he is remembered on a family headstone in the Old Cemetery in St. Denys.

Harriet remarried in 1915. She had two children with Albert Edward Mullins, a dock policeman. They were Edward Ernest and Edna. Harriet died in Southampton in 1949. All of Arthur’s children remained in Southampton. They went on to have their own marriages and families. Arthur's sons Arthur and Harry became mariners.

## Sources

Special thanks and credits to Marie Keates for allowing me to use a large part of this information of her blog:

https://iwalkalone.co.uk/titanic-tales-from-st-denys : Titanic tales from St Denys – I Walk Alone
Jenny Lovisa Henriksson

Jenny Lovisa Henriksson was a passenger on *Titanic*.

## Early life

Jenny Lovisa Henriksson was a native of Härlingstorp, Axvall, Västergötland, Sweden where she was born in December 21, 1883 as the daughter of Per Henrik Larsson and Mathilda Charlotta Gustafsdotter.

Somewhere before 1890 she lost her mother and her father found a new wife in Emma Kristina Pettersdotter. They pled their vows to eachother on October 19, 1890.

She had 1 sister, who was adopted and three brothers, of which the last one was conceived from the new marriage.

In 1912, Jenny lived in Stockholm, probably with her cousin Elin Pettersson. Jenny worked as a maid in the Riksbank chambers C. Påhlson's household. Previously, she had been a housekeeper for the city fiscal Gottfrid Lustig's family on Skolgatan in Skara and was therefore familiar with the siblings Dagmar and Kurt Bryhl , children in the family, who would also travel with the *Titanic*.

Jenny had been planning to go to America for a long time, but it had never come to fruition. The Skoog family was related to Jenny and Ellen, and when they returned to Sweden after living in Iron Mountain, the girls were inspired again. When the family, contrary to their original intention, decided that they would be best off returning there, they both went along.

## *Titanic*

In Southampton on April 10, they waved goodbye to the piers, as *Titanic* set off on her Maiden Voyage. Jenny was unmarried and 28 years old. She traveled in Third Class, with her cousin Ellen Petterson and the Skoog family. She was on her way to Olaus Rask, 805 East Second St., Iron Mountain, Michigan.

On April 14, *Titanic* had struck an iceberg and the damage to her hull caused her to sink. On April 15 it became clear that evacuation was needed. At 2:20 A.M., with still many souls on board, *Titanic* foundered. It’s not known what really happened to Jenny or the party, but not a single one of them survived.

## After her death

Her parents received SEK 875.52 (£48) from the charity fund. Compensation of SEK 911 (£50) was paid to the father on 4 May 1914.

Her body was recovered as body No. 3 but her idenity was unknown for many years. Since her clothes were marked "J.H." and she was the only one on board with those initials, it can be fairly certain that it is Jenny's body. Claes-Göran Wetterholm and Peter Engberg Klarström identified her in 1987. She wore a cholera belt, apparently afraid of contracting the disease. Such belts were usually made of cloth, had pockets for money, and were impregnated with a foul-smelling liquid that would keep cholera away.

After the *MacKay-Bennett* had picked her up, she was laid to rest at Fairview Lawn Cemetery, Halifax, Nova Scotia,
Victor Francis Sunderland

Victor Francis Sunderland was a young Englishman and Third Class passenger aboard Titanic. He had a cabin on F-Deck. (ticket number SOTON/OQ 392089 £8 1s). Victor was born on Thursday 17th March 1892 in Upton Park, Essex, England. James William Sunderland en Marie Catherine Foley. He lived in London in 1912. As a 20 year old, he boarded Titanic in Southampton.

On the night of April 14th, he and his mates were in their cabin, smoking cigarettes. The iceberg impact felt like a little jar. He and his cabin mates wanted to go up and investigate, so they eventually climbed the stairs with 6 other men from Third Class, and got to the Forecastle, he even saw ice lying on the Forward Well Deck, but the steward insisted they went back since there was nothing to be concerned of, according to him. Going back, they kept awake to continue what they wree doing but after a good while, more than 20 minutes later, suddenly water came seeping into their room. He and his group realised that there was some trouble with the ship and went back up again,

They told the group to return to their cabin to get his life preservers. That was obviously impossible, they went back but of course their room was already under water. Victor and the others split up, some of them went aft. He reached the Boat Deck again.

He saw the Strauss couple and the famous scene taking place. But he still needed a lifebelt and searched, asking a steward who declined and couldn't tell him where to find one.

He has claimed to have seen an officer shoot his revolver once or twice, killing a man. Later he heard another shot, then asked another person what happened, since there was a large crowd, and couldn't tell what was going on, Then this gentleman said it was an officer who committed suicide. After all this commotion, he watched on, but when the ship was nearing it's final moments, the water was getting near the Boat Deck, he thought he wouldn't have a chance to get into a lifeboat anyway and dived overboard, yet he was lucky enough to somehow end up at Collapsible B. This meant he survived the disaster.

In the 1920's, he settled in Toronto.

In 1939 he married May Annie McNaughton. He worked as a plumber.

Victor Francis Sunderland passed in 21 August 1973.
Anthony Abbing

## Biography

Mr. Anthony Abbing was born on Wednesday, May 11th, 1870 in the city of Cincinnati, Ohio, United States. He was the son of Gerhard Heinrich Abbing (1835 - 1882) and Catharina Ising (November 7th, 1844 - November 2nd, 1917), who were German immigrants. Anthony had five younger siblings; Mary Anna (January 30th, 1873 - August 5th, 1934), Louise (February 17th, 1874 - January 16th, 1952), Catherine (1876 - June 27th, 1957), John Joseph (February 7th, 1879 - August 18th, 1934) and Bernard George (1882 - February 13th, 1963).

When he was only twelve years old, Anthony experienced the loss of his father, Gerhard. Since he and his siblings were still very young, Catharina, his mother, had to find work as a washerwoman to support the children until they could support themselves. The family lived in St. Bernard, where Anthony eventually found work as a blacksmith. In 1908, the single man accepted a contract that sent him to work in Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa where he stayed for three whole years.

In 1912, he was ready to get back home in St. Bernard. He booked passage on the brand new R.M.S. Titanic as a third class passenger. His ticket was number 5547, which cost him £7 11s. He had originally booked on another ship but missed it. On Wednesday, April 10th, 1912, he boarded the ship in Southampton. His cabin must have been in the ship’s bow. There is absolutely no mention of his presence on board in any of the survivor’s testimonies. Therefore, it is believed that on the night of the sinking, Anthony got locked down in steerage with other third class men where he drowned. Never having the slightest chance to save himself. His body, if recovered, was never identified.

Anthony had sent a letter saying that he should arrive on April 15th, 1912 aboard another ship. So, when the ship arrived without Anthony and that rumors about the sinking of the Titanic started to circulate around, his mother knew something went wrong and that her son was gone along with the infamous wreckage. A death notice appeared in the newspaper in his memory. His mother and siblings filed for administration on his estate in Hamilton County, Ohio, United State. His mother, who was deeply affected by the loss of her oldest son, gathered all her children for a family portrait in case another one was taken away from her suddenly. The family also paid for a memorial headstone in his honor that is located at St. Mary Catholic Cemetery in St. Bernard. The grave is in section 30, lot 164.

## Photos

Portrait of Anthony Abbing.Portrait of Anthony Abbing.Contract signed by Anthony on October 5th, 1899.Anthony Abbing's death notice.Anthony's story as told by the Cincinnati Enquire on January 24th, 1913.The Abbing family portrait. Seated from left to right: Mary, Catharina & Louise. Standing from left to right: John, Catherine & Bernard.Anthony Abbing's memorial headstone.
Hulda Veström

Miss Hulda Amanda Adolfina Veström was a passenger on *Titanic*.

Hulda Amanda Adolfina Veström was a native of Salmunds, Gotland, Sweden, where she was born in on November 7, 1897 as the daughter of Oscar Adolf Weström and Emma Jsefina Frederika Löfqvist. She had two sisters, one was Johanna Maria born in 1897, the identity of the other sister is unknown.

Hulda’s father migrated in 1903, and lived in America, and it is likely that her aunt Hulda Klasén, who also lived there, had come to visit Sweden to bring her niece over to the States as well.

They traveled via Copenhagen and that was also where they bought the tickets for the *Titanic*. There is some confusion as to whether they traveled together with Klas Albin and Gertrud Emilia Klasén.

They left the Southampton docks on 10th of April. Hulda was 14 years old at the time. On board the *Titanic*, Hulda and Hulda Klasén joined a group of Swedish Third Class passangers led by Edvin Lundström.

On April 14, *Titanic* had hit an iceberg late in the night, and started to sink, which was confirmed on April 15 around midnight, and the order was given to evacuate. What happened to Hulda and the others is unknown, but she perished in the disaster that followed when the ship went down by the head and foundered 2 hours and 20 minutes after the collision. The girl's body was lost at sea.

Hulda’s mother received SEK 875:52 (£48) from the charity fund, and on 12 June 1914 she received compensation for damages of SEK 455:50 (£25).
R.M.S. Titanic Wiki

## **Welcome on board the R.M.S. Titanic**

**On April 10th, 1912, the infamous R.M.S. Titanic set sail from Southampton on a journey across the Atlantic to New York. It is not a secret that she would never arrive at her destination.**

### Discover the story of the ship

Discover the story of the most infamous ship in the world. From the idea of her conception to her birth in the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast.

### Learn the stories of her passengers

Learn the stories of each passenger that was on board the ship. From the story of the richest man in the world traveling in First Class, to the one of a Third Class immigrant wishing to experience the American Dream, you'll be amazed by what some passengers had to go through while finding themselves stuck on a sinking vessel in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean.

First Class Passengers

Second Class Passengers

Third Class Passengers

### Get to know her crew

The Titanic could have never set sail without her precious crew members. From the engineering crew working day and night for the ship to keep moving forward, to the victualling crew, those who made sure the passengers were all nice and comfortable, you'll be surprised by the heroic actions of the crew members during the ship's last moments.

Deck Crew

Engineering Crew

Restaurant Staff

Victualling Crew

## The goal of my website

The goal of this website is to keep the memory of those 2 209 people who were on board the ill-fated R.M.S. Titanic alive through complete biographies.

As of Thursday October 29th, 2020, you can read 24 different biographies, which represent 1,09% of my task done.

As of Sunday January 22th, 2023, the amount of different biographies has increased a lot.
August Johannes Abrahamsson

August Johannes Abrahamson was a sailor born on July 15, 1892 in Taalintehdas or Dalsbruk, Dragsfjärd in the southwest part of Finland. The town was bilingual. The first name is in Finnish, the other in Swedish. He was the youngest child of Anton Abrahamsson and Klara Vilhelmina Vendenberg. He had two known siblings: Anton and Aina Aliina.

August Abrahamson sailed aboard the SS *Polaris* from Hankö via Copenhagen to Hull, England on April 3, 1912. His destination was Hoboken, New Jersey, where his brother Anton Abrahamson resided.

On April 10, he had stepped aboard *Titanic* in Southampton, having bought a ticket for Third Class which cost 269 Finnish marks. August traveled with Eino Lindqvist, also from Taalintehdas. They were accompanied by Eino’s sister Helga Hirvonen and her daughter Hildur. On the *Titanic* August shared his cabin with five other Finns.

On April 14, at late night, August was asleep in his cabin when the incident with the iceberg occurred. At first he was not going to get up, but changed his mind, because a cabin mate had gone up and didn't return for a good while, so now he was suspecting there was something wrong, and went to warn Eino Lindqvist in a cabin one deck above his own. Having done that, he moved back to his own cabin to find seawater pouring in.

Not being able to fetch a lifevest, he and Eino ascended to the Boat Deck and looked for Eino’s family members. August managed to board lifeboat 15. While the boat sailed away from the ever faster foundering ship, he described hearing stifled explosions as the ship went down and her lights burning bright untill then.

After August arrived in New York on the RMS *Carpathia* on April 18, he was stationed at St. Vincent’s Hospital for a while.

Upon release, August returned to England, via which he traveled back to Finland and in 1914 he met the love of his life, named Martta Johanna Nummelin. She was from Finland. They got married and eventually settled in Brooklyn, New York, where he worked as a ship carpenter as well as a supplier. Martta had been to the United States before in 1913. During World War 1 he worked at a shipyard, Cranes & Co. The couple would have no children.

August Abrahamson did an passport application in New York in February 1921, in which he states that he has resided in the United States continuously for 8 years and 9 months. His previous passport, issued in Turku, Finland in 1912, was lost when the *Titanic* sank. He visited Finland together with his wife Martha in the 1920s. Between 1930 and 1940 he would work as a building contractor.

August Abrahamson died in America on 16 August 1961 at the age of 69. His wife Martta would outlive him for at least another 16 years and she passed away on 15 Agusust 1978. They were both laid to rest in the same grave at the Brooklyn Evergreen Cemetery.