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Roderick Chisholm

Roderick Chisholm was a British designer; together with Thomas Andrews, he was co-designer of the *Titanic*. He died on the night of the disaster of the famous ocean liner.

Roderick Chisholm was born in Dumbarton, on 20 December 1868.

His father, James Chisholm came from Urray, a village situated in the county of Ross-shire and was a ship's master; his mother, Sophia Voaden , was originally from County Devon. The couple had married in Devon in 1860 and had eight children: James sr, Duncan, James Jr. Mary, Roderick, Charlotte ,John and Jessie.

In 1881, the family lived in the village of Old Kilpatrick, Dunbartonshire (Scotland); in 1891 they moved to Clydebank.

Around this time, Roderick became a ship designer and a few years later moved to Belfast, where he was employed by Harland and Wolff. His ability led him, in the years to come, to the design of the ocean liners Olympic and Titanic. He also designed the lifeboats for Harland and Wolff.

In 1897, he married Susan Anderson in Lisburn, County Down; the couple had two children: Alice (1897-2002) and James (1899-1960), both born in Belfast.

Chisholm was one of the selected Harland and Wolff employees to oversee the smooth running of the Titanic's maiden voyage, also known as the Guarantee Group.

On the night of April 14, 1912, the Titanic fatally collided with an iceberg, sinking a few hours later; Chisholm was unable to save himself and died in the sinking. His body, if recovered, was never identified. His estate amounted to about £140, of which his widow became the beneficiary.

His wife remained at her home on Sandford Avenue, Pottinger, Belfast for the rest of her life and died on 22 February 1961 at the age of 87. She is buried in Roselawn Cemetery, Belfast, with her son James. Daughter Alice was married in Belfast in 1919 to Alfred McCambley (1894-1976) and died on 11 February 2002 at the age of 104 and she too is buried in Roselawn Cemetery.
Karolina Byström

Karolina Byström was a Second Class passenger on *Titanic*.

Karolina Jansdotter was born in either 1869,1870 or 1872. There’s no certainty about which year, or even the date. Some sources say February 2, 1872 and others mention 11 November 1872. She was from Högbo, Gävleborgs County, Sweden, the daugher of landowner Isak Byström who was married to Lisa Jansdotter. Three years later she would get a brother, named Anders Johan.

Karoline migrated to the United States in 1891 to settle in New York. Another Swedish migrant, Louis Byström, had come to the United States one year prior, and they found eachother, after which they married on 8 July 1899. On 27 April 1910 she and her husband had their home in Manthattan, New York, and Louis worked as a carpenter.

In 1911 she had visited relatives in Högbo, Östanby, Sandviken and was now on her way home.

She took a sea voyage from Göteburg to Hull in England. From there on, she made it to Southampton, where she got aboard the new luxury liner, the RMS *Titanic*, and traveled Second Class. Her ticket had cost her £13.

On the night of April 14, *Titanic* had grazed an iceberg and started to sink as a consequence. What happened to her before, during the collision, evacuation and sinking is not known, but she was rescued in a lifeboat.

Karolina tried to get compensation out of the White Star Line, at a sum of $350 for her lost belongings and her luggage that had gone down with the ship.

## Later Life

Karolina would cross the Atlantic between Sweden and North America a couple of times in the years that followed.

At some point, she had abandoned Louis without leaving a trace. He had no idea where she was and began an investigation. After five years, he still had no informatoin and had believed she died. Therefore, they were officially seperated and divorced whilst Karolina pretended that she was a widow.

During her voyages and travel, she met another Swede, named Per Berggren. Per had immigrated to New York in 1911, and was onboard the SS *Albania*, the same ship as Berggren, which sailed to Europe, and both Per and Karolina had planned to visit someone in Sweden. It turned out the people they visited were neighbours of eachother.

Per was an inventor and would work as watchmaker and had taught himself the art of jewellery. He invented the drafting pen, for which he asked a patent. Between 1917 and 1921 he ran the Universal Drafting Pen Company. He was a watchmaker when they fell in love and wed eachother on 23 July 1924. They lived in New York.

Per passed away in 1952.

Karoline lived the rest of her life in New York, inherting her brother’s estate in 1957 and she herself had passed on 3 June 1964, reaching the age of 91.
Daniël Buckley

**Pvt. Daniel Buckley, Jr.** (28 September 1890 – 15 October 1918) was one of the survivors of the sinking of the RMS *Titanic* on 15 April 1912. He was also an American soldier during World War I and died in combat.

## Biography

Daniel Buckley, Jr. was the son of Daniel Buckley, Sr. and Abigail Sullivan of Boherbue, County Cork, Ireland. In 1905, they moved to Ballydesmond (then Kingwilliamstown), where his father served as the town's baker. Like many other Irish young people at the time, Daniel felt that he could have a better life and make more money in the United States. By 1912, he and a group of friends decided to make the long transatlantic voyage on the *Titanic*.

Since Buckley slept in a Third Class cabin near the ship's bow, he could hear the sound of the impact when the ship hit an iceberg on the night of April 14th. He immediately thought that something was wrong, but his bunkmates didn't believe it was serious. Well over 20 minutes later, he turned on the light, and they could see water on the floor. Buckley went up to the Boat Deck and was among a group of steerage passengers who forced their way through a locked gate. More trouble arose when the men in the lifeboat Daniel had gotten into were ordered out, supposedly at gunpoint. However, Buckley attempted to hide at the bottom of the boat and a female passenger threw a shawl over him, thus disguising him as a woman. He believed that his savior was Madeleine Astor, though according to historical record, it seems more likely that she was Mrs. Appleton, as Mrs. Astor was in a different lifeboat.

After his safe arrival in America, Daniel settled in Manhattan, where he worked in a hotel. In June 1917, he joined the army for World War I. He was in the 69th Regiment, which was made up entirely of other Irishmen. After undergoing basic training at Camp Mills in Long Island, Buckley arrived in France in the fall of 1917 with Company K of the 165th U.S. Infantry (which the 69th Regiment had been reconstituted as). In October 1918, Buckley was killed by a sniper while helping to retrieve wounded soldiers on the Meuse-Argonne front. He was initially buried in France, but his remains were taken to Ireland in the spring of 1919.
Amalie Gieger

Amalie Henriette Gieger was born on 26 August 1876 in Königsberg, Prussia but other details about her early life remain unknown. She was the sister of Bertha Auguste Gieger; Louise Blasinski; Auguste Schmidt en Eduard Gieger.

She first appeared in the USA in 1900, departing from Liverpool and arriving in New York aboard the *Lucania* on October 30th. She was shown arriving in New York in May of 1903 aboard *St. Paul. I*n May of 1905 she arrived aboard *Kronprinz Wilhelm* and in September of 1907 aboard the *Adriatic* and by which time she was employed by the Widener Family. She had again taken voyage to the USA in May of 1909 aboard the *Mauretania.* Her sister Bertha Gieger lived at Elisabeth Strasse, Bromberg in Posen, Germany (modern day Bydgosczcz, Poland) but by the 1920's and 1930's was a resident of Dresden.

Amalie was shown on the 1910 US census as a maid of the George Dutton Widener family at their home in Cheltenham, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.

## *Titanic*

Following a trip to Europe with the Widener's she boarded the RMS *Titanic* at Cherbourg as a First Class passenger and travelling on the same ticket as her was the Widener Family and their valet Edwin Keeping. She occupied cabin C-130. On the night of the sinking, the group waited near lifeboat 4 for around an hour.

At around 1:45 AM, lifeboat 4 started letting people in the boat. Amalie and Eleanor boarded the lifeboat, leaving George, Harry, and Edwin. lifeboat 4 was the 10th boat to reach the RMS Carpathia t around 6:55 AM. She later found out that George, Harry, and Edwin all died in the sinking. Only Edwin's body was recovered.

## Later life

It appears that she remained in Eleanor's employ for the rest of her life; when she sailed aboard *Pancras* from Brazil in October of 1924, she gave her contact as Dr. Alexander Hamilton Rice, Eleanor's second husband. She was shown arriving in New York on October 31st, 1914 aboard *New Amsterdam,* having departed from Rotterdam. In May of 1922, she sailed aboard *Mauretania,* still described as a lady's maid. The last time she was shown travelling was in September of 1932 when she was a passenger aboard the *Deutschland.*

Amalie applied for US citizenship on January 28th, 1925; at the time her address was 5th Avenue and she was described as standing at 5'4 with brown hair, blue eyes, and a fair complexion, weighing 128 lbs. She became a naturalized citizen on December 19th, 1927, by which point her address was West 148th Street. She appears on the 1930 census living at 144th Street, Manhattan and she had no stated profession. Amalie never married and died in Manhattan on November 14th, 1933 and was later cremated at Garden State Crematorium in North Bergen on November 18th, 1933. The ashes were handed over to the 7th Merritt Funeral Home.
Joseph Peruschitz

Josef Peruschitz was born on 21 March 1871, in Straßlach-Dingharting, Germany. He was a Bavarian cleric and Benedictine who died in the shipwreck of the RMS *Titanic*. Peruschitz lived in Dorfen from 1872, where his father Mathias Peruschitz opened a building materials trade. His mother was Elisabeth Peruschitz, née Neudecker. Benedikt attended grammar school from 1877 to 1882, before becoming a student at the Royal Freising College of Studies (now Dom-Gymnasium Freising) from 1886. There he graduated from secondary school in August 1890.

Peruschitz attended the minor seminary in Dorfen from 1876 to 1882, and then the major seminary in Freising from 1886. He entered the Benedictines of Scheyern in 1894. He then began his studies in Philosophy and later Theology at the Royal Lyceum. and was ordained a priest in 1895. A little later he took his Eternal Vows. He taught subjects as diverse as mathematics, music and physical education at the Scheyern Benedictine school.

In 1912 he was appointed director of the Swiss Benedictine school in Minnesota (United States). He first left for England, where he spent the Holy Week with the Benedictines of Ramsgate.

He boarded the *Titanic* in Southampton as a Second Class passenger. Here he presided every day at the Holy Mass. He was one of two Catholic priests aboard the ship.

According to eyewitness accounts, both priests led the prayer after the ship's fateful collision with the iceberg. The same eyewitnesses have confirmed that Father Peruschitz refused to take a seat in one of the lifeboats and insisted that others should be rescued.

He perished in the disaster and his body, if recovered at all, was never identified.

In the convent of Scheyern a memorial stone was bricked up, the Latin text of which reads:

> "May he rest in peace: Reverend Father Josef Peruschitz, o.s.b., who piously sacrificed himself on the ship Titanic, at the age of 42 years, in the seventeenth year of his priesthood and solemn profession".
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Vincenz Kink

Vincenz Kink was a *Titanic* passenger and victim of the sinking of this ship. He was born on 25 July 1885 in Mahrensdorf, Styria, Austria. He was son of Vinzenz Kink-Hofer. He had one sibling, Anton Kink, born on 7 March 1883. A sister was born in 1889, but sadly, their father died shortly after that. In May 1911, the month that *Titanic* would be launched, they lost their mother too.

After their parents died, he worked as an unmarried storekeeper who moved with his sister Maria to live with their brother Anton in Zürich, Switzerland. The family agreed to emigrate to America and boarded the *Titanic* in Southampton as Third Class passengers.

He was in cabin #58 towards the bow on F-Deck along with his brother and Albert Wirz, Josef Arnold, Leo Zimmermann and a man from Bohemia, most likely Wenzel Linhart.

On the night of April 14, disaster struck as *Titanic* had grazed an iceberg, and he was awoken by the collision. He ran up the four decks to the Forward Well Deck, followed by his brother. They saw the iceberg and immediately returned to their cabin to dress and collect life preservers when water began to flood their cabin. They went to collect their sister Maria, Anton's wife Luise and daughter Luise. As they made their way to the Boat Deck, Vincenz and Maria were lost in the crowd.

Vincenz was never seen again and perished in the sinking. His sister Maria wasn't saved either. Anton, his wife and daughter did manage to find a lifeboat to be rescued. Vincenz' body wasn't recovered.

Later, Anton receieved a compensation for losing his brother.
Mary Conover Lines

Mary Conover Lines was born July 27, 1895 in Mt. Vernon, New York as the daughter of Dr Ernest H. Lines and Elizabeth Lindsey James. Her father was President of the New York Life Insurance Company. The Lines family had lived for many years in Paris, France, and Mary was educated in both Paris and Italy.

In April 1912, Mary and her mother were traveling to the United States to attend her brother's graduation from Dartmouth College. Dr. Lines was to accompany the women but was prevented by business at the last moment. Mary and her mother boarded RMS Titanic at Cherbourg as First Class passengers and occupied cabin D-28. Her father had actually booked for Titanic as well, but at the last moment, press of business caused Dr. Lines to remain in Paris, this may have saved his life.

On Saturday 13 April the two ladies had just finished lunch in the First Class Dining Room on D-Deck. They had made a habit of stopping for coffee in the adjoining reception room following their meal. After she had taken a seat, Captain Smith and Bruce Ismay came and sat at a table nearby and began discussing the possibility of having the last boilers lit. Her mother recognized Mr. Ismay from several years back when they had both lived in New York, and she confirmed his identity with her table steward.

Miss Lines and her mother became alarmed when the ship stopped and the noise of steam being vented out could be heard. During the sinking, an officer tied lifebelts on Mrs. Lines and her daughter, saying: "We are sending you out as a matter of precaution. We hope you will be back for breakfast."  Instead their breakfast was on Carpathia. She and her mother were picked up by the Cunarder after having been rescued in lifeboat 9. Later in life, Mary Lines said that two things stuck in her memory about that night. One was the intense cold and the other was the cries of those in the water, which slowly faded as the hours went by.

On Carpathia, her mother was giving a cabin however Mary was forced to sleep on the floor, together with a girl of her age.

Mary sent a letter to her Parisian school friend on April 16, Helen M. Iselin to tell everything that happened.  Mary attended a girl’s school, Cours Fénelon. The letter was in French.

In 1919 Mary married to Sargent Holbrook Wellman. They settled in Topsfield, Massachusetts and had a daughter and two sons.

On 23 November 1975, after having suffered from a stroke, Mary Conover Lines died at her home in Massachusetts, aged 80.
Gösta Leonard Pålsson

Gösta Leonard Pålsson was the youngest child of the Pålsson family. He, his two brothers, sister and mother were on their way to America to meet up with their father, who had migrated there 2 years prior. They were on the RMS *Titanic* at her maiden voyage, when the liner had a fatal collision with an iceberg which proved she wasn't unsinkable. The whole family perished in the disaster that followed. The boy was only 2 years old at the time.

Gösta Leonard Pålsson was born as the son of Alma Cornelia Pålsson, who was married to his father Nils Pålsson on 12 September 1902, in Bjuv, Malmöhus (Skåne), Sweden, where Gösta Leonard Pålsson was brought into the world on 3 January 1910.

His siblings were Torborg Danira, Paul Folke, and Stina Viola Pålsson. His father had given up on his job as a miner and migrated to America in 1910. After working hard for two years he had sent tickets so his famly could come over. Alma Pålsson and her children came aboard Titanic in Southampton on April 10, 1912 to travel to the USA and be reunited with their husband and father. Gösta would meet his father for the first time, because he was actually born after his father's departure.

## The fateful night

*Titanic* had grazed against an iceberg at 11:40 P.M. on April 14th and the ship started to sink.

When the ship was sinking it took a long time to get the four children ready. Alma was a very caring mother and always wanted her children to be at their best and in this case they had to be dressed as warm as possible. She came too late for the lifeboats and met Wennerström and the Lindells on the Boat Deck near Collapsible A. Wennerström tried to hold on to two of the children as she had asked him to, but when the ship made a dive, water came up on them, Wennerström lost his grip and both disappeared. Wennerström survived, the Lindells and Alma and her children were not.
Florence Thorneycroft

Florence Kate Thorneycroft (née Stears) was born on the first of July in 1879 in Lenham, Maidstone Borough, Kent, England. Her parents were John Stears, an agricultural labourer, and Christiana Filmer.

In later years, she met a man. His name was Percival Thorneycroft who was in the agricultural business. They married on the 26th of December 1899 in Thurnham, Kent. One child, John Frederick was born but he sadly didn't survive infancy.

In 1911 she had lost her father, and they had taken her widowed mother in their home. They still lived in Thurnham.

She boarded *Titanic* with her husband Percival on April 10, 1912 in Southampton. They travelled in Third Class. An acquaintance they knew from Kent, Charles Robert Guest, joined them. Florence was 32 years at the time.

Her voyage was anything but pleasant. She was pestered by seasickness and in effect couldn't get enough sleep because of this. It's not surprising then that on the night of April 14, she clearly felt a jar and noticed how the motion of the engines ceased. She and her husband Percy then got dressed and moved up, joining a small group of Third Class passengers led forward by stewards. According to her later testimony, she had to leave her husband behind because at some point the men were held back, threatened even, and only the women could continue on the way to the Boat Deck.

She convinced herself he would be allowed up later on. But it turned out later that her optimism wasn't justified. Then she was just thrown into a lifeboat, it is pressumed that it had been lifeboat 10, but this isn't certain. There is a possibility it was lifeboat 12.

When arriving in New York on the RMS *Carpathia* she didn't want to settle in the USA. She returned to England to her family after a voyage abord the RMS *Adriatic* on July 5, 1912.

Florence remarried, and she pled her vows to her cousin Albert White in 1913. He was from Kent and a labourer, they never got children.

She has often told people about her story of the sinking, but she developed an early stage of dementia at relatively young age. Her family has said that the cause of this must lie in the traumas she had gotten from that fateful night, and losing her husband would have certainly have taken a part in that too.

She died in 1950 in Bromley, Maidstone, Kent. She reached the age of 70. Her husband Albert survived her and passed 11 years later, in 1961.
E-Deck

**E Deck,**known as the **Upper Deck,** is the 6th deck from the bottom, laying 6-7 meters above the waterline.

The flooding of E-deck started around 12:30 A.M, being one of the earlier decks to flood, but only in the forward bow section. After 1:00 A.M, the water reached Scotland Road. Scotland Road is the nickname for the corridor that ran along 2/3s of the midsection of the ship and connected the 3rd class sections located in the bow and stern areas of the ship. Many crews cabins, mainly concentrated in the Scotland Road, are positioned at a long road without any watertight doors at the port side of the ship. It's also wider than the usual gangways, uninterrupted and it let much water through during the sinking, causing *Titanic* to list 2 degrees to the port side 10 minutes later.

Most of the Watertight Bulkheads ended at this deck, although a few even reached D Deck.

## Notable areas of Titanic

* Store
* Trimmers' Berths
* Spiral Staircase (for firemen, greasers & trimmers)
* Seamen's Berths
* 3rd Class Cabins (Section B)
* Crew Alleyway
	+ Crew's Quarters (mostly on E Deck. Others on the other decks)
		- Trimmers' Berths
		- Seamen's Berths
		- Master-at-Arms Cabin
		- Various Crew Cabins
		- Steward's Berths
		- Plate Washer's Berths
		- Scullions' Berths
		- Second Class Stewards' Berths
		- Stewardess Cabins (all over the place)
		- Saloon Waiters' Berths
		- First Class Stewards' Berths
		- Kitchen Staffs' Berths
		- Engineer's Mess
		- Engineer's Office
		- Engineer's Entrance
		- Restaurant Staff Berths
		- Galley Hoist
		- Potato Storage, Mener & Wash place

* First Class Cabins (Forward)
* First Class E-Deck Entrance
* First Class Alt. Cabins
* Second Class Alt. Cabins
* Second Class Cabins (including one for the Musicians)
* Second Class Barber Shop
* Second Class Forward E Deck Entrance
* Chief Second Class Steward's Office/Cabin
* Second Class Cabins (Aft)
* Second Class Assistant Purser's Office & Cabin
* Second Class Aft E Deck Entrance
* Third Class Cabins (Sections K,M,Q)
* Third Class E Deck Entrance

## Cabins

* E-12: Harry Anderson
* E-23: Margaret Brown
* E-25: John Irwin Flynn and James Robert McGough
* E-31: Herbert and Carrie Chaffee
* E-33: Edith and Elsie Bowerman
* E-36: Mabel Francatelli
* E-63: Arthur Gee
* E-101: Susan Webber, Edwina Celia Troutt, Nora Agnes Keane
* #161: Katie Gilnagh, Katie Mullin, Margaret Murphy and Kate Murphy
Alfred Olliver

**Alfred John Olliver** (June 2nd 1884 - June 18th 1934) was one of the seven quartermasters of the RMS *Titanic*. His brother-in-law Walter John Perkis also worked on the ship with him and worked with him previously on the RMS Olympic.

### Early life

Alfred John Olliver was born in St Ouen, Jersey, Channel Islands on June 2nd 1884, His father was Pierre Olliver, a farmer of French descent and his mother was Eliza Le Cornu, a Jersey native. He was one of eleven children. His family would relocate to St Nicholas while Alfred worked at sea at the young age of 16, During 1901, Alfred enlisted in the Royal Navy.

Alfred married Amelia Gertrude Perkins during late 1910 in Southampton. The couple got three children. In 1911, Alfred enlisted on the Olympic and work with his brother-in-law, Walter John Perkis.

### RMS Titanic

Alfred enlisted on the Titanic as Quartermaster on April 6th 1912 and gave his address which was on 38 Andersons Road (Southampton), He boarded the ship in Belfast.

### Collision with Ice

On the night of April 14th, Alfred had been at the bridge since 10 P.M., and would be relieved by Quartermaster Robert Hichens. During his shift Alfred delivered messages between officers and the wheelhouse. He is thought to be on bridge when the collision with the iceberg happened, He would describe the iceberg being as tall as the Boat Deck or a little taller. Alfred was ordered to go find the Carpenter to take a draft of the water, He found Carpenter John Maxwell on D-Deck. Alfred then delivered a message to Chief Engineer Joseph Bell, Bell told Alfred to deliver a message to Captain Edward John Smith that he would 'get it done as soon as possible'. After Alfred served the duties, He was ordered into lifeboat 5 by Third Officer Herbert John Pitman, Pitman wanted to go back but passengers thought it was not safe, Alfred backed this story up in the US Inquiry. Lifeboat 5 was picked up by the RMS Carpathia and Alfred along with other survivors disembarked at New York.

### Inquiry and Later life

Alfred attented the US Inquiry to give his testimony,in which he stated that the passenger in his boat didn't want to go back to help those in the water. This would back up Third Officer Pitman's story and Alfred indirectly mentioned the Break-up of the Titanic, But only hearing it. Alfred continued working for White Star Line but never returned to sea, Alfred returned to Jersey and passed there on June 18th 1934. His grave would remain unmarked untill the 100th anniversary of Titanic's sinking, when he finally got his headstone, His widowed wife Amelia died on January 26th 1975.
Joseph Francis Akerman

## Biography

Mr. Joseph Francis Akerman was born on Thursday, May 14th, 1874 in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England. He was the son of Joseph Akerman (1845 - 1914) and his wife Fanny Palmer (1845 - 1925). Both were Wiltshire natives who had married in 1871. He had five siblings; William Henry (1872 - ?), Eliza (1875 - ?), Arthur Wallace (1877 - ?), Albert Edward (November 13th, 1880 - April 15th, 1912) and Alice Maud (1882 - ?).

Joseph is first seen on the 1881 census living with his family at 12 Spring Place in Salisbury with his father being listed as a general labourer. On the 1891 census, the family is now seen living at 37 Green Croft Street and his father is now listed as a tractor engine driver and Joseph as a milkman. In late 1898, Joseph got married to Emily Kate Francis (1876 - 1951) and together had six children; Lillian (1899 - ?), Gladys (1901 - ?), Doris (1904 - 1905), William Frank (January 24th, 1906 - 1980), Vera May (1909 - 1918), Herbert George (May 22nd, 1911 - 1993) and Joseph Francis (December 16th, 1912 - 1983). On the 1901 census, Joseph, his wife and children are seen living at 6 George Street, Northam, Southampton, Hampshire, England. On the 1911 census, the family is now seen living at 25 Rochester Street in Southampton and Joseph is listed as a steward for the American Line.

When Joseph signed on the Titanic on April 4th, 1912, he gave his address at 25 Rochester Street, Southampton, Hampshire, England, and his last ship as being the R.M.S. Oceanic. He would work as an assistant pantry steward and receive monthly wages of £3 15s. His brother Albert, who had also signed up to work on Titanic, would work as a third class steward. Both Joseph and Albert would perish in the sinking. Their last moments remain unknown and while Albert's body was never recovered, Joseph's was. It was the 205th body recovered by the C.S. Mackay-Bennett. He was brought back to Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada and buried at Fairview Lawn Cemetery on May 6th, 1912.

Emily, Joseph's wife, had been pregnant at the time of the disaster and on December 16th, 1912, she gave birth to a son that she named in his father's memory. Emily never remarried and she died there in 1951. The Akerman brothers are remembered on the St. Augustine Church Memorial in Southampton.

## Photos

Joseph's body recovery description, page one.Joseph's body recovery description, page two.Joseph's gravestone in Fairview Lawn Cemetery.St. Augustine Church Memorial in Southampton.
Orlop and Lower Orlop Deck

**The Orlop Deck** is the ninth deck down from the top and it’s well below the waterline. It is between the Tank Top and G Deck. The Mail Room and the Cargo Holds are on this deck. This deck was completely off-limits to passengers. The boiler rooms from the Tank Top extended through the Orlop Deck up to G Deck. There were 3 cargo holds forward and 3 cargo holds aft.

This deck had the mailroom, cargo holds, the casings for the boiler & engine rooms, parcel & specie rooms, refrigerated cargo, & CO2 evaporator room.

## Notable Areas of the Olympic-class

* Store
* Chain Locker
* Cargo Hold No. 1
* Cargo Hold No. 2
* 1st & 2nd Class Baggage Hold
* Specie Room
* Parcel Room
* Mail Room
* Coal Bunkers
* Boiler Casings
* Reciprocating Engine Casing
* CO2 Evaporator Room and Brine Pump Room
* Turbine Casing
* Switchboard Platform
* Refrigerated Storage Rooms
* Refrigerated Cargo Hold
* Cargo Hold No. 6
* Aft Peak Tank
Julia Barry

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

## Biography

Julia Barry was born on 16 October 1881 in Killeentierna, Currow, County Kerry, Ireland as the daughter of Michael Barry, a bricklayer and farmer, and Julia Prendiville. They married in May 1859 in Arderone. Julia was the youngest child, and had eleven siblings: Mary, Abigail, Johanna, Catherine, Ellen, Michael, Thomas, Patrick, James, Edmund and Johana.

By 1901 she was unemployed and a resident in her parents' house. Her brother Edward emigrated in 1908, settling in Yonkers, New York, where he worked as a bricklayer. Several of her other siblings also moved to the United States, her sister Mary in Elizabeth, New Jersey, her sister Hannah in Franklin, New Hampshire, and her sister Ellen in Springfield, Massachusetts.

Julia crossed the Atlantic for the first time in 1905, departing from Queenstown on September 2 and arriving in Manhattan aboard the RMS *Cedric* on September 10. She was 23 and unmarried. Julia was destined for her sister Ellen's residence in Springfield. In 1910 she worked as a servant for Charles D. Haskell. Julia would eventually settle in New York City.

Julia returned to Ireland between late 1910 and early 1911 in order to take care of her mother, who suffered from heart problems.

For her return to the United States, Julia had planned to board the RMS *Celtic*, but decided to travel on the RMS *Titanic* to have a faster voyage, informing her brother Edward of her change of plans and her arrival in New York within four days. She asked him to meet her at the docks. A few days before boarding the *Titanic*, Julia took a boat trip through the lakes of Killarney, where she lost her umbrella after falling overboard, which the boatman interpreted as a bad omen.

Julia boarded the *Titanic* in Queenstown on 11 April 1912 in Third Class. Contemporary reports say she was traveling with five other people, whom Julia left behind in Ireland in her eagerness to reach the United States as soon as possible. She was 20 years old at the time.

On the night of the 14th of April, the ocean liner hit an iceberg, sinking in the early hours of April 15.Julia perished in the shipwreck and her body, if recovered, was never identified. Her brother Edward went to Cunard Pier hoping she would be among the survivors. Her sister Mary had discovered that Julia was traveling aboard the *Titanic* when she saw the last name Barry on the list of missing, receiving a letter from Edward the next day confirming that Julia was onboard. Both went to several hospitals in New York in order to find her, without success obviously. Several months later, Julia's father received $3,000 in financial compensation for the loss of his daughter.
Ida Andersson

Ida Augusta Margareta Andersson (November 24, 1873 – April 15, 1912) was a Third Class passenger on the RMS *Titanic* who perished in the sinking of the ocean liner.

## Biography

Born in Sventorp (Skaraborg County, Sweden), Ida was the daughter of Anders Johan, a small landowner, and Anna Greta Carlsson (née Andersdotter), who married in 1852. Ida had seven siblings: Johan Alfred (born May 3, 1853), Anna Kristina Elisabet (born November 7, 1861), August Linus (born November 26, 1863), Hilda Maria (born July 3, 1868), Karl Oskar (born July 21, 1870 ), Hilma Susanna (born November 3, 1876) and Josef Timoteus (born December 21, 1878).

Ida traveled to America for the first time on May 26, 1893, although she returned to Sweden in July of the following year. It is probable that he traveled to America for the second time, returning again to his native country. In the late 1890s (probably between 1898 and 1899), Ida was working as a servant in the house of photographer Karl Erik Ludvig Eriksson in Skövde, Småkand, moving on November 25, 1910 to the Lagmansbro farm in Vadsbro, Södermanland, where she worked as a housekeeper, a position held by at least six other women around 1911.

Hilda Maria had emigrated to the United States on October 28, 1887, where she married Axel Johnson in Manistee (Michigan) on August 26, 1890, dying after giving birth on March 7, 1909. At the time of her death , Hilda and her husband were in charge of their seven children (including the newborn) and the three children of Axel's older brother, Andrew. It has been suggested that the reason Ida traveled to the United States on this occasion was to take care of the ten children, although the descendants of the family believe that Ida was going to marry Axel, although it seems that Andrew had also shown interest. in her. However, according to the Gamla och nya hemlandet (Swedish-language newspaper published in Illinois): "The reasons for his decision to seek his fortune in the USA are not known."

Ida boarded the RMS Titanic in Southampton on April 10, 1912 as a Third Class passenger with ticket number 347091.

On the night of the 14th of April, the liner hit an iceberg, sinking after 2 hours and 40 minutes. Ida perished in the shipwreck and her body was never recovered.

The Mansion House Fund paid SEK 874.08 (£48) to Greta Olsson and SEK 924 (£50) in damages to Johan Carlsson. According to a letter written by Ester, Ida's niece, Astor Insurance, owned by John Jacob Astor IV (also deceased in the shipwreck), paid a total of $300 to each of Axel's children.
Farīd Husayn Qāsim Al-Munà

Mr. Farīd Husayn Qāsim Al-Munà was born in 1893 in the small mountain village of Shānā, Mount Lebanon Governorate, Lebanon.

Farīd spent his whole life in Shānā and in 1912, was working as a farmhand in the community. In 1910, his cousin Nasīf Qāsim Abī-Al-Munà, who had been living in the United States since 1903, had returned to Shānā to visit his parents. While in Shānā, it is believed that Nasīf opened up about living the American Dream to young Farīd and, therefore, convincing him to move to the United States too. They would be joined by two other relatives; Farīda Ibrāhīm, Nasīf's cousin, and her eleven-year-old son Husayn Mahmūd Ibrāhīm.

On a late March morning, the group left on a horse-drawn gharry to Bayrūt where they boarded a ship that would take them all the way across the Mediterranean Sea to Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France. There, they had to undergo physical examinations by French officials. All but Farīda passed the examination. It was discovered that the woman had trachoma, a contagious bacterial eye infection. She was forced to get back to Bayrūt on the first ship that would arrive to port, separating her from her son Husayn who cried in fear as his mother was taken away. For the rest of the journey, Nasīf and Farīd had full responsibility of little Husayn.

Once in Marseille, the group learned about a ship that would leave in three days from Cherbourg, Normandie, France. So they took a train and travelled to Paris where they stayed until the day of the departure of their ship. From there, they took a last train to Cherbourg where Farīd bought ticket number 2700, which cost him £7 4s 7d, and on Wednesday, April 10th, 1912, the group boarded the S.S. Traffic which took them to the beautiful R.M.S. Titanic. Once on board, the group was amazed by how beautiful Titanic was. Nasīf described the ship as "Being more like Broadway than Broadway itself!". Nasīf and Husayn shared a cabin together at the poop of the ship where the women, children and families were staying, while Farīd was placed at the bow of the ship with the other single men. Farīd perished in the sinking and it is strongly believed that he got locked down in steerage with the other third class men where he drowned. His body, if recovered, was never identified.
Samuel Abelson

## Biography

Mr. Samuel Abelson was born in 1882 in Russia. He had at least one brother.

He became a bookkeeper and married Hannah Nantes Jacobson, an expert dressmaker. The couple lived in Paris, Île-De-France, France, for most of their life and never had children. Samuel's brother who lived in New York, New York, United States, would often send letters to the Abelson couple explaining how he lived the American Dream. These letters would really influence the couple who, in 1912, sold everything in order to move to New York. They bought ticket 3381, which cost £24, and on April 10th, 1912, boarded the brand new liner *Titanic* in Cherbourg as Second Class passengers.

On April 14 April, 20 minutes before midnight, *Titanic* had hit an iceberg but Samuel and his wife didn't hear anything and were asleep. Around midnight, the couple were in bed when they suddenly heard a knock on the door. Hannah went to answer the door and a steward advised her of the situation. The couple put on their shoes and a life jacket and left their cabin still wearing their pajamas. Once on deck, they were told about the "women and children only" situation and Samuel knew he would have to let his wife go. He placed her safely into lifeboat number 10 before stepping back into the crowd never to be seen again. He would perish that night and his body was never found.

His wife survived and later got remarried to WWI veteran Edward Douglas Bolton.
Mary Winnie Coutts

Mary Winnie 'Minnie' Coutts was a Third Class passenger on *Titanic*.

Mary Winnie Trainor originated from Ireland, where she was born to farmer Hugh Trainor and his wife Mary Treanor in the town of Donagh in Monaghan, on 2 February 1876.

She married William Coutts a gold and silver engraver and former solider from Haddingtonshire, Scotland. They took their vows in Kent, England in the spring of 1902. The follwing years, Winnie gave birth to two sons, William was first on October 2, 1902 and Neville Leslie came into this world later in 1908.

In early 1912, William senior decided the family should immigrate to the United States and he went ahead, after which he raised enough funds to book Second Class passage for his family to join him. Yet, Minnie booked Third Class berths on *Titanic* to save money. She boarded the ship with her two sons William and Neville on April 10th in Southampton, England. At the time she was 36 and her two boys were 9 and 3.

On the night of April 14, a small judder was felt by Minnie but she kept on sleeping as it hadn't really disturbed her. Fifteen minutes later there was a lot of rumors on the hallway so she got up to take a look at what all the fuzz was about, but saw nothing. She was waiting untill her patience was done and located two lifebelts, which wasn't enough but at least she made sure her boys were ready to evacuate and dressed them warmly. When getting out again, a crew member guided her up when she felt a bit lost.

The family could initially find no way to gain access to the Boat Deck and were on the verge of giving up hope when a crewman spotted them and said: "Hurry now, all women and children to the lifeboats", and led the family to the Boat Deck. They escaped on lifeboat 2, after she had to persist in getting William onboard with him, she had an argument when the seaman in charge who thought he looked older than 9, confused by William's straw hat.

After the *Carpathia* had taken them aboard and brought them to New York, they were reunited with William in Brooklyn. After the happy reunion in New York, the Couttses moved to Maplewood, New Jersey.

Minnie was widowed in 1956 and then lived with her son Neville gving interviews about her experiences as late as 1957. She passed away on February 29, 1960 at the age of 84. Cremation followed.
Antoinette Flegenheim

**Antoinette "Tony" Flegenheim** (11 May 1863 – 8 April 1943) was a survivor of the sinking of the *RMS Titanic*.

## Early life

Flegenheim was born **Berta Antonia Maria Wendt** on 11 May 1863 in Himmelpfort near Berlin, Germany. Her parents were Wilhelm and Pauline Wendt. In 1890, she moved to New York and married a fellow German, Alfred Flegenheim. Alfred died on 23 November 1907. Flegenheim was wealthy and possessed residences both in Berlin and Manhattan.

## Sinking of *Titanic*

Flegenheim was one of the 281 passengers who boarded RMS *Titanic* on 10 April 1912 when it took its first stop in Cherbourg, France. She travelled in First Class. The vessel would take one more stop in Queenstown, Ireland before the ill-fated transatlantic crossing. On 14 April 1912, *Titanic* collided with an iceberg on its maiden voyage in the North Atlantic Ocean.

At 00:25 A.M. on 15 April 1912, Flegenheim departed *Titanic* with 27 others on Lifeboat No. 7, the first to be lowered. The lifeboat was deployed without its plug and began to take on water which, as fellow lifeboat occupant Dorothy Gibson put it, was "remedied" by lingerie and garments being stuffed into the hole.

Flegenheim and the other Lifeboat No. 7 occupants were rescued approximately four hours after they were lowered from *Titanic* by RMS *Carpathia*.

## Later life

Soon after the sinking of *Titanic*, on 20 June 1912, Flegenheim married Briton Paul Elliot Whitehurst (born c. 1878). She and Whitehurst lived in The Hague, Netherlands during the First World War but the two separated in this period. Flegenheim died in Frankfurt, Nazi Germany on 8 April 1943.
Helen Bishop

Helen Bishop (born Walton) was a daughter of a successful business man and a First Class passenger on *Titanic*.

She was a very pretty lady at 19 years old. Helen married widower Dickinson H. Bishop on 7th November 1911 in Sturgis, Michigan. For their honeymoon they decided to travel to Europe and North Africa. They travelled to Europe aboard White Star Lines, RMS Adriatic.

They decided to return to their home to Dowagiac, Michigan, by joining the maiden voyage of White Star Lines new RMS Titanic. By the time she boarded Titanic Helen was pregnant. They also had acquired a dog named Freu Freu while traveling in Italy.

Helen and her husband Dickinson H. Bishop from Dowagiac, MI, USA, boarded the ''Titanic'' at Cherbourg. They occupied cabin B-49.

On the night of April 14 Helen had already retired to bed and Dick was reading in their stateroom when the ''Titanic'' struck the iceberg. Helen reported that she did not hear or feel any shock. Helen Bishop also stated that when they went on deck, someone said the newly married couples should be put into the lifeboat first and that there were three newlywed couples in their boat. However, this was not mentioned during her later testimony at the US Inquiry into the disaster. At the inquiry, Helen Bishop also recalled seeing John Jacob Astor IV urging them to put their lifebelts on and board a boat. An officer took Mrs. Bishop by the arm and told her to quietly get into the lifeboat; after that, her husband was pushed into the boat with her. Helen Bishop said there were 12 women, 13 men and three crew members in the lifeboat; she continued by saying many of the men in the boat were not married.

The couple was struck with ill luck in their life, and they had to endure a lot. One intense occurance after another disrupted their peace. On Sunday 8th December 1912, Helen gave birth to their baby son, Randall Walton Bishop. Sadly he died just two days after he was born.

On 5 November 1914, Helen tragically suffered from a serious car accident in which she was badly injured, in a car driven by her husband's cousin Bartlett Dickinson, when they returned from a dance party. He lost control speeding with an iced-up windshield. The car hit a tree and Helen was thrown 25 feet from the car, fracturing her skull. Her injuries were so bad that, the next day, the New York Times reported that she was dying. Dickinson only suffered minor injuries. Helen Bishop's head injuries were indeed very severe, they were reported as being fatal by *The New York Times*. In an attempt to save Helen's life, her doctors tried what was then a new technique: a silver plate was affixed to her skull to cover the badly injured area.

Allthough she recovered somewhat, it is said that the accident changed her mentally. In January 1916 Dickinson and Helen divorced. There were once rumors that Mr Bishop had dressed as a woman and that this gossip had affected Helen. She died two months later, on March 16, 1916, after falling at a friend's home on a visit to Danville, Illinois. The big car accident certainly hadn't helped, she might have survived this fall without it.
Auguste Louis Coutin

**Auguste Louis Coutin** was a French cook and an employee of *Titanic*'s À la Carte Restaurant .

Auguste Louis Coutin was born on 7 March 1884 in Chambéry, Savoie. He was the first son of Joseph Coutin a restaurateur and owner of the *Joseph Coutin Café* at 14, Rue Croix d'Or. He was married to Joséphine Bugnard.

Auguste learned to cook in his parents' café and then worked in Parisian restaurants before being hired in 1904 by Luigi Gatti, an Italian chef who owned two restaurants in London. On 30 May 1905, Auguste married Ernestine Fournier,with whom he had two children: Robert, born 18 October 1904, and Marcelle, born 10 June 1908.

In June 1911, the ocean liner *Olympic* entered service. The À la Carte Restaurant was managed by Luigi Gatti who appointed Auguste as the chef of the tickets; a few days later, on June 19, his wife Ernestine passed away. Following her death, he sent his children to Chambéry so that his parents could take care of their grandchildren.

When the *Titanic*, *Olympic*'s sister ship and White Star Line's flagship, entered service, the *Olympic's* crew, under the guide of Luigi Gatti, moved entirely to the new ship. Auguste Louis Coutin was given the fuction of Entree Cook on *Titanic*. He was 28 years old at the time.

On the night of April 14, 1912, the ship collided with an iceberg in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean on its way to New York and sank within three hours. Auguste died in the tragedy, like the rest of Luigi Gatti's team. Only the two female Cashiers and the kitchen's clerk survived, out of more than 69 employees.

His body was never found or identified. Above the family tomb the inscription says: "To the memory of Auguste Coutin (1884-1912) / Deceased in the catastrophe of the *Titanic*."
Malakah Atā Allāh

Malakah Atā Allāh was a passenger on *Titanic*.

## Background

In 1894, Malakah Atā Allāh was born to Sim'ān Yūsuf 'Atā Allāh and his wife. She came into this world in Beirut, Syria which was under Ottoman rule at the time but since 1920 it’s the main capital of the Lebanon. She was the younger sister of Susian.

When she grew up, she worked as a seamstress. In 1911, she lost her mother. This could have made her decide to seek out her father who lived in Texas, USA. Yūsuf Hānī Ibrāhīm-Shawah was her brother-in-law and husband of elder sister Susian. The pair had also seen the necessity of going to Texas but an eye infection stopped Susian and her children from coming. Malakah was now on her way with Yūsuf.

## *Titanic*

On April 10, they found passage aboard the mighty new vessel called the RMS *Titanic* in Cherbourg. This ship was ultimately luxurious, even for Malakah and Yūsuf who were in Third Class. From a tender they were brought to the ship in the evening.

On April 14, the impossible happened. An iceberg was directly in *Titanic*’s path but could not be perceived until she was less than half a mile away. Quick action was taken to move out of the way, but the *Titanic*’s rudder was too small to make her turn fast enough, even when the engines were put in reverse. There was not enough time and *Titanic*’s bow scraped against the iceberg on the starboard side. The direct collision was evaded, but this one was more deadly. The openings that occured over a great length of *Titanic*’s hull were enough to put tons of water into the ship.

On April 15, midnight, *Titanic*’s captain Smith knew what was awaiting them. He had to evacuate as he heard from the ship’s designer that it wat mathematically impossible to keep her afloat. *Titanic*’s fate was sealed. The lifeboats were uncovered and swung out. It’s not known what Malakah and Yūsuf did but they could not get off the ship safely. She and Yūsuf became victims of the tragedy. Their bodies were lost to the sea.

## After her death

For Sim’an, the Red Cross made $500 available and Titanic Relief Fund gave him an extra $15.

He stayed in Texas were he kept peddling fruit and vegetables till 1929, when he passed away.