Lusitania sinking - 1915 - Family History & Genealogy Message Board

Re: Sarah KING (Mrs Michael DOCHERTY) being deported back to the UK on the Lusitania

janicecracknell — 2013-02-14 21:50:03Z

Hi
Sarah King is the great grandmother of my step-father who died on the Lusitania in 1915 and I have some information I would like to share with you. You could contact me on ajc_tango@hotmail.co.uk or Janicecraknell via ancestry.
Hope you will read this message as I notice you posted it in 2004.
Angela

John Herbert WOODS, Lusitania death

1970robertwoods — 2013-02-09 21:39:36Z

I know these messages are old, but you should have had up to date info sent to you by now.

Get in touch, speak soon

Re: Lusitania Crew List online lookup ?

ianpeake — 2013-01-09 13:52:58Z

Hi Vivian

I am not sure if you got my second message yesterday. You responded to the first one very quickly, but I have not had a reply to my second one, so not sure if I messed it up and you never got it. My e-mail address is ianpeake@warwickshire.gov.uk

I would love to know more about my Great Step Grandfater & his family. I also have a cousin in Australia who is desperate to complete the full family tree and you may be able to help him.

Re: Lusitania Crew List online lookup ?

ianpeake — 2013-01-08 12:33:03Z

Hello, I live in Leamington Spa with my father. My e-mail address is ianpeake@warwickshire.gov.uk

Please feel free to mail me directly. My mother was Stella Peake (was Barrett). Her mother was Francis Barrett from Todmorden. Francis ='s mother married Gibson after her first husband died in WW1. So, Gibson was my Mums step grandfather. Joan was my mothers Aunt, and she lived with Frank in Southend. Joans 2 girls, Kathy & Christine are still alive as is Joan and still ivie in Essex. I have a cousin in Australia who is doing the family tree, and I am sure he would like to get in touch with you.

Re: Lusitania Crew List online lookup ?

vivkev — 2013-01-08 12:15:00Z

Hello, I think we must be talking about the same Gibson Ingham. My father, Leslie, is Gibson's nephew he is 87 now and we live in Rugby. I think Joan must be your great grandmother, I met her many years ago when my sister Hilary and I visited her in Southend, also when my dad was 65 I think she came to his party with his sister Gladys. Please reply. Best regards, Vivian

Re: Lusitania Crew List online lookup ?

ianpeake — 2013-01-08 09:35:15Z

My Great Great Grandfather was called Gibson Ingham. He was a sailor and lived in Yourkshre in a town called Todmorden. He married my Great Great grandma in the 20's. Her 1st husband died in WW1, her name was Shepherd. She had Francis, and then Joan & Margaret with Gibson. Joan is still alive, but Margaret is now dead. Joan has 2 girls, Kathy & Christine, both are still alive and live in Exxex. Not sure if we are talking about the same Gibson, he was born in Todmorden in 1892 I think, and passed away in 1970's. He wore a flat cap & clogs!

Re: Re: Theodore Diamandis

nickdiamand — 2012-12-07 13:58:57Z

Mike, I'm afraid I don't have much info other than he died in 1926 in Greece of what we suspect was stomach cancer(born 1875). Are you related? Nick.

Re: Theodore Diamandis

mikejim007 — 2012-12-05 16:25:57Z

Hi Nick
Could you tell us where and when Theodore passed away?
He gave excellent testimony after the sinking
Mike

Re: Theodore Diamandis

nickdiamand — 2012-12-05 16:25:40Z

Hi, your great-uncle is my grandfather so that makes us, what cousins? :) Would love to exchange info. if you're still using this board. I'm new to this & noticed another message you wrote in 1999 but am not sure how to access it so haven't seen the whole message - mentions Theo & a Constantine?
I've attached a picture of the silk handkerchief Theo had w/ him when the Lusitania went down. (The numbers are wrong as I later found out)

Re: Relatives of Angela Pappadopoulo and Leonidas Bistis Lusitania sinking

ayanur_bagranov — 2012-10-28 14:00:06Z

Thank you! No I'm sorry but I don't remember her russian second husband's name... I remember I found that information studing her family a few years ago and I just saw today this topic so I decide to write. I think Angela relatives'descendants who still live in Italy today maybe know that. If you want to know more I should send you by private message their contact. I think they could have more information for sure.

Re: Relatives of Angela Pappadopoulo and Leonidas Bistis Lusitania sinking

mikejim007 — 2012-10-28 13:43:47Z

Again, I can't thank you enough for all your help. Look forward to emailing with you

Re: Relatives of Angela Pappadopoulo and Leonidas Bistis Lusitania sinking

mikejim007 — 2012-10-28 13:12:50Z

Thank you so much! What amazing info! Do you know what her second husband's name is?

Re: Relatives of Angela Pappadopoulo and Leonidas Bistis Lusitania sinking

ayanur_bagranov — 2012-10-28 13:03:17Z

Hi,
about Angela Pappadopoulo I have these news I would like to share with you. A few years ago I met here in Roma (Italy), Angela relatives and they told the right pronunciation of her husband's surname was Papadopoulos.
Angela Papadopoulos was born in Naples October the 26th 1883 by an italian nobleman and his mistress. When she was 18/20 she moved to Greece where she married Mr. Michael Papadopoulos a Greek citizen 11 years her senior and so she took the Greek citizen. The couple lived in Athens. He was a rugs merchant. They had at least 1 daughter and 1 son.
Angela survived the Lusitania sinking and moved back to Athens via Paris. She arrived in Athens on July the 15 th.
Due to Michael’s death, shortly after her back to Athens, she decided she could not continue his trade and so she moved back to Paris when she spent the rest of her life. In Paris she lived at 14 rue Sainte-Croix de la Bretonnerie.
In France she served as nurse during the First World War. In 1924 she married in Paris a Russian count refugee and she died May the 1st 1926 at 43. I think her children didn't survived to her, because she left heirs of her estate her stepbrothers.

Relatives of Angela PAPPADOPOULO and Leonidas BISTIS, Lusitania sinking

2012-10-28 12:59:52Z

Hi
I am looking for relatives of Angela Pappadopoulo and Leonidas Bistis. They were passengers on the Lusitania in 1915 when the ship sank. Angela lost her husband Michael in the disaster. Any help is appreciated.
Mike Poirier

Re: sydney durand on the lusitania

conniejane1 — 2012-09-11 11:42:43Z

Many Thanks. shall go and have a look now. All the best.
Jane

Re: sydney durand on the lusitania

eddie71 — 2012-09-11 11:26:43Z

Hi

Here is the web site were I found Sydney with the spelling of his surname as Dewrance.

Sydney is listed as a Victualling this means he was working on the ship not a passenger

http://www.rmslusitania.info/people/lusitania-victims/

You may have to join up to the site to get help with changing his name

Hope this helps
Shelagh

sydney DURAND on the lusitania

conniejane1 — 2012-09-06 22:12:40Z

I am trying to find out if sydney durand of liverpool, b 1896, was on the lusitania when it went down. family have always been told that he died when on the lusitania but I can find no documentation for him. can anyone help? thank you

Re: sydney durand on the lusitania

conniejane1 — 2012-09-06 21:07:09Z

please has anyone got the Lusitania crew list from Liverpool to New York in April 1915? Have seen the passenger list but no crew members are on that.
I desperately need to find the crew on the voyage out to New York, before it's return voyage to Liverpool when it was sunk. I am looking for 18 year old Sydney/Sidney, Durand/Dewrance, who was presumed drowned on the Lucy when it was sunk in may 1915.
many thanks to anyone that can help. xxx

Re: Lusitania Crew List online lookup ?

katepearson3 — 2012-08-16 13:13:22Z

you can look them up yourself ;)
http://www.rmslusitania.info/
click on "people" at the top and then check the crew lists!!!

Re: Lusitania Crew member

1970robertwoods — 2012-07-26 12:56:14Z

http://www.immigrantships.net/v4/1900v4/lusitania19150507.ht...

list of people who died on the ship almost near the bottom of the list

Re: Lusitania Crew List online lookup ?

peattie — 2012-07-21 16:08:10Z

Hi, could you look up Albert James Read who was known to be steward. Many thanks, Kathy.

Re: Lusitania Crew member

chr174 — 2012-06-10 16:27:45Z

Thank you for your reply.
My grandmother,Elizabeth, was John Herberts' sister.
There are one or two people searching this line some correct some not so!
I hope you have been able to see my tree and fill in any gaps on yours.There is a picture of Alice Thorpe and one of John Herbert.
Alice and James are causing a problem as their marriage certificate is untraceable!! So I can't trace the family any further back.If you have any more info it would be a great help.

Re: Lusitania Crew member

queencheops — 2012-06-10 05:26:43Z

My grandfather was Herbert Woods and one of the oldest children of John Herbert Woods and Margaret Cottrell. He was one of six children and his father John Herbert Woods died on the Lusitania in 1915 leaving his wife with 6 children. My grandfather was placed in the Liverpool Seaman's Orphanage until his mother could get back on her feet. John is my great-grandfather on my mother's side of the family. I do know that his parents were Alice Thorpe and James Woods, but that is all I know at this time-still doing research. I have a picture of my great-grandfather with his family before going on the Lusitania and "after" picture showing my great-grandmother with the children. I also have a picture of him on the Lusitania when he first started to work on it.

the Lusitania Crew list

1_roykneath — 2012-06-08 13:27:15Z

Hi

My Grandmothers brother John Albert Henry Tilton born in 1888 Birmingham acording to family stories went down with the Lusitania is there anyway to check this out
roykneath@yahoo.co.uk

Re: Lusitania Crew List online lookup ?

1_roykneath — 2012-06-08 13:26:19Z

Hi

My Grandmothers brother John Albert Henry Tilton born in 1888 Birmingham acording to family stories went down with the Lusitania is there anyway to check this out
roykneath@yahoo.co.uk

Re: Lusitania Crew List online lookup ?

katepearson3 — 2012-04-14 18:39:00Z

Are you still looking for a list of the crew of the Lusitania? If you are, you can find one here :
http://www.rmslusitania.info/

I had a great uncle who went down on her. Poor man was a trimmer, I guess he was down in the bowels of the ship and couldn't escape.

Regards

Kate

Re: Lusitania sinking 1915

emjackson58 — 2012-04-11 13:14:01Z

Hi Beverley
I sincerely hope you pick this up!
My grandfather was also on the lusitania and sadly he too perished leaving behing his young wife and small 3 year old son. He was returning to the uk, travelling on his own. His name was Percy (Thornton) Jackson. Percy's father was a William Jackson born in 1852/3.

Please feel free to contact me, perhaps there is a connection somewhere here!

Re: Lusitania survivors

OldSods — 2012-04-02 10:48:27Z

Thank you but they don't seem to appear on any lists I have checked. It is frustrating.

Re: Lusitania survivors

emuwhitney — 2012-03-30 17:30:53Z

http://www.rmslusitania.info/multimedia/downloads/

Try scrolling through the lists. My great, great aunt was one of those who did not survive the sinking of the ship. Hope you find them.

Re: Lusitania survivors

OldSods — 2012-02-21 13:51:57Z

Thank you, I did check that but they are not listed. I believe as they were trimmers they may not have been recorded on any crew list when set sail.

Re: Lusitania survivors

mi2early — 2012-02-21 13:41:46Z

Not sure what information you're seeking, but searching the web for "Lusitania survivors list" will bring up passenger and survivors lists.

Lusitania survivors

OldSods — 2012-02-21 13:36:56Z

I understand one of my relatives, Charles Drake, and his two step brothers (Tinker and Jimmer) survived the sinking of the Lusitania. I believe they were trimmers. Can anyone help? Thank you.

Re: Lusitania Crew List online lookup ? John Teather PIPER

jacquelinedawson1 — 2012-01-20 13:13:45Z

Hello

I am looking for some information on John Teather Piper, who I think was an Officer on the Lusitania.

Thanks in advance

Jacqueline

Re: Lusitania Crew List online lookup ?

Davit16 — 2011-11-24 14:24:26Z

Hello,
There was no "Henry Atkinson" on board the Lusitania and no rating of First Class Officer on the Lusitania. My first instinct was that this person might be Mr. Henry Adams, a 56 year old first class passenger whose body washed ashore and was numbered 237. His wife of one month, a Canadian, survived the disaster, but lost her senses due to the trauma of the sinking. She died not long after in an asylum. I believe that the person mentioned in 1933 was a recollection of a name over heard 18 years prior as there was no easy way to access the Cunard records as we can today. Hope this helps in your endeavour.
Brian

Re: Lusitania Crew List online lookup ?

vivkev — 2011-11-24 13:24:14Z

Hi Brian

Can you look in your list for my great uncle Gibson Ingham
who it's said was a surviving crewman on the Lusitania.

Many thanks

Viv

Re: Lusitania Crew List online lookup ?

mwalsh5647 — 2011-11-10 00:07:51Z

Book published in 1933 "Twenty Years A-Growing" by Maurice O'Sullivan about life in the Blasket Isles off the Kerry coast of Ireland states that body with ID of Henry Atkinson, London, first-class officer SS Lusitania, drifted ashore after sinking. Calling card was retrieved by police. I doubt O'Sullivan saw it the time because he was a boy then. He may have seen it later in the Twenties when he became a policeman himself.

The book, published by Viking Press here, was popular and reprinted three times in '33. Preface was by E.M. Foster, the famous English author. Even so, I haven't been able to locate Atkinson in the crew lists available on Google. The whole thing was probably cleared up at the time of publication, but I can't confirm that either. Perhaps someone reading this can.

Re: Lusitania Crew List online lookup ?

Davit16 — 2011-10-16 13:19:02Z

There was a surviving crewman named Joseph Archer...

Re: Lusitania Crew List online lookup ?

alistairandjackie — 2011-10-02 13:00:21Z

Hi
I am trying to find out if my Great Grandfather was on the Lusitania when it went down.

He was a fireman (Stoker) as far as I know.
Name of William (McDougall) King, born 1882 so would have been 33 years old.

Can you help please to look up if you have a crew list ?

Many Thanks.

Alistair Kershaw.

Re: Lusitania Crew List online lookup ?

GenealogyLunatic — 2011-09-23 04:01:51Z

Try http://www.rmslusitania.info/

Re: Lusitania Crew List online lookup ?

althetad1 — 2011-08-08 12:59:48Z

Hi Brian
I am looking for a Charles Dobson, he is a GG Uncle and is believed to have survived the sinking of the Lusitania, would it be possible to look on your crew listing please.
Many Regards
Allan Pateman

Re: Lusitania Crew List online lookup ?

junemcgowan1 — 2011-05-10 13:23:49Z

My grandfather was supposed to have been on the Lucitania: his name was Harry Gainsford Payne: apparently he got a medal for helping passengers over the burning deck as he burnt his hands ...but not sure how true this is. My grandfather lived in Liverpool and travelled the ships to Amercia and back to Liverpool.

Re: Lusitania Crew member

chr174 — 2011-02-18 13:54:33Z

Thanks for getting back to me.
It does get very confusing as they had so many children and lots fo them were named after fathers and grfathers.
I have Alice Thorp being married to James Woods(is this the James that survived?)
Who is the mother and father of John Herbert,I orginally thought he was my grandmothers brother?
Your info on the Luisitania sounds familiar with things my mother told me but I was contacted by a relative of Robert who told me about the Mauretania.May be we are at cross purposes.
Alice did have 13 children but only 4 that I know of survived.
Do you have any details on Alice and James as I have come to t a dead end as the marriage does not seem to be recorded.
What is the name of your husbands father?
Do nyou have a family tree to view?
Sorry for all the questions,but would be great to fill in all the gaps.
Best Wishes.

Re: Lusitania Crew member

lynandleswoods — 2011-02-18 00:01:55Z

Sorry, Just re-read this and relised I got name wrong. Alice Thorp was John Henry's mother. His wife was Margaret Cottril.

Re: Lusitania Crew member

lynandleswoods — 2011-02-17 23:55:27Z

We believe John Herbert Woods was married to Alice Thorp. The family story is that John was a stoker on the Lucsitania and Alice was expecting her 6th child (my husband's father) when the ship went down. There were two J. Woods on board, John and a James. It was said that Alice recieved a telegram to say J. Woods had survived but later got one to say he had drowned and it was James that survived. I followed up on this at the Maritime Museum in Liverpool and found he was listed in the deceased crew members and ws told his name is on the WW1 War Memorial at Tower Hill London.

Re: Lusitania Crew member

chr174 — 2011-02-17 21:48:16Z

How interesting. My grmother was Johns sister. I believe John died on the Mauretania but have no other info or marriage details . You are welcome to view my tree . Would be pleased to get more details if you have them .

Re: Lusitania Crew member

lynandleswoods — 2011-02-17 21:02:21Z

Good. I'm intregued, as John Herbert Woods would have been my husband's grandfather. Would love any info you may have regarding him & his parents etc.

Re: Crew member

chr174 — 2011-02-17 15:49:03Z

Forgot all about that post! Yes thanks was contacted by one of his nephews.
thanks

Nina ( Mrs Hedley ) HOLLAND survived the 1915 sinking

2011-01-25 19:51:10Z

Hello
My name is Mike and I am looking for relatives of Nina Holland who survived the 1915 sinking of the "Lusy".
Any help is appreciated
Mike

Winifred HULL ( Mrs. George HULL) survived the sinking

2011-01-25 19:50:39Z

Hi
Am looking for relatives of Winifred Hull. She survived the sinking of the Lusy. Have some interesting info to share.
Mike

Sarah KING (Mrs Michael DOCHERTY) being deported back to the UK on the Lusitania

abking2004 — 2011-01-25 19:48:28Z

My relative Sarah King died on the Lusitania in May 1915. On the passenger list it says she was being deported back to the UK. I would like to find out why she was being deported. I don't know exactly when she arrived in America, but she had a child Maria born in Sale, Manchester, England in 1912. The child stayed in Manchester with her grandparents Tommy and Maria King. I don't know what happened to Sarah's partner Michael Docherty (they never marrried).
Can anyone tell me where I can find out about deportations from the USA to UK in May 1915 or any other useful information. Many thanks.