by Lady Kathleen | Dec 13, 2018 | Children of the Titanic
I am a third cousin to the Ryerson family, traveling first class from Cherbourg France to Cooperstown NY, which is where I currently reside. They were on their way to Cooperstown to bury one of their sons who had died in a train accident. Arthur Landen Ryerson was...
by Lady Kathleen | Dec 12, 2018 | Children of the Titanic
I have included everything that is currently known about Maggie Madigan. I have contacted the researcher and he thinks that my grandfather, who was born in County Kerry, is not related to Maggie’s family. I am still working on researching this. Maggie was born...
by Lady Kathleen | Dec 11, 2018 | Believe it or Not
Instead, in the early morning of April 15, 1912. Even now, there is something surprisingly contemporary about that calamity. It is as if it were just now striking that iceberg, just now listing and sinking, if only because we can so readily imagine ourselves on board,...
by Lady Kathleen | Dec 10, 2018 | Children of the Titanic
James Farrell could very well be the inspiration for “Tommy Ryan” in James Cameron’s Titanic. He was an Irish man who demanded that crew members open the gates for women and chidren, and died in the sinking. He is generally believed to be a kind man,...
by Lady Kathleen | Dec 9, 2018 | Children of the Titanic
While looking through all the names listed on the Titanic site at: Encyclopedia Titanica I found a “L. Maskell” who was an engineering trimmer on the ship. My family stems from England. There are not many “Maskell’s” in the world. I wish...
