by Lady Kathleen | Oct 29, 2018 | Believe it or Not
Do you believe in the Mummy’s Curse?? In 1881 Douglas Murray, of the British Foreign Office in Egypt, Purchased a mummy from the Egyptian government & brought it on board the ship he was sailing back to England. A few nights into the voyage Murray shot...
by Lady Kathleen | Oct 28, 2018 | Believe it or Not
Today, the pier is home to a golf driving range, a digital studio and a microbrewery. In 1912, it was the pier for ships of the White Star line. The Carpathia stopped at Pier 59 to drop off White Star property: lifeboats from the R.M.S. , which it had collected from...
by Lady Kathleen | Oct 27, 2018 | Children of the Titanic
My Grandmother told me she is related to a Matthew Hoffman, Titanic passenger. As the story goes, Mr. Hoffman ran away with his two children Lota/Loto and Louis, leaving the children’s mother (name unknown at this time) desperate and grief stricken. Mr. Hoffman...
by Lady Kathleen | Oct 26, 2018 | Children of the Titanic
Dear Kathleen hope one of your many readers will be able to help, I was told by my grandmother that her father Francis Henry Smith was due to sail on the titanic, but he was also a skipper on a yacht for Lord Ingersol and he was required to sail for him about that...
by Lady Kathleen | Oct 25, 2018 | Children of the Titanic
My grandfather, Leonard Hardwick is the only son of Reginald Hardwick. Leonard’s only child Patricia Hardwick is my mother. Written by Barry Johnston