by Lady Kathleen | Feb 27, 2019 | Children of the Titanic
Hopefully, somebody has some information about the Peacock’s. I would like to find out who Tom Peacock was and how he was linked to the Titanic. My grandma says her father talked about him. He said Tom inherited some money from a relative in England. He went...
by Lady Kathleen | Feb 26, 2019 | Children of the Titanic
I am a fifth cousin to Major Archibald Butt. never knew much about him and didn’t learn about him until the Titanic came out and I went to see it. I have found out all the information that I know about him through the Internet. Thanks Caro...
by Lady Kathleen | Feb 25, 2019 | The Stories Go On
Before my 1st husband died, he told me this story: His grandparents lived in England and decided to move to Canada. They bought tickets to ride on the Titanic. When it came close to the day to sail, grandma got sick and ended up in the hospital. She told grandpa to go...
by Lady Kathleen | Feb 24, 2019 | The Stories Go On
Sea flat calm, no moon, no wind, no swell. On a starlit night of April 14, 1912, the great new White Star liner Titanic, on her maiden voyage from Southampton to New York had brushed an iceberg in the pre-dawn darkness. She brushed the iceberg so gently that many on...
by Lady Kathleen | Feb 23, 2019 | Children of the Titanic
Dear Kathleen, I was browsing through the CHILDREN OF THE TITANIC webpage and saw someone was looking for a Melville surname connection. A Melville family, related to Herman Melville of MOBY DICK fame, settled in Galena, IL, about 30 minutes away, in the late 1800s....