by Lady Kathleen | Mar 12, 2019 | Children of the Titanic
My name is Lillian Bygdnes, my great great grandfather`s brother Charles Dahl was one of the 3rd class passanger survivers. He was born in Tromsø in Norway on 22 July 1866. His parents named him Carl Edvard Dahl, but when he moved to Australia as a grown man he...
by Lady Kathleen | Mar 11, 2019 | Children of the Titanic
The interest in the Titanic is amazing. From the time I was a child, I was told the stories of how my Great Grandfather had gone down on this ship. Just an ordinary man, a steward, but tragity takes the great and the small.I know very little of my ancestry, only what...
by Lady Kathleen | Feb 27, 2019 | Children of the Titanic
I am the great-grand daughter of Ernest Edward Archer, who was a deckhand on the Titanic. He survived the disaster, being rescued in lifeboat #16. He was born the son of a farm laborer in Romsey Hampshire, in 1876 and died of tuberculosis in 1917, brought on...
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 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....
