RMS Titanic Disaster Centenary - 15 April 2012

jdbythesea · Post by **jdbythesea** » Mon 26 Mar, 2012 9:12 pm

As the anniversary date is approaching I was looking for information about the Titanic, hoping to find some link with Leeds and I came across this website; www.encyclopedia-titanica.org I found the site to be really informative and discovered there were indeed some passengers with Leeds connections. It's well worth a look.Anybody have any stories to share?JD

Leodian · Post by **Leodian** » Mon 26 Mar, 2012 9:44 pm

That's a very interesting site jdbythesea. It is sad that, as far as I know, there are now no survivors known to still be alive. As some were very young they would only be aged a little over 100 so there could have been some still alive. The youngest survivor I saw in the lists was a THOMAS/TANNOUS, Master Assad Alexander aged 5 months but who sadly died on June 12 1931.

Post by **chameleon** » Mon 26 Mar, 2012 10:36 pm

jdbythesea wrote: As the anniversary date is approaching I was looking for information about the Titanic, hoping to find some link with Leeds and I came across this website; www.encyclopedia-titanica.org I found the site to be really informative and discovered there were indeed some passengers with Leeds connections. It's well worth a look.Anybody have any stories to share?JD I see that site has its own forum for discussion JD, might be a better place to ask

jdbythesea · Post by **jdbythesea** » Mon 26 Mar, 2012 10:50 pm

chameleon wrote: jdbythesea wrote: As the anniversary date is approaching I was looking for information about the Titanic, hoping to find some link with Leeds and I came across this website; www.encyclopedia-titanica.org I found the site to be really informative and discovered there were indeed some passengers with Leeds connections. It's well worth a look.Anybody have any stories to share?JD I see that site has its own forum for discussion JD, might be a better place to ask Well, that's certainly an option and I may try it but I think that Leeds related matters are still best dealt with on our site.

Post by **chameleon** » Tue 27 Mar, 2012 2:54 pm

Not saying otherwise JD - simply a genuine suggestion well intended

jdbythesea · Post by **jdbythesea** » Tue 27 Mar, 2012 4:07 pm

Chameleon, no offence intended by me either. I've had a look at the forum but found no links to Leeds. Even so, on the main site I did find more information about three fatalities that had stronger links with our city, viz. Father Thomas Byles (Aged 42), Wallace Hartley(33) and Herbert Klein (33). All three perished and all had family and/or connections with Leeds. There may well be others too.

liits · Post by **liits** » Tue 27 Mar, 2012 4:27 pm

It also lists a G Jacob, 19 years old Midshipman born in Leeds [survived and rescued by the Californian]. Looking on Ancestry I can't find a G Jacob or Jacobs listed in the Leeds births for 1892, 93 or 94.

Si · Post by Si » Tue 27 Mar, 2012 4:35 pm

jdbythesea wrote: I did find more information about three fatalities that had stronger links with our city, viz. Father Thomas Byles (Aged 42), Wallace Hartley(33) and Herbert Klein (33). All three perished and all had family and/or connections with Leeds. There may well be others too. Father Byles was born in Staffordshire, but brought up in Leeds.Wallace Hartley (of Dewsbury) was the Titanic's band-leader, famous for playing 'Nearer, My God, To Thee' as the ship slipped beneath the waves, or so the story goes. His body was recovered and buried in Colne.Herbert Klein was born in Bradford.

uncle mick · Post by **uncle mick** » Tue 27 Mar, 2012 4:43 pm

liits wrote: It also lists a G Jacob, 19 years old Midshipman born in Leeds [survived and rescued by the Californian]. Looking on Ancestry I can't find a G Jacob or Jacobs listed in the Leeds births for 1892, 93 or 94. George Jacob Apr- June 1892 Vol 9b Page 556 Leeds

liits · Post by **liits** » Tue 27 Mar, 2012 5:01 pm

Well done again!I wonder if this is the same George in the 1901 census?