8 thoughts on “Genealogy”

  1. Re Mrs Alfred Reid Mainman on The Lusitania resource site.

    This has not been researched. This “Annie” Dowsett Mainman is not the correct person. The person who died on the Lusitania with her husband and five children was my great aunt who was Elizabeth Sarah “Bessie” (Dowsett) Mainman, born in Daylesford, Victoria, Australia. She met and married Alfred Reid Mainman, from Manchester, England, in Victoria, was married there and had her first three children there also. She was well educated and was one of five children, the youngest of whom, Richard Shaw Dowsett, was my grandfather. This lady was one of my great-aunts from this family and I grew up with these people and their sadness at losing a loved sister. I met the son of Edwin Richard Mainman – one of the three surviving children from the Lusitania sinking – when I made a visit to England in the 1990’s. The Dowsett-Mainman family – parents and first three children – went to Canada, Fort Saskachewan and later Edmonton, where their twins Elizabeth Sarah and Edwin Richard were born and were going to England to claim an inheritance when they were killed.

    How can such inaccuracies occur? Would someone tell me if this can be deleted from this website? I’d be interested to contact the person who contributed this piece – possibly a well-meaning but sadly misinformed relative – is this possible?

    Shirley (Dowsett) Byrne

    • Hello Shirley,

      Your correction and contribution have been noted and incorporated into the site. If you’d like to contact contributors interested in the Mainman family, please feel free to leave comments on the pages of the Mainman family members. That way, readers will be more likely to see your posts. Also, if you have any further information about the Dowsett-Mainman family (for instance, the date of Elizabeth’s birth or pictures of the family), please let us know. Thank you!

  3. You have a Mr Hopkins, David Thomas a second class passenger which I think is wrong. My grandfather Mr DAVID JOHN “Taranlais” HOPKINS, who was a member of the ‘Gwent Welsh Male Singers’, who were returning from a concert tour of the United States. The conductor Mr George F Davies and Mr Issac “Ike” Jones, shared his fate on the 5th May 1915.
    I can provide birth, marrige and sons birth certificate and passenger list for the CELTIC of 9th November 1913, which is when the choir landed in New York to start their 2nd tour.

    • Dear Mr Hopkins,

      I’m recently researching the welsh connections on both the Titanic and Lusitania. I knew of a Welsh Choir onboard but I am so glad to finally be able to find the members on here. I’d love to know a bit more about the choir if that is at all possible

      Kind regards

      Ifan

      • Dear Carl, I have the required photographs available but this Lusitania site does not allow me to attached them to the answer page if you could send me an e-mail address I could send them.
        Warren

    • Fascinated to see your message regarding Taranlais Hopkins. I run a Swansea-based Choir (Black Mountain Male Chorus) & we have performed 200 Concerts in North America – the most for a Choir from Wales in the last 100 years. However, it pales into insignificance with the achievements of the Royal Gwent & the Royal Welsh (Treorchy) – a subject which I started to research……….and then I came upon the most poignant story of your grandfather. A remarkable story – shows the commitment for a better life away from the mines & the the tragic outcome. Do you reside in Swansea or in the valleys? I would be honoured / fascinated to know more if you were to agree. Please contact – I look forward to it.
      Kind Regards
      Mike Evans

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