History, Passenger & Crew Biographies, and Lusitania Facts
…ing with others aboard Lusitania. She survived the sinking. On her way to London she met Gladys Bilicke, who had just lost her husband in the sinking and clung on to Violet for comfort. Violet, exhausted from the disaster herself, only grudgingly looked after Gladys. The following is a letter that Violet wrote of her reluctant companionship: I came along with a party of survivors to London. One of the first-class passengers, an American woman, los…
…e Pye, 18-months old, was the daughter of Charlotte Pye. They were from Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. She and her mother were traveling aboard Lusitania to visit Charlotte’s parents in the United Kingdom. Marjorie and Charlotte were at lunch when the ship was torpedoed. They were placed into a lifeboat that overturned. Charlotte was saved from the disaster. Marjorie was lost. The day of the Lusitania disaster, 7 May 1915, Charlotte and Marjorie were…
…er engagement. Winifred was born on 24 June 1885 in Hampstead, North West London to Edwin Awdas Neatby and Winifred Neatby. Edwin was a doctor and surgeon with an office in London. The 1901 Census listed the family as living in Hampstead and Winifred 15 years old. Winifred’s mother died in 1908 and her father remarried to Mary Ruth Jones in 1910. The Neatbys moved to East Grinstead, East Sussex while Edwin continued to work in London. Winifred wen…
…ngerSaved [No Picture Provided] Born Edwin Richard Mainman4 October 1907Edmonton, Alberta, Canada Died January 1976 (age 69)Beccles, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom Age on Lusitania 7 Traveling with – Alfred Mainman, Sr. (father)– Elizabeth Mainman (mother)– John Mainman (brother)– Alfred Mainman, Jr. (brother)– Molly Mainman (sister)– Elizabeth Mainman (sister) Citizenship British (Canada) Residence Edmonton, Alberta, Canada Spouse(s) Doris Holm…
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