History, Passenger & Crew Biographies, and Lusitania Facts
…cabin bed steward in charge of saloon (first class) cabins E 57 – E 69 odd and E 75 on the starboard side. During the sinking, he gave his lifebelt to Emma Copping, who was lost in the disaster. Wood himself was saved. Contributors Cherie Jones Senan Molony, Ireland References Jones, Cherie. ”Emma Louise Black Copping.” Find-A-Grave. Web. 4 August 2011. <http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSmid=46822884&GRid=63380117&>. Molony, Senan…
…rt of the ordeal was going through the various morgues looking around the city for a friend and shipmate on the outward and homeward voyages. Andrew could not find him and assumed that his friend had perished. References: Boyle, Fabian. “Sinn Fein and Nationalists Clashed Over Conscription.” Newry Memoirs. Web. 15 February 2012. <http://www.newrymemoirs.com/stories_pages/conscription1914_1.html>. Carroll, Anthony. “Lusitania’s Local Victims.” The…
…ents Life An ordinary business trip Disaster Rescue and mutiny Queenstown London Later life Life Charles Lauriat, Jr., was born in 1874 to Charles Emelius Lauriat, Sr.(1842 – 1920), and his wife, Harriet Fidelia Page (1847 – 1935). The company Charles E. Lauriat Company, booksellers, of Boston, Massachusetts, belonged to Charles, Sr. Charles, Jr. married Marian Bullard and had a son, Nathaniel Page Lauriat. Lauriat was also an amateur sailor. An o…
Frederick McMurtry, 45, was a British citizen and salesman from Toronto, Ontario, Canada. McMurtry was eating lunch with Josephine and Iris Burnside, George Powell, and Walter McLean when the Lusitania was torpedoed. Josephine Burnside was the only survivor of the group. McMurtry and the others were lost. Life Frederick McMurtry was born on 17 May 1871 in Elizabethville, Ontario, Canada, the son of James Charles McMurtry and Annie E. McMurtry (né…
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