History, Passenger & Crew Biographies, and Lusitania Facts
…ncluding troop ships during the Anglo/Boer War of 1898 to 1901. Family tradition has it that he fought as a soldier during that war and shot himself in the foot to get back to Britain. The family also believe that whilst serving with The Cunard Steam Ship Company on the New York service, he once met and knocked out John L. Sullivan, the former heavyweight boxing champion of the world, in a New York bar! He engaged at Liverpool on 12th April 1915,…
…up by a submarine chaser. Early life and Lusitania McClimond was born in London, England, in 1883, the son of Samuel McClimond, gardener, and his wife. At some point in his youth, Samuel junior ended-up in the care of Thomas and Letitia Sutton, recorded as his uncle and aunt, on their farm at Ballyclamay, a townland just outside Moyvore, Co. Westmeath, Ireland. He is recorded as living in the Sutton household and working as a farm labourer in bot…
…tion. Although Thomas was reputedly an agnostic, he was a supporter of Nonconformity in his constituency. He even laid the foundation stone of of Soar Welsh Calvinistic Church, Cwmaman, and many others. When the First World War broke, David Lloyd George sent D. A. Thomas to arrange the supply of munitions for the British armed forces. In April of 1915, D. A. Thomas and his daughter Margaret, who was now her personal assistant and proxy, went to ta…
Mary Maycock, 23, was a British citizen originally from Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom. Prior to the Lusitania disaster she lived in Harrison, New Jersey, United States. She had brothers named Tom and Arthur in New York. Mary had been working in the United States as a companion to the Astor family. She had recently received her certificate of graduation as a hairdresser and beautician. In her luggage, she was also bringing a trousseau for her…
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