History, Passenger & Crew Biographies, and Lusitania Facts
Iris Burnside, 20, was the daughter of Josephine Burnside. She, her mother, and maid Martha Waites were traveling on the Lusitania in May of 1915 to visit relatives in Ireland. They were at lunch when the ship was torpedoed. Josephine survived the Lusitania sinking, Iris did not. Iris was born around 1895, the daughter of Thomas Burnside …
Josephine Burnside, née Eaton, 49, was the daughter of the founder of Eaton’s Department Store. Josephine, her daughter Iris, and maid Martha Waites were traveling on the Lusitania in May of 1915 to visit relatives in Ireland. They were at lunch when the ship was torpedoed. Josephine survived the Lusitania sinking, Iris did not. Josephine was the …
Read moreMrs. Thomas David Meldrum Burnside (Josephine Smyth Eaton)
Arthur Mathews, 38, was a British citizen from Montréal, Québec, Canada. His ticket for Lusitania was 13168. His cabin aboard the ship was B-94. Mathews survived the Lusitania sinking. According to family history, Mathews was from the UK but had emigrated to Canada. When his sister Harriet Matilda Colston (nee Mathews) was widowed and left with 4 sons to raise, …
Herbert Colebrook, 35, was a Lusitania survivor from Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He was a British subject. Aboard Lusitania, his ticket was 10866 and his cabin was B-111. He was saved from the Lusitania disaster and returned to North America aboard the American Liner St. Paul on 13 June 1915. References Kalafus, Jim and Michael Poirier …
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