Mr. Walter Dawson Mitchell

Walter Mitchell, 27, was traveling aboard Lusitania with his wife Jeanette and their son, also named Walter, and Jeanette’s brother, John Moore.  Walter and Walter, Jr., were both lost in the Lusitania disaster, but Jeanette and John were saved. Walter was the second son of Reverend G. P. Mitchell, rector of Drumbo, Lisburn, County Antrim, Ireland, and grand-nephew of …

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Miss Winifred Barker

Winifred Barker, 9, was a United States citizen from Trenton, New Jersey, United States.  She was the daughter of Thomas and Martha Barker.  Winifred had an older sister named Doris, aged 14 at the time of the Lusitania disaster. In Trenton, she lived on Atlantic Avenue. Winifred was lost in the Lusitania disaster. Her mother …

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Master Thomas Edward Peacock

Thomas Peacock, 17, was traveling aboard Lusitania with his mother Elizabeth, who named Thoomas after her husband. Mother and son survived the Lusitania disaster and settled in Prescott, Arizona, United States. According to Peacock family history and Liverpool newspaper articles, Elizabeth was about to board a life boat on the “wrong” (port?) side of the …

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