History, Passenger & Crew Biographies, and Lusitania Facts
Lusitania‘s saloon (first class) passengers aboard for her final crossing, #202, New York to Liverpool, departing on 1 May 1915.
Saloon passengers: 291 total, 113 survived, 177 lost, 1 did not sail. A sortable version is available in Excel format in the downloads section.
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)
Michael Poirier Collection/National Archives Albert Jackson Byington, 40, was born on 22 January 1875 in Elmira, New York, United States. He immigrated to Brazil in 1895. He was a successful electrical engineer and imported the first electric motor to Brazil. On 4 July 1901 he married Pearl Ellis McIntyre. Pearl was born on 3 December …
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, …
Ida Campbell-Johnston, 57, was the wife of Conway Campbell-Johnston. They were both British subjects living near Pasadena, California, United States, at their ranch of San Rafael. Conway was hoping to enlist in the British Army. On board the Lusitania, their ticket number was 46147 and they stayed in cabin B-43. Both Conway and Ida were …
Read moreMrs. Conway Seymour Godfrey Campbell-Johnston (Ida Amelia McBride)
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