The Lusitania Sinking & Philips Park Cemetery

[Barbara.H]

I tried putting the names Lovett and Welsh into the Burial Records before they went off the air again, cos Bursy (I think)  had mentioned them already - and the other names that Ken & Emms had. Didn't find anything conclusive though. I was going to check them again tonight but the site's gone again!

And I had a look on the Times digital archive, which has lots of personal announcements in the deaths column for Lusitania victims. But they all tended to be for funerals held 'down south'.

 

Barbara

[Barbara.H]

Here's an interesting article about rioting in Liverpool, Manchester and Salford following the Lusitania sinking;

http://www.mcrh.mmu.ac.uk/pubs/pdf/mrhr_02ii_panayi.pdf

Although it doesn't say anything about the actual Lusitania victims, it gives an idea of what was going on around  the time.

[uk2003]

What a great read - Thanks Barbara

What it has given me is names of newspapers and dates to look at.

Ken

[lusysinking]

Hi-

My name is Mike and I am the author of the Lusitania- Lest We Forget articles. Would it not be easy to just go to the Manchester library and look at the local paper to see the May 1915 coverage? That way you can find out through the funeral notices if any Lusy victim was buried at that cemetery or if any survivors gave any accounts to the local paper?

Mike

[uk2003]

Hi Mike

And welcome to rootschat

What a great read - Thanks Barbara

What it has given me is names of newspapers and dates to look at.

Ken

It would have been great to find this family/person? hitting the library was the next thing to do -but other projects have over took this one now, it's a shame but thats life 

Ken

[lusysinking]

Hi there-

Thanks for the warm welcome. Oh I know... Time does get away from us. I live in the US and what I do is that I email the UK libraries and ask them to try and find local survivor accounts in a time frame. Sometimes they are very nice and sometimes I never hear from them! There is a Lest We Forget three coming. It fixes any errors in one and two and of course, new and exciting stories and twists of fate.

Do you have the new book- Lusitania- An Illustrated History of the Ship of Splendor by J. Kent Layton. It truly is the best book on the entire history of the ship. Nice testimonials from people who sailed on it during it's career.
We just did a tribute to Lusitania survivor Barbara McDermott in the journal I write for- Voyage. She was the last one with any memories. She was a good friend and I miss her very much.

Hope to help you in the future.
Mike
www.titanicinternationalsociety.org

[uk2003]

Hi Mike

I dont know if you have read all this posting, but this hunt came about via a manchester council website stating philips park cemetery contained

2 vc winners
2 survivors of the charge of the lightbrigade
and a family from the lusitannia

The 2 vc winners were known about, but we managed to find the 2 of "the six hundred" which are now on findagrave website.

Maybe one day I will get back to this research and find them.

Nice Titanic site "not seen that one before"

Regards
Ken

[lusysinking]

Hi Ken

Yes, that is all very intriguing. I'll ask my friends Geoff and Cliff. They are in England and would know better than I. I will report back to you with their findings.  Yes, I am one of the trustees with TIS. The quarterly magazine is nice. Color covers, glossy pages, 50-60 pages. Pretty well-rounded- not just Titanic. Lusitania, Olympic, and all the great ships.
Mike

[uk2003]

Mike

Excuse the pun but "welcome on board" again 

The name author Eric Sauder "R.M.S. Lusitania" provided seems to have run it's course into a dead end.

So any help would be much appreciated

Regards
Ken