Titanic Ancestors

Scanned images of the original passenger lists which record the details of all who sailed on its ill-fated maiden voyage in 1912, are online at www.ancestorsonboard.com.

The website allows users to easily view the original, handwritten lists electronically which provide the name of the passengers and provide such details as their port of departure, occupation, nationality, age, the class they travelled in and destination. Until they were put online, the lists had been kept under lock and key at The National Archives in Kew and were only available for viewing under supervision.

Only those on the boats escaped – but the official passenger record reveals that five people disembarked from the ship at Cherbourg, France. These included the Conyngham family who were travelling to France for a holiday, narrowly escaping the fate of the other passengers.

Inspection of the newly scanned images has shown that some passengers who intended to board at Queenstown (Cobh in County Cork) did not actually embark, despite having purchased tickets.

Jack Dawson and Rose Buckateer – the real-life ‘Jack and Rose’ of the passengers were lovers Kate Phillips, a 19 year-old shop assistant, and Henry Morley, a shop-keeper from Malvern, who eloped to New York on the Titanic. Kate survived the tragedy and gave birth to a baby daughter, Ellen, nine months after the tragedy.

www.Ancestorsonboard.com is the microsite developed in association with The National Archives, which provides access to records of passengers on all long-distance ships leaving England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales, and currently includes records dating from 1890 to 1919. Once complete, the high quality, full colour, digitised ship passenger records will contain over 1.5 million pages, listing the 30 million passengers who travelled on these long-distance journeys from UK ports between 1890 and 1960.

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