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RMS Titanic |
The loss of the White Star Liner RMS
Titanic needs no real introduction today
- even if you are not old enough to
remember it as a point of history at
least the epic film of the same name
will live on.
It was on its maiden voyage in 1912 when
it suffered a glancing blow from an
iceberg at around 11:40 p.m. on 14th
April 1912 causing some water-tight
compartments to be ruptured. At around
2:20 a.m. the following day, 15th April,
the ship sank.
Of the 2,228 passengers and crew on
board, 1,518 lost their lives. Some four
hours later, the RMS Carpathia arrived
on the scene and began the grim task of
recovering survivors and bodies. |
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There are some good web sites relating
to the Titanic and it was on one of
these that it came to light that Week
St. Mary had a connection to the
disaster. |
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A Samuel
Dennis, 23, born on 17 June 1889 at
Treyeo Farm in the North Cornwall parish
of Launcells was the son of William
Henry Dennis (farmer) and Mary Arabella
Dennis (née Sobey). He was the younger
brother of Elizabeth, Olive and William.
He is known to have had a younger
brother also born at Treyeo. By 1894 the
family had moved to Leigh Farm,
Week St Mary, Cornwall. It was
from here that Samuel set out on his
fateful journey. Samuel had been
encouraged to emigrate to Saskatoon,
Saskatchewan, Canada by his relatives
Lewis Richard and Owen Harris Braund of
nearby Bridgerule, Devon. The Braund's
had a relative Leonard Lovell already in
Canada and it was to him they were all
ultimately travelling on Titanic. |
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Samuel, with the Braund's, his brother,
William Dennis (born in 1886 in the
village of Ashbury, Devon) and relatives
John Hall Lovell (of Ashbury, Devon) and
John Henry Perkin (of Holsworthy, Devon)
all embarked Titanic at Southampton
after a long train journey from North
Cornwall. The party were also
accompanied by Miss Susan Webber, a
family friend of nearby North Tamerton,
Cornwall.
Samuel was travelling in third class and
is probable that he shared a cabin with
John Lovell. His ticket was likely
obtained from the Bude White Star agent,
Mr Hawking.
Samuel and William Dennis were both lost
in the sinking of RMS Titanic. In some
local records the family is listed as
Dinnis.
Please check out some of the many web
sites for further information regarding
not just Titanic but the rescue ships
(mainly the Cunard liner 'Carpathia' -
which was torpedoed by a German U-Boat
in 1918 and sunk with the loss of just 5
men, whilst 215 survived). |
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• Public
Archives of Nova Scotia -
RMS Titanic - List
of Bodies and Disposition of Same
• The
Public Archive of Nova Scotia - a number
of important documents relating to the
recovery of bodies and effects
following the
Titanic
disaster.
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Encyclopedia Titanica
- Week St. Mary passengers
• The
official
Titanic
movie website by Paramount Pictures and
Twentieth Century Fox
• Titanic
and other
White Star ships - Site Map |
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