Kelly Annie Kate
Kelly of Cuilmullagh, daughter of John Kelly and Ellen Flaherty;
age on 1901 Census, 10 years. Annie boarded the titanic at Queenstown
as a third class passenger. On the night of the colision Mary
and Catherine Bourke refused to stay in the life boat 16 when
they learned that John would have to stay onboard the titanic,
Annie got their place. Annie was let out of hospital in New
York, she made her way to Chicago, Illinois where her cousins
Annie and Mary Garvey lived. Annie claimed the stewards did
not wake them up in time the night of the disaster and when
they made their way up on deck were told to go back as there
was no danger. Annie joined the nuns and assumed the name of
Sr. Joseph Patrick Kelly. She lived in Adrian, Michigan and
died in December 1969.
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Annie
McGowan
Annie McGowan, daughter
of John McGowan and Maria McGowan. She was born in 5th July
1897 in Scranton, Pennysylvania. She was travelling back to
Chicago with her aunt Katherine McGowan who drowned in the disaster.
Ann later married to Mr. Straube and died on Jan. 30th 1990
in Chicago, Illinois aged 92.
Bridget/Delia
McDermott
Bridget/Delia McDermott,
born 11-3-1881, Knockfarnaught; daughter of Michael McDermott
and Bridget McDermott; aged 17 years on the 1901 Census. Miss
McDermott survived and later married a man from Galway named
Lynch. She had 3 children. She found a place in a lifeboat but
remembered she had left her new hat that she had bought in Crossmolina
back in her cabin, she returned for it and got a place in another
lifeboat. Delia died in 1959.
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This photo
was taken by a passenger of the Carpathia, the ship that came
to the rescue of the Titanic survivors. This is the last lifeboat
successfully launched from the Titanic.
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A
photograph of two lifeboats