Wick Family

[Mike Poirier]

Did Mary Hitchcock Wick ever leave behind an account that talks about the Titanic or her cabin #?
Thanks
Mike

 

[Michael Findlay]

Hi Mike,

To the best of my knowledge, Mary Wick's accounts of the sinking, of which there were very, very few, do not contain any reference to her cabin number.

Much of what we even know about the Wick's experiences aboard the Titanic comes from Caroline Bonnell. We know that Mr. and Mrs. Wick occupied a room on C-deck, and were very close to the cabin of Caroline Bonnell and Miss Mary Wick. Some researchers have ventured a guess as to the possible location but the evidence is too scare, in my opinion, to say for sure.

I hope you're doing well.

Mike

 

[Mike Poirier]

Hi Mike:
Thanks for the note. So I'm guessing the mention of Mary Natalie Wick watching the third class play with ice came from Caroline..
Hope all is well on your end.
Mike

 

[Charles Provost]

That was a good question, Mike. I have always wondered what was Mr. and Mrs. Wick cabin number, too. We will probably never know, although it is very possible they were not far from the Misses Wick and Bonnell, as Michael told you.Side note to you, Michael (Findlay): Did you get my message? Nothing really important in it, so feel free to response to it when you have time. Just checking...

My best regards to you, guys.

Charles

 

[Robina Mont]

Hi i'm looking for any info about Miss Natalie Wick. Can anyone know what became with her after Titanic?

Thank you
Ruby

 

[Delia Mahoney]

Hello Ruby,

Natalie Wick married Lt. Col. Thomas St. Aubyn Nevinson in 1916. They had two daughters. She died in 1944 in England.

All the best,

Delia

 

[Martin Williams]

Although many of the American first-class passengers came from the eastern States, there were others aboard who hailed from slightly further afield. Among them were Colonel George Dennick Wick, his second wife Mary (or 'Mollie'), and his daughter by his first marriage, Natalie. They had been on holiday in England and were returning home with two of their relations, Lily and Caroline Bonnell.

George Wick was a very prominent industrialist in Youngstown, Ohio, and he rates his own illustrated entry on Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_D._Wick

It seems that, like his more famous ship-mate John Jacob Astor, Wick had earned his military title serving as ADC to Governor Asa Bushnell during the Spanish-American War. In 1906, he built an elegant, Georgian-style mansion for his family. This now sits on the campus of the Youngstown State University and serves as the headquarters of the Disability Services office for that institution.

http://www.ysu.edu/maps/tour/wickhouse/wick.shtml

Following her premature widowhood, Mollie Wick remained very active in local charities until her eventual death in 1920. According to local folklore, her ghost continues to haunt her old home until this day.

[Moderator's note: Three separate threads discussing the Wick family have been combined and renamed. MAB]

 

[Julie P123]

My family has a small alarm clock that Mrs Wick took with her on the Titanic. It was given to her by her chauffeur, Jack Potter, before the Wicks left on their trip. The clock was one he had used before but jokingly wanted her to take it so she wouldnt miss the boat. She for some reason saved this clock and returned it to Jack on her return home.

 

[Thomas Krom]

My family has a small alarm clock that Mrs Wick took with her on the Titanic. It was given to her by her chauffeur, Jack Potter, before the Wicks left on their trip. The clock was one he had used before but jokingly wanted her to take it so she wouldnt miss the boat. She for some reason saved this clock and returned it to Jack on her return home.

Good day to you Jullie,


Your story could be the key to the identity of an identified lady in another survivors account. On the 7th of August 1955 the Countess of Rothes (Lucy Noël Martha (1878-1956)), a first class passenger and fellow occupant of lifeboat number 8, wrote a letter to Walter Lord that mentioned the following section:

A girl next to me suddenly said "I've forgotten Jack's photograph & must get it & in spite of protests went down and fetched it! It was of course quite unreasonable but it only struck me as natural at the time.

I at first thought it was Miss Wick her good friend Caroline Bonnell (1882-1950) who referred to a picture of her brother Joseph (who I speculated might had the nickname of Jack), but it appears more likely that the lady in question was Mary Natalie Wick (1880-1944) instead.

I hope you are doing well.


Kind regards,

Thomas

 

[Julie P123]

Well that's an interesting story about the photograph. It makes me think did the clock belong to Miss Wick or Mrs. Wick, but the story told by my grandfather (the recipient of the clock) uses Mrs. Wick as the person in the story, not Miss Wick. I wonder why a clock and photograph of this guy Jack was so important to her? Jack was Mr. Wick's chaffeur, but was he more for Mrs. Wick?

 

[Arun Vajpey]

Well that's an interesting story about the photograph. It makes me think did the clock belong to Miss Wick or Mrs. Wick, but the story told by my grandfather (the recipient of the clock) uses Mrs. Wick as the person in the story, not Miss Wick. I wonder why a clock and photograph of this guy Jack was so important to her? Jack was Mr. Wick's chaffeur, but was he more for Mrs. Wick?

The fact that while recounting the story in the 1950s the Countess of Rothes (she apparently had retained her title after her first husband died and she remarried), who was 33 at the time she survived the Titanic disaster, refers to the other woman as "a girl next to me", something that she was very unlikely to have done with reference to the then 46 year-old Mary Peebles Wick but might just have meant the 31 year-old stepdaughter Mary Natalie Wick, still unmarried at the time. But most likely the Countess was referring colloquially to her own 20 year-old maid Roberta Maioni as "the girl next to me". Maioni was young enough to be called a 'girl' and was reportedly flirting with an unnamed sailor on board, who had given her a few memorabilia; a photograph of himself might easily have been one of those..

 

[Thomas Krom]

But most likely the Countess was referring colloquially to her own 20 year-old maid Roberta Maioni as "the girl next to me". Maioni was young enough to be called a 'girl' and was reportedly flirting with an unnamed sailor on board, who had given her a few memorabilia; a photograph of himself might easily have been one of those..

Then why didn’t she refer to her as her maid as she did before in the letter?