Leslie Hung
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Hi Everyone:
I am new to the Encyclopedia Titanica, although I have been interested in the Titanic most of my life.
I recently got the book: Titanic An Illustrated History with Text by Don Lynch. I had just started leafing through it and mostly just reading photo captions. My biggest interest in Titanic are the stories of the people on board. I have always had another book, The Tragic Story of the Empress of Ireland and other Great Sea Disasters, by Logan Marshall and published in 1914. I believe it is what was intended for mass market publication because you know no one had tv and people have always loved disaster stories... heh.
This book has a list of survivors and a roll of the dead from First and Second class. It seems that Third class didn't count. When one is reading the book, it is full of stories of how the noble people in first class were so brave and good and the rabble in third were behaving very badly. Sort of the opposite of how stories are told now. The pendulum swings.
Anyway, I was going through the Illustrated History and looking at the pictures and looking up who survived and who didn't... On page 57 there is a photo labelled "Mrs. Baxter, a wealthy widow..." and "her daughter, Helene," The photo spread mentioned that the family had Suite B 58-60 and that Mrs. Baxter's unmarried son, Quig had the other room. So I looked them up in my list...
I realize the 1914 book is probably filled with errors. I don't know how long it took them to sort out all of the problems afterwards, not to mention to get them accurately published. The survivor list is not in totally correct alphabetical order.
Anyway, in the list of survivors of First Class, it lists Mrs. James Baxter. As I have only looked at the pictures and have not yet read the text, I don't know Helene's married name, so I couldn't look her up, but the question I have is about Quigg. (The spelling in the modern book is one g and in the 1914 book, 2.)
In the roll of the dead for First Class, it lists: "Baxter, Mr. and Mrs. Quigg"!
So I was wondering if anyone knows: 1. Is that just a clerical error? 2. Was Quigg married? 3. Did they assume he was married and have a body that was identified as Mrs. Baxter erroneously? or and here is the conclusion I immediately leapt to because after all, I needs must get some exercise... 4. Did Quigg bring a girlfriend and list her as Mrs. Baxter?
(If there are any descendants of the Baxter family, I apologize if I have offended: It is difficult for me to put myself in that position, plus, personally, if my ancestors were doing any of that, I wouldn't care who knew... But then there are a lot of bastards in my family... (in all senses...) And this is just the way I am, I tend to make light of almost everything. Hope no one minds and at least a few share my sense of humour... sigh. But no insult is intended.
I am new to the Encyclopedia Titanica, although I have been interested in the Titanic most of my life.
I recently got the book: Titanic An Illustrated History with Text by Don Lynch. I had just started leafing through it and mostly just reading photo captions. My biggest interest in Titanic are the stories of the people on board. I have always had another book, The Tragic Story of the Empress of Ireland and other Great Sea Disasters, by Logan Marshall and published in 1914. I believe it is what was intended for mass market publication because you know no one had tv and people have always loved disaster stories... heh.
This book has a list of survivors and a roll of the dead from First and Second class. It seems that Third class didn't count. When one is reading the book, it is full of stories of how the noble people in first class were so brave and good and the rabble in third were behaving very badly. Sort of the opposite of how stories are told now. The pendulum swings.
Anyway, I was going through the Illustrated History and looking at the pictures and looking up who survived and who didn't... On page 57 there is a photo labelled "Mrs. Baxter, a wealthy widow..." and "her daughter, Helene," The photo spread mentioned that the family had Suite B 58-60 and that Mrs. Baxter's unmarried son, Quig had the other room. So I looked them up in my list...
I realize the 1914 book is probably filled with errors. I don't know how long it took them to sort out all of the problems afterwards, not to mention to get them accurately published. The survivor list is not in totally correct alphabetical order.
Anyway, in the list of survivors of First Class, it lists Mrs. James Baxter. As I have only looked at the pictures and have not yet read the text, I don't know Helene's married name, so I couldn't look her up, but the question I have is about Quigg. (The spelling in the modern book is one g and in the 1914 book, 2.)
In the roll of the dead for First Class, it lists: "Baxter, Mr. and Mrs. Quigg"!
So I was wondering if anyone knows: 1. Is that just a clerical error? 2. Was Quigg married? 3. Did they assume he was married and have a body that was identified as Mrs. Baxter erroneously? or and here is the conclusion I immediately leapt to because after all, I needs must get some exercise... 4. Did Quigg bring a girlfriend and list her as Mrs. Baxter?
(If there are any descendants of the Baxter family, I apologize if I have offended: It is difficult for me to put myself in that position, plus, personally, if my ancestors were doing any of that, I wouldn't care who knew... But then there are a lot of bastards in my family... (in all senses...) And this is just the way I am, I tend to make light of almost everything. Hope no one minds and at least a few share my sense of humour... sigh. But no insult is intended.
