The angry old woman who claimed to be the youngest survivor.
Journalist Michael Grundy in Worcester Evening News, England sent me an article he had written about 14 years ago: Called "Memory Lane"
He introduced the article to me like that:
"Ellen Mary Walker became something of an angry old lady in the years immediately after the enclosed newspaper feature. She was increasingly frustrated by the refusal of the Titanic Association to recognize her, and she failed to with legal moves to get a birth certificate showing Henry Morley as her father.
She is still (March 2002) alive, but is now in an old peoples home in Worcester. Unfortunately he mind has gone."
The article:
Seventy-six year old Ellen Mary Walker, who believes she is the youngest survivor of the Titanic disaster, has just seen a photograph of her father for the first time ever - thanks to "Memory Lane".
Here is a remarkable story. She was almost certainly conceived during the fateful maiden voyage of the giant luxery liner as a Worcester and Malvern shop owner ran off to San Fransisco with one of his pretty assistants.
Henry Samuel Morley - aged 40, affluent and leaving behind him a wife and 12 year old doughter - was planning to start up a new life in California whth Kate Florence Phillips, then just 19.
But he went down with the Titanic while Kate was bundled abroad the last lifeboat to leave the sinking liner and was rescued by the
Carpathia and taken to New York. She returned to Worcester where nine months after the Titanic voyange she gave birth to Ellen Mary at a house in Waterworks Road.
Among Ellens treasured possessions to-day are three poignant reminders of the Titanic - the valuable sapphirer , diamond and silver necklace her mother wore on the liner and the purce she carried, still with her cabin keys inside.
Ellen says her father, together with his brother , owned confectionery shops in Worcester, Malvern and Birmingham, while her mother was one of the assistants at the Morley shop opposite the railway station in Foregate Street.
Before the couple eloped on the Titanic, Henry Morley sold off two of his shops to make adequate financial provision for the future of his wife and her doughter he was leaving and also to give he and Kate cash to start their life in America. It was money which also went to the bottom of the ocean... in the titanic safe. Henry and kate sailed on the liner as second class passengers in the assumed names of "Mr and mrs Marshall." The Titanic went down omn April 14 1912, and Ellen was born on January 11 1913.
This if first half of article. Before I may bring the rest here, I like to read your comments.