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R.M.S TITANIC Passenger List First Class Passengers Madeleine Talmage Force Astor, 1st Class Passenger Charlotte Drake Cardoza, 1st Class Passenger American socialite, Madeleine Talmage Force Astor boarded Charlotte’s real name was Charlotte Drake Martinez Cardeza; the Titanic with a First Class ticket in Cherbourg, France. she was renamed for the musical. She was also occasionally Bound for New York, she was accompanied on board by her known by the name Charlotte Wardle Drake. She was born on husband, Colonel John Jacob Astor IV, who was an American April 10, 1854, in Germantown, Pennsylvania. She was born businessman and the wealthiest passenger on the Titanic. into wealth; her father was a British textile manufacturer Married 7 months before the ship’s sinking, the couple had named Thomas Drake. Her mother’s name was Matilda. She been enjoying an extended honeymoon. In January 1912 they married a man named James Warburton Martinez Cardeza, had sailed from New York to visit Egypt and Paris; they were and they had a son, Thomas (although she and her husband returning to America on the Titanic’s maiden voyage. Mrs. were divorced later). She loved game hunting and sailing in Astor was two months shy of 19 years old and 5 months her yacht. Throughout the course of her journeys, she traveled pregnant on April 14, 1912, the night the Titanic struck an the world two times over. In fact, she was returning home on iceberg. the Titanic from a safari in Africa. She also loved art and She was in bed when the collision occurred, awakened by her visited many art galleries in her lifetime. On the Titanic, she husband who assured her that the situation did not appear bought the most expensive suite and brought along 14 trunks, Portrayed by: Katie Pflieger serious. While waiting on the boat deck, Mrs. Astor lent her Portrayed by: Ruby Vanhouten 4 suitcases, and 3 crates of baggage. The suite she stayed in fur shawl to a third-class passenger to keep her son warm. The contained 2 bedrooms, a sitting room, and a promenade that Astors moved to the ship’s gymnasium, where they sat was 50 feet. Many precious items were lost when the ship together for a while. To get to a lifeboat that had been lowered sunk, and Charlotte later filed a claim to about $46,000. She, down to A-deck, Colonel Astor assisted his wife through a her son, and her maids all survived the sinking on Lifeboat first-class promenade window and onto the tilting lifeboat no. #3. She returned to her home where she lived a slightly more 4. Her maid and her nurse accompanied Madeleine onto the quiet life than before. Her son went on to be the director of boat, but her husband could not as only women and children several organizations including the Zoological Society of were being allowed to board, despite there being room for Philadelphia. He was a noted philanthropist and, like his perhaps 15 more passengers. She recalled feeling lost and mother, loved hunting. Charlotte passed away due to heart confused during the moments when the lifeboats were disease after being confined to her home for 4 years due to the clearing the sinking ship and that her husband was at her side illness. She died at the age of 85 on August 1, 1939. one moment but gone the next. She did not know what happened to him after that. A little over an hour and a half after the Titanic completely Mrs. Lucielle Carter, 1st Class Passenger sank, the Carpathia arrived and started rescuing Titanic survivors, Madeleine Astor among them. Her husband’s Mrs. William Ernest Carter (Lucile Polk) was born in body was found in the water a week later. Madeleine Astor Baltimore, Maryland on October 8, 1875. In May of 1911, Mr. gave birth to her son John Jacob Astor V on August 14, 1912, and Mrs. Carter along with their children, Lucile and William exactly 4 months after the devastating day the Titanic struck sailed aboard the Lusitania to England and participated in the that fateful iceberg. coronation of King George V and Queen Mary. In March of 1912, the family made reservations to come back to America for the Olympic but at the last minute, booked cabins on the Elsie Edith Bowerman, 1st Class Passenger Titanic. They were a part of the first class and occupied cabins B-96 and B-98. They held ticket number 113760 which Elsie Edith Bowerman was a British lawyer, suffragette, cost £120. The Carter’s traveled with a maid, a manservant, a passenger of the Titanic, and a survivor of the sinking. Elsie chauffeur, and two dogs. Edith Bowerman was born in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, the daughter of William Bowerman and his wife Edith Martha Mrs. Carter and her children were rescued in lifeboat 4. Barber. Her father died when she was 5 years old. She went Mr. Carter along with Mr. Ismay boarded a lowering lifeboat. to Wycombe Abbey at the age of 11 in 1901 where she came Portrayed by: Megan Stephens The family reunited on the Carpathia and Mrs. Carter was under the influence of Frances Dove, whose biography she surprised to see Mr. Carter and shocked that he did not show wrote. She left in 1907 spending time in Paris before going to rianna Rose any remorse for taking a potential spot on a lifeboat for a Girton College in Cambridge. On 10 April 1912, Elsie woman or child. They divorced in June 1914. Mrs. Carter died Bowerman and her mother Edith boarded Titanic at at 59 as Mrs. George Brooke on October 26, 1934. She was Southampton as first class passengers cabin 33 on deck E, for buried at St. Michael’s Churchyard in Birdsboro, a trip to America and Canada to see her father's relations in Pennsylvania. North America. They were both rescued on lifeboat 6. After the Titanic disaster, they reached America and carried on with Portrayed by Giovanna their plans to visit British Columbia, Klondyke and Alaska. Garbarino During World War I, Bowerman worked with a Scottish women's hospital unit in Romania. In March 1917, she had to retreat to St. Petersburg where she witnessed the Russian Revolution first hand. Back in England in 1917, she carried on Gisela Arancini Damico, 1st Class Passenger with her suffragist work and supported the Pankhursts in Gisela Arancini Damico was a 25-year-old dancer onboard the organizing mass meetings to encourage men to join the forces titanic. She was a first-class passenger, as she had amassed and women to volunteer for war work. After the war, quite a fortune through her successful dancing career. Being Bowerman studied law and was admitted to the Bar in 1924. from Italy, Gisela loved the opportunity that sailing on ships She was the first woman barrister at the Old Bailey and like the Titanic offered. When she was offered a position to be practiced until 1938. During World War II, she worked for an entertainer on the Titanic for its maiden voyage, she was two years with Women's Voluntary Services, and after a time beyond excited and rushed to tell her family, who prepared a at the Ministry of Information spent three years with the celebratory pasta feed to honor her and her sister. She was Overseas Services of the BBC. In 1947, she went to the United able to see the world while doing what she loved, entertaining States to help set up the United Nations Commission on the people and dancing. Especially being with her sister, Gisela Status of Women. wouldn’t have traded her job onboard the Titanic for anything else. Both Gisela and her sister, Laura, died on board the Titanic. Rest in Pasta. Portrayed by: Katie Stephens R.M.S TITANIC Passenger List Lady Duff-Gordon, 1st Class Passenger Lady Caroline Neville (Mrs. Ada Maria Clarke), 1st Class Passenger DianaLucy, Lady Duff-Gordon, was a prominent female The character Lady Caroline Neville is based on Mrs. Ada Maria fashion designer known for her couture clothing creations. Clarke, born Ada Maria Winfield. She was born on December 14, She was born in London, England on June 13, 1863. In 1912, 1883, in Netley near Southampton, Hampshire, England. On April she traveled with her husband, Sir Cosmo Duff Gordon, on a 10, 1912, she boarded the RMS Titanic as a second-class passenger business trip to America. She traveled first class, and her alongside her husband Charles Valentine Clark. The two were young adults in their mid-twenties. Charles was a dairyman from secretary, Laura Mabel Francatelli also accompanied her. She Cosham, Hampshire, who had inherited his father’s dairy business. was 49 when she traveled on the Titanic. Duff- Gordon was The two were planning on eventually getting to San Francisco, already an established fashion designer at the time of 1912, California after making it to America. They were hoping to begin a and her purpose for traveling was to extend her buisness to new life together in a new place. With the sinking of the wrecked New York City. She was able to accomplish her goals, for she ship, Ada was able to escape in what she described as being the last and her husband both survived the sinking of the Titanic. She lifeboat to leave: Lifeboat 14. Charles became one of the many men was the first international clothing designer to receive critical lost in the disaster. acclaim in America. She opened her store brand “Lucile Ltd '' Ada later gave a very emotional interview to the New York Press about the event, in which she said: “The women wouldn’t leave the in multiple locations in Paris, England, Chicago, and New Portrayed by: Lauren Roberge Portrayed by: Isabelle Katz York City.

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