Irish Aboard Titanic by Senan Molony Read Free Book Online

at times kept shaking her head as if to say it didn’t happen that way. If able to speak, I am sure she would have had many comments to make.’
    Three years later she was dead, having outlived her husband by twenty-three years. According to her death certificate, she was born on 10 January 1893, and passed away on 24 January 1956, aged 63.
    Arthur Jackson Brewe (45) Lost
    Ticket number 112379. Paid £39 12s.
    Boarded at Cherbourg. First Class.
    From: Drumgriffin, County Galway.
    Destination: returning to Philadelphia.
    First-Class passenger Dr Brewe was from Drumgriffin, County Galway. He was aged 45, and was returning to Philadelphia from a grand tour. He boarded the Titanic at Cherbourg in the company of friends – the same embarkation port as the ‘Unsinkable’ Molly Brown, his contemporary. She later wrote to passenger Colonel Archibald Gracie describing a conversation with Dr Brewe on Sunday night before the disaster:
    In telling of the people she conversed with that Sunday evening, she refers to an exceedingly intellectual and much-travelled acquaintance, Mrs Bucknell, whose husband had founded the Bucknell University of Philadelphia; also to another passenger from the same city, Dr Brewe, who had done much in scientific research.
    During her conversation with Mrs Bucknell, the latter reiterated a statement previously made on the tender at Cherbourg while waiting for the Titanic . She said she feared boarding the ship because she had evil forebodings that something might happen.
    (Mrs Emma Bucknell, 60, and her maid were rescued in boat No. 8)
    The Irish Weekly Independent of 25 May 1912 reported:
    Distinguished Galway man who went down on the Titanic
    Amongst the victims of the Titanic disaster, of whose last moments on the ill-fated vessel nothing is known, was a distinguished Galway man, Dr Arthur Jackson Brewe of the Netherlands, Forty-fourth and Chestnut Streets, Philadelphia.
    Dr Brewe was the eldest son of Mrs Butler, of Winterfield House, Drumgriffin, County Galway, and a brother of Mrs Glynn, the wife of Dr Glynn of Waterview House, Turloughmore, Athenry.
    Born in Galway 45 years ago, he was educated in a preparatory school in Glencoe and subsequently at Clongowes, whence he matriculated to Trinity College, Dublin. Soon after taking his degree, he emigrated to the United States, first living in New York, and then moving to Philadelphia, where he made his home …
    Dr Brewe, who had been on a tour of Africa, joined the Titanic from Cherbourg, having travelled through Rome, Naples, Florence, and Paris. His last letter was posted to his sister, Mrs Glynn, Waterview House, Turloughmore, immediately before he sailed, and she little thought as she read his graphic pen-pictures of his tour that he was fast approaching his doom.
    Catherine Buckley (22) Lost
    Ticket number 329944. Paid £7 5s 8d.
    Boarded at Queenstown. Third Class.
    From: Springmount, Ovens, County Cork.
    Destination: 71 Mount View Street, Roxbury, Massachusetts.
    Catherine Buckley was travelling out to visit her sister Margaret in West Roxbury, near Boston, since her British army boyfriend had been posted to Hong Kong. She finally arrived in the local St Joseph’s Cemetery after her body was recovered from the Atlantic, brought to Canada, and shipped south to Margaret – with reimbursement of her steerage fare by the White Star Line. Hers was the only Irish body returned to relatives.
    Margaret had wanted her sister to come out and join her. Her parents, Julia and Jeremiah, both in their sixties when Catherine sailed, wanted their youngest to stay home in Ireland, fearing she would stay in the New World. They wanted her to care for them in their old age. Catherine finally defied their wishes, booked passage on the Titanic and was drowned. The parents never forgave their older daughter for urging Kate to her doom. When a bereft and distraught Margaret travelled home later that same year, the story is told that the