Data Files Info

 Editor's Note: Remember this database was originally created Department of Education & Children Services, Southern Australia www.decs.sa.gov.au 

The Passengers

The 1st, 2nd & 3rd class passengers. The data is arranged as follows:

Surname: Where an alias was used this has been enclosed in brackets.

First Name: Wherever possible the correct name has been used, otherwise the convention of the day has been followed i.e. use of husbands’ initials for their wives - not acceptable today, but faithful to the era!

Gender: Either M or F

Age: Where this is not known, a zero will be found.  Where the age of an infant was known, this is given as a decimal.  Exercise caution when searching this information!

Category: The official White Star categories were used:

I - an infant i.e. a child less than 1 year old,
C - a child less than 12 years old, and
A - an adult.

Class: The following conventions were used:

1-1st class
2 -2nd class
3 -3rd class
N -used for those maids, valets etc.

Lifeboat: The information for this field is of three forms:

If the passenger was lost the entry is Lost,
If the passenger was saved the entry is one of two types:
A number from 1 to 16, or a letter from A to D,
The word Unknown if it was impossible to discover which lifeboat they occupied.

The information for this field came from Gracie’s book, occasionally from other sources or on rare occasions (and only where supportable) from inferences drawn from times and other passenger names.

Occupation: Again, the entries from the official records have been used and thus the entry ‘Housewife’ appears in the data even though this is unacceptable in today’s society.  This was done to preserve the Edwardian 'flavour' of the data.

Country: The official White Star records gave the country of birth, not the country of residence and this has been used here.

Embarked: This is the port of embarkation (where known).

Comment: Where possible, an interesting and informative description has been included, but in many cases this field is regrettably blank!

The Crew

The crew of the ‘Titanic’, including those who signed on, but did not sail for various reasons.The data is arranged as follows:

Surname: Where an alternative spelling was found this has been enclosed in brackets.

First Name: Wherever possible the correct name has been used, otherwise the convention of the day has been followed ie use of husbands initials for their wives, again not acceptable today, but faithful to the era!

Address: This contains street and city where it was available.

Gender: Either M or F

Age: Where this is not known, a zero will be found.  Again, exercise caution when searching this section!

County: Where possible, the county as stated in the White Star records has been used.

Country: The official White Star records gave the country of birth, not the country of residence and this has been used here.

Department: This gives the name of the department to which the crew member was assigned.

Position: The official ‘job title’ as recorded in the White Star records.

Lifeboat: The information for this field is of three main forms:

If the crew member was lost the entry is Lost,

If the crew member was saved the entry is one of two types:

A number from 1 to 16, or a letter from A to D,

the word Unknown if it was impossible to discover which lifeboat they occupied.

There are a number of other entries that cover circumstances where the crew member deserted, was discharged or failed to join the ship.  In these cases, the comment field will explain the reason for the entry.

Comment: Where possible, an interesting and informative description has been included, but in many cases this field is regrettably blank!