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John Jacob Astor IV was the great-grandson of John Jacob Astor the fur trader. After his education at St. Paul's School, Concord and Harvard, he travelled abroad before returning to America to manage the family fortune. His lived at 840 Fifth Avenue, New York and also at Ferncliff , Rhinebeck, New York, and Beechwood, Newport, Rhode Island.
He was a property developer who in 1897 built the Astoria Hotel, New York adjoining the Waldorf Hotel built by his cousin, William Waldorf Astor, his cousin. He was also a novellist and inventor.
He became Colonel-staff to General Levi P. Morton and in 1898, was commissioned as a lieutenant colonel in the US volunteers. He donated much of his fortune to the U.S. government during the Spanish-American War.
His first marriage to Ava Willing lasted only six years and they divorced in 1909. Two years later, he married Madeleine Force, when she was just 18 yrs old. He was then aged 47. The age difference caused a small outcry so they extended their European honeymoon in Egypt and Paris and, boarded the Titanic at Cherbourg, France on 10 April 1912 to return to America.
The newly weds set sail along with a maid, Miss Rosalie Bidois, a nurse, Miss Caroline Louise Endres, his manservant, Victor Robbins, and their pet cat, Airedale.
At about quarter to midnight on Sunday 14 April, the Titanic stuck a huge iceburg. John helped Madeleine aboard lifeboat 4 and then returned to the deck to drown with the other 1,500 passengers, when the ship finally sank 2 1/2 hours later.
His body was recovered on Monday April 22 by the cable ship McKay-Bennett, and he was buried at Trinity Cemetery, New York the following month.
For further details, images and news articles about John and family please visit:
http://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/biography.php/astor_john_jacob_11.html
Madeleine married multi-millionaire John Jacob Astor, when she was just 18 yrs old. He was then aged 47 and had divorced his first wife two years earlier. The age difference caused a small outcry so they extended their European honeymoon in Egypt and Paris and, boarded the Titanic at Cherbourg, France on 10 April 1912 to return to America.
They set sail along with her maid, Miss Rosalie Bidois, her nurse, Miss Caroline Louise Endres, her husband's manservant, Victor Robbins, and their pet cat, Airedale.
At about quarter to midnight on Sunday 14 April, the Titanic stuck a huge iceburg. Madeleine was helped aboard lifeboat 4 by her husband, who was then left on deck to drown with the other 1,500 passengers, when the ship finally sank 2 1/2 hours later.
Madeleine was rescued by the Carpathia and returned to America to inherit the income from a five-million-dollar trust fund and the use of her husband's homes in Fifth Avenue and in Newport for as long as she remained unmarried. She gave up this fortune within a few years to marry corporate official, William K. Dick, with whom she had two sons, William F. and John H. Dick.
This second marriage ended in divorce in 1933 at Reno, Nevada. Madeleine next married the prize-fighter Enzo Fiermonte but then divorced again in 1938 and reverted to the surname Dick.
She died in Palm Beach, Florida 27 March 1940 at the age of 47.
For further details, images and news articles about Madeleine and family please visit:
http://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/biography.php/astor_madeleine_talmage_12.html
Notes: John married Ellen Tuck and had two children, William and Jacqueline. The first marriage ended in divorce and he next married Gertrude Gretch, but this marriage also ended in divorce. His third and last marriage, to Sue Sandford, lasted until her death.
For further details of John and his family, please visit:
http://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/biography.php/astor_madeleine_talmage_12.html
Information about Laura and the Ribblesdales can be found here: http://www.gisburn.org.uk/gisburnvillage/ribblesdales2.htm
Details from: http://www.cwgc.org
Name: WYNDHAM, PERCY LYULPH
Initials: P L
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Lieutenant
Regiment: Coldstream Guards
Date of Death: 14/09/1914
Additional information: Son of the late Rt. Hon. George Wyndham, P.C., M.P, and of Countess Grosvenor, of 35, Park Lane, London, W.1.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Cemetery: LA FERTE-SOUS-JOUARRE MEMORIAL, Seine-et-Marne, France
A short biography about Diana can be found here: http://www.gisburn.org.uk/gisburnvillage/ribblesdales2.htm
1881 Census: Easton Grey House, Easton Grey, Wiltshire
Name Relation Marital Status Gender Age Birthplace Occupation Disability
Thomas Graham SMITH Head M Male 30 Berkford Pelford J P Landed Proprietor Farmer Of 600 Acres 7 Men 3 Boys
Lucy Katherine SMITH Wife M Female 20 The Glentimesbritten N B
Emma TENANT Mother In Law M Female 59 Clifton Bristol
Laura Mary Octavia TENANT Sister In Law U Female 18 The Glen Timesbritten N B
Thomas (Hon.) LISTER Wifes Nephew U Male 2 London 29 Park Street, London, Middlesex, England
Barbara (Hon.) LISTER Wifes Niece U Female 10 m Aldershot
Esther TOWNER Servant U Female 25 Henley On Thames, Oxford, England Cook Domestic Servant
Mary Ann SLADE Servant U Female 29 Stratton St Margaret, Wiltshire, England Ladysmaid Domestic Servant
Liah SYMONDS Servant U Female 26 Holmes, Hereford, England Housemaid Domestic Servant
Julia HOOPER Servant U Female 20 Minchinhampton, Gloucester, England Housemaid Domestic Servant
Elizabeth POWELL Servant U Female 22 Bexley, Kent, England Kitchen Maid Domestic Servant
Anne BATES Servant U Female 37 Old Deer, Aberdeen, Scotland Ladysmaid Domestic Servant
Clara MACE Servant U Female 21 Ipswich, Suffolk, England Nurse Domestic Servant
Kate ALBURY Servant U Female 26 Tripphill Bary, York, England Nurse Domestic Servant
Thomas ROBSON Servant U Male 20 Grasiley Leeds, York, England Footman Domestic Servant