Mabel Helen (Fortune) Driscoll (1888 - 1968)

Born 3 Nov 1888 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

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Died 19 Feb 1968 at age 79 in Victoria, British Columbia

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Biography

Mabel (Fortune) Driscoll was aboard the RMS Titanic.

Miss Mabel Helen Fortune, 23, was born 3 November 1888, in Winnipeg, Manitoba, the daughter of Mark and Mary Fortune.

Mabel was described as blithe, unselfconscious and highly strung, she was attractive but spoiled. Much to her parents chagrin, she had fallen in love with a jazz musician from Minnesota, Harrison Driscoll. By inviting her to come to Europe with the family, Mark and Mary Fortune had hoped to stifle the romance by taking Mabel away for several months.

She boarded the Titanic at Southampton as a first class passenger. She travelled with her parents, her two sisters, Alice Elizabeth and Ethel Flora, and her brother, Charles Alexander Fortune. They occupied cabins C-23-25-27.

Her father and brother were lost in the sinking but the women were rescued in lifeboat 10.

After the disaster she married Driscoll in 1913 and they had a son, Robert. But the marriage didn't last long. Shortly afterwards, Mabel left her husband to live with Charlotte Armstrong, whom she met in Ottawa. She put her son in boarding school. For the rest of her life she lived in Victoria, British Columbia with Armstrong.

Mabel (Fortune) Driscoll died in Victoria, British Columbia on February 19, 1968 at the age of 79.

Sources

"Canada Census, 1901," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/KHK9-2GX : accessed 25 Jun 2014), Mabel H Fortune in household of Mark Fortune, B, Winnipeg (city/cité), Manitoba, Canada; citing p. 5, Public Archives, Ottawa, Ontario.

"Canada Census, 1906," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/KHJP-YBD : accessed 25 Jun 2014), Mabel Fortune in household of Mark Fortune, 2A, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada; citing Public Archives, Ottawa, Ontario.

"New York, Passenger Arrival Lists (Ellis Island), 1892-1924," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/JJRT-JZJ : accessed 25 Jun 2014), Mabel Fortune, arrived at New York, 18 Jun 1912, on the Carpathia and Titanic; citing National Archives, Washington D.C.

"Canada Census, 1916," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/KMP4-QRN : accessed 25 Jun 2014), Mable Driscoll in household of Harrison A Driscoll, Manitoba, Canada; citing p. 52, line 41; Library and Archives Canada film number T-21934, Ottawa; FHL microfilm 2434949.

Mabel Fortune: http://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/titanic-survivor/mabel-helen-fortune.html : accessed 25 June 2014