Madeleine (Mellinger) Mann
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Madeline Violet (Mellinger) Mann (1899 - 1976)

Madeline Violet (Madeleine) Mann formerly Mellinger aka Mellenger
Born in Walthamstow, Essex, England, United Kingdommap
Ancestors ancestors
Wife of — married 1923 in Canadamap
Descendants descendants
Mother of [private son (1920s - unknown)], [private son (1920s - unknown)], [private son (1930s - unknown)] and [private son (1930s - unknown)]
Died at age 77 in Toronto, York, Ontario, Canadamap
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Biography

Madeleine (Mellinger) Mann was aboard the RMS Titanic.

She was born Violet Madeline Mellenger on 22 February 1899 in Walthamstow, Essex, England and was baptised 1 October 1905 in the parish of Milton in the county of Southampton (now Hampshire), England, the same day as her younger siblings Edmund Reginald and Constance Sylvia. She was the daughter of Claude Leonard Deschamps Mellenger and Elizabeth Anne Maidment and at that time, the family was living in Milton and her father's occupation was Journalist.[1][2]

1901 CENSUS - Nortoft Road, Bournemouth, Hampshire, England [3]

Samuel Gurney Head 30 Highgate, Middlesex Bread Baker
Emily Gurney Wife 27 Pimlico, London
Elsie M Gurney Dau 2 Branksome, Dorsetshire
Elizabeth Mellinger Visitor 31 South Belgravia, London Married (sister to Emily Gurney)
Eugenie C Mellinger Visitor 5 Walthamstow, Essex
Alexandra L Mellinger Visitor 4 Walthamstow, Essex
Violet M Mellinger Visitor 2 Walthamstow, Essex
Reginald Mellinger Visitor 0 Walthamstow, Essex

Her parents later became estranged and her father emigrated to Australia sometime before 1910, leaving her mother apparently destitute.

In the 1911 Census, young Madeline Violet was 12 years old and an inmate at a children's home located at 34 Worple Road in Wimbledon, Surrey and her mother had become a domestic to make ends meet.[4]

Miss Madeline Violet Mellinger, 13, was born on 22 February 1899 in Essex, England. She boarded the Titanic at Southampton as a second class passenger together with her mother Elizabeth Anne Mellinger. To reach their destination, Bennington, Vermont, they bought ticket number 250644 for �19 10s.

Miss Mellinger and her mother survived the sinking. They entered lifeboat 14 and were later transferred to 12 by Officer Lowe.

Titanic Passenger & Crew Summary

Name: Miss Madeleine Violet Mellinger - Titanic Survivor
Born: Wednesday 22nd February 1899
Age: 13 years (Female)
Last Residence: in Wimbledon London England
2nd Class Passengers
First Embarked: Southampton on Wednesday 10th April 1912
Ticket No. 250644 , £19 10s
Destination: Bennington Vermont United States
Rescued (boat 14)
Disembarked Carpathia: New York City on Thursday 18th April 1912
Died: Thursday 27th May 1976
Travelling Companions (on same ticket):
Mrs Elizabeth Anne Mellinger

1921 CENSUS - 56 Lincoln St., Welland City, Ontario, Canada [5][6]

Elizabeth M Mellinger 47 Head England Widowed Year of Immigration 1913
Eugenia Mellinger 26 Dau England Year of Immigration 1913
Leirnard Mellinger 24 Son England Year of Immigration 1914
Madeleine Mellinger 22 Dau England Year of Immigration 1913
Reginald Mellinger 20 Son England Year of Immigration 1909
Constance Mellinger 15 Dau England Year of Immigration 1913

Marriage

She emigrated to Canada in 1915, and on October 1, 1921 married David Daniel Mann in Toronto, York, Ontario. He was a Welland, Ontario banker, 23 years old and his parents were Alexander Mann and Isabella Dennis. She was 22 and her parents were listed as Claude Alexander Melleager and Elizabeth Ann Maidmart. They had four sons, Alex, Bill, Don and Carl.

On 15 April 1939, mother and daughter together with Emma Bliss and Samuel John Collins met for a Titanic reunion dinner at the Royal York Hotel, Toronto.

Newspaper Interview in 1974

In an interview with the Toronto Star on April 15, 1974 she said:

"We were asleep in our berths when a man banged on our door and told us to put on warm clothes and lifebelts and to get on deck."
She said she and her mother were hurled into a half empty lifeboat and she shivered in the drifting boat, the cries of the drowning all around her.
"I could see the lights of the ship starting to go under water, then soundlessly, perhaps a mile away, it just went down. It was gone. Oh yes, the sky was very black and the stars were very bright. They told me the people in the water were singing, but I knew they were screaming."

As Madeleine Violet Mann she died at age 77 on 27 May 1976 in Toronto, York, Ontario and her cremated remains were interred in Saint John's Anglican Church Cemetery in Stevensville, Niagara, Ontario, Canada.[7]

Sources

  1. "England and Wales Birth Registration Index, 1837-2008," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:2FHQ-47Z : 1 October 2014), Violet Madeline Mellenger, 1899; from "England & Wales Births, 1837-2006," database, findmypast (http://www.findmypast.com : 2012); citing Birth Registration, West Ham, Essex, England, citing General Register Office, Southport, England.
  2. Hampshire Archives and Local Studies; Winchester, England, UK; Anglican Parish Registers; Reference: 56M83/PR4
  3. "England and Wales Census, 1901," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XSXN-CSF : 20 May 2019), Violet M Mellinger in household of Samuel G Gurney, Bournemouth, Hampshire, England, United Kingdom; from "1901 England, Scotland and Wales census," database and images, findmypast (http://www.findmypast.com); citing Bournemouth subdistrict, PRO RG 13, The National Archives, Kew, Surrey.
  4. "England and Wales Census, 1911," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XW8T-TDP : 8 July 2019), Madeline Violet Mellanger in household of Grace Bensley, Wimbledon, Surrey, England, United Kingdom; from "1911 England and Wales census," database and images, findmypast (http://www.findmypast.com); citing PRO RG 14, The National Archives of the UK, Kew, Surrey.
  5. 1921 Census: Reference Number: RG 31; Folder Number: 96; Census Place: Welland-city, Welland, Ontario; Page Number: 22
  6. Ancestry.com. 1921 Census of Canada [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2013.
  7. Find A Grave: Memorial #178682360

SEE ALSO:

  • Contract Ticket List, White Star Line 1912 (National Archives, New York; NRAN-21-SDNYCIVCAS-55[279]).
  • Marriages, births, deaths and injuries that have occurred on board during the voyage (PRO London, BT 100/259-260)
  • United States Senate (62nd Congress), Subcommittee Hearings of the Committee on Commerce, Titanic Disaster, Washington 1912
  • Toronto Star, April 16, 1939, Rescued by the Same Lifeboat Titanic Survivors United Again. Toronto Star, April 15, 1974
  • Alan Hustak (1999) Titanic: The Canadian Story. Vehicule Press, ISBN 1-55065-113-7

Acknowledgements: Alan Hustak, Canada. Hermann Seldner, Germany.





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