Helen (Wilson) Rosenquist was a passenger on the RMS Titanic. Join: Titanic Project Discuss: titanic
Biography
Helen (Wilson) Rosenquist was born in Ireland.
Miss Helen Alice Wilson was born in Clonbern, Tuam, County Galway, Ireland on 12 February 1881. Daughter of Irish parents Patrick Wilson and Ellenor Feeney who lived and raised their family in Dunmore near Tuam in Co Galway.
She boarded the Titanic at Cherbourg as maid to Daisy Spedden. She was rescued in lifeboat 3.
After the sinking, she went to be near her family in New Jersey and there married Axel J. Rosenquist.
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The couple lived out their lives in Merchantville, New Jersey and were parents of two daughters.
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Husband: Axel J. Rosenquist
Children:
Helen Marie (Rosenquist) Matlack, b.1916-d.2021 Vineland, New Jersey
Ester Amelie (Rosenquist) Heinz, b.1919-d.1982 Camden, New Jersey
Helen Alice Rosenquist (nee Wilson) died in New Jersey on 1 December 1939.
A few months after she died, her husband and daughter were found on the census living in Pennsauken Twp, New Jersey.
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Notes
She was recorded as aged 35 by the Immigration Officer (List or Manifest...).
Her daughter Esther, born in 1919, was still single at the time of her mother's death, but later was Mrs Esther Heinz of Camden, New Jersey. She died in Camden in 1982 at the age of 62. Descendants still live in that area of New Jersey and in other states.
She seems to prefer giving her birthplace as England, as in the 1920 and 1930 censuses.
I am the grandson of Helen Wilson, who was saved. As the story goes she met my grandfather aboard the Carpathia. They were married a year later. I cannot verify if my grandfather was a passenger or crew aboard the Carpathia. He was a Ships Captain from Sweden his name was Axel Rosenquist. Posted by Jack Heinz. Helen has a sister named (Margaret Wilson Beirne).
Credits:
Phillip Gowan, USA
Hermann S*ldner, Germany
Sources
↑ There are unsubstantiated claims that Mr Rosenquist had been employed on the Carpathia and met Helen during the rescue.
↑ "United States Census, 1930," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X4D9-XJ9 : accessed 11 March 2020), Ester A Rosenquist in household of Axel J Rosenquist, Merchantville, Camden, New Jersey, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 149, sheet 11B, line 99, family 287, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 1324; FHL microfilm 2,341,059.
Axel J Rosenquist Head Male 53 Sweden
Helen A Rosenquist Wife Female 47 England
Helen M Rosenquist Daughter Female 13 New York
Ester A Rosenquist Daughter Female 10 New Jersey
↑ "United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K45X-5PS : 28 February 2020), Esther Rosenquist in household of Axel J Rosenquist, Pennsauken Township, Camden, New Jersey, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 4-110, sheet 1B, line 77, family 27, Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, NARA digital publication T627. Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790 - 2007, RG 29. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012, roll 2323.
Axel J Rosenquist Head Male 62 Sweden
Esther Rosenquist Daughter Female 20 New Jersey
Helen Alice Wilson Rosenquist (1881-1939) on Find A Grave: Memorial #8220191 retrieved 11 July 2019
Camden Daily Newspaper, December 4, 1939, Obituary
New Jersey State Department of Health Certificate of Death
Contract Ticket List, White Star Line 1912 (National Archives, New York; NRAN-21-SDNYCIVCAS-55[279])
List or Manifest of Alien Passengers for the United States Immigration Officer At Port of Arrival (Date: 18th-19th June 1912, Ship: Carpathia) - National Archives, NWCTB-85-T715-Vol. 4183.
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