Mr. Matthew Orr Gibson

Matthew Gibson, 48, a British national from Glasgow, Scotland was a transfer from the Cameronia. His ticket number was 013432 and his cabin was B-2. Gibson was lost when the Lusitania was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-20 on 7 May 1915. Contributors Paul Latimer Senan Molony, Ireland Hildo Thiel, The Netherlands

Mrs. William Stevenson (Janet M. Wallace)

image:  Cleveland Plain Dealer, Saturday, 8 May 1915, page 2. Janet Stevenson was born in Aberdeen, Scotland, near the city of Glasgow.  Eighteen months previous to her fateful voyage on the Lusitania, she married William Stevenson, who had also been born near Glasgow.  William was a molder and came to the United States several years before …

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Miss Henrietta Pirrie

Image courtesy Michael Poirier. Henrietta Pirrie, 24, was a British citizen from Glenfarg, Perthshire, Scotland, living in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. She was aboard Lusitania to be on her way to England to be married.  Henrietta was lost in the Lusitania sinking. Henrietta was the daughter of James R. Pirrie of Perth, Scotland. She had at …

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