by Joan Lock
Thomas, Chobham
Marshall, Lawrence, Birmingham
Martin, Mrs, Huntingdon
Welch, Richard, Tonbridge
Missing
Bowles, Elizabeth, Sheerness
Leech, Mrs
and three children, Hertfordshire
Room, Elizabeth, 44, Birmingham
Note for Family Historians
The above list, which divides victims according to the areas in which they lived, is adapted from the ‘Dead and Missing’ list in Edwin Guest’s 1878 book, The Wreck of the Princess Alice.
Guest’s list includes the victims’ addresses and, in some cases, gives their employment. Although he says ‘a portion of those marked missing were identified by clothing or relics after being buried as unknown’, I found only one or two of these in the ‘List of bodies buried unknown but later identified’ at the London Metropolitan Archives (COR/PA/23-30) whilst a good number of those in his identified section do appear in this. The London Metropolitan Archives also has a long list of the names, ages, relationships and occupations of the deceased (COR/PA/1) and a list of the 130 saved (COR/PA/30).
However, Colin Alsbury, a descendent of seven victims of that name, has compiled a list of ‘Passengers, crew and others connected to the disaster’ which is available online: www.alsbury.co.uk/princessalice/alice0.htm. It includes variant and erroneous name spellings (pointing out that these can vary greatly in contemporary sources), probable places of death registration, whether the individuals were dead/missing/saved/witness/possible victims or unknown/unclaimed, but not their addresses. Newspapers, of course, are another valuable source.
Sources and Bibliography
Archives and other sources
London Metropolitan Archives
Coroners’ Records for the Princess Alice Inquest (COR/PA)
The National Archives
Report on the Board of Trade Inquiry into the collision between the Princess Alice and Bywell Castle (M16769-1878 13051 and M1925/1879)
Queen Victoria’s messages about the accident (M13451)
Reports of the Committee Appointed by the Board of Trade into the Navigation of the River Thames and Minutes of Evidence (MT9/160/M1925/79)
Cutting from the Engineer regarding Captain Pim’s ‘experts’ (M17263)
Recommended restrictions on saloon steamers by Board of Trade Marine Department (M16719)
The National Maritime Museum: Caird Library
The Loss of the Princess Alice broadsheet (PAD 6772 & 3)
Islington Public Library Archives
The Islington Year-Book and Almanac, 1893
Thames Police Museum Website
Select bibliography
Allani, Magda, Dark Waters: Chronicle of a Story Untold (Slow Burn Publications, 2011)
Neal, Wendy, With Disastrous Consequences: London Disasters 1830–1917 (Hisarlik Press, 1992)
Beckett, I.F.W., Victoria’s Wars (Shire Publications, 1998)
Bennett, Daphne, Vicky: Princess Royal of England and German Empress (Book Club Associates, 1973)
Clifford, J.R.S., Gravesend and Its Neighbourhood (Smithers Bros, 1886)
Darbyshire, The People’s Guide to Rosherville and Gravesend, 1878
Ford, C.J. And E.R. Green, Rosherville Gardens (The Endowed School, Hartlip and Whitehall Junior School Gravesend)
Foley, Michael, Disasters on the Thames (The History Press, 2011)
Guest, Edwin, The Wreck of the Princess Alice (Saloon Steamer) (Weldon’s Shilling Library, 1878)
Lock, Joan, Dead Born (Hale, 2001)
Noel, Gerard, Princess Alice: Queen Victoria’s Forgotten Daughter (Michael Russell, 1974)
Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester, Memories of Ninety Years (Collins and Brown, 1991)
Robins, Nick, The Illustrated History of Thames Pleasure Steamers (Silverlink Publishing, 2009)
Rhodes, Linda and Kathryn Abnett, Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths in Barking, Dagenham & Chadwell Heath (Wharncliffe Books, 2007)
Schneer, Jonathan, The Thames: England’s River (Abacus, 2011)
Thurston, Gavin, The Great Thames Disaster (Allen and Unwin, 1965)
Vincent, W.T., The Records of the Woolwich District (J.P. Jackson, 1888–1890)
Vincent, William Thomas, Warlike Woolwich: A History and Guide (unknown publisher, 1875) (British Library, 2010)
Contemporary newspapers and periodicals
Burnley Express
Chambers Journal
Country Life
Elgin Courier
Gloucestershire Citizen
Isle of Wight Observer
Lancaster Gazette
Lloyd’s Weekly London Newspaper
Pall Mall Gazette
Reynolds Newspaper
Sunderland Daily Echo
Aberdeen Journal
Belfast Newsletter
Cheshire Observer
Daily News
Dundee Courier
Edinburgh Evening News
Era
Evening Telegraph (Dundee)
Graphic
Illustrated London News
Illustrated Police News
Ipswich Journal
Islington Gazette
Kentish Independent
Lancaster Gazette
Leeds Mercury
Liverpool Mercury
Morning Chronicle
Morning Post
Newcastle Courant
Newcastle Daily Journal
Northern Echo
Nottingham Evening Post
Shields Daily Gazette & Shipping Telegraph
Standard
Sunderland Advertiser
Sussex Advertiser
The Times
Worcestershire Chronicle
Western Mail
Index
E.N.: endnote
Abbey Mills Pumping Station, 1, 2, 3, 4
Abercarn Mining Disaster, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Albert Edward, pleasure steamer, 1
Albert, Prince Consort, 1, 2, 3, E.N. 21:6 and 7
Alice, Princess of Battenberg, 1
Alice, Princess, Countess of Athlone, 1
Alice, Princess, Duchess of Gloucester, 1
Alice, Princess of Great Britain and Ireland, Grand Duchess of Hesse and the Rhine, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Alice, Princess of Hesse, 1, 2, 3
Alliance Club of the Swimming Associations of Great Britain, 1
Alstin, Sergeant, 1
Alston, Superintendent, 1
Anchorn, William John, 1
Annual Wreck Register, 1, 2
Anson, Reverend Adelbert, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Arnold, deceased Princess Alice crew member, 1
Aslet, Superintendent, 1
Baker, Mrs Emma Jane, 1
Baker, John, 1
Baker, Mr John (Senior), 1
Balguy, Mr, 1, 2, 3
Ball, Mary, 1, 2
Barclay, Mary, 1
Barden, Miss, 1, 2
Barnard, Edward Brown, 1
Barnes, Alfred, 1
Barrington Assistant-Commissary General, 1
Baynes, Police Superintendent, 1
Bazelgette, Sir Joseph, 1, 2, 3, E.N. 17:4
Beadle, Henry, 1
Beechey (Beachey), William, 1, 2, 3
Behnna, Captain R. A., 1
Belcher, Mr Henry, 1
Belding, Henry John, 1
Benson, Mr (Southwark Magistrate), 1
Bishop, Minette, 1
Blondin 1, E.N. 6:7
Board of Trade, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 Special Committee on the Navigation of the Thames, 1
Boddington, Louisa, 1
Bolam, John, 1
Bolam, Mary Ann, 1
Boncy, Mr Frederick, 1, 2, E.N. 7:2
Brady, Mr and Mrs, 1
Brankston, William, 1, 2, 3, 4
Brent, Mrs Mary, 1, 2, 3
Brett, Lord Justice, 1
Bridgeman, Mr and Mrs, 1, 2, 3
Briscoe,
Benjamin, 1, 2, 3
Briscoe, Constable Cornelius, 1, 2, 3, 4
Briscoe, Jane, 1, 2
Briscoe, Sarah, 1, 2
Brodrib, Walter, 1
Broughton, Miss, 1
Brown, John, 1
Brown, Mr, 1
Brown, Peter, 1
Buncy, Mr, 1
Burdett, Mr H. C., 1
Burnes, Hugh, 1
Burnitt, Joseph, 1
Burton, Farrier Sergeant James, 1
Bywell Castle Board of Trade verdict, 1
collision, 1
Court of Admiralty verdict, 1
crew examined at inquest, 1, 2
at Deptford, 1, 2, 3, 4
and the Great Eastern, 1
inquest verdict, 1
at Millwall Dock, 1, 2
missing, 1
rescues, 1
sued by the Princess Alice, 1, 2
technical description and ownership, 1
Campfield, Walter, 1
Canada, the, 1, E.N. 22:6
Carttar, Charles Joseph, Coroner for West Kent, 1 inquest inquiry on cause of accident, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, E.N. 4:2
Woolwich inquest, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Carttar, Edward Arundel, 1
Castalia, 1, 2
Catlin, Mr, 1, 2
Cayley, Miss, 1
Cheeseman, James, 1
Cheesman, Edward, 1
Chellow, Douglas, 1
Childs, Alice, 1
Childs, Mrs Emma, 1, 2
Childs, Mr, 1, 2, 3, 4
Cocking, Mr Robert, 1, E.N. 20:7
Codling, William Alfred, 1
Cohen, Rachel, 1
Collier, Mr G., 1, 2
Collins Music Hall Memorial Concert; 1
collisions Agnes and Louise and the Inconstant (1878), 1
Ariel and the Hoboken (1878), 1
Bowfell and Gem, (1878), 1
City of London and the Vesta (1879), 1
Grosser Kurfürst and the König Wilhelm (1878), 1, 2, E.N. 17:1
Mary Scott and the Norman (1873), 1
Metis and the Wentworth (1867), 1, 2, 3
Ostrich and the Benbow (1878), 1
Northfleet and an unknown vessel (1873), 1, 2
Pommerania and the Moel Eilian (1878), 1
Schiller and the Deutschland (1875), 1, 2, E.N. 21:1 and 2
collisions from 1880, E.N. 24:6 Bowbelle, and the Marchioness (1989), 1
‘Constant Reader’, 1
Cook, Mr, 1
Corfield, Mrs Martha, 1
Coshall, James, 1
Cospatrick, emigrant ship, 1
Cotton, Lord Justice, 1
Court of Admiralty, 1, 2
Creed, 1, 2, 3
Crispin, Mr W. H., 1
Crolly, Reverend G., 1
Crossness Pumping Station, 1, 2
Curtis, Charles, 1
Dalton, Mrs Anne, 1
Dalton, Leonard, 1
Davies, Emily, 1
Davies, Mrs, 1
Davies, Thomas, 1
Davies, William, 1
Davis, Mrs, 1
Dawkins, Inspector 1, 2, 3
Dawson, Reverend W., 1
Dee, Mrs, 1
Deness, Abraham, 1, 2, 3, 4
Denton, Mr, 1
Dimelow, 1, 2, 3
Dix, Christopher (Thames pilot), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
Dr Barnado’s Homes, 1
Dover, Mr Richard, 1
Drake, Mary Anne Cutler, 1
Drake, Stephen, 1
Drew, Mr Henry, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Drew, Martha Helen, 1, 2
Drew, Miriam Ruth, 1
Drew, Mrs, 1, 2, 3
Driscoll, Mr William, 1
Duke of Cambridge, 1, 2, 3
Duke of Connaught, 1
Duke of Teck, 1, 2, 3, 4
Dyble, Caroline Adelaide, 1, 2
East London Temperance Association, 1
Eatwell, Emma, 1, 2, 3
Eckley, David, 1
Edis, Dr Arthur W., 1
Elizabeth, Princess of Hesse, 1
Elizabeth, Queen, 1, 2
Ellen, David, 1
Elliott, Mr J. Garratt, 1
Elliott, Mr, 1
Elliott, William James, 1
Erb, Mr Henry, 1
Ernst Louis, Prince of Hesse, 1
Eurydice, 1, 2, 3, E.N. 10:3
Everist family, 1
Eyres, John, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Farnum, Ada Florence, 1
‘A Father’, 1
F. C., 1
Finnette, Sophia, 1
Fitzgerald, Captain (harbour master), 1, 2
‘A Flag Officer’, 1, 2
Ford, Inspector, 1
Forster, Captain R. N., 1
Foster, Mabel Elizabeth (née Ogbourne), 1
Frederick (Frittie) Prince of Hesse, 1, 2
Fry, Mr Henry Gordon (Thames Conservancy Board surveyor), 1
Fuller, Thomas, 1
Gilham, P. C., 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Gill, Mr, 1
Ginn, P.C. Robert, 1
Gollifer, Mrs, 1
Grace, W.G., 1
Gray, Thomas, 1
Green, Jane, 1, 2
Gribben, Henry, 1, 2
Grinstead, Charles Thomas, 1, 2, 3
Grinstead, Jane, 1
Grinstead, John James, 1, 2
Grinstead William Robert, 1
Grinstead, Captain William Robert Hartridge, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14
Guest, Mr Edwin, 1, 2, E.N. 10:7
Gullifer, Mrs Matilda, 1
Gurr, Harriett, 1
Hagger, Mr, 1
Haines, Robert, 1, 2, 3, 4
Haist, Eleanor, 1
Haist, Mrs Eliza, 1, 2
Haist, William Frederick, 1
Hall, Dr Marshall, 1
Hammond, Alice, 1
Hanbury, Ella, 1
Hankin and Turner, the case of, 1
Hardy, John, (runner), 1, 2
Harrington, Mr, (Woolwich inquest jury foreman), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
Harris, Mr George Thomas, 1, 2
Harrison, Captain, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7,3, 8, 9
Harrison, William, 1
Hatterly, Lady, 1
Hawes, Mr Joseph, 1
Hawkins, Mr, 1
Hayes, Mr George, 1
Haynes, William Henry, 1, 2
Hennessey, Rosa, 1, 2
Hepburn, Mabel, 1
Hill, Mr, 1
Hill, Thomas, 1
Hinds, Police Superintendent, 1
Hodgman, James, 1
Hope, Mrs, 1
Hopgood, 1
Hopkins, Elizabeth, 1
Horsfall, Mrs, 1
Huddart, Mr, 1, 2, 3, 4
Hughes, George, 1, 2
Hughes, Mr, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11
Hunt, George, 1
Hutchinson, Mr, 1
infectious diseases, 1
Irene, Princess of Hesse, 1
Ivory, Mr James, 1
James, Lord Justice, 1
Jamieson, Mr R. Barclay, 1
Jenkins, Inspector William, 1
Jenner, Sir William, 1, E.N. 21:6
Jones, Mr Mansel, 1, 2
Jones, Mary, 1
Josling, John, E.N. 7.5
Kell, Edward, 1
Kempe, Arthur William/William Hussey Bloomfield, 1
Kettle, James, 1
King, Alfred, 1
King, Edward, 1
King, Edward (baby), 1
King, Edward (Senior), 1
King, Mrs Fanny, 1
King, Inspector, 1, 2, 3, E.N. 24:5
Lacey, Dr, 1
Ladds, Mrs, 1
Laing, Charles, 1
Lambert, Mr and Mrs, 1
Law, Jane, 1, 2, 3
Law, John, 1, 2
Law, Susannah, 1, 2, 3
Law, William Alexander, 1, 2
Leach, Dr Harry, 1
Leaver, Albert, 1,
2
Leaver, Benjamin, 1
Leaver, Edward, 1, 2, 3, 4
Leaver, Edward (Senior), 1, 2, 3, 4
Leaver, Ruth Elizabeth, 1, 2
Lee, Mrs T., 1
Lee, William, 1
Leopold, Prince of Great Britain and Ireland, 1, 2, 3
Lever, John Orrell, 1, 2
Lewis, Mr Charles C. (South Essex coroner), 1, 2, 3, 4, E.N. 4:2
Lewis, Constable, 1, E.N. 24:5
Linnecar, George William, 1
London Sanitary Committee, the, 1
London Swimming Club, 1
Long, Assistant-Commissary General, 1
Long, George Thomas, 1, 2, 3
Longhurst, Thomas, 1, 2
Louis, Grand Duke of Hesse and the Rhine, 1, 2, 3, 4
Louis, Lord Mountbatten, 1, 2
Louis, Prince Battenberg, 1
Louttit, Dr James, 1
Lowry, Samuel, 1
Lucas, Inspector, 1
Makie, Mr, 1
Mansion House Fund, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
Marie (May), Princess of Hesse, 1
Marsh, John, 1
Masters, Mr Charles, 1
Maxwell, Dr, 1
M’Dowell, Thomas Delves, 1
Mead Corner, Mr, 1
Meering, Inspector, 1
Metropolitan Board of Works, The, 1, 2, 3
Moore, Edmund T., 1
Moore, Peter H., 1
Morday, John, 1
Moss, Mr, 1, 2
Mouflet, Alexander, 1
Mountain, Matthew, 1
Mountain, William Frederick, 1
Myburgh, Mr, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
‘N.A.’, 1
Nares, Charlotte Sophia, 1
Nares, George, 1
National Lifeboat Institute, the, 1
National Orphan Home, the, 1
Nelson, Mr, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
‘Nemo’, 1
Nichols, Maureen, 1, 2
Nightingale, Florence, 1
Noel, Gerard, 1
‘An Observer’, 1
Page, S. M., 1
Page, William Samuel, 1, 2
Palmer, Reverend E. H., 1
Parfitt, Captain, 1
Parry, Police Sergeant, 1
Payne, Police Inspector, 1
Perou, Disney, 1, 2
Perou, Mary Ann, 1
