Mackenzie Wrape
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Kate Mullins
Mrs. Astor
Mrs. Cardoza
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Miss Catherine “Kate” Mullin
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Born on July 28th, 1890 in Rhyne, Cloonee in Co Longford, Ireland, the youngest of nine in a Roman Catholic farming family
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She boarded the Titanic with a £7 ticket (£1,000, $1,250 today) and was headed to her sister in New York City
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She shared a cabin with 3 other girls from Longford, Kate Gilnagh (real person combined with real person Kate McGowan, played by Liz Leclerc), Kate Murphey (played by Siggy Bijou), and K. Murphey’s sister Margaret Muphy.
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All 3 Kates survived (possibly in Lifeboat 16) and lore has it that James Farrell threatened to punch a crewman if he did not let the women pass to the boats.
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She would go on to live with her sister before marrying laborer Martin Kearns (who had migrated from Ireland as well) in 1916 and having 4 children.
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They lived in New York and she rarely discussed the disaster.
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She died in 1970 (age 80) and was buried alongside Martin Kearns.
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Madeline Astor
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Born on June 19th, 1893 in New York City to a well-to-do family
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She was presented as a debutante into New York society in December 1910 and soon after married the 47-year-old Colonel John Jacob Astor, one of America's richest men.
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They were married in September 1911 and took an extended honeymoon in Egypt and Paris while gossip died down about the respectability of their relationship.
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They boarded the Titanic at Cherbourg to go home with Astor’s manservent Victor Robbins, Mrs.Astors maid Miss Rosalie Bidois, private nurse Miss Caroline Louise Endres, and their dog, Kitty.
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Their ticket cost about £224 (£32,500, $40,000 today)
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After the impact, Astor went to investigate and reassured his wife, when they were brought to the boat deck he and his wife sat on the mechanical horses in the gym.
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Mrs. Astor was helped onto Lifeboat 4 and Astor asked to join her, saying she was in ‘delicate condition’ but Lightoller told him no.
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His body was recovered (#124) by Mackay-Bennet and buried in New York.
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She inherited her husband's income from a five-million-dollar trust fund and the use of his home on Fifth Avenue in Newport so long as she did not marry
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She gave birth to the son she was pregnant with on Titanic in August 1912 and named him John Jacob Astor
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She later married Willian K. Dick during the war, relinquishing all claim to the Astor fortune, and went on to have 2 sons before they divorced.
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She would later marry prize-fighter Enzo Fiermonte but they divorced too in 1938 and she took back the surname Dick
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She died in Palm Beach, Florida in 1940 (age 47) officially of heart disease but possibly after an overdose of prescription drugs
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Charlotte “Lottie” Wardle Drake later Mrs Cardeza
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Born on April 10th, 1854 to a textile entrepreneur
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She married James Warburton Martinez Cardeza in 1874 and they lived in an extravagant mansion in Germantown, PA.
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She boarded the Titanic at Cherbourg with her son Thomas and her maid Anna Ward. They occupied one of the parlor suites, the ticket costing about £512 (£75,000, $90,000 today).
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She brought on 14 trunks, 4 suitcases, and three crates of baggage, she would later file a detailed claim to the value of £36,567 for their loss (£5,000,000, $5,150,000 today)
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Mrs Cardeza, her son, and their servants were rescued in lifeboat 3
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She died in 1939 from heart failure and was buried in Pennsylvania
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