The trouble with searching for the Titanic passengers is that the records weren't very well kept. There were people on it that weren't on the manifest, there were people on the manifest who never made it on board and (particuarly crew) people on the manifest who 'jumped' or left the ship at the first port of call, so weren't on the fatal leg of the voyage. We will never know an accurate and detailed list of exactly who was on board and who died. The only reasonably accurate list is of the survivors. And even that has errors, children who were too young to know their names and so had to be matched up with the manifest or claimed by relatives.

We've have a family legend that a relative was on board and it turns out (from the crew lists) that there WAS a hosptial steward with the same name. Trouble is, he gives his birthplace as Lewes, in Sussex. The family were a good 80 miles further west, in Dorset. There is a family with the same surname in Lewes, but no record of him being born there. If he was from Lewes, how come WE had the family legend?? And if he did die on the Titanic, where is the record of his death? So far, I've not been able to track one down.

My late father used to work with a man who had been rescued from the Titanic, at the age of 5. He was lucky, his mother made it through as well. His father, grandfather and uncle, along with his uncle's wife and children, didn't. He said all he remembered was it being very dark, wet and cold and that he was given some chocolate by a sailor who wrapped him in a blanket.

Good luck with your searches though.

LTS