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| - Alice Catherine Cleaver was a First Class passenger of the Titanic. She survived the sinking. She was born on July 5th, 1889 in Kentish Town, St. Pancras, London, the daughter of Joseph Cleaver (Postman) and Lavinia Alice Cleaver (née Thomas). At the time of her birth, the family lived at 42 Marquis Road, Pancras. While she was still in her teens Alice started working as a nursemaid to fashionable English families. In 1911 she was working as a nurse maid in the Harley St. home of the Sargeant family. She boarded the Titanic at Southampton in first class under the Allison's ticket (No. 113781).
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| - Alice Catherine Cleaver was a First Class passenger of the Titanic. She survived the sinking. She was born on July 5th, 1889 in Kentish Town, St. Pancras, London, the daughter of Joseph Cleaver (Postman) and Lavinia Alice Cleaver (née Thomas). At the time of her birth, the family lived at 42 Marquis Road, Pancras. While she was still in her teens Alice started working as a nursemaid to fashionable English families. In 1911 she was working as a nurse maid in the Harley St. home of the Sargeant family. She was later hired by Montreal millionaires Hudson and Bess Allison as a last minute replacement to look after their baby son, Trevor. She boarded the Titanic at Southampton in first class under the Allison's ticket (No. 113781). After the collision on the night of April 14th, 1912; Alice apparently bundled up the infant in her charge and went off to Second Class to round up the rest of the Allison household. Alice boarded lifeboat 11. Bedroom Steward William Faulkner held baby Trevor while Alice got in. Although there is no firm evidence it seems certain that the Allisons were unaware that Cleaver had taken the child off safely. The next day, Alice Cleaver and Sarah Daniels realized that they, along with Trevor and the cook - Mildred Brown, were the only survivors of their party. When she arrived in New York with the child, Alice avoided talking to reporters by telling them her name was Jean. After the sinking, she returned to England and on June 22nd, 1918 she married widower Edward James Williams (born 1891), a clerk (later a surgical appliance manufacturer). They had two daughters. Alice Catherine Cleaver died on November 1st, 1984 in Winchester, Hampshire at the age of 95.
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