Princess Alice 1878 - Passenger Lists

[Chris Scott]

The Princess List
Passenger lists
The Times
5 September 1878

As of 5 September a makeshift mortuary had been established at Woolwich Town Hall, in which were placed 28 corpses, 10 of which were female. Those named as identified at the time of the article were:
William Elliott of Clapham
William King of East Greenwich

"Persons who are missing and supposed drowned"
Robert Wilkins aged 54
Maria Wilkins aged 27 Westminster
Mr F W Wyatt aged 45
Wife of above Dalston
Mrs White aged 48 Brixton
Ann White aged 28 Belgravia
Martha Russell aged 25
Mrs Leech and 3 children Hoddesdon, Herts
Mary Drew Furneaux aged 60 Kennington Park Road
Emily Furneaux aged 21
Mr Gyde aged 28 Camberwell
Charles Jardine New Cross
James Rouse aged 41 New North Road
Alice Mansfield Commercial Road
Jane Mansfield aged 22
Sarah Ann Holmes Baker's Row
Sarah Green aged 21 Lambeth
William Welby aged 18 Deptford
Miss Ward aged 19 Kentish Town
Louisa Ward aged 39 Kentish Town
Mary Ann Bell
George Garrett aged 46 Regent's Park
Herbert Cecil Russell aged 18 Stockwell Park Road
Thomas Fuller Jewin Street
Male Fuller child aged 6
Mr Saury aged 40 Bexley Heath
Nelly Saury aged 11
Male Saury child aged 17
Male Saury child aged 8
Norman Berkeley Barnes aged 69 Grosvenor Square
Mr Hughes aged 60 Finchley
Mrs Hughes aged 25
Mrs Bird aged 40 Tottenham Court Road
Philip Buzman aged 30
Edward King aged 64 Greenwich
Alfred King aged 19
Mrs Fanny King aged 29 Lambeth
Edward King aged 6 months
Mr Robert Everist aged 38 Essex
Mrs Everist aged 32
Robert Everist aged 10
John Everist aged 8
Willie Everist aged 4
Everist baby aged 15 months
Mr Greenfield aged 28 Thorburn Square
Mr Lambert aged 30 Kennington Park
Mrs Lambert aged 28
Katie Lambert aged 6
Mrs Brady
Miss Brady
Mt William Beridger aged 40 Wandsworth
William Bridger aged 6
Sergeant Burton Royal Artillery, Sheerness
Mrs Burton
Mrs Pearson aged 22 Camberwell
Miss Marson aged 56 Clapham
Mrs Elizabeth Freeman aged 62, stewardess, Borough
Emily Weightman aged 14 Thorburn Square
Harriet Pavey aged 20 Peckham
Arnold Lachaud aged 23 Peckham
Mrs Gullifer aged 54 West Smithfield
Jane Law aged 48 Charterhouse Street
Maria Bandy aged 40 Lavender Hill
Mr & Mrs Hoskins and 3 children Balham
Susan Dawes aged 55 Euston Square
George Pickrell aged 32 Kennington Park
James Jenkins aged 29 Windmill Street
Elizabeth Bobkins aged 72 Clerkenwell
Henry Hawkins aged 55 Greenwich
Mrs T Lee aged 28 Kilburn
Mr William Potter aged 3 Poplar
Lewis Mead Crocker aged 27 Bromley by Bow
Mrs Crocker, wife of above
Mrs Crocker aged 64 mother of above
Mr Wickens
Mrs Wickens
Ethel Durant

"The following bodies have been recognised:-"
William King East Greenwich
Mary Ann Coombes Greenwich
No 20, publican of Kennington
Anna Muncey Blackfriars Road
Elizabeth Teesdale Westminster
Thomas Wheeler Hill aged 22 Hampstead
Mr William Elliott
Mr Henry White aged 46 Kennington Park Road
Mr Charles Wood Denham aged 50 Charlestown Street
Samuel Lowry Highbury Place
Ada Catlin aged 3
Thomas Catlin aged 3 months South Woolwich
Maria Loder Robert Street
Eliza Rich Clerkenwell
Ellen Williamall Blackfriars
Mrs Hayes Smithfield
Martha Sims aged 60 Lambeth
Ann Haden aged 70 Hackney
Ann Bing of Charlton
William Harrison aged 24 Holloway
Mary Ann George aged 38 Barbican
William Beechey aged 40 Throckmorton Street
Martha Ellen Drew aged 2 Tottenham
F J Pollard
Zillah Waddilove aged 50
W F Mountain aged 23
Mr Freeman, steward, Borough

List of persons saved (as issued by the Steamboat Company):-
W Nines
Eliza Spurgeon
Mr E Wilson
Miss Fairley
Mary Brent
Ruth Drew
George Webb
William Stephens
Henry J King
John Lesley
Miss Kemp
Adolphus Gulman
Mrs Emma Webb
Mrs Dee and child
H White
E S and Mrs Hardy
Charles Masters
H A Walle
Edward Leave
Jane Greene
Mr B Smith
Emma Eatwell
Sarah Smith
Emma Standish
Emma Childs and child
Jane Sophie Charrott
Unknown boy
Caroline Gray
Charles H wale
Mrs Morrison
Mrs Davis
Mr Huddart
Mrs Minne
Mrs H Trotman
Mr King
Mr J Leach
Mr and Emma J Jingle
Mr G Brown
Mrs Spooner
Unconscious young woman
Mrs Elliott
James Lynn
C R West
Son in law of Mr Dodman
Mr Nunns
Agnes Land
F Love
Thomas and Mary Piper
Charlotte Hinton
Miss Haggard
Mrs Huddart
Mrs Confield
R R Ashworth

Others listed as saved:
Mrs Fison
Mr Tatnell
Mr and Mrs henry Reed
Miss Evelyn Wickens
George Everist
Edward Newman
Rev J C Gill
Miss Emma Murphy
Miss Caroline Kempe
Miss Kempe
A boy, insensible
Mr Loder
Mrs Morrison
Mrs Davis
Mr Huddart
Mrs Winn
Boy named Bell
Thomas Saywell
Mr King
Mr Hagger
Mr George Brown
Mrs Gollifer
Young girl named Haste

The cook's mate from the ship
Elderly man from the crew
Agnes Lane
Elizabeth Jessup
Daniel Milsom
George May
Mr Vernon Hammond

The following also listed as missing:
Edmund Milsom aged 65 Hammersmith
Sarah Milsom
Florence Milsom
Sidney Milsom
Miss Kidston aged 17
Louisa Kidston aged 13
William Kidsont aged 4 and half
Mrs Walburton of Dalston
Rosa Copping of Dalston
Mrs C A Dyble of Fleet Street
John Warren Hawkes and wife
Captain Grinstead
Frederick T Whomes

[Chris Scott]

From The Times of 6 September 1878

Further details:
Mrs Emma Standish aged 31 Lambeth - rescued but died of bronchitis
Two boys rescued:
Edward Newman, unclaimed
Freddy Lambard aged 5

Confirmed dead:
Mrs Emily Towse aged 32
Winifred Towse aged 3
Bernard Wrench Towse aged 14 months
Eliza Hooper, mother of Mrs Towse
Missing:
Frederick W B Towse aged 12
Edgar S Towse aged 10
The above were the family of Mr Towse, Superintendent of the Steamboat Company
Also confirmed missing:
Mrs Bing
Mary Barker
Ellen Wearing

Confirmed dead:
Fanny May aged 42 Lambeth
Emma Vivash of Smithfield
Emma Potter aged 42 Walworth

Confirmed missing:
William Potter aged 33 Poplar
caroline Dyble aged 43 Fleet Street
Alice Hammond aged 20 Canning Town
Walter Howard or Howlett aged 28
Bessie Howard or Howlett of Bromley by Bow
Florence Piper aged 4 Hackney Road
Disney Peron aged 51 Mile End
John Nuttman aged 50
Kate Nuttman aged 20 Islington
Hnery John Cockran aged 15 Kentish Town
Rosina Ellen Warburton aged 24 Dalson Lane
Maria Grace Copping aged 18
Walter Brodrib aged 11 Kentish New Town
Frank Ackroyd aged 29 Portman Square
Philip Burman aged 32
Charlotte Burman aged 29
Alfred Burman aged 4
William Burman aged 2
James Westall aged 21 Woolwich
Jane Ferguson aged 33 Plumstead
Annie Summers aged 30 New Cross
Mrs Beaver aged 64 Oxford Street
Mrs Usherwood aged 50
Harriet Usherwood aged 6
Mr Hill aged 35 Oxford Street
George Gained aged 44
James Jenkins aged 29 Tottenham Court Road
Frederick Hollingworth of Belgravia
Alice Mary Smail aged 22 Pimlico
Mrs T Collis aged 27
Willie Collis aged 18 months Plumstead
Mrs C Constable aged 44 Plumstead
Francis Smith aged 22
Florence Francis Smith aged 7 weeks Regent's Park
Emma Stoneman aged 66 Farringdon Road
Ann White aged 28 Brixton Hill
Minnie Bishopp aged 26 Pimlico
Henry Hawkins aged 52 East Greenwich
Emily Riddout aged 26 Fitzroy Square
Thomas Lamborn aged 28 Bryanston Square
Elizabeth Mary Bardens aged 63 Golden Square
Harry Alfred Moore aged 12
Walter Moore aged 11 Roman Road
Amy Lee aged 18 Clapham
Sarah Rouse aged 33
Mr Frederick Watson aged 19 Woolwich
William Childs aged 30 Clapham
Christiana Smith aged 70 Farringson Road
Arnold Larchin aged 25
Harriet Larchin aged 20
Ruth Drew aged 4 Tottenham
Eliza Wayman aged 28
Russell Wayman aged 16
Ellen Grimsey aged 25 South Norwood
Elizabeth Wayman aged 14 Caledonian Road
Elizabeth Newman aged 30 Poplar
Charles Warsefield aged 50
Charlotte Warsefield of New Cross
Emily Turner or Hopper aged 18
Tom Fuller aged 4 and half Aldersgate Street
Caroline Lewis aged 23 Woolwich
Mr J Irony aged 60 Camberwell
Mrs Irony aged 50
Edward Hogwood aged 74 St Lukes
Alice Wallis aged 40
Mrs Roberts aged 25 Roman Road
Arthur Major Harrison aged 20 Finsbury Square
William Leonard Bridgman aged 30
Lucy Bridgman aged 23
William Lambert aged 40
Child of above aged 6
Alfred William Sabine aged 27 Newington
Grace Summers aged 19 Plamstead
Louis Alex Mouflet aged 42 Lordship Park
Nancy Mouflet aged 33
Master Alex Mouflet aged 7
Annie Mouflet aged 5
Phillis Sarah Flatman aged 29 Stoke Newington
Alfred William Alesbury aged 32 Hackney
Elizabeth Alesbury aged 31
Jessie Alesbury aged 9
Lousia Alesbury aged 5
Jabez Alesbury aged 2
Edith Alesbury aged 5 months
Eliza Jane Alesbury aged 58
Jane Green aged 17
Frances Smith aged 22
Florence Francis Smith aged 7 weeks
William Stubbings aged 41
Annie Stubbings aged 39 Brixton Hill
Elizabeth Room aged 44 Birmingham
Walter Bishop aged 38 Queen's Gate
Mary Bishop aged 36
Mary Bowman aged 28 Cowcross Street
John Bowman aged 60
Christopher John Denham aged 28 Hornsey
Jane Wallace aged 35
Josephine Chabet
Harold Percy aged 9
Joseph Greenwood aged 30 Putney
George Harold Greenwood aged 6
Amelia Croft of Woolwich
Mrs Vanderbilt of Woolwich
Mrs Skelton of Ratcliff
Miss Belton of Ratcliff
Mrs Eliza Hooper of Charlton
Mrs Sutton of Stepney
Annie Rowley aged 14 Plumstead
W Rowley aged 12 Plumstead
Mrs Forsdyke of Walworth
Edmund Forsdyke
Sidney Forsdyke
Eliza Forsdyke
Mrs Marshall of Hanover Square
Mr Boncey, steward of Princess Alice

[Roy Corduroy]

Thank you Chris. From the Ingoldsby Letters, an account of the funeral of the Lambert family -

[GUT]

I know this thread is old but I just found out how one of my GG Grandfathers died, I knew he died on or about 5 Sept '78, in London but not how.

[mpriestnall]

http://www.alsbury.co.uk/princessalice/alice0.htm

This is another list but with additional details.

Martyn