Just uploading mutiple weeks’ worth at once, in a blogging mood.

This young Scotsman is John “Jock” Law Hume, whom I hold in very warm and high regard. Jock Hume (9th August 1890 – 15th April 1912), was a violinist in Titanic’s famously brave band. I came to ‘know’ Jock through his grandson, who told Jock’s story (both life and death) in his book And The Band Played On.
Jock’s body was recovered and buried in one of the three Fairview Lawn cemeteries, in Halifax, Nova Scotia. In his hometown of Dumfries a memorial was erected in memory of he and his friend Tom Mullin, a steward. Jock’s fiancée, Mary Costin, gave birth to their daughter “Johnann”(Scottish name), later Jacqueline, in October of 1912.

Violet Jessop (1st October 1887 – 5th May 1971). A 2nd-class stewardess and friendly with Jock, Violet boarded a lifeboat, and following was put rather abruptly in charge of an unknown baby. The baby was later reunited with its mother in an equally abrupt fashion.
In spite of the disaster, Violet continued in her line of work and was aboard (as a nurse) Titanic’s sister ship Britainic when it too sank in 1916.
Prior to Titanic, Violet had survived a collision while aboard Olympic (1911). It is for this hat-trick of survival that she is best known.

Roger Tobin (30th October 1891 – 15th April 1912). He was listed last on the passenger list and I thought he looked a bit lonely, so I looked him up. An Irish passenger who boarded at Queenstown, Roger and his girlfriend, Catherine, were destined for a family member’s home in New York. Both died in the sinking.

Arthur Larned Ryerson (12th January 1851 – 15th April 1912). He was returning to America with his family, his son, Arthur Jr., having been killed in a car accident. Ryerson’s family boarded Lifeboat 4 and survived the disaster. Ryerson possibly has a cameo in James Cameron’s film: the coat that Jack “borrows” from the men and boy on the deck, “property of A. L. Ryerson.”