12 Facts About Edith Haisman

Edith Haisman was the last survivor born in the 19th century, and therefore the last survivor who was a teenager at the time of the sinking, although seven younger survivors outlived her.

Edith Haisman was born on 27 October 1896 in Worcester, Cape Colony to British immigrant Thomas William Solomon Brown and his native South African wife, Elizabeth Catherine who owned and operated a hotel in Worcester.

Edith Haisman had one sister who died at age eight of diphtheria in 1906, as well as four half-siblings from her father's first marriage to whom she was not close.

Edith Haisman never learned the woman's name or what became of her.

Edith Haisman remembered clearly when the ship struck the iceberg at 11:40 pm on 14 April 1912.

Edith Haisman told us, 'You'd better put on your life jackets and something warm, it's cold on deck.

Edith Haisman's father did not survive, and his body, if recovered, was never identified.

In May 1917, at the age of 20, Edith met Frederick Thankful Haisman, and they were married six weeks later, on 30 June.

Frederick died in 1977, shortly after he and Edith Haisman celebrated their diamond wedding anniversary at Rhinefield House in the New Forest.

Edith Haisman was survived by six of her children and more than 30 grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

Edith Haisman had last seen it on 15 April 1912, when he waved goodbye to his wife and daughter as they left aboard lifeboat 14.

Edith Haisman died on 20 January 1997 in a Southampton nursing home at the age of 100.