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Mrs. She was the wife of wealthy Montreal stockbroker Hudson Joshua Creighton Allison and mother of two young children. They married later that year in her home town of Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Alice and Trevor were met in New York City by Hudson's brother, George, who, along with his wife, Lillian, took custody of the now-orphaned Trevor.
Mr. Allison was portrayed by Kevin Conway, while Harley Jane Kozak played his wife, Bessie.
Hudson and Bessie were dining companions with Major Arthur Godfrey Peuchen. Major Peuchen recalled how Bessie and Loraine were almost rescued:
"Mrs Allison could have gotten away in perfect safety, but somebody told her Mr Allison was in a boat being lowered on the opposite side of the deck, and with her little daughter she rushed away from the boat.
When the Titanic hit the iceberg, Alice Cleaver took Trevor and left with him in lifeboat 11 . The following events unfolded for the Allison family:
- Alice Cleaver, the children’s nurse, took baby Trevor and escaped in lifeboat 11.
- Bess was initially placed in a lifeboat with her daughter Loraine.
- Refusing to leave without her baby son, Bess made the fateful decision to drag Loraine out of the boat.
- She began a frantic search for Alice and Trevor on the rapidly sinking ship.
Bess’s Final Moments
Major Arthur Peuchen, a fellow passenger, provided a heart-wrenching account of Bess’s last known moments to the Montreal Daily Star:
“Mrs Allison could have gotten away in perfect safety, but somebody told her Mr Allison was in a boat being lowered on the opposite side of the deck, and with her little daughter she rushed away from the boat.
Eventually, Ms. Kramer moved to the western United States and the Allison family never heard from her again.[7]
The Allisons in film
[edit]The Allisons were major characters in the 1996 miniseries, Titanic. While he was gone, Alice took baby Trevor and went to get the rest of the servants in second class.
Trevor died on August 7, 1929 at the age of 18 of food poisoning. Bess's body, if recovered, was never identified.
"Mrs Allison could have gotten away in perfect safety," Major Arthur Peuchen told the Montreal Daily Star "But somebody told her Mr Allison was in a boat being lowered on the opposite side of the deck, and with her little daughter she rushed away from the boat.
Mrs Allison, her husband, son and daughter, boarded the Titanic at Southampton as first class passengers. The youngest daughter of Arville Daniels and Sarah McCully. Whether or not Swane found his employers and informed them that their son was safely off the ship is unknown, but if he did, it is likely the information came too late for any of them to leave the ship.
Meanwhile our boat had put off."
Major Peuchen, also gave this account of Mrs. Allison's last moments "She had gone to the deck without her husband, and, frantically seeking him was directed by an officer to the other side of the ship.
Hudson and Bessie occupied cabin C-22, Sarah Loraine occupied C-24, and Alice and Trevor occupied C-26.
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Bess Waldo Allison
Who was Mrs Bess Waldo Allison?
Mrs Bess Waldo Allison was a 25 (twenty-five) year-old Canadian first-class passenger aboard the RMS Titanic.
Hudson, Bessie and their children, Loraine, 2, and Trevor, 11 months, boarded the ship in Southampton along with four servants: a maid, Sarah Daniels (no relation to Bessie); a nurse, Alice Cleaver[5]; a cook, Mildred Brown; and a chauffeur, George Swane. They were assigned cabin C22/26, reflecting their affluent status. Varying stories claim that Alice panicked and grabbed Trevor, without informing Mrs.
Allison that she was leaving, and that Mrs. Allison refused to leave the ship without her baby, though it is possible that the entire group went up to the boat deck together, and that Alice and the baby were lost in the crowd.