The daughter of master mariner Edward John Smith and Sarah Eleanor Pennington, was born on Saturday 2nd April 1898 at 20 Alexandra Road, Waterloo, Litherland, near Liverpool. The birth was registered by Edward John Smith on 3rd May 1898.

Jun 27, 2023 · Captain Smith was married to Sarah Eleanor Smith when the infamous maritime tragedy happened, and the couple had just one daughter, Helen Melville Smith, who went by "Mel." Mel would go on to suffer many more tragedies beyond the sinking of her father's ship.

Mar 2, 2025 · Mel Smith died in 1973, aged 75, an only child, so Captain Smith’s lineage ended on that day but not before she had led a full and fascinating life.

When Helen Melville Smith was born on 2 April 1898, in West Derby, Merseyside, England, United Kingdom, her father, Edward John Smith, was 48 and her mother, Sarah Eleanor Pennington, was 36. She married Sidney Russell Cooke in 1922, in Mayfair, London, England, United Kingdom.

Helen Melville (née Smith) was born in West Derby on the 2nd April 1898 to parents Edward John Smith and Sarah Eleanor (née Pennington). Her Father who Captained the ill fated Titanic died on the 15th April 1912, not long after her 14th Birthday.

Sep 17, 2000 · I take it from what you said that Helen Melville (Smith) Russel-Cooke became at least fairly affluent and became a socialite of sorts late in life? Or am I mistaken? Richard K.

Jan 11, 2023 · Helen Melville Smith was born on April 2, 1898 in Litherland, Merseyside County, England United Kingdom to Edward John Smith and Sarah Eleanor (Pennington) Smith. She married Sidney Russell-Cooke , and they were married until Sidney's death in 1930.

Their daughter, Helen Melville Smith, was born in Waterloo, Liverpool on 2 April 1898. When the White Star line transferred its transatlantic port from Liverpool to Southampton in 1907, the family moved to a red brick, twin-gabled house, named "Woodhead", on Winn Road, Highfield, Southampton, Hampshire. [4] [5]

More than ten years into their marriage, Ted and Eleanor had a daughter, who would be their only one child, Helen Melville Smith (1898–1973), who was born at the family home 20 Alexandra Road, in Waterloo, Liverpool, England, on Saturday 2 April 1898.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., July 17 (AP) Melville smith, organist who retired last month as director of the Longy School of Music here, died yesterday in Mount Auburn Hospital. He was 64 years old.