Grave rubbing from TITANIC cemetery in Halifax, Nova Scotia

grave rubbing

A rubbing from the grave of an unknown child victim of the TITANIC disaster at the Fairview Cemetery in Halifax, Nova Scotia. A few days after the TITANIC disaster, the crew of the MACKAY-BENNETT, sent to recover bodies from the site of the sinking, pulled the body of a baby boy from the North Atlantic waters. Efforts to identify him failed. His age was estimated to be about two years old. The crew of the MACKAY-BENNETT paid for this headstone for the unknown child, and they carried him to the cemetery for burial. Recent DNA research has indicated that the baby was Sidney Leslie Goodwin. Sidney's father, Frederick Goodwin, was an electrical engineer in England. He and his wife Augusta, decided to emigrate with their six children, joining his brother and two sisters in Niagara, New York. The Goodwins were travelling in third class. All eight of them died in the disaster, and Sidney's body is the only one known to have been recovered. Although Sidney has now been identified as the "unknown child," the original headstone has been left in place and continues to be a memorial to all 53 children who died on the TITANIC.