Titanica

• Name: Mr Lalio Jonkoff
• Age: 23 years
• Last Residence: in Gurnoshtnik Bulgaria
• Occupation: General Labourer
• 3rd Class passenger
• First Embarked: Southampton on Wednesday 10th April 1912
• Ticket No. 349204 , £7 17s 11d
• Destination: Chicago Illinois United States
• Died in the sinking.
• Body Not Recovered

Mr Lalio Jonkoff, 23, a potter from Gumostnik (Gumoshtnik), Lovec (Lovech), Bulgaria, boarded the Titanic at Southampton as a third class passenger. He was accompanied by fellow inhabitants of his home village: Peju Colcheff, Marin Markoff, Lazar Minkoff, Stoytcho Mionoff, Penko Naidenoff, Nedialco Petroff and Ilia Stoytcheff. Mr Jonkoff held ticket number 349204, price £7 17s 11d.

Jonkoff died in the sinking. His body, if recovered, was never identified. At the cemetery of Gumoshtnik a stone was erected to commemorate the men.

References

• Harro Hess, Manfred Hessel (1999), Titanic, Das Handbuch, Herbig München
• Contract Ticket List, White Star Line 1912 (National Archives, New York; NRAN-21-SDNYCIVCAS-55[279])
• Marriages, births, deaths and injuries that have occurred on board during the voyage (PRO London, BT 100/259-260)

Contributors

• Hermann Söldner, Germany