England & Wales, FreeBMD Birth Index, 1837-1915

• Name: William Edward L Bessant
• Date of Registration: Jul-Aug-Sep 1871
• Registration district: New Forest
• Inferred County: Hampshire, Wiltshire
• Volume: 2b
• Page:
• 621
• (click to see others on page)
• Source Information:
• FreeBMD. England & Wales, FreeBMD Birth Index, 1837-1915 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2006.
• Original data: General Register Office. England and Wales Civil Registration Indexes. London, England: General Register Office.

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Mr William Edward Bessant

• Age: 39 years
• Marital Status: Married.
• Last Residence: in Southampton Hampshire England
• Occupation: Fireman / Stoker
• Engine crew
• First Embarked: Southampton
• Died in the sinking.
• Body Not Recovered

Mr William Edward Bessant, of 36 Henry Road, Southampton died in the sinking.

Documents Crew Particulars of Engagement

References Agreement and Account of Crew (PRO London, BT100/259) United States Senate, Washington 1912. n° 806, Crew List Hermann Söldner (ed.) (2000) RMS Titanic: Passenger and Crew List 10 April 1912-15 April 1912. ä wie Ärger Verlag.