Background
Charlotte Wardle Drake was born on April 10, 1854. Her father, Thomas Drake, was a British textile manufacturer.
Charlotte Wardle Drake was born on April 10, 1854. Her father, Thomas Drake, was a British textile manufacturer.
From 1874 to 1900 she was married to James Warburton Martinez Cardeza, with whom she had one child, Thomas Drake Martinez Cardeza. Charlotte and Thomas left the sinking ship in Lifeboat #3. The Cardeza entourage brought fourteen trunks, four suitcases, and three crates of baggage.
Mistress
Cardeza would later file a detailed claim to the value of £36,567 for their loss. They stayed in the most expensive suite on Titanic (B-51-53-55), featuring two bedrooms, a sitting room, and a private fifty-foot promenade. Returning to Germantown, Pennsylvania, Mistress
Cardeza kept to her peripatetic ways, only settling down at in the late 1930s.
She died of heart disease on 1 August 1939. Was later demolished and turned into a parking lot.
