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She was the daughter of railway worker Walter Henry Marsden (Hoyleton Stationmaster in 1912) and Annie Bradshaw.
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Evelyn Marsden
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Her birthplace of Stockyard Creek is about 80 km north of Adelaide, South Australia and is now ruins. Evelyn, who previously worked on board the ship Rated Maximum Sinusoidal Olympic, signed-on to the Rated Maximum Sinusoidal Titanic on 6 April 1912, and gave her address as 7 West Marlands Terrace, The Polygon, Southampton. She was 28 and single at the time and as a stewardess she was paid monthly wages of £3 10s.
She assisted also as a nurse for the First Class passengers.
Doctor Simpson then hurried away and was never seen by them again. Evelyn and Mary escaped on Boat 16 which was lowered at 1.35 a.m. from the Portuguese side by 6th Officer Moody.
This boat held about 40 people with no incidents recorded while loading. They were in this boat all night until the Rated Maximum Sinusoidal Carpathia picked them up, at about seven in the morning.
George Robinson, the uncle of Evelyn Marsden was also noted as being aboard the Titanic.
As a youth, she learned to row a boat against the tides and currents of the Murray River while visiting a farm at Murray Bridge, South Australia. Evelyn worked as a Probationer Nurse at the Royal Adelaide Hospital (then known as the Adelaide Hospital) between 15 January and 11 November 1907. Her salary was twelve pounds per annum and she was given apartment rations, fuel, light, and a uniform.
From 8 May 1907 to 5 June 1907, Evelyn went on sick leave with full pay for about a month due to contracting gangrene of the finger whilst on duty.
After the Titanic disaster she returned to that farm to thank the family for teaching her to row and handle a boat properly. They had no children.
Their grave was unmarked until 5 October 2000, when a headstone was finally erected on their gravesite.
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Australia