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Name Meyer, Mr. August
Outcome Dead - Body Not Recovered
Gender Male
Age 31
Home Harrow, London, England
Embarkation Southampton
Destination New York City
Passenger Class 2nd Class
Crew Department Unknown
Crew Job Unknown
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Born in Roden, Hesse, Germany on May 26, 1880, I was looking to make a fresh start in America. Unmarried and with few good prospects, I thought a relocation to the New World would serve me well. While not bad looking, I knew the intensity of my stare would sometimes dismay the damsels.
I had asked my older brother Carl to join me, but he was well-settled, and had no interest in going. While we knew when we parted we might never see each other again, certainly we never imagined just how final the parting was.
A baker, I knew that I could ply my trade anywhere in the world so long as an oven was available, and I knew that enclaves in New York City of Germans might help the assimilation. Or, I had heard, parts of the western US were less developed and some had concentrations of Germans.
I emigrated to England as step one of the journey. I lived at 26 St Kilda's Road (NOT St. Kildas), in a section of London commonly known as Harrow-on-the-Hill, which is near the famed Wembley Stadium. Part of a block of row houses so common in London, it still stands today.
https://www.google.com/maps/place/26...949!4d-0.33984
I boarded in Southampton as a second class passenger, paying a fare of 13 pounds. I had scrimped and saved for years to come up with this fare, as well as a small pool of additional funds to start my new life. With me were all my worldly possessions -- or at least what little I could pack into a steamer trunk.
As a second class passenger, I enjoyed amenities that were not at all bad. The Titanic had three classes of passenger. Most of the poor immigrants were third class passengers, who paid 7 pounds. As a second class passenger, however, I was mostly with middle class tourists, as compared to the elite first class passengers -- who paid from 30 to 870 pounds for their right to ride Charon's boat.
Sources:
https://www.encyclopedia-titanica.or...ust-meyer.html
https://www.geni.com/people/August-M...00016155789590
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passen...he_RMS_Titanic