Allison family

The Allison family, bound for Montreal, booked first-class passage on the Titanic. They boarded the ship in Southampton along with four servants: a maid, Sarah Daniels (no relation to Bess); a nurse, Alice Cleaver; a cook, Amelia Mary "Mildred" Brown; and a butler, George Swane. Hudson and Bess occupied cabin C-22, Sarah and Loraine occupied C-24, and Alice and Trevor occupied C-26. Two second-class cabins were booked for George and Mildred. Hudson and Bess were dining companions with Major Arthur Peuchen. At dinner on 14 April, they brought Loraine to the dining room with them so she could see how pretty it was. On 14 April 1912, the RMS Titanic struck an iceberg and started to sink. After the ship struck the iceberg, Hudson left to find out what was going on. While he was gone, Alice took Trevor and went to collect the rest of the servants in second class. Hudson returned to find them gone. He delivered Bess and Loraine to Lifeboat Boat 6 and apparently left before it was launched. Major Peuchen recalled how they were almost rescued: with Trevor Allison (1912)|left George saw Alice, Mildred and Trevor safely into Boat 11, which left the ship at around 1:45 am, nearly an hour after Boat 6 had. Sarah had gone up on deck early to investigate the commotion and was hurriedly placed into a boat by a steward who promised to inform the Allisons of her whereabouts. Varying stories claim that Alice panicked and grabbed Trevor, without informing Bess that she was leaving, and that Bess refused to leave the ship without him, though it is possible that the entire group went up on deck together, and that Alice and Trevor were simply lost in the crowd. In other accounts, Cleaver took Hudson Trevor into her lifeboat, but didn't tell anyone. Speculation claims this confusion could have led to the Allison family perishing, as the mother Bess would not want to leave her son behind. Testimony from that night has speculated as to why she never alerted the Allisons to her departure from her room, but Cleaver herself never spoke of the incident. Hudson, Bess, Loraine, and George perished in the sinking. Whether or not George found the Allisons and informed them that Trevor was safely off the ship is unknown; if he did, it is likely the information came too late for any of them to leave the ship. Bess was one of only four first-class women (including Ida Straus, Edith Corse Evans, and Ann Elizabeth Isham) who perished, while Loraine was the only child of first and second class to do so. While Bess and Loraine's bodies were lost, Hudson's body was the 135th recovered by the Mackay-Bennett; George's was the 294th. Hudson's body was transported to Chesterville, Ontario, to be buried in the family plot in Maple Ridge Cemetery. Alice and Trevor were met in New York City by Hudson's brother, George, who, along with his wife, Lillian, took custody of the now orphaned Trevor. He died on 7 August 1929, at age 18 of food poisoning. He was buried beside Hudson. == Claim by Helen Loraine Kramer to be Loraine Allison==

In 1940, a woman named Helen Loraine Kramer claimed that she was Loraine Allison and that, at the last minute, her parents gave her up to a man calling himself Hyde (whose identity she said to be that of the shipbuilder Thomas Andrews), who raised her on a farm in the American Midwest. Her claim, however, was not accepted by the Allisons. Eventually, she moved away, dying in 1992, and they never heard from her again. In December 2013, the Loraine Allison Identification Project announced results of mitochondrial DNA testing performed on a sample donated by a female-line descendant of Kramer and descendants of the Allisons. The test was performed by DNA Diagnostics Center, a facility accredited by the American Society of Crime Laboratory Directors. The results were negative, demonstrating that no genetic relationship existed between Kramer and the Allisons.{{cite web |title=DNA Report ==In media==

A 1912 German silent film about the disaster, In Nacht und Eis (In Night and Ice), includes the Allison family story, but not by name. The Allisons were major characters in the 1996 miniseries Titanic. The subplot regarding them was highly fictionalized and filled with historical inaccuracies: notably, it depicted the story of the long-standing myth that Alice (portrayed by Felicity Waterman) was a child murderess who stole Trevor in a fit of panic, thus forcing the rest of the family to remain on the ship looking for him until it was too late. Their other servants (Sarah, Mildred and George) are not featured in the series; the only one shown travelling with them was Alice. The Allisons are also portrayed in the 2012 miniseries Titanic. Portrayals ==References==