George William Feltham was born on the 28th of April, 1870 in Bermondsey, Surrey to George Feltham, a warehouseman and Elizabeth Coleman. Both parents were Wiltshire Natives. He was the middle child of three, with an elder sister and a younger brother. He was baptised in the Sint James Church on June the 19th. In the first few years of his life his family moved from Bermondsey to Bromley, London and his father became a seed warehouseman. George began his working life as a baker and confectioner, lodging at various addresses in London and Middlesex.
By 1901 he was lodging in London with a Mrs Francis Emma Mayley (neé Turner) and her six children. In around 1907 George, along with Francis and three of her children, had moved to Southampton and were living at 64 St Denys Road. George was now working aboard Majestic as a confectioner. What became of Francis’ bricklayer husband, Alfred, isn’t clear, as he was abscent on the concensus, but, in 1908 George and Francis had married, despite her being fourteen years his senior.
George left Majestic to join Oceanic and then signed on to Titanic as a Vienna Baker, earning £4 10s a month.
On April 14th, the ship had brushed against an iceberg below the waterline which was enough to cause small gashes, which led her to sink.
Feltham did not survive the sinking and his body was never recovered. Poor Francis never remarried but stayed in Southampton. She died on October 2, 1939.
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Special thanks and credits to Marie Keates for allowing me to use a large part of this information of her blog:
https://iwalkalone.co.uk/titanic-tales-from-st-denys: Titanic tales from St Denys – I Walk Alone