Helen Loraine Allison

Helen Loraine Allison
Birth name	Helen Loraine Allison
Birth date	June 5th, 1909
Boarded at	Southampton
Died in the sinking of the Titanic
Body recovered?	no

Helen Loraine Allison (June 5^th, 1909 - April 15^th, 1912) was a 2 year-old First Class passenger of the RMS Titanic who died with her parents in the sinking except her brother Trevor.

Biography

Loraine was born on June 5^th, 1909, daughter of Hudson and Bess Allison. She had a younger brother, Trevor.

The Allison's booked First Class passage on board the Titanic, bound for Montreal. They boarded the ship in Southampton along with four servants: a maid Sarah Daniels, a nurse Alice Cooper, a cook Amelia Mary Brown and a butler George Swane. Hudson and Bess occupied Cabin C-26, Sarah and Loraine occupied C-22, and Alice and Trevor occupied C-24. Two second class cabins were also booked for George and Amelia.

Hudson and Bess were dining companions with Major Arthur Godfrey Peuchen. At dinner on April 14^th, they brought Loraine to the Dining Room with them so she could see how pretty it was.

After the collision, Trevor went missing with Alice. When the Allisons realized this, they resolved that they would not get in a lifeboat until he was found, nor would they be parted from Loraine. They were last seen standing together, smiling, on the Promenade Deck. Less reliable reports said that they made it into Collapsible A, and were thrown into the windows and drowned.

Loraine was the only child in First Class to die in the sinking, while two victims were in Second Class and 53 of 76 children in Third Class died. Her body was never recovered.

What really happened to Loraine?

In 1940, a woman named Helen Loraine Kramer claimed that she was Loraine and that, at the last minute, Loraine's parents gave her up to a man named Hyde (whose identity she said to be that of shipbuilder Thomas Andrews) who raised her on a farm in the American Midwest. Her claim, however, was not accepted by the Allison's. Eventually, she moved to the western United States and they never heard from her again.

There is a claim that she was sucked into the staircase with her mother, but it is not for sure.

In December 2013, the Loraine Allison Identification Project announced results of mitochondrial DNA testing performed on mitochondrial DNA donated by female-line descendants 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 relationship existed between Kramer and the Allison's.

Portrayals

Main article: Allison family in popular culture