Titanic Child Victim Identified

The August 1st Chicago Tribune had an article about the identification of 19 month-old Sidney Leslie Goodwin as one of the victims that night back in 1912 when the "Unsinkable" RMS Titanic sank.

The body of "The Unknown Child" was interred at Halifax, Nova Scotia's Fairview Cemetery and for decades, his identity was unknown. It came to be a symbol for all the children who perished that night. In 2002, researchers decided that he was a 13-month old Finnish boy. In July, the body was disinterred and DNA tests matched that of a maternal relative. His was the only body of any family member recovered. The announcement was made July 30.

His family had booked third-class passage on another boat that wasn't able to sail and they were transferred to third-class on the Titanic. They were from England and were on their way to the US so that the father could get a job at a power plant in Niagara Falls that relatives had secured for him. Many of the third-class passengers were not English-speaking and died when the ship went down.

There is a good article about him in Wikipedia. You can also see a pair of his shoes that are now at Maritime Museum of the Atlantic in Halifax as well as a picture of his grave marker.