A very poignant story has emerged about the identity of a young child aged about 2 years old, whose body was recovered when the Titantic sank. The child's identity was not known and he was buried in an umarked grave in Halifax Nova Scotia. Over the years different identities were attached to this child and published as fact but recent DNA extraction has proven with 96% accuracy that the child was 19-month-old Sidney Leslie Goodwin from England.
A pair of brown leather shoes helped substantiate the identity.
Little Sidney was travelling with his parents, Frederick and Augusta Goodwin and five siblings. The family was headed from England to Niagara New York. None of the bodies of the rest of Sidneys' family has ever been recovered so little Sidney lies alone in his unmarked grave.
Read more about this story and view photos of Sidney as a baby and a group photograph of his family on Live Science.
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Sad but heart-warming if correct.
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