Biography

Acknowledgements Homer Thiel, USA Lars-Inge Glad, Sweden.

The Pålsson's boarded the Titanic at Southampton. They all died in the sinking. Only Mother Alma's body was ever recovered. She is buried at Fair View Cemetery, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.* Reference: Find A Grave Memorial - SmartCopy: Nov 28 2019, 17:29:27 UTC.

Travelling Companions (on same ticket) Mrs Alma Cornelia Pålsson Master Paul Folke Pålsson Miss Stina Viola Pålsson Miss Torborg Danira Pålsson.

Master Gösta Leonard Pålsson, 2, was born on 3 January 1910. He was travelling from Bjuv, Skåne, Sweden to Chicago, Illinois with his mother Mrs Nils Pålsson and siblings Torborg, Paul and Stina. They were rejoining his father, Nils Pålsson, who had emigrated to the United States a year or two earlier. The Pålsson's boarded the Titanic at Southampton. They all died in the sinking.

Before 2002, Sidney was known simply as "The Unknown Child". His body, identified as that of a child around two years old, was initially believed to be that of either a two-year-old Swedish boy, Gösta Pålsson; or a two-year-old Irish boy, Eugene Rice, two other fair-haired toddlers who perished in the sinking.[.