The mystery of the Titanic unknown child has now been solved. Using genetics, Ryan Parr, an adjunct professor at Lakeland University in Ontario, and his team have identified a baby boy pulled from the icy Atlantic on April 21, 1912 as 19 month old Sidney Leslie Goodwin. Armed Forces DNA Identification Laboratory, the result is a near certainty.
The child was buried in a cemetery in Halifax, Nova Scotia, where a headstone of child marked his resting place. In 2001, the remains were exhumed by Parr and using only a 2.4 inch fragment of an arm bone and three teeth, an identification was made in 2004. The body was that of Eino Viljami Panula, a 13 month old Finnish boy was it?
Doubts remained. And then, according to Yahoo News, it was learned that a pair of baby shoes recovered from the unknown child had been saved by a police sergeant named Clarence Northover in 1912. He couldn bear to burn them with other items, which were destroyed to deter scavengers and souvenir hunters. Northover grandson, Earle, donated them to a museum in 2002.
What was so important about the shoes? They were too large for a 13 month old to wear. Parr re tested the remains and determined that the child was in fact Sidney Goodwin, this time with a 98 percent certainty.
The relatives of the Goodwin family have been able to come to closure. None of Sidney immediate family members remains have been recovered, and the descendants have allowed the grave and headstone of Titanic unknown child to remain as it was. They say it represents all children who died on the ship.
After all these years, the mysteries of the Titanic still fascinate people worldwide, and identifying the remains of this child extends the bittersweet story of the lives and loves of the victims of the disaster that could never happen.
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