Testimony from that night has speculated why she never alerted the Allisons to her departure from her room, but Cleaver herself never spoke of the incident. Speculation claims this confusion could have led to the Allison family perishing, as the mother Bess would not want to leave her son behind. Cleaver took Trevor into her lifeboat, but didn't tell anyone. On 14 April 1912 the RMS Titanic struck an iceberg and started to sink. She stayed in the same room as Trevor so that she could care for him, which was right next to the parents in first class. She traveled first class on the Titanic with them (under ticket No. When she was 22, Cleaver was hired by the Allison family to be a nursemaid for their youngest child, Trevor. Her father Joseph Cleaver was a postman, and her mother was Lavinia Alice Cleaver (maiden name Thomas). Early life Īlice Catherine Cleaver was born in London on 5 July 1889. She was the subject of books and movies that misidentified her as Alice Mary Cleaver, a woman who was infamous for murdering her own infant. Little is known about her later life, as she refused to give interviews after surviving the shipwreck. She is best known for rescuing the youngest Allison child, Trevor, from the Titanic. Alice Catherine Cleaver (1889-1984) was a survivor of the RMS Titanic and nursemaid for the Allison family, wealthy insurance moguls from Canada during the early 20th century.
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