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September 13th, 1897 - April 15th, 1912

She is a Virgo.

Dorothy Florence Sage was born in Hackney, London, England and was baptized on February 20th, 1901 in South Wooton, Norfolk. She was the daughter of John George Sage (born 1867), a corn chandler native of Hackney, and Elizabeth Ann Cazaly (born 1865), a native of Wolverhampton, Staffordshire. Her parents had married in 1890 and went on to have 9 children. Her siblings were: Stella Anna (born 1891), George John (born 1892), Douglas Bullen (born 1893), Frederick (born 1895), Anthony William (born 1899), Elizabeth Ada (born 1901), Constance Gladys (born 1904), and Thomas Henry (born 1907).

Dorothy first appears on the 1901 census residing in Norfolk; the family moved to Norfolk around the turn of the century and appeared on the 1901 census living in Gaywood at the New Inn where her father was the publican. By 1911 the family home was Gladstone Street in Petersburg, Northamptonshire and the census describes her father as a baker and she has a schoolgirl. Known as Dolly, when she was younger she had reportedly fallen into a well in the family's backyard and almost drowned.

Aboard Titanic/April 14th-15th, 1912:
In April of 1911 her father and elder brother George travelled to Winnipeg, Manitoba where they both worked as cooks with the Central Pacific Railway. After some months, Mr. Sage and his son had saved sufficient money to embark out in a venture of their own and he purchased a fruit farm in Jacksonville, Florida, which he intended to cultivate for pecans. The 2 eventually returned to Britain and made plans for the whole family to travel back to Florida. It was originally intended that the family would travel aboard the Philadelphia but the coal strike forced them to take passage on Titanic instead. After bidding their farewells to many well-wishers the family travelled by train to Southampton and boarded the RMS Titanic on April 10th, 1912 as 3rd class passengers.

It's likely that the family were able to reach the deck shortly before the Titanic went down as there are reports that Stella had got into a lifeboat but left it when other members of her family were unable to join her. The whole family were lost in the sinking; out of the 11 crowd only Anthony's body was recovered.

Sources:
www.encyclopedia-titanica.org

Rest In Dorothy Florence Sage.