From: myths@ic24.net   
      
   Does anyone know of the wreck on 1838 of a ship called Athelbasca?   
      
   What strip of coast did the Wirral registration district cover?   
      
   Reason for asking:   
      
    My great-uncle's 1959 typed account of his mother's family includes a   
   Matthew Gatenby who drowned in the wreck of the Athelbasca in 1838 and   
   that.  "old family documents say" that his brother-in-law "Stephen   
   Nesfield was a victim on the same occasion."   
      
   I have not found a reference to a wreck of Athelbasca in 1838, or any   
   ships with that name.  I have forund references to ships called   
   Athabasca, but no wrecks of such ships in 1838.   
      
   FreeBMD shows a death af a Stephen Nesfield registered in the Wirral   
   registration district in the 3rd quarter 1838, but no similar entry   
   for a Matthew Gatenby I would like more confirmation before ordering a   
   copy of the certificate, The GRO site says that the Stephen Nesfield   
   that died in 1838 was 45 at death.   
      
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