From: john1@s145802280.onlinehome.fr   
      
   On 12/05/2019 21:07, cecilia wrote:   
   > 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.   
   >   
      
   There is a long report of the loss of the Athabasca in Shipping and   
   Mercantile Gazette - Monday 30 April 1838, copied from Liverpool Journal   
   28 April, which you can read at https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk   
   There are also other reports from local newspapers.   
      
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