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Personal data Martinus Pelle 

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Notes about Martinus Pelle

DEATH: Drowned aboard SS Wm Nelson.

About the ship William Nelson

The US ship "William Nelson" was built in Somerset Mass. in the year

1850, and was financed by William Witlock Jr. of the City of New York.

The Wm Nelson, sailed its last from port of Antwerp on June 1st, 1865,

on the 26th of June, 1865 the ship caught fire, burned and sank with

426 German and Swiss emigrants. The Captain, Levi Smith and his crew

were the first to abandon the ship, leaving a mutitude of men woman

and children in a fiery misery and confusion. Peter J. Schaps-Birgden Ger.

was the Eldest of 7 children and traveling with family, nineteen in all,

was the families only known survivor. He emigrated to Albany Minnesota

and became proprietor of Albany Roller Mills. It is my understanding

that there is considerably more information recorded at the National

Archives of the illfated voyage, in the file of William H. Seward,

Secretary of State.

While looking for something else, I found a story much too long

to copy in the New York Times for Sunday, July 23, 1865.

The liner Lafayette was sailing from New York to Havre when she

found two boats from the American emigrant ship, William Nelson,

which was carrying several hundred emigrants from Antwerp to NY.

She had caught fire while being fumigated as there was fever on

board and all passengers had to take to the boats.

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Ancestors (and descendant) of Martinus Pelle

Krijn Pelle
1775-1829
Maria Vandenberg
1791-1848
Abraham Oole
1782-1835
Martina Cornelisse Fonteijne
1792-1860
Willem Pelle
1827-1865

Martinus Pelle
± 1855-1865


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    3. GEDCOM File : combined.ged, Jon Edward Vandenberg, January 12, 2003

    Historical events

    Day of death June 26, 1865

    • The temperature on June 26, 1865 was about 14.3 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. The air pressure was 5.5 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the west-northwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 85%. Source: KNMI
    • Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
    • In The Netherlands , there was from February 1, 1862 to February 10, 1866 the cabinet Thorbecke II, with Mr. J.R. Thorbecke (liberaal) as prime minister.
    • In the year 1865: Source: Wikipedia
      • The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
      • March 3 » Opening of The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, the founding member of the HSBC Group.
      • March 25 » American Civil War: In Virginia, Confederate forces temporarily capture Fort Stedman from the Union.
      • April 12 » American Civil War: Mobile, Alabama, falls to the Union Army.
      • May 12 » American Civil War: The Battle of Palmito Ranch: The first day of the last major land action to take place during the Civil War, resulting in a Confederate victory.
      • May 13 » American Civil War: Battle of Palmito Ranch: In far south Texas, the last land battle of the Civil War ends with a Confederate victory.
      • October 11 » Hundreds of black men and women march in Jamaica, starting the Morant Bay rebellion.
    

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