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Persoonlijke gegevens Martinus Pelle 

• Hij is geboren rond 1855.
• Hij is overleden op 26 juni 1865. Hij was ongeveer 9-10 jaar oud.
• Een kind van Willem Pelle en Adriaantje Oole

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Notities over 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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