Julius Nelthropp

Død ugift og barnløs 35 år gammel i dampskibskatastrofe.

Dåb1806 :

• https://www.danishfamilysearch.com/churchbook/sogn678/churchlisting...
• https://www.myheritage.com/research/record-10455-20680081-/julius-i...

Konfirmeret1820: https://www.myheritage.com/research/record-10455-2821658/julius-nel...

Emigrerer1833:

Til Ellis Island med skibet "Le Rhone" fra les Havre.

https://www.myheritage.com/research/record-10512-40065/julius-nelth...

Død1841: Dampskibskatastrofen

• https://www.hmdb.org/marker.asp?marker=92930
• http://images.maritimehistoryofthegreatlakes.ca/49146/data

" A W F U L C A L A M I T Y

     THE  STEAMBOAT  E R I E BURNT 

     175 Lives Lost. 

     It is our painful duty to record another most appalling calamity on the Lake, involving the greatest destruction of human life known on our western waters. The steamboat ERIE, on her passage from Buffalo westward, on Monday evening last, when about 33 miles above that port, took fire from the explosion of some demijohns of oil and varnish, standing on the boiler deck, and so rapidly was the spread of the flames that in five minutes the whole boat from stem to stern was enveloped in flames, and the passengers and crew forced overboard, or surrounded by the fire and literally burnt alive."

"...The following persons composing the crew, &c., may be also added to those lost:

• Mr. Von Ockerman, a German tinner, late of the employ of Mr. Hubbard, who was visiting his mother, near Erie.
• Mr. Sherman, and daughter, Hamburgh, Erie Co.
• Mr. Nelthorpe, a Danish gentleman
• ...."

Dette gav ophav til legenden om John Maynard: http://johnmaynard.net/LegendGenesis.pdf

Finder mærkeligt nok intet om at Julius døde i de danske aviser. Vidste ingen det der?

Vraget blev hævet 13 år senere - i 1854.