Thread: Abraham Asplet Death Search

After watching WDYTYA on Sunday night here about the actor David Suchet where he found his GGG Grandfather was a Master Mariner who's ship the Hannah sunk off the coast of Suffolk in a terrible storm on the 28 May 1860, many ships went down in that storm with terrible loss of life. I remembered that my GG Grandfather Abraham Asplet died on the Schooner Louisa in 1860. The only information I have is that. No idea where, if the ship sank or if he was the only one to die.



I was wondering if anyone could see if they could find out whether the Louisa sank and if so where and when. I don't have easy access to Lloyds Registers. The only Register I can find online free is the Captains list where they were still captains sailing in 1869. On that I found Abraham's sons 4 of the 5 were ships captains and they are all there. Obviously Abraham is not there. Abraham was born 11 June 1803 St Peter Jersey Channel Islands.



Does anyone have easy access to Lloyds shipping lists for shipwrecks to see if the Louisa sank. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks Noggin but unfortunately I have been to all those sites and couldn't find anything. As a pensioner I am unable to pay for someone to do a look up for me even if I knew which area I was looking for. About the only place I could do a look up on Lloyds Shipwrecks Register is in the main Library in Sydney Australia and this is not easily accessible to me.



I was hoping someone in England had access to them in their local library or maybe had an account with the Ships List and could do a look up.



Thanks anyway.

Hi Cuz

You could try this site

http://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck-search.aspx?text



I have had a quick look but can't find a Louisa around 1860.

There are however a couple of trees on Ancestry that have Abraham as dying in 1861 at sea, so it looks as though he may just have died at sea rather than in a ship wreck.

Thanks for looking Cuz. Maybe one day I will find out how and exactly when.