Francis Aspell

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Harbour Grace Standard & Conception Bay Advertiser - 1877

24 Feb 1877 - News - Latest News from (S.S.) Cromwell: Telegram to A.M. MacKAY, Esq. -- Great Placentia, Feb 16, 1877. Father WHELAN, who came from Barrisway, seven miles from here, reports that he saw a life-buoy marked, "S.S. George Cromwell" which was picked up there yesterday morning. Since last Sunday they had also found on the shore, flour, butter, and a case of geese, also a cabin door. --Chronicle

24 Feb 1877 - News - We learn that a young man named Francis ASPELL, of this place and son of the late Mr. Peter ASPELL, was a passenger on board the unfortunate George Cromwell.

24 Feb 1877 - News - Some three of four human bodies and several pieces of floating debris, from the wrecks of unfortunate steamers George Washington and George Cromwell, have been picked up at Trepassey during the past week.

3 Mar 1877 - News - One of the passengers on board the ill-fated steamer George Cromwell mentioned in our last weeks paper as Francis ARCHIBALD of Brooklyn, was Francis ASPELL of this place, or ARCHIBALD (being the proper family name) Machinist by trade, aged 28 years. He was youngest son of the late Peter ASPELL and leaves a young wife in Brooklyn to mourn his untimely fate. He was coming to pay a visit to his widowed mother after an absence of 12 years.

23 June 1877 - News - The diving schr. Nimble, Capt John STONE, arrived yesterday from the wreck of the American steamer George Washington, at Cape Race, Nfld. She brought the machinery, anchors and chains of the wrecked steamer. Capt. STONE reports that the cargo had been all washed away by the sea and the boiler of the ship blew up. Nothing of the wreck of the George Cromwell could be found. -- Hx Chronicle

Francis married Yes, date unknown. Unknown [Group Sheet]