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D8760 - Gell family of Hopton Hall, Wirksworth - 1714-1994
- F - Family records of the extended Franklin family and the Gell family of Hopton Hall - 1714-1994
  - FEG - Records of Eleanor Isabella Gell nee Franklin, daughter of Sir John and Eleanor Franklin and wife of Reverend John Philip Gell - 1828-[early 20th cent]
    - 1 - Correspondence of Eleanor Isabella Gell nee Franklin - 1828-1859
      - 15 - Letters from Hannah Booth to her niece Eleanor Isabella Gell - 1849-1858

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Archive Reference / Library Class No.	D8760/F/FEG/1/15/4
Former Reference	D3311/31/17
Title	Letter from Hannah Booth to her niece Eleanor Isabella Gell, on news of Eleanor being in good health and expecting a baby, plus gift of brooch which Eleanor's mother's had given to Elizabeth Franklin
Date	7-8 Feb [1850]
Description	February 7th: glad to hear that in good health expecting a baby; hopes God will support them; Mrs Gell called to give the news; Mrs Gell and Mr Gell busy arranging to leave Clifton; enclosing memorial brooch which had been given by Eleanor's mother's to Hannah's sister, but as the sister has now died [Elizabeth Franklin], she is giving the memorial brooch to niece in dual memory of Eleanor's mother and aunt; has received a letter from Louisa Turner; uncle sends his love. February 8th: arrangments for sending the brooch; distribution of deceased sister's "trifles as small memorials of her"; weather. Only 7 and 8 Feb are written in text, but 1850 has been added in pencil, which fits with Eleanor being pregnant before having her first child and the death of Hannah's sister [she had been identified in pencil, incorrectly as Mrs Selwood ( who died in 1816) - Elizabeth Franklin had died on 10 Jan 1850]
Extent	2 sheets
Level	Item
Repository	Derbyshire Record Office
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Sender	Hannah Booth
Sender Location	6 Tottenham Place, Clifton [the latter in pencil]
Recipient	Eleanor Isabella Gell
Recipient Location	No address
Archive Creator	Eleanor Isabella Franklin, later Eleanor Gell (1824-1860)
Archive Creator	Gell family of Hopton Hall, Wirksworth

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