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Archive Reference / Library Class No.
D8760/F/FEG/1/38
Title
Letters between Frances Majendie (née Griffin) and her niece Eleanor Isabella Franklin, later Gell
Date
1847-1849
Description
Frances (Fanny) Griffin, later Majendie (1788-1868), was the elder sister of Lady Franklin, second wife of the Arctic explorer Sir John Franklin, She was the eldest of three daughters of John Griffin and his wife Jane (nee Guillemard). On 18 Jan 1831 she married the geologist Ashurst Majendie of Hedingham Castle, Essex, at St George's Church, Bloomsbury,
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4 items
Level
SubSeries
Repository
Derbyshire Record Office
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Eleanor Isabella Franklin, later Eleanor Gell (1824-1860)
Gell family of Hopton Hall, Wirksworth
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Majendie; Frances (1788-1868); wife of geologist Ashurst Majendie
Gell; Eleanor Isabella (1824-1860); daughter of explorer Sir John Franklin
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