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Archive Reference / Library Class No.D8760/F/FEG/1/28
TitleLetters from cousin Anne Weld (née Sellwood) to Eleanor Isabella Gell
Date[1849-1850]
Extent2 items
LevelSubSeries
RepositoryDerbyshire Record Office
Archive CreatorEleanor Isabella Franklin, later Eleanor Gell (1824-1860)
Gell family of Hopton Hall, Wirksworth
Administrative HistoryAnne Sellwood, later Weld (1814-1894) was the second daughter of Henry Sellwood and his wife Sarah (nee Franklin). She was the niece of the Arctic explorer Sir John Franklin and the cousin of Eleanor Isabella Franklin, later Gell. Anne was married in 1842 at Horncastle, Lincolnshire, to Charles Richard Weld, who went on to become the Secretary of the Royal Society; they had one daughter Agnes Grace (born 1849).

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Weld; Anne (1814-1984); wife of Reverend Charles Richard Weld
Gell; Eleanor Isabella (1824-1860); daughter of explorer Sir John Franklin
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