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Archive Reference / Library Class No.	D8760/F/GHW/1/6/3
Former Reference	D3311/231
Title	Letter from Kenneth Franklin to Dr Gell on possible family links wth Sir John Franklin
Date	11 Dec 1938
Description	His father used to say that Kenneth's grandfather or earlier great-grandfather was closely related to Sir John Franklin and saw him off on his last voyage and that their family once possessed a large estate in or neath Louth; unable to say whether this was correct, as location of family records not known; Sir Willingham Franklin was a fellow of Oriel College. Postcript in pencil in another hand on the fortunes of the Franklin family of Spilsby, including on Willingham Franklin
Extent	1 item
Level	Item
Repository	Derbyshire Record Office
Sender	Kenneth J. Franklin
Sender Location	Oriel College, Oxford
Recipient	John Philip Gell
Archive Creator	Henry Willingham Gell (1856-1942)
Archive Creator	Gell family of Hopton Hall, Wirksworth
Term	Naval personnel
	Navy officers
	Sailors