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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) |
Gell family of Hopton Hall, Wirksworth |
Term | Naval personnel |
Navy officers |
Sailors |
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