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Archive Reference / Library Class No.	D8760/F/FEP/2/2
Former Reference	D3311/13/2
Title	Copy of the last will and testament of Eleanor Anne Franklin, with letters of administration
Date	1825-1828
Description	1) Copy will of Eleanor Anne Franklin, wife of Captain John Franklin, reciting provisions of the pre-marriage settlemnt dated 15 Aug 1823, relating to the leasehold properties of Nos. 62-66 Upper Berkeley Street bequeathed to her by her father, and also the books, manuscripts, print books of prints and drawings, granting them to her husband and appointing Francis Bedford, architect, and Henry Sellwood, esquire (also trustees of the marriage settlement), executors, witnessed by Joseph Kay and Elizabeth Appleton, dated 10 Feb 1825. 2) Grant of probate of the goods of Eleanor Ann Franklin, wife of John Franklin, esquire, late of Devonshire Street, parish of St Marylebone, Middlesex, granted by the Prerogative Court of Canterbury at London, to Francis Bedford and Henry Sellwood, 12 June 1828, with seal.
Extent	2 parchment sheets
Level	Item
Repository	Derbyshire Record Office
Archive Creator	Eleanor Anne Porden, later Eleanor Franklin (1795-1825)
Archive Creator	Gell family of Hopton Hall, Wirksworth