Sub-sub-series
Letters from John Griffin, father of Lady Franklin, to Eleanor Isabella Gell
Catalogue reference: D8760/F/FEG/1/37
What’s it about?
This record is about the Letters from John Griffin, father of Lady Franklin, to Eleanor Isabella Gell dating from 1840-[c1850].
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Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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D8760/F/FEG/1/37
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Title (The name of the record)
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Letters from John Griffin, father of Lady Franklin, to Eleanor Isabella Gell
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Date (When the record was created)
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1840-[c1850]
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Description (What the record is about)
- Description available at other catalogue level
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- Derbyshire Record Office
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
- Gell family of Hopton Hall, Wirksworth; Eleanor Isabella Franklin, later Eleanor Gell (1824-1860)
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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3 letters
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Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
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John Griffin (1757-1852) was the father of Lady Jane Franklin, the second wife of the Arctic explorer Sir John Franklin. His family was of Huguenot descent, and he was a successful silk weaver, who built up a substantial fortune: he was admitted to the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths in 1791. He married Jeanne (Jane) Guillemard on 3 Apr 1786; they had 3 daughters Frances (Fanny), who married Ashurst Majendie, Jane, who marred Sir John Franklin, and Mary, who married John Augustus Francis Simpkinson; they also had a son, John, born in 1790, who died at the age of 14. His wife died in 1795. He lived well into his nineties, and died on 2 May 1852. He had pointedly made sure that Lady Jane Franklin did not inherit his property, believing that she would fritter away the family fortune in funding further search expeditions to find her Arctic explorer husband.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/461d63cb-d5fb-4094-b189-a958ec74916e/
Series information
D8760/F/FEG
Records of Eleanor Isabella Gell nee Franklin, daughter of Sir John and Eleanor Franklin...
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Catalogue hierarchy
This record is held at Derbyshire Record Office
Within the fonds: D8760
Gell family of Hopton Hall, Wirksworth
Within the sub-fonds: D8760/F
Family records of the extended Franklin family and the Gell family of Hopton Hall
Within the series: D8760/F/FEG
Records of Eleanor Isabella Gell nee Franklin, daughter of Sir John and Eleanor Franklin...
Within the sub-series: D8760/F/FEG/1
Correspondence of Eleanor Isabella Gell nee Franklin
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Letters from John Griffin, father of Lady Franklin, to Eleanor Isabella Gell