Peter Francklyn

1732 - 1799


Biography

Early purchaser with his brother Gilbert Francklyn of land in Tobago, and later collector of customs at Kingston, marrying in 1794 'Mrs Elizabeth Harding' of Weston Favell in Jamaica. LBS is still disentangling the family relationships, but Mrs Catherine Francklyn (q.v.) refers in her own will to a marriage settlement securing £10,000 currency on the Weston Favel[l] estate [and the enslaved people attached to it], which mirrors the settlement referred to in Peter Franckyn's will, suggesting that Mrs Catherine Francklyn might in fact have been the same woman as 'Mrs Elizabeth Harding.'

  1. Will of Peter Francklyn of Kingston Jamaica [made in 1795] proved 28/04/1800. He left an annuity of £200 p.a. to his sister Susanna Franckiyn of Great Britain. He left his residuary estate to the children of his brother Gilbert Francklyn (q.v.). He said that under his marriage settlement he was entitled to £10,000 currency on his wife's death.

  2. Born May 1732, died December 1799.


Sources

The report of the marriage of Peter Francklyn and 'Mrs Elizabeth Harding' appears in several sources, e.g. Royal Gazette September 13th 1794.

  1. PROB 11/1340/266.

  2. Birth and death dates by email from Jonathan Spencer Jones, 02/06/2020.

We are grateful to Jonathan Spencer Jones for his assistance with compiling this entry.


Further Information

Absentee?
Spouse
'Mrs Elizabeth Harding'

Associated Estates (2)

The dates listed below have different categories as denoted by the letters in the brackets following each date. Here is a key to explain those letter codes:

  • SD - Association Start Date
  • SY - Association Start Year
  • EA - Earliest Known Association
  • ED - Association End Date
  • EY - Association End Year
  • LA - Latest Known Association
1799 [EA] - → Owner
1773 [EA] - 1773 [LA] → Other

Gilb. and P. Francklyn were shown as 'Present possessors' of the lots making up Hope c. 1773.


Relationships (3)

Brothers
Other relatives
Notes →
LBS has concluded that Mrs Catherine Francklyn was in fact possibly the 'Mrs Elizabeth Harding' who married Peter Francklyn in Jamaica in 1794....
Brother → Sister