Charles Alfred Francklyn

Awarded part of the compensation for the Hatton Garden estate on Dominica after counterclaiming with John Gordon of Roseau as assignees of Martha Fleming Ottley of a mortgage dated 25/3/1790 secured on a moiety of the estate, and awarded with Henry Francklyn (q.v.) the compensation for the Hope estate on Tobago. Also awarded the compensation for the enslaved people on Ottleys estate on St Kitts under two awards, one at least as guardian of Gilbert Franklyn.

In Tobago in the 1820s and probably in the 1830s as well, but in London in the last years of his life and dying there in 1841.

1. Son of Gilbert Francklyn (1733-1799) and Edith (nee Ottley) Francklyn, baptised St Marylebone 12/3/1771 (as Franklyn), and brother of Henry Francklyn (1772-1846). Gilbert Franklyn, 'a native of England, came to the West Indies in 1766, where he principally resided in Antigua until the latter end of 1787.' Will of Charles Alfred Francklyn of Duke Street Manchester Square proved 27/11/1841. He was aged 70 at death.

2. Charles Alfred Franklyn [sic] registered his ownership of enslaved people on the Hope plantation in Tobago for himself in 1833.

T71/881 Dominica nos. 146 and 147, in which he is described as Charles Alfred Francklyn of Tobago; T71/ Tobago no. 48A-C; St Kitts nos. 332 and 354, the former as guardian of Gilbert Franklyn.

1. Ancestry.com, London, England, Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538-1812 [database online]; Anon, 'An English Country Gentleman's Address to the Irish Members of the Imperial Parliament on the subject of the Salve Trade' (London, 1802), p. 64; PROB 11/1953; Gentleman's Magazine Vol. 169 1841 p. 217.

2. Ancestry.com, Slave Registers of former British Colonial Dependencies, 1812-1834 [database online].   We are grateful to Jonathan Spencer Jones for his assistance with compiling this entry.