Hannah de la Rivière

From "Temple’s Grave, Women and Children" Posted by mcmangold on 10 February 2016, 3:10 pm

1817-1823: [William Temple Franklin] ... lived the last six years of his life with his English mistress Hannah Collyer (Born 1771 in England, age 46-52) whom he finally married [shortly] before his death in 1823. Noted as Hannah [Collyer] Johnson Franklin Delariviere, probably FEMME DELARIVIERE buried next to Temple.

From Re: Benjamin Franklin's relatives ? 1999

William Temple Franklin had a son, Theophile (b. 1785/1790), with Blanche Caillot, and a daughter, Ellen (b. 1798), with Ellen Johnson D'Evelin, sister of his father's second wife, Mary D'Evelin. Ellen Franklin was raised by her grandfather, William Franklin. According to Willard Randall, author of A Little Revenge: Benjamin Franklin & His Son, (Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1984, p. 494), "Temple abandoned his mistress, William's sister-in-law, and his illegitimate daughter Ellen and went off to Paris. There he sired another daughter by the wife of the British ambassador." This child apparently died in infancy, as did Theophile. Ellen Franklin, however, reached adulthood and married Capel Hanbury. They had a daughter Maria Hanbury, said to be living in Nice, France in the 1870s, who died unmarried, thus ending the line for William Franklin. If anyone has information about Maria or Capel Hanbury, please let me know. Thank you--Elly Fitzig, Manager, Descendants Project, The Friends of Franklin, Inc.

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