Correspondence on the topic.
Michal Kmec
Today at 1:01 PM
Michal Kmec
Dear Erica,
I apologize for the delay in getting back to you – it took a bit longer than I expected.
Please find bellow the link to the already announced confirmation from Prof. Dr. Thomas D. Marzik of the St. Joseph's University in Philadelphia in which he confirmed putative blood relationship between Ellen Hanbury Franklin (great-granddaughter of Benjamin Franklin ) and her son Benjamin Franklin.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1fCCosItL7uKTlkFhm5G_39pH4SOkkGVR/v...
The family is also in possession of a publication named "An Echo of American Dream" written in the past here in Slovakia about the life of the child Benjamin Franklin, the publication was allegedly financed by the US Embassy in Slovakia. I am sharing here part of the book:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Kl7IjAEA0GzdiidFPVnraSRt8fQVarRl/view
Hopefully it helps.
Michal Kmec
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Erica Howton C
9/28/2023 at 4:56 AM
Well, it’s a pretty cool story.
This is Dr. Marzik’s obituary:
https://www.historians.org/perspectives-issue/may-2008/
If there’s anything you can put your hands on with his validation of the lineage, I think we would be less out of line to have it on Geni.
Michal Kmec
9/28/2023 at 2:57 AM
Dear Erica,
thank you for your reply.
For now let me refer to:
1. following Geni profile:
It's profile of Dionýz Justh from Necpaly (Slovakia), the father of the child Benjamin Franklin. In this profile there is a note, that he was ex-partner of Ellen Franklin and that Benjamin Franklin was his son. I hoped someone made those notes based on some evidence.
2. several articles in respected Slovak newspapers, wchich informed about it. I will attach some links with web translation in english:
https://myturiec-sme-sk.translate.goog/c/1577997/odkryte-tajomstvo-...
https://www1-pluska-sk.translate.goog/soubiznis/franklinovci-turca?...
3. website familysearch.org, there is a record about Marta Franklin, daughter of above mentioned child Benjamin Franklin. There is also a scan from birth register, where Benjamin Franklin is mentioned as her father.
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:V1WW-GZS
I admit the above mentioned might not be a real evidence, that the Benjamin Franklin from Necpaly (Slovakia) is son of Ellen Franklin Hanbury. Yet my wife's family is possessing much more documents including correspondence between Ellen Franklin Hanbury and Dionýz Justh in french, confirmation from Prof. Dr. Thomas D. Marzik of the St. Joseph's University in Philadelphia, and much more. They made a wide research many years ago and some Slovakian historians published it. I will try to collect those and come back to you afterthat.
I am not possessing it right now, I only married into that family and I am helping my son with a school project about his ancestors :)
Michal Kmec
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Erica Howton C
9/27/2023 at 9:55 PM
Michal,
What evidence can you (or anyone else) show to verify this child, Benjamin (last name?).
There have been several claimed descendants of Benjamin Franklin which have been shown false. This includes my own family. :). So we need to be transparent in changes to the tree on Geni.
William Chandler Lanier, Jr.
9/27/2023 at 6:13 AM
Michal Kmec,
I am not the source of the note to which you are referring, but I can edit the profile. I have added your note to the profile. If curator Erica Howton has no objection, I can update the profile.
Bill Lanier
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Michal Kmec
9/27/2023 at 3:54 AM
Managers of Ellen Hanbury,
I am contacting you about this profile: Ellen Hanbury
In this profile you write that Ellen Franklin Hanbury had only one daughter Maria Hanbury, who died unmarried, thus ending the line for William Franklin.
According to information in our family this statement should be wrong.
Ellen Franklin Hanbury allegedly also had a son named Benjamin, born in 1835. The father of Benjamin was Dionyz Justh, who met Ellen when he was stationed in Paris as a soldier of Austrian Landswehr (ground forces of the Austro-Hungarian Dual Monarchy). After he was released from his obligation to serve in the army, Dionyz left Paris in 1841 without Ellen but with his son Benjamin and went back home to Austria-Hungary (today Slovakia). Benjamins descendants are still alive here in Slovakia thus William's line still continues here.
This line was allegedly confirmed by Prof. Dr. Thomas D. Marzik of the St. Joseph's University in Philadelphia.
Are you able to verify and correct this information?
Sincerely,
Michal Kmec
Ellen (Franklin) Hanbury
