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Bibliography

Potter R, Koellner R, Carney P, Williamson M (2022) , May We Be Spared to Meet on Earth: Letters of the Lost Franklin Arctic Expedition, McGill-Queen's University Press
Paul WATSON, Ice Ghosts (2017), The Epic hunt for the lost Franklin Expedition, W.W. Norton & Company
Michael PALIN (2018), Erebus, the story of a ship, Hutchinson
Dorothy HARLEY EBER, (2018), Encounters on the passage, Inuit meet the explorers, University of Toronto Press
Owen BEATTIE & John GEIGER, (2004), Frozen in time, the fate of the Franklin Expedition, Greystone Books

 

Primary Sources

The National Archives, London

ADM 1/3004, Letters from Lieutenants, 1836 - 1839
ADM 1/4866, Letters from Promiscuous, 1834
ADM 1/5480, Court Martial Papers, 1834
ADM 1/5531, In-letters and papers, From Captains and Lieutenants, 1843
ADM 13/71, Admiralty: Supplementary Records, marriage certificates
ADM 37/7848, Admiralty: Ships' Musters (Serie II), Ship: ALERT, Type: Sloop, 01 March 1830 - 28 February 1832
ADM 37/9921, Admiralty: Ships' Musters (Serie II), Ship: SCYLLA, Type: Sloop, 01 December 1836 - 31 March 1839
ADM 51/3744, Captains' logs, including: VINDICTIVE, 1841 Oct 14-1844 July 26 
ADM 171/9, Arctic Medal Roll of Recipients, 1818 - 1855
ADM 171/10, List of officers and men of the Royal  Navy and Royal Marines employed on Arctic..., 1818 - 1855
ADM 196/5/124 Officers Time of Service

 

Other Archives

England and Wales, Marriage Registration Index, 1855, quarter 3, vol. 5B, p. 429, East Stonehouse, Devon, England
London, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriage and Burials, 1538-1812 
England and Wales, Marriage Registration Index, 1875, quarter 1, vol. 5B, p. 535, Stoke Damerel, Devon, England
England census, Stoke Damerel, 1851
England census, Sussex, 1881
London, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriage and Burials, 1538-1812 
London, England, Church of England Deaths and Burials, 1813-2003
Register of contracts or land registry, Channel Islands. Cour Royale (Jersey)
Channel Islands census 1851 to 1901
England census 1841 to 1901
LP1857/L/22, Incoming Letters prior to 1857, Letter from : Little, 1851, UKHO 
LBK/67 117399, Letterbook of Commander J Toup Nicholas, HMS Vindictive, The Caird Library 
 

 

Secondary Sources

Online

This website uses material from the “Polar Medal” article on the Franklin Expedition wiki at Fandom and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike License. 
 

Articles

Karen STEVENSON, (2014), Aimata, Queen Pomare IV: Thwarting adversity in Early 19th Century Tahiti, Journal of the Polynesian Society vol.123
Viviane FAYAUD, Images de guerre méconnues : le conflit franco-tahitien (1843-1847)  
Richard BAYLISS Sir John Franklin’s last arctic expedition: a medical disaster, (2002), J Roy Soc Med.
Douglas R. STENTON, Stephen FRATPIETRO, Robert W. PARK, Identification of a senior officer from Sir John Franklin's Northwest Passage Expedition, (2024), Journal of Archeological Science: Reports 
Roger R. BYARD, Death in the Arctic, the tragic fate of members of the Franklin Expedition, (2020) 

 

Newspapers

Albion and the Star, 26 Sep 1834
Morning Herald, 23 Sep 1834 
True Sun, 24 Sep 1834
True Sun, 26 Sep 1834
London Packet and New Lloyd's Evening Post, 26 Sep 1834
Caledonian Mercury,29 Sep 1834
Sun (London), 8 January 1838 
Naval & Military Gazette, 21 May 1842 
Hereford Journal, 9 August 1843
Royal Cornwall Gazette, 11 August 1843  
Weekly True Sun, 12 August 1843
La Quotidienne, 18 August 1843 
Bucks Gazette, 19 August 1843  
Weekly Chronicle of the United Service, 18 November 1843  
Naval & Military Gazette, 18 November 1843 
Sun (London), 13 March 1845 
Jersey Independant and Daily, 27 Jun 1857 
 

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The Aftermath of the Franklin Expedition

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To this day , no letter between the Little family members has been found, either before or after Edward's disappearance in the arctic, but some archives and newspapers give up a glimpse of how the expedition affected the family life   The Relief Expedition meeting In 1857, James Cornelius Little, Edward's eldest brother, took part in a meeting centered around Lady Jane Franklin's effort to send another expedition in search of her husband and his crew. James Cornelius was described as "an esteemed resident" [of Jersey] and the he " had taken a lively interest in the proceedings of this meeting. He had to deplore the loss of a brother in the ill-fated expedition of Sir John Franklin. He was happy to have the opportunity to express his thanks to the gentlemen who had taken the initiative in the proceedings. " James Cornelius also subscribed to the cause by donating 10£   ¹ (which according to the TNA currency converter , would be around 590£ in 2017)
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Edward Little's birthplace & baptism

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     Edward's birth and baptism places aren't as easy to pinpoint as we could think, so here is everything I gathered on the subject :  (With some speculations on my part because some documents contradict each other )   Edward Little was born on 14 December 1911 from Sarah Little (née Hayter) and Simon Little, he was baptised in St Mary's church, Hornsey, on Jan 12th 1812  ¹ St Mary's Church Tower, Hornsey, Februrary 2025, taken by the author   The old medieval church was first mentioned in a papal taxation list of 1291, but by the 1820s the building was dilapidated and it was knocked down in 1832. After that, two new churches were built on these grounds, but none of them remains today, the third church was demolished in 1969, the churchyard was closed in 1892. Today, only the bell tower from the first church still stands, surrounded by a park and a Primary school playground ²
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The Court Martial Testimony

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When I first came across this article, I couldn't be sure that it mentioned the same Edward Little. But now that we know about his early service record, we know that he was indeed serving aboard HMS Dublin as mate (from Nov 1831 to Oct 1834)  So, he's most certainly the one mentioned here : ¹   Albion and the Star , 26 Sep 1834    " A Mr. Edward Little, mate, was brought forward as witness, to prove Mr. Christie's assaulting him. The manner in which this Gentleman gave his evidence called forth the animadversions of the Court ."  There is more newspapers covering the full trial (but with no other mention of Little) : ² ³ ⁴ ⁵ ⁶
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