Contd

The first owner and his family

Thanks to the seller, we have the relevant portion of Frank Albrecht's family tree.



Frank George Carl Hermann Adolf Albrecht was born in 1860 in Bremervrde in the Kingdom of Hannover, Germany (after 1866 belonging to the Province of Hannover, Kingdom of Prussia). He left Germany (exact date unknown) and emigrated to England, where he received British citizenship in 1896. In Liverpool he was doing business as Cotton and General Merchant acting as "F. Albrecht & Co.". He had two children left back in Germany (for unknown reasons); one of which (his daughter Elsa) was born in 1896. Frank Albrecht died on 22. April 1950 in London.

In England, four more children of Frank were born, i. a. his son Charles Reginald Clayton Albrecht who was born in 1905. Charles (the only hunter of Frank's English children) was a Lieutenant-Colonel of the Royal Artillery in WWII, decorated with the "Order of the British Empire" (Officer). He met his German brothers and sisters in 1946 in the North of Germany.

Before he died (in 1999), Charles Albrecht sold the Westley Richards in 1984 to his German nephew Konrad K. who was the only other hunter of the family - Charles' two sons were no hunters and weren't interested in guns. Konrad K. gave the shotgun to his son Eckardt in 1999, who's also a hunter. Finally, Eckardt. K. sold the gun in 2011 to my father.

Reason was: "I have too many excellent guns and cant keep them all". So, after 105 years the gun left the Albrecht family.

Konrad K. has photos of Frank Albrecht, as well as of Charles Albrecht. Hopefully, we will get the chance for obtaining good scans of said photos soon.