Maltass of Smyrna, Turkey

• References:
  • Our family in Turkey:
    • Letter from Benjamin Maltass, 26th Nov 1844, from Smyrna, to his niece Elizabeth Montgomery.
    • Rees family papers, post-1901.

  • Related families in Turkey:
    • Whittall family tree

    • Gateways to the past - Houses and gardens of old Bornova, Evelyn Lyle Kalcas, privately printed, Bornova, 1st edn 1978, 2nd edn 1983.
      - Most of the European families in Smyrna had winter/trading/town houses in the port/city of Smyrna, mostly near the quayside, and summer/family/country houses at places nr Smyrna, in particular at Bornova (Bournabat). Perhaps this book is about the Bornova houses rather than the Smyrna houses because the Smyrna ones were destroyed in 1922.

  • Maltass of Yorkshire:
    • Collections for a history of the family of Malthus, by John Orlebar Payne, MA [of Holly Village, Highgate, N London, born 1836, "a relative of the Malthus family", died 1911, age 75 yrs], privately printed in London, Burns and Oats, 1890. Availability:
      • Copies in [BL], [SOG], Reading Central Library [Local Studies]
      • Copy in University of London Library ref. [G.L.] K [Malthus-Payne] fol

    • Ripon Millenary Record, W. Harrison, privately printed, 1892 (the Millenary had been in 1886).

  
  

• Sources yet to be consulted:
  • Our family in Turkey:
    • Index to Consular births/marriages/deaths in [FRC].
    • BMD records of British Chaplaincy, Smyrna, are at [Guildhall Library].

  • Maltass of Yorkshire:
    • Ripon parish registers. Index may be purchased here. Some are online in [Payne, 1890].
    • articles in The Ripon Historian
      • article by Kit Norris, Vol.4, No.4
      • article about the Archbishop's Court at Ripon Records, by Jean Denton, 1999

Our branch spelt their name "Maltass" consistently, NOT Maltrass:

Revd. --- Maltass,
of Ripon, N Yorkshire (N of Leeds),
born c.1700,
had issue:

1. Henry Maltass,
   went in mid-18th cent to Constantinople, Turkey, the capital of the Ottoman Empire, see historical background,
   mar at Constantinople to Juliana Barbarini and had issue:
   1. Stephen Maltass,
      Chancellor of the British Embassy at Constantinople as at 31st Dec 1806 (the Ambassador 1804-07 was Charles Arbuthnot),
      (todo) see extract from the archives of the Levant Company, pub in the "Standard", 8th Oct 1901,
      Maltass went with the Ambassador and Admiral Duckworth to Constantinople in Feb 1807 when Duckworth forced the Straits of the Dardanelles,
      Duckworth intimidated Constantinople, but after negotiations with the Sultan Selim III he eventually withdrew,
      Maltass was on the battleship the "Standard", the Captain of which was Thomas Harvey (later Vice Admiral),
      the Rees family papers say he has left a record of what took place,
      did not marry.

   2. William Maltass,
      at age 12 was Student interpreter at the British Embassy at Constantinople,
      this was during the time when Sir Robert Ainslie was Ambassador (1776-92), Ainslie was later cr Baronet 1804,
      Maltass was British Vice-Consul at Cairo,
      did not marry.

   3. Claude Philip Maltass,
      the British Ambassador refers to him in a letter dated Constantinople, 29th Apr 1810, where he writes to Francis Werry, British Consul at Smyrna, as follows: "For the present, I beg of you to do all you can to keep the Prize Master and his men on board the captured ship until I can obtain a decision from the Captain Pacha and on no account to suffer Captain Maltass to be prevented returning to Malta with his prisoners.",
      "Captain Maltass" [Claude Philip] must be a Captain in the Royal Navy,
      did not marry.

   4. (4 daus) Maltass.

   
   

2. William Maltass,
   went in mid-18th cent (pre-1763) to Smyrna, important port in W Turkey, see historical background.

   
   

3. (4 daus) Maltass.

From the Ripon parish register can be reconstructed a Stephen Maltus family of Bondgate, which looks very much like our family, with Stephen as the Revd:

Stephen Maltus [or Maultus or Malthouse],
of Bondgate (in the S part of the town centre of Ripon),
mar Mar 1722 [Ripon] to Sarah Oats [of Kirk Deighton, N Yorkshire,
see earlier connection between Malthouse and Oates in 1610],
"Stephen Malthouse of Bondgate" is listed as a freeholder and voter in The Yorkshire Poll Book 1741,
"Stephen Maltus, Ripon" bur Ripon, 17th June 1777,
had issue:

1. Ann Maltus, bapt 5th Aug 1723 [Ripon].
   There is an "Ann Malthus", of parish of Ripon, mar 12th Feb 1749 [Ripon] to John Haxly of parish of Ripon,
   but [Denton, 1999] suggests this is dau of William Maltass, of Ripon and Agnesgate, Ripon (beside Bondgate).

2. John Maltus, bapt 1st Nov 1725 [Ripon],
   bur Ripon, 11th Nov 1730, age 5 yrs.

3. Martha Maltus, bapt 29th Oct 1727 [Ripon],
   must be "Martha Malthus", of parish of Ripon, mar 24th Nov 1752 [Ripon] to James Melton of parish of Ripon.

4. Mary Maltus, bapt 13th Dec 1729 [Ripon].

5. (stillborn child) Maltus, bur Ripon, 9th Jan 1731.

   
   

6. William Maltus (could be identical with our William),
   bapt 14th May 1733 [Ripon],
   "William Malthouse" of Bondgate had issue:
   1. John Malthouse, bapt 21st Mar 1762 [Ripon].
      Is this the one son John born in England, others born in Turkey?

   "William Malthouse, Ripon" died 15th Sept 1802, age 69 yrs,
   bur Ripon, 17th Sept [see his grave at Ripon Cathedral],
   had issue:

   1. --- Malthouse, had issue:
      1. Ann Malthouse, born 1803, died 3rd June 1807, age 4 yrs.

   
   

7. Henry Maltus, bapt 23rd June 1735 [Ripon],
   and then presumably has a son Stephen named after the grandfather.

8. Saray Maltus, bapt 30th Apr 1737 [Ripon],
   "Saray, dau of Stephen Maltus of Ripon" bur Ripon, 20th Sept[?] 1740, age 3 yrs.

9. Saray Maltus, bapt 12th Feb 1742 [Ripon], second Saray.
10. Priscilla Maltus, bapt 20th July 1744 [Ripon].

Stephen Maltus (or Malthouse),
of North Leys, in the parish of Ripon,
mar 5th Jan 1737-8 [Ripon] to Frances Long [of North Leys]
and had issue:

1. William Malthouse, bapt 13th May 1738 [Ripon].
2. Mary Malthouse, bapt 27th May 1740 [Ripon].

described as "of North Layes" at William's bapt 1738,
described as "of North Leys House" at Mary's bapt 1740,
"Frances, wife of Stephen Maltus, Bondgate" bur Ripon, 26th July 1785,
"Stephen Maltus, Bondgate" bur Ripon, 17th Nov 1786.

Malthus of Berkshire (the economist)

Maltass and related families of Yorkshire

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