Wood

1. Lucy Wood, lived in the house in Bornova with her sister Hortense,
   it became known as the Wood-Paterson House (perhaps her husband was Paterson),
   had issue, grandmother of:
   1. Mrs. Renée Steinbüchel,
      owner with her sister Mrs. Whittall of the house in Bornova,
      the house is referred to as the Steinbüchel House and also as the Matthey's House, see [Kalcas, 1983].

   2. Mrs. Whittall.

   
   

2. Hortense Wood, born est c.1860,
   "who was a great feminist as well as being a poetess, composer and a gifted painter. She had taken piano lessons from Franz Liszt" [who died 1886].
   "In addition, Hortense was an admirer of Kemal Ataturk and had written to congratulate him on his successes." (see Historical background),
   "In Sept 1922, on his arrival in Smyrna as General-in-Chief of the Turkish army, Ataturk enquired where Hortense Wood lived."
   "The Wood house, which has changed little since those days, was then taken over as Ataturk's Headquarters. Though all his staff could not be accommodated there, Ataturk occupied the room of a son, Ernest, while Ismet Pasa" [Ataturk's commander, who later took the name Inonu] "and others were stationed in neighbouring houses."
   "The house was the scene of many staff meetings, and Ataturk often played chess with a nephew, Fernand De Cramer. The General vouched for the safety of this house for all heirs in perpetuity." [Kalcas, 1983]

   Be that as it may, despite the Woods' admiration for him, and despite his own secular and westernising reforms later, the arrival of Ataturk's Turkish army signalled the slaughter of the Greeks and Armenians, the almost total destruction of Smyrna, and effectively the end of its history as a cosmopolitan western city. See Historical background.

   
   

3. --- Wood, mar Norbert De Cramer ["grand-uncle of Renée Steinbüchel"] and had issue.

4. 5 other children, Wood.

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