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Icard of Smyrna, Turkey

The family are not really from Turkey. They are from France.
They went out to Turkey as merchants in the 18th century, and intermarried with other European families out there.
Some descendants still live there.
See Historical background.

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Possibly our family

[Marie Anne Marandet] identifies the following Jacques Icard, born 1683, as our Jacques Icard. It is unclear what the proof of this is.
It would make him fairly old having children in 1737, but quite possible.
It would mean that the 1776 document cannot refer to him, which is also possible.
Note that our Jacques' eldest son is called François (would be after grandfather).

• François Icard.
  See Wikitree.
  He mar Madeleine Prepaude [or Magdeleine].
  Their son was born in 1683 in La Ciotat, near Marseille, S coast of France (see map).
  They had issue:

  
  

  1. Jacques Icard,
     born 29 December 1683, La Ciotat [Archives de La Ciotat].

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Our family

The following may be the Jacques Icard above who was born 1683.

• Jacques Icard,
  of La Ciotat, near Marseille, France.
  Catholic family.
  He went to Smyrna in W Turkey.
  He married before 1725.

La Ciotat, S coast of France, c.1730.
See full size.
From here.

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References

• Letter from Thomas J. Maltass about origin of Maltass and Icard. The Standard, London, 16 March 1892. From here.

• Notes and Queries, 8th series, Vol. 1, 1892.
  • Republishes Thomas J. Maltass' letter on p.292.
  • Also has letter about surname Maltass on p.459.

• Icard family tree by Marie Anne Marandet
  • This has a transcript of a list of parishioners of the French Church of St. Polycarp in Smyrna in 1748. From the Bibliotheque Franciscaine des Capucins in Paris.

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• Icard at Levantine Heritage.

• La Ciotat on Wikimedia Commons
  • History of La Ciotat
  • Old maps of Provence