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.
- References:
- Sources yet to be consulted:
La Ciotat, S coast of France, c.1730.
See
full size.
From
here.
Possibly our family
[Marie Anne Marandet]
identifies the following as our
Jacques Icard.
However it would make him fairly old having children in 1737,
and extremely old still alive in 1776.
Maybe more confirmation is needed.
François Icard,
mar Madeleine Prepaude [or Magdeleine],
their son Jacques was born in 1683 in
La Ciotat,
near Marseille,
S coast of France
(see map),
had issue:
-
Jacques Icard,
born 29 December 1683, La Ciotat [Archives de La Ciotat].
Our family
The above
Jacques Icard
may be identical with:
-
Jacques Icard,
of La Ciotat,
France.
Catholic family.
He was a "tailleur d'habits"
(a tailor).
He
went maybe pre-1725, certainly pre-1737, to
Smyrna
in W Turkey.
In Smyrna there developed a population of
western European merchants and traders.
See historical background.
He
mar pre-1725 to Anne Vassal.
[Maltass, 1892]
says Anne Vassal was also French, also of La Ciotat.
However [1748 document]
describes her as
"Anne de Syra".
Syra or
Syros
is a Greek island in the Aegean Sea
(see map).
So this indicates she may have been actually Greek, not French.
Although the surname, if
[Maltass, 1892]
is right about the surname,
would indicate French not Greek.
Both fl 1748.
[1776 document]
lists the French in Smyrna in 1776 as including:
"Artisans
... Icard père et fils tailleur",
which may indicate Jacques was still alive,
unless this refers to his son and grandson.
Jacques and Anne
had issue:
- François Icard, born 1725, tailor,
mar 1753, Smyrna, to Marianne Raimondi,
listed as age 56 in
[1781 document],
died 1812.
- Jacques Icard, born 1729, tailor,
mar 1757, Smyrna, to Anne Glicofridi,
listed as age 52 in
[1781 document],
had issue:
- Joseph Icard, tailor,
"Marchand tailleur" (merchant tailor)
in "rue des Francs" (Rue Franque
or Frank St) in Smyrna.
This was one of the main streets.
See "Franks Street" on
1922 map,
had issue:
- Jean Baptiste Icard, born 1797,
he and his brother founded the Icard pharmacy, Rue Franque, Smyrna.
- Jacques Icard,
mar Madeleine Giudici
and had issue:
-
Elise Icard, born 1826, Smyrna,
mar Charlton Arthur Whittall
[born 1816]
and had issue.
- Fr. Joseph Icard,
Monsignor,
died 1789.
- Jeanne Icard.
-
Marguerite Icard,
or Margaret.
[Goulburn, 1892]
has her as "Margoton Ickhard, or Icard".
"Margoton"
is a French version of "Marguerite".
She was
born in Smyrna, 30 Dec 1737
[register of French Consular Chapel at Smyrna].
Some writers thought Icard might be "Greek", but this may be just because
all the Europeans in Smyrna (the Greek part of Turkey)
were sometimes called "Greeks".
[1748 document]
says she and her sisters are
"filles qui gagnent leur vie en travaillant à la cantine"
("daughters who make their living working in the canteen").
She
mar at Smyrna, pre-1763, to William Maltass
and had issue. 
- Marie Icard.
Smyrna in a book of 1735.
From
Levantine Heritage.
Used with permission.
Syros
Syros (Syra) in a book of 1717.
From
p.2
of
Relation d'un voyage du Levant
by Joseph Pitton de Tournefort,
vol.2, 1717
See
full size.
Syros (Syra) in a book of 1837.
From p.36
of
Syria, the Holy Land, Asia Minor, etc.
by John Carne,
vol.2, 1837.
See full size.
Icard pharmacy, Smyrna
Container from the Icard pharmacy, Rue Franque, Smyrna.
From
Levantine Heritage.
Used with permission.
Icard office (apparently not Rue Franque), Smyrna.
From Levantine Heritage.
Used with permission.
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