Wood
- Sources yet to be consulted:
Dr. Charles Wood,
NOT Hood,
sent out to Smyrna
by the
Duke of Richmond
to practice at the hospital
[must be the
5th Duke of Richmond,
who had the title
from 1819 to 1860, and who was prominent in the military,
see
Historical background],
mar
Eugenie Maltass
[born est c.1820],
she inherited what is now called
The Steinbuchel House
in Bornova,
had issue:
- Lucy Wood,
mar ----,
lived in the Maltass house,
which is now called
The Steinbuchel House,
in Bornova,
with her sister Hortense,
it became known as
the "Wood-Paterson House"
(perhaps her husband was Paterson),
had issue,
grandmother of:
- Mrs. Renée Steinbüchel.
- Hortense Wood,
born est c.1860,
did not marry,
lived in
The Steinbuchel House,
in Bornova,
with her sister Lucy,
[Kalcas, 1983]
says she was a great feminist, a poetess, composer
and gifted painter,
who had taken piano lessons from
Franz Liszt,
she was an admirer of
Kemal Ataturk
and wrote 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
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.
- (dau) Wood,
mar
Norbert De Cramer
["grand-uncle of Renée Steinbüchel"]
and had issue.