Wood
- Sources yet to be consulted:
Dr. Charles Wood,
NOT Hood.
He was sent out to Smyrna
by the
Duke of Richmond
to practice at the hospital.
This must be the
5th Duke of Richmond,
who had the title
from 1819 to 1860, and who was prominent in the military.
He is listed as of Constantinople at mar.
He
mar 30 May 1839
to
Eugenie Maltass
[born 6 October 1811].
She inherited what is now called
The Steinbüchel House
in Bornova.
They had issue:
- Lucy Wood.
She mar ----.
Lived in the house now called
The Steinbüchel House
in Bornova,
with her sister Hortense.
It was called the Wood-Paterson House
(perhaps her husband was Paterson).
She
had issue,
grandmother of:
- Mrs. Renée Steinbüchel.
- Hortense Wood,
maybe born c.1850.
She did not marry.
She lived in
The Steinbüchel 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.
Hortense
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.
She mar
Norbert De Cramer
["grand-uncle of Renée Steinbüchel"]
and had issue.