Wood
The marriage of Eugenie Maltass and Dr. Charles Wood, 30 May 1839.
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From
Smyrna Anglican Chaplaincy register.
Dr. Charles Wood,
born c.1813.
See
Wikitree.
He is listed as of Constantinople at mar.
He was sent to Smyrna
by the
Duke of Richmond
to practice at the hospital.
(This would be
Charles Gordon-Lennox, 5th Duke of Richmond,
who had the title
from 1819 to 1860.)
He
mar 30 May 1839
to Eugenie Maltass
[born 6 October 1811].
She inherited
The John Maltass House
in Bournabat (now Bornova).
The house was apparently enlarged around 1860.
Dr. Charles died c.1869.
Eugenie
died 1886.
She was bur in Anglican Cemetery in Bornova.
Grave 237.
They had issue:
- Hortense Wood,
Hortense L. Wood, born 1844.
A great feminist, a poetess, composer
and gifted painter.
See Turkish wikipedia.
She took piano lessons from
Franz Liszt.
She did not marry.
She lived in
The John Maltass House
in Bournabat,
with her married sister Louisa and her widowed sister Lucy.
The war of 1922:
Hortense
was an admirer of
Kemal Ataturk
and wrote to congratulate
him on his successes.
[Kalcas, 1983]
says that:
"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."
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.
Hortense was one of the few Europeans to stay after the 1922 destruction.
Her sisters did not stay.
She was lonely and sad in a deserted Bournabat.
See [Milton, 2008, p.376].
She died 1924, age 80 yrs.
She was bur in Anglican Cemetery in Bornova.
Grave 236.
- Louisa Wood.
She mar Ernest Paterson.
They lived in
The John Maltass House
in Bournabat.
It
was called the Wood-Paterson House.
She must be L.H. Paterson, born 1845, died 1924,
who is bur in Anglican Cemetery in Bornova.
Grave 191.
Same grave as Lucy.
- Lucy Wood,
born 1850.
She mar 1871 to Norbert de Cramer and had issue.
This line inherited The John Maltass House.
View of the junction near the
John Maltass House
in the 1890s.
On left is the
entrance gateway
to the John Maltass House.
From
Levantine Heritage.
Used with permission.
Gate to the John Maltass House, c.1900.
From Levantine Heritage.
Used with permission.
Sources yet to be consulted
- Diary of Hortense Wood.
Apparently only covers 1922-1923.
