British Consul in Smyrna
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Re: Smyrna
| willemdaniels (View posts) | Posted: 26 Sep 2001 1:12PM GMT |
Classification: Query
Hi Jean-C.,
In response to your query, I'm related to the De Jongh family descended from John de Jongh (1785- 1854) who settled in Smyrna as a merchant in 1812 and became consul general of Denmark, vice or "pro" consul of the United States and "diplomatic agent" of Russia there. Only the Danish appointment was a permanent one. John's business associate Robert Wilkinson and father-in-law was consul of Denmark before him, as well as consul of Sweden. In addition to his work as consul general - which probably left him quite a bit of free time - and his commercial activity he ran a cotton-press factory and founded a newspaper, the Impartial.
John had a brother Maurice who "lived in the south of France - town not known". It is tempting to speculate that the town was Marseille, which had a lively trade with Smyrna, and that this may have something to do with John's ending up in Smyrna.
The De Jonghs were officially of Dutch nationality but John grew up in Britain and his wife was Scottish, so most of the Smyrna De Jonghs were basically British in orientation - though nationality was a (refreshingly) minor issue in the expatriate community. I am intrigued by your relative Carl Diederik Winkelman's name: the Dutch spelling of his middle and family names lead me to wonder if there a Dutch connection? In any case, Carl and John were almost exact contemporaries as well as consular colleagues, so they must have known each other fairly well in the small world of the expatriate Smyrna of their day.
In 1838 Elizabeth Esther Sofie de Jongh (1817-1898) married André Noël Fonton. Their daughter Esther Johana Elizabeth Fonton (b. 1855) married Théodore Michel Tarazzi. I would be very interested to learn more about the two French families Fonton and Tarazzi, and in particular about descendants of those unions. Another French connection in the De Jongh family tree came about with the marriage of Isidor Waldemar de Jongh (1888-1944) and Marina, aka Marianne, Andrikides (1889-1949). Marina was "French of Greek extraction" and I would also like to learn more about that family.
I look forward to hearing further from you about your connection with Smyrna.
Best regards,
Willem
In response to your query, I'm related to the De Jongh family descended from John de Jongh (1785- 1854) who settled in Smyrna as a merchant in 1812 and became consul general of Denmark, vice or "pro" consul of the United States and "diplomatic agent" of Russia there. Only the Danish appointment was a permanent one. John's business associate Robert Wilkinson and father-in-law was consul of Denmark before him, as well as consul of Sweden. In addition to his work as consul general - which probably left him quite a bit of free time - and his commercial activity he ran a cotton-press factory and founded a newspaper, the Impartial.
John had a brother Maurice who "lived in the south of France - town not known". It is tempting to speculate that the town was Marseille, which had a lively trade with Smyrna, and that this may have something to do with John's ending up in Smyrna.
The De Jonghs were officially of Dutch nationality but John grew up in Britain and his wife was Scottish, so most of the Smyrna De Jonghs were basically British in orientation - though nationality was a (refreshingly) minor issue in the expatriate community. I am intrigued by your relative Carl Diederik Winkelman's name: the Dutch spelling of his middle and family names lead me to wonder if there a Dutch connection? In any case, Carl and John were almost exact contemporaries as well as consular colleagues, so they must have known each other fairly well in the small world of the expatriate Smyrna of their day.
In 1838 Elizabeth Esther Sofie de Jongh (1817-1898) married André Noël Fonton. Their daughter Esther Johana Elizabeth Fonton (b. 1855) married Théodore Michel Tarazzi. I would be very interested to learn more about the two French families Fonton and Tarazzi, and in particular about descendants of those unions. Another French connection in the De Jongh family tree came about with the marriage of Isidor Waldemar de Jongh (1888-1944) and Marina, aka Marianne, Andrikides (1889-1949). Marina was "French of Greek extraction" and I would also like to learn more about that family.
I look forward to hearing further from you about your connection with Smyrna.
Best regards,
Willem