Posted by orak dogu --Previous Message--
on 11/11/2004, 3:38 pm, in reply to "Re: Watson Constantinople"
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There is a commonwealth war cemetary at district Haidarpascha in Istanbul. Also the civilians, who lived and died in Turkey, are burried there. For more information regarding this cemetary you can contact "Commonwealth war graves commission", which has an office in Chanakkale in Turkey. Phone: 0090 286 217 10 10
Fax.: 0090 286 212 67 05
(The person in charge, a couple of years ago, was Mr. Alex Sutherland. I don't know if he is still there.)
: John Freely in his book The Bosphorus (Redhouse
: Press, 1993) writes that in Üsküdar,
: Istanbul, there is a Crimean War Cemetery,
: where, in addition to the British Soldiers
: who died during the Crimean War & the
: Gallipoli campaign, the members of the
: British Community in Istanbul are also
: buried. He states that the graves of the
: British civilians date back to the 1st half
: of the 19th century. For more information,
: you may want to contact the British Embassy
: in Istanbul.
: Aydin
: --Previous Message--
: I am trying to locate information about my
: wife's WATSON relatives who lived in
: Constantinople from at least 1846 until at
: least 1874. Julian Adolphus WATSON (b. Malta
: 1814)was married Mary STEPHENS in the British
: Consulate, Constantinople in 1846 and died
: there in 1863. He was a ship broker and
: merchant. Julian and Mary had a number of
: children born in the city, including my
: wife's great grandfather Henry Griffin WATSON
: (b. 1849) who moved to Marseille, France in
: 1874 where he died in 1916. Any help with
: this WATSON family much appreciated, or any
: advice about how to trace further information
: about them in Istanbul would be welcome - in
: particular about where Julian WATSON might be
: buried.
: :
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