I am American by birth and residence (probably not so much in spirit) based in Philadelphia. Tubini is in fact my middle name, and was the maiden name of my grandmother (Antoinette Tubini Miner). My father gave me the surname in her honour, and it probably contributed to my historical and genealogical obsessions, having to constantly explain it. My grandmother had 4 sisters and 2 brothers. They all grew up in Istanbul, on the campus of Robert college (Boğaziçi University) near Bebek. During WWII they all left Turkey, save one brother, who died there in the 60s. The only direct relations I have with the last name Tubini live in Australia (how’s that for diaspora?) - the children of the other brother. Other relatives are in England and the US. The only other Tubinis I find on the internet are in Italy, though there were Greek and French Tubini cousins, back in the day.
But it gets even more complicated! because the way my grandparents met was when my grandfather Miner was in Turkey, teaching at Robert College. Antoinette’s grandmother approved of him because even though he was American, he was ‘un bonne Catholique’. Later, my grandfather worked for the state department, and became the consul general in Istanbul. So my grandmother moved back to Turkey, and was living in the US Embassy, which had been once owned by her grandmother’s family - further information from the book ‘The bank, the money lenders, the money changers, the usurers and the jewellers of Pera and Beyoğlu - Behzat Üskiden’.
Anyhow. this means that my father spent his teenage years in Turkey, as well, and I grew up hearing him swear at the dog in turkish and eating baklava. So I am barely 1/8 levantine by blood, but have a far closer relationship to it than that percentage would suggest.
submission date 2007-9
But it gets even more complicated! because the way my grandparents met was when my grandfather Miner was in Turkey, teaching at Robert College. Antoinette’s grandmother approved of him because even though he was American, he was ‘un bonne Catholique’. Later, my grandfather worked for the state department, and became the consul general in Istanbul. So my grandmother moved back to Turkey, and was living in the US Embassy, which had been once owned by her grandmother’s family - further information from the book ‘The bank, the money lenders, the money changers, the usurers and the jewellers of Pera and Beyoğlu - Behzat Üskiden’.
Anyhow. this means that my father spent his teenage years in Turkey, as well, and I grew up hearing him swear at the dog in turkish and eating baklava. So I am barely 1/8 levantine by blood, but have a far closer relationship to it than that percentage would suggest.
I also found some essays of my grandmother’s (Antoinette Tubini) about growing up in Istanbul, and particularly about her very Victorian grandmother, Rose Corpi Tubini, that I intend to transcribe and send, as well. Rose Corpi’s diary/daybook is from around 1911, has some notes about events of the day, religious days, and some recipes, so exciting! It’s all in French and in hard to decipher curly Victorian handwriting. Antoinette Tubini also made notes on the general history of Italians in the Aegean, viewable here: |
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I know my grandmother lived in Kadıköy [archive postcard views] as a kid (see attached plan, drawn by her sister), but I don’t know when the quay would have been named, as suggested by a recently viewed postcard in an auction site. However I’m pretty sure my dad’s cousin found most of the houses in a recent trip to Istanbul, from her mom’s drawings. In addition, recently (2009), I discovered that on one of the late 19th century maps, a subdistrict of Kadıköy was noted as ‘quartier Tubini’ - view - but don’t know if this designation went beyond this map. However on a family visit to Istanbul in the Spring of 2008 we found the Catholic church in my g-g-grandmother’s in the neighborhood of Moda (L’Assumption), in Kadıköy, and the priest there told us that there had been a Tubini chapel in the basement, and a little family chapel built down by the Kadıköy pier. |
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Historical Sources in which Tubinis are specifically mentioned:
1500 AD First Catholic register of births, marriages and deaths in the Church of St. Nicolas, Chios. Among Italians listed: TUBINI, CORPI, and relatives and friends of the Tubinis later resident in Istanbul: BRAGGIOTTI, D’ANDRIA, NOMICO, NEGREPONTE, SPERCO, VERNAZZA, VUCINO. From Sperco ‘Les Anciennes Familles Italiennes de Turquie (Istanbul - 195-)’ - [The Tubini name is mentioned in the Chios listing of this book on page 47 and in the Syra listing page 61].
1621 AD Listed on the island of Syra: TUBINI, DAPOLLA, VUCINO.
1642 AD Listed on Chios, a Francesco TUBINI, “medico”, presumably a doctor.
1680 AD Listed on Chios: TUBINI, CORPI, CASTELLI, GLAVANI, GUISTINIANI, D’ANDRIA, RALLI. From the Abbott Giovanni Battista del Burgo, ‘Viaggio di Cinque Anni in Asia, Africa, Europa del Turco. (Milan AD 1680)’.
Sperco says that among other documents he saw in Chios in the fifties, he learned that the CORPI family came from the island of Corsica, the TUBINIS from Genoa. He makes no mention of listings for any Genoese there after 1680, but it is known that many stayed on until the Greek War of Independence in 1822. It is therefore possible that there were no documents of later date available to him.
In Italy, documents concerning the family can be found in the Heraldic Archives of Antonio Vallardi of Milan, with reference to records No. 242/11684, vo. 1184. Also, at the Bibliotheca Civica Berio in Genoa, a volume entitled Libro d’Oro lists the early Genoese families of that town. In addition, in the Genoa Campo Bianco Cemetery are numerous early burial vaults and gravestones of various members of the Tubini family.
My Direct Ancestry:
Anthony Bernard Tubini “British Citizen”, born London, 1862 (?) Rosalie (Rose) Corpi Tubini “Italian citizen”, born Constantinople, April 28, 1862 educated at Notre Dame de Sion Convent. Rose and Anthony married: Constantinople, Sept. 22, 1883 Bernard Anthony Tubini, their only son, born: Constantinople, 1886 first schooling at St. Louis, French Jesuit school in Constantinople.
1896 - Family moves to London, where Anthony works on the London Stock Exchange. Bernard attends Beaumont College, Windsor, a Catholic college for boys, and later City and Guilds College of the University of London. Qualifies as an Electrical Engineer with degree of A.M.I.E.E.
Jane (Jennie) Richardson “British citizen”, born Preston, Lancashire, 1892. Meets Bernard in Preston about 1909 when he trains in mining engineering in Preston coal mines.
At the death of Anthony Tubini in London in 1912, Rose, Bernard, and Jennie Richardson came out to Turkey. Bernard and Jennie were married in Istanbul in September of that year and Bernard entered the office of Robert Rowell whose business was to represent the interests of the Association of British Manufacturers in Turkey. The family lived in Kadıköy, where Antionette was born in 1913 and Nancy in 1916.
Rose nursed wounded Turkish soldiers with the Red Crescent in the 2nd Balkan War, 1912-1913. When Turkey joins German side in WWI, all British subjects are interned, but it may be that Rose’s service in the Red Crescent is what keeps the Tubinis free.
In 1917, Bernard moved his family up to Robert College to become a member of the Electrical Engineering staff. He subsequently became head of that department and remained there until his death in June 1940. His children attended the Robert College Community School, and later the boys were educated at Robert College and the girls at the American College for Girls, the twin college three miles away.
Robert G. Miner “American citizen”, born Scranton, Pennsylvania, 1911. Antionette Tubini meets Robert G. Miner when he comes to Robert College (later Boğaziçi University) to teach English, in 1935. They were married in Montreal, Quebec, Canada in 1938. They had four sons, the first of whom, Robert Jr., is my father. My grandfather was appointed to US state department posts in Athens, Paris, and London, before becoming the consul general of the US Istanbul consulate in 1956. They stayed until 1960, when they fled during the university riots.
Istanbul Houses formerly owned by the TUBINIS and CORPIS:
1. The Istanbul Conservatory. One of its buildings was a TUBINI house.
2. The previous American Consulate General, from 1907 to 1941. The American Embassy (now moved to Ankara), was owned by Ignace CORPI, uncle of Rose (Corpi) Tubini, Bernard’s mother. Document of sale of the property to the U.S. government, dated Constantinople, June 29, 1907, is signed by Anthony and Rose Tubini, Fanny (Corpi) Trombi, Rose’s sister, Demosthenes Corpi, Rose’s brother, Amelie (Corpi) Vidovitch, Rose’s sister, and other Corpi relatives.
see also: a history of the Palazzo Corpi by Thomas J. Carolan Jr., a retired US consul general.
3. The annex of the American Consulate General was formerly a TUBINI house, and then the Istanbul Club, before it was acquired by the U.S. Government. It is now part of the Istanbul municipal waterworks, or something.
4. This same Ignace CORPI, who settled in Constantinople in 1830, also founded the ‘Artigiana di Pieta’, a charitable institution for aged Catholics. From 1853 on, both TUBINIS and CORPIS are listed in the building’s registers as interested patrons of the institution.
5. The house at Rumeli Hisar on the Bosphorus.
The names TUBINI, TUBIANIS, and TUBINS were saved with these dispersed families. Many of these emigrants settled in Greece, Southern Italy, on the coast of Spain, and in Gaul. Raising their families with the names of TUBINI, TUBI, TUBIANI, and TUBINA. Of the TUBIS special mention is made of the culture of TUBI ROMANO because that TUBI was born in Rome in 1635. He went to France where he worked on the sculptures of Versailles and on the Trianon Palaces. He died in France in 1700.
The family of TUBI was in Arregia, and was especially remembered for giving to the first sub-Alpine parliament a deputy, priest, and advocate Francesco TUBINI, a pious and learned, well-respected man. Another TUBI was in the Italian Parliament during the 11th legislation, a doctor Grati(?)ano TUBINI, agriculturalist and industrialist. Distinguished for his publication of Economical character.
In Genoa the names of TUBINO and TUBINA are frequently mentioned in commerce and industry. Up to a short time ago the TUBINIS figured in the population registers of some cities near Venice. The emigration caused by economical and political pressures existed and would do so at all times also, during hundreds of years, many families returned to the places of their origin.
A strong wave of emigration from Italy was caused by political agitation especially during the 19th century. Changes in the upper class were such that large numbers of citizens were said to have borne the hardships imposed upon them by their new masters. So, with the fall of Napoleon’s domination in 1814, 1820, and 1821, after the revolutionary movements in Naples, Palermo, Piedmont, and the revolution in Central Italy, it would appear that in the 1820’s to 1823, the TUBINI family emigrated from England to the Levant, where many Italian families went, settling themselves in Athens, Corfu, Chios and the Greek archipelago where they preserved the spirit which so characterized so many Italians away from their homeland. So one finds in the memories of the Italian families of TUBINI, JUSTINIANI, DORIA, CORPI, ANZINI. The TUBINIS are also found in Constantinople, where one also finds _________________ and CASARIS, all families here and there emigrating for political reasons.
From 1830 on, England was considered the nation respecting the political opinions of others for many emigrants moved in the course of the years to England. In London alone the families with 60 or 70 years residence are innumerable, and settled there with the opportunity of industrial, commercial and intellectual development. The TUBINI family with which we are mainly concerned stayed in London after they migrated. Some unlucky Italians arrived on the island of CHIOS when the revolution there was causing a loss of population and English ships collected and brought to England all those they considered merited a better fatherland. In the TUBINI family, there are repetitions of the name ANTONIO and BERNARDO, throughout which can, although it would not be easy to substitute these in the genealogical tree in the continuity.
About two years ago I found a large document in a genealogy book of my grandmother (Antoinette Tubini). This is a 50 cm x 60 cm document on vellum, and has a date of 1627. I don’t speak italian, but I could tell from what I understood that it was a land deed, and signed by King Charles Emmanuel I, the Duke of Savoy, Prince of the Piedmont, Count of Nizza, & etc. Recently I showed it to a historian who specializes in Italy of the 15th-17th century, and she gave me a quick reading of it, and the context. This document is a feudal contract, which grants land rights, judicial rights, military rights, and rights to a castle at St. Agnes [google earth view - view], in the vicary of Sospello, in the county of Nice, (also “the waters, the ice both old and new, the fishes and animals” etc.).
So, in our fittingly complicated way, our Italian ancestors are from France! If indeed there is a family link between the Barattas and Tubinis. However, I don’t know who the person named on the deed is. Ascanio Baratta is the person who was given all these feudal possessions. Does anyone know the name Baratta?
In terms of my purpose on your site, I’m looking for more Corpi information/relations. I didn’t have a lot of optimism about finding other Tubinis, but would obviously be thrilled! Indeed through this submission, within 6 months I had made contact with 2 Constantinople Tubini descendants, one in Australia (my father’s cousin’s family we had lost contact with) one in France (grandmother was a Tubini, born in Istanbul and currently we are doing research to see how we are connected)!
Notes: 1- The importance of Tubinis as influential bankers in Constantinople is demonstrated by their flexing of diplomatic strings, as highlighted in a recent book by Onur İnal here: and further information in a book by Mustafa Armağan, ‘2. Abdülhamid’in Kurtlarla Dansi, [Abdülhamit II’s Dance With Wolves]’ details here:
2- Fellow contributor Alex Baltazzi was able to source this extra information from the book ‘History of Chios - Giorgios Zolotas; The Tubini family is from the tree of Cigala (VIII) Riform and of Spinola V Riform. In Chios Tubini Francesco Medico and in 1602 Filippo and Lorenzo (Latin Codice) according Oliv. Tubini from Uscio, Italy.
Vacca registered in Libro D’Oro book - real estate Vacca in Chios and in Cod. Elatas. Mar Oliv. Ex Finale (rather hard to understand book in Greek).’
In addition Mr Baltazzi was able to source this extra information from a more recent book by Rinaldo Marmara ‘Chio - les editions Isis, Istanbul 2005’ where Liste des Registres des Baptemes Tubini are shown for the period 1707 to 1727 and for the period of 1814 to 1988 there is one Tubini
Nom et Prenom: Tubini Bernardo Maria
Prenom du Pere: Antonio
Page du Registre: 47
No D'Ordre: 249
The same book also shows an ‘A’, ‘Bernand’ and ‘J.’ Tubini as amongst the committee to donate aid post a severe earthquake affecting Chios and Çeşe in 1881, viewable here:
Mr Baltazzi also made a mention of the Tubini family on his article recently submitted in connection to the conference in which he participated, held 18-20th October 2006 in Casa d’Italia, Istanbul, entitled ‘the Italians of Istanbul and the Italian Labour Society of Mutual Aid, representative nucleus of the Community, from the nineteenth-century reforms (Tanzimat) to the Turkish Republic (1839-1923)’.
3- To aid visualization of family tree, Miss Miner has kindly provided this pdf for viewing.
4- As recorded in a specialist book ‘The Tincal Trail – A history of Borax’ - segment -, a member of the Tubini family, Aristide, was clearly held in high regard by a Borax mining company as he was chosen for the tricky task to act as the company agent in Constantinople, the text throwing up new family names (also an earlier Cecil and Aristide’s son Hyancinth) to be added to the family tree in due course.
Note added by Ms Miner: In the family archives there are some photos that look to be pictures of mining operations in Turkey, but they didn’t have any identifying information, so possibly connected with this Borax story?
5- The importance of Anthony Bernard Tubini in the Istanbul business circle is demonstrated by the fact that he was the chairman of the British Chamber of Commerce of Turkey during 1928-1930 and again 1938-1940, as recorded in this centenary commemorative article here: His son Tony was also a member of this trade body in the 1950s - photo:
6- One of the daughters of A. Bernard Tubini, Jocelyn who died in 2010, is recorded in an online obituary, along side that of her late husband with whom they had an eventful honeymoon, James B. Pond who died in 2007.
To contact and assist Ms Miner in her quest, abcission[at]yahoo.com.
1500 AD First Catholic register of births, marriages and deaths in the Church of St. Nicolas, Chios. Among Italians listed: TUBINI, CORPI, and relatives and friends of the Tubinis later resident in Istanbul: BRAGGIOTTI, D’ANDRIA, NOMICO, NEGREPONTE, SPERCO, VERNAZZA, VUCINO. From Sperco ‘Les Anciennes Familles Italiennes de Turquie (Istanbul - 195-)’ - [The Tubini name is mentioned in the Chios listing of this book on page 47 and in the Syra listing page 61].
1621 AD Listed on the island of Syra: TUBINI, DAPOLLA, VUCINO.
1642 AD Listed on Chios, a Francesco TUBINI, “medico”, presumably a doctor.
1680 AD Listed on Chios: TUBINI, CORPI, CASTELLI, GLAVANI, GUISTINIANI, D’ANDRIA, RALLI. From the Abbott Giovanni Battista del Burgo, ‘Viaggio di Cinque Anni in Asia, Africa, Europa del Turco. (Milan AD 1680)’.
Sperco says that among other documents he saw in Chios in the fifties, he learned that the CORPI family came from the island of Corsica, the TUBINIS from Genoa. He makes no mention of listings for any Genoese there after 1680, but it is known that many stayed on until the Greek War of Independence in 1822. It is therefore possible that there were no documents of later date available to him.
In Italy, documents concerning the family can be found in the Heraldic Archives of Antonio Vallardi of Milan, with reference to records No. 242/11684, vo. 1184. Also, at the Bibliotheca Civica Berio in Genoa, a volume entitled Libro d’Oro lists the early Genoese families of that town. In addition, in the Genoa Campo Bianco Cemetery are numerous early burial vaults and gravestones of various members of the Tubini family.
My Direct Ancestry:
Anthony Bernard Tubini “British Citizen”, born London, 1862 (?) Rosalie (Rose) Corpi Tubini “Italian citizen”, born Constantinople, April 28, 1862 educated at Notre Dame de Sion Convent. Rose and Anthony married: Constantinople, Sept. 22, 1883 Bernard Anthony Tubini, their only son, born: Constantinople, 1886 first schooling at St. Louis, French Jesuit school in Constantinople.
1896 - Family moves to London, where Anthony works on the London Stock Exchange. Bernard attends Beaumont College, Windsor, a Catholic college for boys, and later City and Guilds College of the University of London. Qualifies as an Electrical Engineer with degree of A.M.I.E.E.
Jane (Jennie) Richardson “British citizen”, born Preston, Lancashire, 1892. Meets Bernard in Preston about 1909 when he trains in mining engineering in Preston coal mines.
At the death of Anthony Tubini in London in 1912, Rose, Bernard, and Jennie Richardson came out to Turkey. Bernard and Jennie were married in Istanbul in September of that year and Bernard entered the office of Robert Rowell whose business was to represent the interests of the Association of British Manufacturers in Turkey. The family lived in Kadıköy, where Antionette was born in 1913 and Nancy in 1916.
Rose nursed wounded Turkish soldiers with the Red Crescent in the 2nd Balkan War, 1912-1913. When Turkey joins German side in WWI, all British subjects are interned, but it may be that Rose’s service in the Red Crescent is what keeps the Tubinis free.
In 1917, Bernard moved his family up to Robert College to become a member of the Electrical Engineering staff. He subsequently became head of that department and remained there until his death in June 1940. His children attended the Robert College Community School, and later the boys were educated at Robert College and the girls at the American College for Girls, the twin college three miles away.
Robert G. Miner “American citizen”, born Scranton, Pennsylvania, 1911. Antionette Tubini meets Robert G. Miner when he comes to Robert College (later Boğaziçi University) to teach English, in 1935. They were married in Montreal, Quebec, Canada in 1938. They had four sons, the first of whom, Robert Jr., is my father. My grandfather was appointed to US state department posts in Athens, Paris, and London, before becoming the consul general of the US Istanbul consulate in 1956. They stayed until 1960, when they fled during the university riots.
Istanbul Houses formerly owned by the TUBINIS and CORPIS:
1. The Istanbul Conservatory. One of its buildings was a TUBINI house.
2. The previous American Consulate General, from 1907 to 1941. The American Embassy (now moved to Ankara), was owned by Ignace CORPI, uncle of Rose (Corpi) Tubini, Bernard’s mother. Document of sale of the property to the U.S. government, dated Constantinople, June 29, 1907, is signed by Anthony and Rose Tubini, Fanny (Corpi) Trombi, Rose’s sister, Demosthenes Corpi, Rose’s brother, Amelie (Corpi) Vidovitch, Rose’s sister, and other Corpi relatives.
see also: a history of the Palazzo Corpi by Thomas J. Carolan Jr., a retired US consul general.
3. The annex of the American Consulate General was formerly a TUBINI house, and then the Istanbul Club, before it was acquired by the U.S. Government. It is now part of the Istanbul municipal waterworks, or something.
4. This same Ignace CORPI, who settled in Constantinople in 1830, also founded the ‘Artigiana di Pieta’, a charitable institution for aged Catholics. From 1853 on, both TUBINIS and CORPIS are listed in the building’s registers as interested patrons of the institution.
5. The house at Rumeli Hisar on the Bosphorus.
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The Tubini crest shown is something I take with a pinch of salt, from the heraldic archives in Milan, but I don’t know who took the picture, or where. If any of the readers here know anything about Italian heraldry, I’d be interested in who granted crests and how reliable the research at the heraldic archives would be. Apparently someone also acquired a family history from the archives, which was marked as written by Antonio Volladi, 1907. Below is the rough translation, apparently done by an Italian history scholar that Tony Tubini knew in Australia, a Dr. Trautner. So much of the history is so ancient as to be apocryphal, but it’s interesting, at least and funny to claim to be mentioned in Biblical times! This family TUBINI, TUBI, TUBINO, TUBIN, are on record from remote times of antiquity in Mesopotamia during the Sumerian civilization. There had already been a numerous tribe of TUBIAMENTES that migrated into Palestine from Asia Minor where they founded the prosperous city of TUBIA, in the province of GALAAF. The prosperity of these people was so great that it aroused the jealousy of JUDAS MACCABEUS, who in the year 163 BC attacked the city leaving a few thousand survivors to emigrate all over the world. |
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The names TUBINI, TUBIANIS, and TUBINS were saved with these dispersed families. Many of these emigrants settled in Greece, Southern Italy, on the coast of Spain, and in Gaul. Raising their families with the names of TUBINI, TUBI, TUBIANI, and TUBINA. Of the TUBIS special mention is made of the culture of TUBI ROMANO because that TUBI was born in Rome in 1635. He went to France where he worked on the sculptures of Versailles and on the Trianon Palaces. He died in France in 1700.
The family of TUBI was in Arregia, and was especially remembered for giving to the first sub-Alpine parliament a deputy, priest, and advocate Francesco TUBINI, a pious and learned, well-respected man. Another TUBI was in the Italian Parliament during the 11th legislation, a doctor Grati(?)ano TUBINI, agriculturalist and industrialist. Distinguished for his publication of Economical character.
In Genoa the names of TUBINO and TUBINA are frequently mentioned in commerce and industry. Up to a short time ago the TUBINIS figured in the population registers of some cities near Venice. The emigration caused by economical and political pressures existed and would do so at all times also, during hundreds of years, many families returned to the places of their origin.
A strong wave of emigration from Italy was caused by political agitation especially during the 19th century. Changes in the upper class were such that large numbers of citizens were said to have borne the hardships imposed upon them by their new masters. So, with the fall of Napoleon’s domination in 1814, 1820, and 1821, after the revolutionary movements in Naples, Palermo, Piedmont, and the revolution in Central Italy, it would appear that in the 1820’s to 1823, the TUBINI family emigrated from England to the Levant, where many Italian families went, settling themselves in Athens, Corfu, Chios and the Greek archipelago where they preserved the spirit which so characterized so many Italians away from their homeland. So one finds in the memories of the Italian families of TUBINI, JUSTINIANI, DORIA, CORPI, ANZINI. The TUBINIS are also found in Constantinople, where one also finds _________________ and CASARIS, all families here and there emigrating for political reasons.
From 1830 on, England was considered the nation respecting the political opinions of others for many emigrants moved in the course of the years to England. In London alone the families with 60 or 70 years residence are innumerable, and settled there with the opportunity of industrial, commercial and intellectual development. The TUBINI family with which we are mainly concerned stayed in London after they migrated. Some unlucky Italians arrived on the island of CHIOS when the revolution there was causing a loss of population and English ships collected and brought to England all those they considered merited a better fatherland. In the TUBINI family, there are repetitions of the name ANTONIO and BERNARDO, throughout which can, although it would not be easy to substitute these in the genealogical tree in the continuity.
About two years ago I found a large document in a genealogy book of my grandmother (Antoinette Tubini). This is a 50 cm x 60 cm document on vellum, and has a date of 1627. I don’t speak italian, but I could tell from what I understood that it was a land deed, and signed by King Charles Emmanuel I, the Duke of Savoy, Prince of the Piedmont, Count of Nizza, & etc. Recently I showed it to a historian who specializes in Italy of the 15th-17th century, and she gave me a quick reading of it, and the context. This document is a feudal contract, which grants land rights, judicial rights, military rights, and rights to a castle at St. Agnes [google earth view - view], in the vicary of Sospello, in the county of Nice, (also “the waters, the ice both old and new, the fishes and animals” etc.).
So, in our fittingly complicated way, our Italian ancestors are from France! If indeed there is a family link between the Barattas and Tubinis. However, I don’t know who the person named on the deed is. Ascanio Baratta is the person who was given all these feudal possessions. Does anyone know the name Baratta?
In terms of my purpose on your site, I’m looking for more Corpi information/relations. I didn’t have a lot of optimism about finding other Tubinis, but would obviously be thrilled! Indeed through this submission, within 6 months I had made contact with 2 Constantinople Tubini descendants, one in Australia (my father’s cousin’s family we had lost contact with) one in France (grandmother was a Tubini, born in Istanbul and currently we are doing research to see how we are connected)!
Notes: 1- The importance of Tubinis as influential bankers in Constantinople is demonstrated by their flexing of diplomatic strings, as highlighted in a recent book by Onur İnal here: and further information in a book by Mustafa Armağan, ‘2. Abdülhamid’in Kurtlarla Dansi, [Abdülhamit II’s Dance With Wolves]’ details here:
2- Fellow contributor Alex Baltazzi was able to source this extra information from the book ‘History of Chios - Giorgios Zolotas; The Tubini family is from the tree of Cigala (VIII) Riform and of Spinola V Riform. In Chios Tubini Francesco Medico and in 1602 Filippo and Lorenzo (Latin Codice) according Oliv. Tubini from Uscio, Italy.
Vacca registered in Libro D’Oro book - real estate Vacca in Chios and in Cod. Elatas. Mar Oliv. Ex Finale (rather hard to understand book in Greek).’
In addition Mr Baltazzi was able to source this extra information from a more recent book by Rinaldo Marmara ‘Chio - les editions Isis, Istanbul 2005’ where Liste des Registres des Baptemes Tubini are shown for the period 1707 to 1727 and for the period of 1814 to 1988 there is one Tubini
Nom et Prenom: Tubini Bernardo Maria
Prenom du Pere: Antonio
Page du Registre: 47
No D'Ordre: 249
The same book also shows an ‘A’, ‘Bernand’ and ‘J.’ Tubini as amongst the committee to donate aid post a severe earthquake affecting Chios and Çeşe in 1881, viewable here:
Mr Baltazzi also made a mention of the Tubini family on his article recently submitted in connection to the conference in which he participated, held 18-20th October 2006 in Casa d’Italia, Istanbul, entitled ‘the Italians of Istanbul and the Italian Labour Society of Mutual Aid, representative nucleus of the Community, from the nineteenth-century reforms (Tanzimat) to the Turkish Republic (1839-1923)’.
3- To aid visualization of family tree, Miss Miner has kindly provided this pdf for viewing.
4- As recorded in a specialist book ‘The Tincal Trail – A history of Borax’ - segment -, a member of the Tubini family, Aristide, was clearly held in high regard by a Borax mining company as he was chosen for the tricky task to act as the company agent in Constantinople, the text throwing up new family names (also an earlier Cecil and Aristide’s son Hyancinth) to be added to the family tree in due course.
Note added by Ms Miner: In the family archives there are some photos that look to be pictures of mining operations in Turkey, but they didn’t have any identifying information, so possibly connected with this Borax story?
5- The importance of Anthony Bernard Tubini in the Istanbul business circle is demonstrated by the fact that he was the chairman of the British Chamber of Commerce of Turkey during 1928-1930 and again 1938-1940, as recorded in this centenary commemorative article here: His son Tony was also a member of this trade body in the 1950s - photo:
6- One of the daughters of A. Bernard Tubini, Jocelyn who died in 2010, is recorded in an online obituary, along side that of her late husband with whom they had an eventful honeymoon, James B. Pond who died in 2007.
To contact and assist Ms Miner in her quest, abcission[at]yahoo.com.
submission date 2007-9