Edward Augustus John La Fontaine (1848-1899 - son of Edward La Fontaine and Lydia Maltass) & Blanche Magdalen nee Whittall (1855-1939 - daughter of James Whittall of the Big House Bournabat and Magdalen Blanche Giraud) and their children group photo, late 19th century Smyrna. The girl between the parents was my grandmother Madeline La Fontaine (b. 1879), who married my grandfather Charles Wilkinson in 1901.

Wilkinson family group and friends photo from the 1920s on the steps of possibly the former Edwards house (also known as the Murat house as the last occupants was an Edwards daughter who married a Murat before emigrating to the UK in the late ’30s) of Bornova situated diagonally opposite the Wilkinson house. Those identified are indicated, location unknown. Those identified including my paternal grandmother Madeleine and her husband Charles Wilkinson. Dick is my late elder brother Richard Wilkinson and Yola, Estelle and Boy De Cramer were siblings to my late mother, Thelma, also indicated.

My grandmother, Madeline nee La Fontaine (b. 1879, married to Charles Wilkinson) holding her son, my father Richard Wilkinson.

As annotated on the back of this photo: ‘Photograph taken in our garden when Dick was 12 years old’. Behind the crown is our hall door and on the right the window giving on to the staircase.
Left to right: Cavass Rifat, Dick, Miss Routh, Dad, Mr Greig, Hannah Edwards, M. Edwards, Gwynneth, Olivia, Cavass Borg and Cavass Hayri’.
Mr Charles A. Greig was the Consul General in Izmir at the time (term of office 1930-1941) in uniform, during a naval visit, and the man in the Bowler hat was Mr. Edwards. The house in question is the Wilkinson house.

Eddie Wilkinson (brother of Richard) with his parents Madeleine and Charles Wilkinson.

Eddie Wilkinson in his office in Izmir.

The British Ambassador Sir Hughe Knatchbull-Hugessen at the 1941 Izmir Fair.

My grandfather Charles C. Wilkinson as one of the partners of the Smyrna Fig Packers Company. Though my family were never fully involved in any import - export businesses.

The decleration document for my father’s OBE.

My paternal grandfather Charles Wilkinson, British Consul General in Izmir and a younger photo of him below.

My paternal grandmother Madeleine, nee La Fontaine, wife of Charles Wilkinson, British Consul General in Izmir.

Me and my maternal grandfather Fritz De Cramer in their Bournabat garden. Fritz De Cramer was an accountant in H. Whittall and Co. in Izmir.

My mother, Thelma nee De Cramer (died 1985, daughter of Frederick ‘Fritz’ De Cramer and Mary nee Whittall), wife of Richard Edward Wilkinson (died in 1972) in the garden of the family house in Bornova.

My maternal great-grand mother Sophia Marie ‘Mary’ (nee Kramer) Whittall, the widow of Richard Watson Whittall of Bournabat (b. 1847, m. 1868, d. 1920), who died in 1948 aged 100, here at her centenary birthday at the family house in Bornova. She was the daughter of J. Christopher Kramer, a Swiss Merchant. She was also the mother to numerous children, the eldest daughter being Mary (1870 - 1947) married in 1895, Frederick De Cramer and one of their daughters was Thelma De Cramer who in 1924 married my father.

My father Richard Edward Wilkinson (left) with an unknown guest, probably in one of the British consular functions in Izmir.

My father Richard Edward Wilkinson with Nato officers attending the Queens birthday party, which he gave each year when he was Consul General.

The thank you certificate given to my father from Aegean University of Izmir, Archaeological Institute Library to which he donated a range of his books, given in 1964.