The cover of the old Charnaud family bible
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The fly-leaf of the Charnaud family bible, the oldest surving written record from the Charnaud family from 1837, the date on which John Henry Charnaud (born Smyrna 1809, died 1874, great-great grandfather of Harry) left Smyrna to Trabzon as an agent of the Levant Company, and later, his youngest son Edwin Stevens (father of Pyllis) in 1869 he would give this bible to his mother (Caroline Nicolette nee La Fontaine).
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A copy of the certificate of naturalisation to English citizenship of Jean Charnaud in 1762.
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Edwin Stevens Charnaud, maternal great-grandfather of Harry (father of Phyllis, he married Edith Barker), c. 1880s.
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Edith Charnaud nee Barker, mother of Winnifred, Effie, Hilda, Gladys, Edwin and Phyllis (Harry’s grandmother).
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Edwin (sitting on the right?) and Edith (partially obscured face?) Charnaud in a group, location possibly Nymph Dağ [mountain] (a day’s travel from Smyrna at that time - traditional spot for Easter Monday travel).
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Edwin Stevens Charnaud family group: Edith his wife is centrally seated, to her left probably daughter Winnie, and second daughter Effie probably to the left front of her, third daughter (b. 1882) Hilda should be positioned between parents, the front of father Edwin, son Edwin (b.1886) and the elder crosslegged girl the youngest child Phyllis (b.1887).
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Edwin Stevens Charnaud family group, slightly older date, together with another family, possibly in marriage union? - hover over faces of the 4 ladies on the right for names (information taken from a photocopy marked by unknown family members).
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A turn of the century studio (Th. Servanis, Cadi-Keuy, Constantinople) photo of the Levantine football team that competed in the early Athens olympics 2 May, 1906. Accoring to Betty McKernan, this Smyrna team were visiting Istanbul in 1905 possibly to play against another Levantine team in the city, options from that era exist. As would be expected there is a good match in terms of names here with that participating in the 1906 Olympics, as referred in this web site: (matching: Edwin Charnaud, Percy la Fontaine, Albert Whittall, Godfrey Whittall, Edward Whittall, Donald Whittall, Herbert Whittall / non-matching: Zarek Kuyumcuyan, Edouard Giraud, Jacques Giraud, Henri Joly). The namings with the kind assistance of Betty McKernan (photo rear notes has a few errors), who informed me that the photo was later used for a family re-union - hover over faces for names.
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A later (1910s?) photo of the same football team, location unknown. Jim Giraud and Edwin Charnaud are the only two players to feature in both photographs - hover over faces for names.
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From the Charnaud family album, view of the traditional dance performed by Zeybeks, on the shores of Lake Tantalus near Yamanlar, Karşıyaka region.
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Photo of the Nymph Dağ [Mountain] with the Varipati [Greek merchant?] property in the foreground, taken from the Bornova Anglican Church.
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Alfred and Nellie Pengelley, photographed 1899, according to the the writing on the reverse. Both parents viewable in this Cyprus photo of 23 year later. From the Williamson family tree (Nellie was a Williamson) we know the couple had 6 children, of which Doris the eldest (so therefore probably in this photo) married Edwin Charnaud (son of Edwin Stevens and Edith nee Barker), and had issue.
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Party at Bornova – Bournabat Golf Club From left to right: Unknown - Phyllis Charnaud – Mary Patterson – Lillian Hornstein (at back with stars on dress) – Unknown – Sheila Whittall – Grace La Fontaine – Betty Charnaud (in hat) – Gentleman unknown.
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Left to right: Mary Patterson – Phyllis Charnaud – Linda Patterson – Winifred de Cramer (nee Charnaud).
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Olive Cochrane – Nee Charnaud. Left to right: Peggy Wittet (Nee Whittall) – Joan La Fontaine.
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Back row left to right: - Harold Irwin Charnaud, Phyllis Charnaud, Ivy Balliani (Nee Charnaud – Sister to Harold Irwin Charnaud), Gentleman unknown. Two girls in front row probably Olive and her cousin Yvonne.
 Phyllis Charnaud with her child Edith Dermina Charnaud (b. 1917).
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Harold Irwin Charnaud, striking a pose.  
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Elisabeth Icard wife of Alfred Charnaud (younger brother of Frederick). The other person on the picture is Marie Anne Marandet’s grandmother Evelyne Rose (1873-1948), they were best friends.
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The Phyllis Charnaud house in Bornova. Left to right: Harold Charnaud (Harry’s grandfather), Olive Cochrane (?), Hilda Charnaud (or her sister Effie?), Phyllis Charnaud, John Charnaud (Harry’s father, must be around 1, born 1921, so the photo taken just before the fire of Smyrna) and Edith Charnaud. Since September 2013 the former house has served as the Villa Levante ‘Boutique Hotel’.
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The interior of the Phyllis Charnaud house in Bornova: the ‘salaki’ (library)
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The interior of the Phyllis Charnaud house in Bornova: Looking out from the dining room to the library, then drawing room and then to the afternoon room.
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From left to right: Edwin Pengelley the son of, Gladys Pengelley (nee Charnaud, sister to Phyllis - grandmother to Harry), and Harold Pengelley also her son. Gladys (b. 1884) was the daugher of Edwin Stevens Charnaud and Edith nee Barker. Gladys was also sister to Winnifred, Effie, Hilda (all viewable in this Cyprus photo) and two other siblings were Phyllis and Edwin. Edwin also married a Pengelley, Doris, and with whom had a child, Mary Althea ‘Molly’ who was able to give information on the Pengelley family past:
Her mother Doris was one 4 siblings, Grace, Henry, Frederick, whose father was Alfred who worked for the MacAndrews and Forbes liquorice concern in Nazilli and Aydın. Alfred’s father Walter Murray was the first in the Levant, however he was initially with the Royal Indian Navy, based in Bombay, got 6 months sick leave, free to travel but not to England, went to Egypt, heard about an expedition down the Nile to Khartoum in Sudan, joined it and survived a hazardous journey. Returned to Egypt, got friendly with a ships captain on whose ship he then went to Turkey, where in Smyrna he met up with the vicar Rev. Buchner Lewis and became friendly with one of his young daughters, Arabella. Went back to the ship, but in the first opportunity returned to Smyrna and married her (1854).
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An exterior view of the former Edwin Charnaud house in Bornova, Izmir.
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Interior of the former Edwin Charnaud house in Bornova, Izmir.
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The front cover of a privately published book on the houses of Bornova, with Phyllis Charnaud standing in front of the Charnaud house on 25 Kazakoğlu Sokak.
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Inside the Charnaud house, from left to right: Ivy Balliani (nee Charnaud, sister to Harold Irwin Charnaud), Hilda Charnaud, the maid, Hatice ‘Tom thumb’, Phyllis, Kazım (cook), Winnie de Cramer (nee Charnaud). The annual Soulinapilafo [Greek: meaning razor-shell rice dish].
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From left, Yvonne Balliani, Jacquot Balliani, John Charnaud (father of Harry), Denise Balladur, Edie (Edith) Charnaud, Olive Charnaud, Molly (Edwin Charnaud’s daughter) getting into tub in an unrecognized garden in Ilıca.
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My mother Iva Charnaud watering the plants in the garden of the ‘Butcher’s House’ in Bornova.
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Butcher’s House garden with from left my mother Iva, Mary Whittall and Phyllis Charnaud.
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From left Philip Whittall, Alain Winterhalter, Harry Charnaud, Herbert Whittall, unknown, Jeanny Winterhalter in the Balliani garden in Bornova.
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Father returning from a hunt.
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Painting of the skala at Lidja with the Karareis mountain in the background, done by Fernand Cramer.
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The tomb in Bornova where John, Harry Charnaud’s father and Phyllis, Harry’s paternal grandmother lies. Harry’s mother also lies here.
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The Charnaud family coat-of-arms.
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Harry Charnaud on his wedding day, married to Caroline Jane nee Twallin, on 21-06-1980.
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Harry’s parents, Harold John and Maria Iva (nee Galizzi), photographed at their son’s wedding in 1980.
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The grandmother of Harry, Phyllis Charnaud celebrating her 100th birthday (5 Nov 1987) in Bornova surrounded by family members of 4 generations.
From left to right, top row: Peter Sell, Edwin Charnaud (brother of Harry), Harry Charnaud, Iva Charnaud (nee Galizzi, Harry’s mother), Kelsey Rasmussen (husband of Betty Charnaud), Scott and his brother Jimmy Cochrane.
Middle row, left to right: John Charnaud (Harry’s father), Edith Sell (nee Charnaud), Phyllis Charnaud, Olive Cochrane (nee Charnaud, sister to Edith the eldest, John and Betty), Betty Rasmussen (nee Charnaud).
Front row, left to right: Katherine and Alex Charnaud, children of Harry.
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My parents after their move to England, taken around 2001. From left my mother Iva, Herbert Whittall, Edith Sell nee Charnaud, Molly Wood (daughter of Edwin Charnaud) and my father John.
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Harry Charnaud photographed in July 2007 in the gown as Junior Warden of the Ironmonger’s Company (City livery guild) and on the right on his installation as a The Master in July 2009.
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Harry Charnaud with his children photographed on 14-June-2008, left to right: Alex, Katherine Frances and David the youngest.
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From left to right: David, Katherine, Harry, Penny and Alex Charnaud, July 2012 at Rhiannon Tracy’s (daughter of Anne Twallin now Tracy) wedding, Edinburgh.
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Eddie Whittall, (Edward Sidney Whittall), b. 1888, son of Edward Whittall of Bournabat, Smyrna and Mary nee Maltass. George Whittall, (b. 1885, m. 1894 Lorna Pears), later Lt. Col. George Whittall MC, Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, son of Herbert Octavius Whittall of Bournabat, Smyrna and Louisa nee Maltass. Godfrey Whittall, b. 1882, m. 1911 Winifred Constance Evelyn nee Calvert, and son of Edward Whittall of Bournabat, Smyrna, collector and cultivator of wild flowers of Asia Minor and Mary nee Maltass. Donald Whittall, b. 1881, d. 1959, m. 1910 Lilian Gout, one of the 14 children of Richard Watson Whittall of Bournabat, Smyrna and Sophia Marie nee Kramer Herbert Whittall, of C. Whittall & Co., Smyrna, b. 1884, d. 1933, m. Grace Pengelley, elder brother of George Whittall. Edwin Charnaud, son of Edwin Stevens Charnaud (who is the son of John Henry Charnaud 1809-1874) and Edith nee Barker, b. 1886, m. Doris Pengelley, with issue. Percy La Fontaine, son of Sydney James William La Fontaine and Edith Amelia nee Whittall, b. 1887, d. 1914 in Tabriz, without issue, m. Marguerite Bonnard Albert Whittall, (the captain), b. 1879, d. 1957, son of Edward Whittall of Bournabat, Smyrna, collector and cultivator of wild flowers of Asia Minor and Mary nee Maltass, m. 1904 Agnes Maud Keyser. Herbert Joly Havelock Joly, son of Edwin Sidney Joly and Anna nee Sargologo, m. Adela Charnaud Jim (James) Giraud Herbert Whittall, b. 1884, d. 1933, son of Herbert Octavius Whittall of Bournabat, Smyrna of C. Whittall & Co. and Louisa nee Maltass, m. Grace Pengelley. ? Charlton Whittall, possibly Charlton Arthur Percy Whittall, b. 1884, son of Percy George Whittall and Grace Montford nee Perry. Jack Whittall, possibly Jack Edgar Whittall, b. 1898, son of Percy George Whittall and Grace Montford nee Perry. Godfrey Giraud, b. 1882, m. 1911 Winifred Constance Evelyn nee Calvert, and son of Edward Whittall of Bournabat, Smyrna, collector and cultivator of wild flowers of Asia Minor and Mary nee Maltass. ? Tony Mattheys Eric Whittall, b. 1887, son of Charlton Francis Whittall and Ethel Maud nee Barker Edwin Charnaud, son of Edwin Stevens Charnaud (who is the son of John Henry Charnaud 1809-1874) and Edith nee Barker, b. 1886, m. Doris Pengelley, with issue. Jim Giraud ? Gladys Charnaud Winnie Charnaud Hilda Charnaud Phyllis Charnaud