Birth: Born in Perkenik per Joe Topalian's footnotes Chapter 18, History of the Village of Perkenik, Chapter 18

Marriage: Anna Kovhovmjian, Place and date unknown

Children:

1. Arisdages [Aristakes & Aristahis] Azarian, (1821-1897) Merchant, and Hripsimeh Petmez

   Birth: 1/13 January 1821, the son of Hovhannes Azarian and Anna Kovhovmjian (Per monument inscription in the Azarian Mausoleum in the Armenian Catholic Cemetery, Istanbul) Constantinople per US Passport application.

   Sailing: Aristakes Azarian 29 May 1850 age 29, port of arrival Boston, port of departure Liverpool place of origin Turkey, occupation merchant, steamer, Asia,

   Naturalization: In February 2009 John Salde-Baker sent the following email:

   My grandmother, Mrs Caroline Fisher Heap Slade-Baker, was the only surviving child of Gwynne Harris Heap. He, apart from other duties, was U S Consul in Tunis and later Consul General in Istanbul (Constantinople).

   Last year I had forwarded to me 3 cartons of Slade-Baker memorabilia. I have recently retired and am now "getting into" these documents etc.

   I have come across a document from the Circuit Court of the United States, Massachusetts in original form with yellow seal regarding a declaration and intention made out on the 5th day of May 1854 in respect of Aristakes Azarian, in that he was to become a citizen of U S A.

   It was issued in Boston and confirms that he was born in Constantinople on the 5th Jan 1821 and at the time of this declaration he was 33 years of age and arrived in America at Boston on 5th June 1850.

   Regards

   John Slade-Baker

   US passport application: Age 34, 5 ft 4 inches, eyes hazel, hair black, born Constantinople "naturalized citizen of US", application filed City of Boston, 4 January 1855

   Marriage: 15/27 June 1841, Hripsimeh Petmez daughter of Hovsepah and Mariamah Petmez (Combination of his grave marker and her grave marker)

   Children:

   1. Bedros (Peter) and T'aguhi Maroujian

      Birth: Betros son of Aristakes per death record and baptismal records of his children

      Marriage: T'aguhi Maroujian, the daughter of Gregory

      Children: Bedros Azarian and Tagouji Marouzian had:

      1. Miriam Zaipsime, the daughter of Bedros, the son of Aristonisi, and Tagouji Marouzian, the daughter of ----, godfather Hovsep Azarian, priest, Hir-Azarian, 1875 (Holy Trinity
      2. Hovannes Arisda-en, the son of Bedros Azarian and Tagouji Maroujian, godfather Josep Azarian, priest---- --, born July 6, 1880, baptized July 28, 1880 (St Paul's AC)
      3. Ersvan-- Gregor, the son of Bedros Azarian, the son of Arisdajian, and Tagouji Maroujian, the daughter of Gregory, godfather, Bedros Maroujian, the son of Gregory, priest---- born May 28, 1882 and baptized October 14, 1882(St Paul's AC)
      4. Zabel Anna, the daughter of Bedros Azarian the son of Arisdajian, and Tagouji Maroujian, the daughter of Gregory, godfather, Josep Azarian the son of Isifanos, priest----, born January 12, 1885, baptized February 24, 1885(St Paul's AC)
      5. -ita---z--ni, the child of Bedros Azarian, the son of Arisdijian (sic) and Tagouji Maroujian, the daughter of Gregory, godfather, Bedros Marouzian (sic), the son of Gregory, priest----, born January 30, 1887, baptized May 25, 1887 (St Paul's AC)
      6. Arisdajes Zalan, the child of Bedros Azarian and Tagouji Maroujian, godfather Josep Azarian, priest ----, born July 17, 1888, baptized August 19, 1888
      7. -i-pa-ine , the child of Bedros Azarian and Tagouji Maroujian, godfather, Josep Azarian, priest ----, born June 23, 1892, baptized September 27, 1892 (St Paul's AC)

      Death of Bedros Azarian: Bedros Azarian, son of Arisdagisi, August 21, 1905, place of residence, (I can't read it but it is neither Galatia or the same place as listed for Arisbageo). (Death records of Surp Savour Armenian Catholic Church, Istanbul on LDS microfilm)

   Arisdages Azarian as a witness: Marriage of Anton Azarian, the son of Hovhannis, to Marina Mazarian, the daughter of Grigori, witness Aristanes Azarian, 1866

   Death of Hripsimeh Azarian: Haripsime Azarian daughter of Hovsepah and Mariamah Petmes born 1821 married Arisdages Azarian /27 June 1841 died 13 February 1883.

   Death of Arisdages: Arisdages Azarian son of Hovhannos Azarian and Anna Kovjovmian born 1/13 Janaury 1821, married Hripsime Petmez 15/27 June 1841 died /18 May 1897 (1897 Per monument inscription in the Azarian Mausoleum in the Armenian Catholic Cemetery, Istanbul)

   To see a photo of the Mausoleum go to Armenian Catholic Churches, Istanbul

   Arisdages Azarian, son of Hovhanno, May 6, 1897, place of residence (I can't read it yet but it is not Galatia) ------------, Dobouviah, Gatouan, can't read anything else. (Death records of Surp Savour Armenian Catholic Church, Istanbul on LDS microfilm)

   SEE IMAGES BELOW

2. Stephanos Peter Azarian (1826-1899)

   Birth: c 1826 Constantinople (Information on the internet says he was born in Constantinople.)

   Patriarch of the Armenian Catholic Church:

   Stephanos Peteros Azarian was the Patriarch of the Armenian Catholic Church from 1881-1899.

   SEE IMAGES BELOW

3. James

   Birth: 1827 (Brother of Aristakes and Joseph per State Department correspondence, see below)

   Sailing: Jas. Azarian age 29, merchant born Turkey, ship, Pacific, arrival, 30 May from Liverpool to New York

   US Passport Application: James Azarian 14 October 1856 born Constantinople age 29, 5 ft 51/2 inches black eyes, black hair Boston City

4. Joseph Azarian (1834-1899) Martha Baxter Bigham and Annah Evans Almay

   Birth: 1 January 1834 Constantinople (U S Passport applications)

   Marriage: Martha Baxter Bingham (Osmer Abner Bingham; Counter-Migrant by Philip S Thayer) see below.

   Children:

   1. Anna 18 August 1860 (LDS Submission to IGI)

      Marriage: Fredrich von Wietershein 05 Sept 1882 (LDS Submission to IGI)

      Death: 09 May 1887 (LDS Submission to IGI)

   2. Martha Pauline (Mattie) 15 June 1863 (LDS Submission to IGI)

      Mattie Pauline Azarain father Joseph mother Martha B, 16 Jul 1863 Boston, Suffolk Mass. Batch No C007700 (IGI)

      US Passport Application: Nov 27, 1888, Martha P Azarian, applied to the Legation of the United States at Constantinople, born Boston 15 June 1863 that her father is a naturalized citizen, soujourning at Constantinople left the US in 1882 bearer of Passport No. 93 issued a tUS Legation at constantinople 15 Sept 1885 and that she would return to the United States "within a few years", age 25, 5 ft 2 inches eyes brown, hair brown

      Marriage: to Stanley Bird 19 November 1892, England, (LDS Submission to IGI)

   Death of Martha Baxter Bigham Azarian: 1868 (Osmer Abner Bingham; Counter-Migrant by Philip S Thayer). See below.

   2 Marriage: Anna born Rhode Island circa 1843

   The Descendants of Thomas Durfee of Portsmouth, R.I By William Field Reed (Google Book)

   "ANNAH EVANS ALMAY, born April 22, 1843, married in Vienna, Austria, Novemrber 9, 1880 to JOSEPH AZARIAN, of Constantinople, Turkey; died in Constantinople, Turkey 9, 1899. They had JOSEPH AZARIAN, born in the island of Pinkapo, Constantinople, Turkey; a student in 1901 at Harvard College."

   Child:

   1. Joseph A Azarian

      Birth: born at Constantinople 31 January 1882 (per passport applications)

      Passport Applications:

      • Joseph Azarian born at Constantinople January 1882 "that my father emigrated to the Untied States, sailing on board the ................ from Liverpool on or about the 12 June 1857; that he resided 14 years uninterruptedly in the United Sates from 1857 to 1870 at Boston,; that he was naturalized as a citizen of the United States before the circuit court of the US at Boston on the June 1862" age 18, 5 ft 4 inched eyes brown hair brown

      • 1898 at Constantinople, same info

      • 1894 at Constantinople, same info

      • 1906 from Cambridge, Mass., Suffolk Co., student, other info the same.
      • 1917, Passport Photo of Joseph Azarian

        

      Marriage: Sc. Sch. 1903. Joseph Azarian to Ruth Streeter Dinsmore, at New Bedford, June 10, 1911 The Harvard Graduates Magazine (Google book)

      1920 Census: Azarian, Joseph A, age 37, born Armenian, father born Mass. mother born Rhode Island, farmer, Warm Springs, Inyo, California

      Marriage: According to the 1930 census Joseph married at age 40 to Louise who was 21 when they married. They had been married for 7 years in 1930. No children listed. living in Pasadena, Los Angeles, California

      Death: Joseph Almy Azarian born 31 Jan 1882 "Other Country" died 31 March 1954 Los Angeles

   Immigration of Joseph Azarian, Senior: 1857 per various passport applications

   Passport applications of Joseph Azarian, Senior

   • 1862 age 28, rest of info much the same as other applications
   • 1870 ditto
   • accompanied by his two minor daughters (not named) and servants (also not named), same physical discription as 1894, rest of info more or less the same.
   • 1888 Much of the same.
   • 1890 Joseph Azarian born 1 January 1834 Constantinople, emigrated 1857 (no day or month) residence Boston, naturalized Circuit Court US at Boston, June 1862 bearer of passport #36 issued by US Legation Constantinople, 5 January 1888, occupation, banker, representing different American companies and Vice Consul Gerneral of United States (He was listed as the Vice Consul-General in Special Consular Reports By United States Dept. of State. Bureau of Statistics, United States Bureau of Foreign Commerce, United States Bureau of Manufactures November 12, 1890 (Google book))
   • Issued 8, Feb 1894 Joseph Azarian born at Constantinople 1 January 1834 emigrated to Unites from Liverpool 12 June 1857, banker and furnisher of American Arms age 60, 5 ft 3 inches, eyes black, nose medium, mouth large, hair gray
   • 1898 lists himself on a passport application as "representative in Turkey of Union ? Word Cartridge Cor. Of Bridgeport Conn. Something Winchester."

   1891 Census England: He was a quest in a hotel in London during the 1891 census.

   1870 Census: Listed twice

   1. Brookline, Joseph,age 36, Mediterranean Trade Mech. born Constantinople, Turkey, value of property $5,000, Anne V age 9 born Mass. "Mirtha" P age born Mass., four servants
   2. Boston Ward 9, Joseph age 34, foreign Merchant Constantinople, born Constantinople Armenian, Anna B age 10, Mattie P age 7, both born Mass., and three servants (different that those in Brookline)

   Sailings:

   • Mr. Jos Azarian age 29 merchant born Turkey, Mrs Azarian age 27 born France, Miss Azarian age 7 born France, Miss M Azarian age 29 born France, ship Arabia, 20 April 1863
   • 19 October 1885, age 51, Liverpool to New York Britannic, wrong images comes up on Ancestry.com

   Confirmation of Joseph as the brother of Stephen Azarian; History of the Catholic Church in the New England States By William Byrne, William Augustine Leahy (Google Book)

   "Mrs. Azarian was the wife of an Oriental merchant in Boston, whose brother is Latin Patriarch at Constantinople."

   New England Ancestors.com

   Osmer Abner Bingham; Counter-Migrant by Philip S Thayer

   "Martha Baxter Bingham, also known as "Mattie, was born in 1838, and died at Brookline, Massachusetts, of "consumption" on September 25, 1868. She married Joseph Azarian, an Armenian-born merchant of Boston and Constantinople, on September 22, 1859. They had two daughters, Annie Vincent (1860-1887), who married Friedrich von Wietersheim. a German rear admiral, and Mattie Pauline (1863-19__), who married Major Stanly Bird, of the British Royal Fusiliers, Seventh Regiment. Azarian was one of the small group of Greek and Turkish merchants (including Joseph Iasigi, Nicholas Reggio and Francois Braggiotti) living in Boston, who through their family and commercial ties increased the reputation of the city as a center for Mediterranean trade. Their contributions to enriching the social and cultural life of Boston have been largely ignored."

   The Beverly Yacht Club: List of Yachts Yankee Doodle Joseph Azarian 26 feet,

Farihi Surp Agop Hastanemizin Dunu ve Bugunu with the kind permission of His Excellency Archbishop Hovhannes Colakyan

Grave marker of Hripsimeh Azarian

Grave Marker of Arisdages Azarian

Stephanos Peteros Azarian was the Patriarch of the Armenian Catholic Church from 1881-1899. He was born in 1826. The information on the internet says he was born in Constantinople.

Stepanow Pedros X Azarian (1881-1899)

Memorial inscription for for Stephanos Peter Azarian in the the Armenian Catholic Church of Surp Asdvadzadzin (the Immaculate Conception), Istanbul.

Portrait of Stephanos Petros Azarian in the Archpishop's residence in Istanbul.

"Jeneral Han. Built in 1904-05, this was originally known as the Azarian Han, after its original owner, Bedros Azarian, president of the Istanbul Chamber of Commerce.

When we were in Istanbul in April/May 2008 our local sources told us that this mansion on Istiklal Cadessi once belonged to the Azarian family, a group of merchant brothers from Sivas. However, John and Brendan Freely's "A Guide to Beyogly" says:

"This building was erected in 1870 by Koceoglu Agop Efendi, a wealthy Armenian banker during the reigns of sultan Abdul Mecet and Abdul Aziz, the latter having a private suite here. Since 1948 the building has housed the Atlas Cinima, and it is also the home of the Kucuk Sadri Theater and the Culture Ministry's State Gallery of Fine Arts, which sells antiques, gifts and Stamps. The entryway to the cinema leads into a monumental neo-classical hall flanked by marble colonnades."

This 19th century wooden villa located on the Bosporus in Buyukdere, Istanbul in now the Sadberk Hanim Museum. One of the largest mansions in Buyukdere is is the former "Azeryan Yalisi" (Azarian waterside mansion). There is a lot on the Internet about the musuem but little or nothing about the Azarian family that once owned it. According to our sorces in Istanbul at the time of our May 2008 visit it belonged the the Armenian Catholic family of Azarians from Sivas. There are a few hints of things related to the museum and to Azaryans on some Turkish websites. Turkey Travel Planner says:

"The villa, once the summer residence of Manuk Azaryan Efendi, an Ottoman Armenian who was Speaker of the upper house of the Ottoman parliament, has been beautifully restored and now serves as the Art History section of the museum."

• Men At Arms

  The Turkish Connection The Saga of the Peabody-Martini Rifle by William O. Achtermeier.

  Makes the following references to the Azarians, faher and sons. I am not absolutly positive but it appears they are talking of Arisdages Azarian and sons (They are the only Azarians in Constantinople at the time who had enough clout.).

  (Originally published in Man At Arms Magazine, Volume 1, Number 2, pp. -21, 55-57, March/April 1979)

  On March 11, 1873, Providence Tool secured the services of Azarian Effendi Pere et Fils of Constantinople to act as its agent to the Sublime Porte. Founded by the elder Azarian, an Armenian, in the early 1850's, the firm served as an intermediary for many American concerns wishing to do business with Turkey. (A few of Azarian's relatives working at his branch office in Boston had already become naturalized U.S. citizens.) Having worked as agents for Colt and Winchester, the Azarians were no strangers to the labyrinthine ways of Turkish armament contracts.

  Acting with the company's power of attorney, the Azarians procured two additional arms contracts: on March I1 for 300,000 additional Martini-Henry rifles and on August 23 for an additional I00,000 rifles. Providence Tool was now committed to a total production of 600,000 rifles, at that time the largest single order ever received by an American arms manufacturer from a foreign power.

  ............

  Once more the trusty Azarians stepped into the picture and presented a solution highly reminiscent of ad campaigns from present day loan companies: they consolidated the large debts and then arranged small weekly payments. By this agreement, the Turks would pay £18,000 a week for seven weeks, £20,000 the eighth week, and thereafter £12,000 a week until September of 1878. The tool company was not to demand any penalty fees, and would receive £50,000 as security for eventual payment while reserving 30,000 rifles as security until the £50,000 was paid. This amount would also-be kept by the company in rifles.

  ..........

  Although it had successfully lifted the claims of Anthony and Winchester on the Middleton's cargo, the credit of November 24, 1877 could not fund continued production and a halt the following January left an unaccepted inventory of 16,000 rifles and 20,000 bayonets. Once again Anthony threatened to put the rifles up for sale. In short order the indefatigable Azarians came up with yet another payment plan for the Porte. Funding was to be from such diverse sources as fees paid by Turkish citizens to avoid conscription, proceeds from the sale of possessions of soldiers killed in action, and moneys which had been earmarked for railroad expansion in Rumelia. Providence Tool would release 15,000 rifles and 25,000 saber bayonets after receiving an initial payment of £37,346. Thereafter, for each weekly payment of £4,000, it would release another 2,000 Peabody-Martinis over a period of thirty weeks. If followed to the letter, the Turks would have satisfied their obligations to the tool company by November 21, . To no one's surprise, the Porte defaulted on the initial payment. And further complications were still to come.

• The Reminiscences Of James Burrill Angell/ChapterIX

  (Google book)

  The summer of 1898 we spent in the island of Prinkipo, in the spacious mansion of Mr. Azarian, and with our launch made many beautiful excursions to the adjacent island and to the main land.

• The Isles of the Princes; Or, The Pleasures of Prinkipo By Samuel Sullivan Cox

  (Google book)

  pages 148-149

  There is a Catholic Armenian Church in Prinkipo. The Patriarch, who is a brother of the Armenian banker, Azarian, conducted the services.

  Page 203-204

  A breeze springs up as we pass the hotels Calypso and Giacomo on the craggy shore of Prinkipo. The superb villas which crown the bluffs are on our left. The breeze struts the prismatic windmills in motion. The flag over he Azarian water tower is our own star-spangled banner.

• Hamilton Literary Magazine By Hamilton College (Clinton, N.Y.)

  (Google book) After a pleasant journey from Glasgow to Constantinople, LEROY F. OSTRANDER, '94, finds himself in a stately mansion on the island of Prinkipo, the largest of the nine Princess Islands in the sea of Marmara, reached by a steamer in an hour and a half from the golden Horn.

  .................. Mr. Ostrander's one bright pupil is the only son of Mr. Joseph Azarian, a wealthy Armenian, whose American wife believes in the value of an all round American education.

• Turkish Memories By Sidney Whitman, 1914

  (google book)

  So Great was the terror among the Armenians of position that one of the wealthiest, the banker, Azarian, to whom I had brought a letter of introduction from the London house of Rothchild, closed his place of business and fled to Prinkipo.

Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States By United States Dept. of State 1873 (Google Book)

Correspondence between Hamilton Fish and the United States Department of State April 19, 1872 on the subject of passports and citizenship:

Mr. Brown next mentions the case of Mr. Aristahis Azarian. Records has been found in this Department of the passport, No. 6696, issued to him under date of 6th January 1855. If, however, Mr. Azarian is an Ottoman subject by birth, and has made his domicile of late years in Constantinople, his case would appear to come within the rules of the circular from the Department of October 14, 1869 .

Mr. Brown next mentions the case of Mr. James Azarian. Record of the passport, said to have been issued to him by this Department, has not been found, but as the date and number are not mentioned in Mr. Brown's dispatch, it is quite possible that such a passport may have been issued at some time. The case appears to be governed by the rule just now mentioned for the case of Mr. Aristahis Azarian.

Note: He applied for a passport in Boston in 1856, see above.

Shortly after my arrival her Mr. Aristahis Azarian presented himself to me, exhibiting his old passport from the Department of State, and requested me to issue a new passport to him. Knowing that there had been a question as to his right of citizenship in the United States, which my predecessor, Mr. Morris, had refused to acknowledge, I questioned Mr. Azarian closely, and he professed to be able to obtain copies of his naturalization papers from the United States, and pledged his word to produce them within a reasonable time. Pending that production, to the time allowed for which I have place a limit, I instructed the consul general to protect Mr. Azarian as fully as though his claim were established. I hope Mr. Azarian may prove his right to citizenship of the United States for he is a very useful man to this legation, sitting as he always willingly does, as judge in the tidjarret or mixed court, in American cases, and there in displaying marked ability. We could more readily dispense with many a man of undoubted citizenship, in the American colony, than with the valuable services of Mr. Aristahis Azarian. In addition to the claim advanced by the two Azarians, Aristahis and James, a third brother, Mr. Joseph Azarian, is undoubtedly a citizen of the United States.* He resides in the city of Boston almost altogether, where he and his two brothers have in conjunction, an important commercial house. On the whole, this Azarian affair is pretty well mixed up, after the usual Levantine fashion, and whether Aristaahies and James can emerge from it as American citizens remains to be seen. I understand that there was no suspicion of the claim of the brothers Azarian to American citizenship until, at the death of their father, a few years ago, when they got into a triangular fight over the property of the deceased, and one brother denounced the others to the minister, the consu, and to everybody who would listen to him, more Turcico. Now that peace has been made among them, the prtesting brother would fain return his family to our fold more Turcico once more.

*Italics mine, MLB

Other Azarians in Boston

1. Vincent Azarain age 24, 5 ft 5 3/4 inches born Constantinople, city of Boston Passport Application black eyes, black hair 26 October 1853. He got his passport October 29, 1853.

   Vincent Azarian merchant from Constantinople arrived 5 September 1851 from Constantinople on the Marshall listing his intention to become an "inhabitant" of the United States.

2. Paul Azarian age 40, 5 ft 7 inches born Constantinople, black eyes black hair, 15 January 1856 Boston

Another Azarian in Constantinople

In January 2009 Catherine Saiko kindly shared an Azerian "acte d'heritage" from the Patriarcat Armenien in Constantinople. The document is is French which Catherine graciously translated.

The Armenian Patriarchat certifies herewith, based on a document issued by the Armenian church of Pera, that Mr. Manouk AZARIAN, senator, son of deceased Krikor, originating from Constaninople, Ottoman subsect, who died in Pera on 17th April 1922, has left as sole heirs for his succcession his legitime wife, Madame Kohar, daughter of the deceased Mr. Hagob, his three major* daughters Mademoiselles Makrouni-Olga, Rita-Sophie and Lidie, as well as his two major* sisters, Mademoiselles Elois and Annig AZARIAN. It is also stated that the deceased did not leave any other heirs except the above mentionned, who are actually alive, are of Armenian nationality and are ottoman subjects, living in Pera, Ayaz Pacha Djadde, appartment Azarian, no. 77. Constantinople, 23.06.1922

Kirgor(Grigor) Azarian and

Birth: MAYBE Grigor Azarian, the son of Hovsep Azarian and Mariam T----ri, godfather Bosos Eninlni, 1869

Marriage:

Children:

1. Manouk Azarian (??-1922) and Kohar Hagop (?)

   Birth:

   Marriage: Kohar* Hagop (?) daughter of Mr. Hagop

   * Kohar is a first name meaning Jewel.

   Children:

   1. Makrouni-Olga

   2. Rita Sophia

   3. Lidie

   Death: April 1922

2. Elois Azarian

3. Annig Azarian