Tag : Armenian orphans

Armenian orphans.

Stephen Blackshaw

My Armenian grandparents fled from the Turks and married in Lebanon in the 1920s. My mother was born in 1927 but due to her father’s ill-health had to be looker after in an orphanage from 1932 to 1940. She recalls a lady called Miss Pherson (probably MacPherson) who then had to close the ...
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Sandra Rutherford

Hi I have a picture of my Armenian Grandmother in Port Said with the Archbishop Stepanos Hovagimian. My aunt says she was adopted by Karekin and Haiganoush Manougian from the orphanage in Jerusalem before or after they went to Port Said. Her passport says she was from Adapazar or at least the ...
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Harry S

Any Information: Zabel Samerdjian OR Zabel Semerdjian. Thank you. Peter Pap I’m interested in any information there might be of Albert or Hadji Keshishian of Oakland,CA or older relatives from Beirut, or of someone named Balian who lived at 535 Arguello Blvd. in San Francisco. Albert or Hadji ...
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