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Descendants of Zohrab of the Manuchariants
The Zorab Branch
(Click on the images
to see larger versions of them. )
Two or three branches of the Zohrab family settled in British
India and/or the Dutch East Indies (Indonesia), and some
of them changed the spelling of their surname to "Zorab"
-- apparently in order to distinguish themselves from the
Parsee family called "Zohrab". Some of them used the surname
"Manuk" -- see zdetail3.html
.
It is likely that some left Iran for India around 1795,
in order to escape a politically-motivated
massacre of the Zohrab family (or of Armenians generally)
then being carried out by the Shah of Persia (Iran). This
is indicated by the fact that all five children of Manook
and Hannai (Anne) were born in New Julfa (Persia) and
died either in India, the Dutch East Indies, or on the way
there -- at around that time. One branch seems to have left
Armenia (which was under Persian rule) in 1805 and gone
to Holland -- and from there to the Dutch East Indies (now
Indonesia).
Minas
Mackertich Zorab (1833-1896)
was a self-made man and successful painter, who painted several
icons in the Armenian churches of New Julfa, Isfahan, Iran.
Lt.-Col.
Dr Johannes Manuk Zorab,
son of Manook, and grandson of Zohrab II, was a Lt.
Colonel in the British Imperial Medical Service, and
a Civil Surgeon and Superintendant at Brusa Medical
School, which appears to be in Turkey(?).
Leonard Kars
, son of Hoohanes, and grandson of Manook, strangled a
wounded leopard with his bare hands, in order to save the life
of an Indian hunter, who had thought the leopard was dead, and
had approached it.
The third Roman alphabet version of the
Zohrab/Zorab family tree was drawn up by Harold
Zorab from material collected over many years by Judge
Edgar Zorab, from the Dutch
East Indies and Holland, who visited Persia and Armenia
collecting information, some of which was taken from letters,
books, and some from pastoral letters written in AD 1780
by the Catholicos Lucas and in AD 1831 by the Catholicos
Ephraim of the Armenian Church, and from "notations" written
by Avetik Zorabian of New Julfa in 1919 in which further
confirmation is given by the edicts of Shah Safavi, Shah
Solaiman, Shah Abbas II, and Nadir Shah.
Dr.
John Zorab, Anaesthetist,
Lecturer at University of Bristol, Vice-President of Association
of Anaesthetists, President of World Federation of Societies
of Anaesthesiologists, expert
on the Zorab branch of the Zohrab family.
Carey (left) and Zoe Zorab
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