Thessaloniki

[Nadia]

Hello for all
I am a french descendant of several ottoman families who lived in Thessaloniki between 1750 and 1900. Their names : Abbott, Saridaki, Dobrowolski, Vianello, Lafont, Glinbich (or Glubich)
I am very interested to find their trace throught old books or old newspapers...
Can you help me ?
Thank you very much and sorry for my very bad english

[kostas68]

Hello for all
I am a french descendant of several ottoman families who lived in Thessaloniki between 1750 and 1900. Their names : Abbott, Saridaki, Dobrowolski, Vianello, Lafont, Glinbich (or Glubich)
I am very interested to find their trace throught old books or old newspapers...
Can you help me ?
Thank you very much and sorry for my very bad english

Wellcome in the forum Nadia!At first what do you mean with the term <Ottoman> ?The Ottomans were Turks but these names don't sound Turkish.It's known that during the Ottoman time in Thessaloniki were living many West Europeans,mainly traders.I found in an old book a mention of the name Abbot in Thessaloniki,he was an English merchant,married with a Greek woman:
http://books.google.com/books?id=o6NMAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=henry+holland&lr=&hl=el#PPA313,M1
I don't know if this helps you but i couldn't find something else.

[Andrew]

Saridakis is a greek name and more specificaly a Kretan name ..like tha vast majority of the "-akis" endings !!

[Nadia]

Thank you Kostas ; it's exactly what I am searching about my roots
I don't know the year of this book but there was, of course, several generations of Abbott ; the first one was coming from Istanbul as a founder of the English Levant Company in Thessaloniki. His son became a maritim trade between Europe and the Levant.
Vianello, coming from Venise, had also a maritim trade
Dobrowolski (Poland) and Glinbich (Dubrovnik) also...
Saridaki, a Cretan from Iraklio, worked in the Ottoman Bank
Lafont and sons were the medical surgeons of the french area

I hope to find other texts or archives about all these families
Thank you very much for help !

[Nadia]

And thank you also to Andrew...

[kostas68]

I'm happy that i helped you.:) This book is from 1813:
http://img179.imageshack.us/img179/9210/hollandcovermc8.th.png (http://img179.imageshack.us/my.php?image=hollandcovermc8.png)
As for the name Saridakis,it's a typicall Cretan surname,although all the Greek
surnames with the surfix -akis aren't necessarily Cretan.It derives from the Turkish word Sari=blond (you can find also in many other Greek lands the surname Saris,or you can find it as prefix in surnames like:Sariyiannis,Sarinikolas,Sarivasilis e.t.c.) and the Greek diminutive surfix -akis.