Victorian and Edwardian England

Nicolo d'Andria had returned to Chios after 1822 and married a Greek Catholic Chiot. Around 1850 Nicolo had moved to England to establish himself in trade. When his wife died during childbirth in Chios their children were looked after by her family/or at a boarding school in Izmir until one by one they joined his in England where he established a business in Manchester. The family of Nicolo instituted three annual celebrations (1906-1908) of their Levantine heritage including plays and poems portraying a fanciful view of their ancestor Pantaleone.

During the mid-nineteenth century Manchester became the largest industrial centre in the world based in large part upon cotton: most from the U.S.A. and Asia Minor. The family suffer a serious financial loss – probably connected with the American Civil War and consequent "Cotton Famine" (1861-5) and Nicolo's two eldest sons Joseph Nicholas and John Nicholas moved to New York for several years. Later they returned and the family was able to buy a small cotton mill in Stockport, the John Street Mill Company. Joseph established a separate firm, D’Andria and Co, in Bradford, Yorkshire.

 

In 1855 Nicolo had shared a flat at London with Francesco Antonio Pasqua, a son of Antonio Pasqua (who, himself ther son of a d'Andria, had been Dutch vice-consul to Chios in 1822 and kept the diary referred to on page 2). In 1837 Francesco’s son George married Marie d’Andria, a daughter of Stefano d’Andria (of the branch associated with the vault in Karabaglar cemetery). The Pasqua branch of the family generally lived in London and the South-East of England, although they kept touch with their cousins in the north. One of George and Marie Pasqua's daughters, Betina, married Rene Caraman, a great grandson of Giuseppe Marius d'Andria Caraman thereby linking the ‘Karabaglar’ branch of the family to the ‘Marachi’ d’Andrias.

Francesco Antonio Pasqua eventually died in Chios and his tomb is prominent in the present Catholic church, the former Cathedral, of St Nicholas, Chios town.

 

The First World War : The Western Front

During the Great War several d'Andrias fought on the western front. Austin d’Andria was awarded a Military Cross in 1916 for mending a communications cable in no-man’s-land. For other family members the War brought injury. In particular Paul Pasqua, injured by gas returned an invalid and remained in hospital until his death in 1949.