Agatha Giacobbi

[Janet]

I lost a couple days of my life to googling Giacobbis!

Your links work much better than mine, thanks, Mary. Here's Roland de Bussy:
Roland de Bussy

[Janet]

Okay, what brings up a lot of hits (mostly in French) is
Giacobbi conseiller à la cour royale d'Alger.

Signing off. Au lit, olé!

[Mary from Italy]

Ooh!

I should have been in bed hours ago, but I've finally found something interesting.

If you remember, Libby, I said on an earlier thread that some of the trees on Ancestry give a specific date of birth for the François Giacobbi who lived in California, giving the place of birth as Cervione, Corsica, but that Cervione records weren't online yet. I assumed the tree owners got the date from François' US records, maybe his death cert, as they don't give the parents' names.

Anyway, the date of birth they give is 13th October 1813:

http://search.ancestry.co.uk/cgi-bin...=rfs&gst=&so=3

The Cervione records are now online, and a François Giacobbi was born there on that date! At least, I think it is; the writing's awful, but it looks like "13 8bre 1813", and 8bre means October.

I can't link directly to the page, but go here:

http://www.haute-corse.fr/site/index...civil-en-ligne

Click on the link that says "Cliquez ici pour accéder à l'état civil en ligne", then where it says "Commune" choose Cervione from the dropdown list, and put 1813 to 1813 for the dates.

Then when the image of the first page comes up, put 319 in the document no. box at the bottom right of the page, and it takes you to the right page. François' entry is the last but two on the left-hand page.

If I were you, I'd contact one or both tree owners to see where they got the date from.

[HarrysMum]

Thank you Mary and Janet.

I will contact them Mary.....Actually from memory, I have but will do so again.

I have been googling Rue Boutin Algiers. Cannot find it on a map. I was actually looking to see if there was a cemetery......still looking for poor Agatha....lol

I did come across this with lots about Rue Boutin a few years before Agatha's death.

http://books.google.com.au/books?id=...lgiers&f=false

[Mary from Italy]

Rue Boutin seems to have an Arabic name now, but I still can't find it on the map.

It looks from this site as though it should be Dar Serkadji Kédima, but it isn't at all clear:

http://alger-roi.fr/Alger/casbah/tex...ues_casbah.htm

[Mary from Italy]

According to Wikepedia, the main cemetery in Algiers during the French occupation was St. Eugene's, but there's an index of tombstones online, and they only seem to include 20th cemetery burials.

http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cimetière_Saint-Eugène

[Mary from Italy]

The site I linked to in post 35 suggests that Mosquée Ketchaoua (Ketchaoua mosque) was in Rue Boutin.

If you look at p. 63 of the book you found (post 34), there's a map of the Casbah area showing Rue Boutin (you'll need to turn it sideways, because the sea's to the east of Algiers, not the south).

Search Google maps for Mosquée Ketchaoua Algiers, and you'll see the mosque. Rue Bab Azoun, shown on the Casbah map, is shown on Google as Bab Azzoun Street.

I think Rue Boutin should be Rue Ali Tamglit, just below Mosquée Ketchaoua.

[Shona]

Seriously impressed by all those discoveries. Brilliant work.

[Merry]

Poor Agatha, only 27. I thought I'd got used to the idea she had died by 1851, but finding out exactly when she passed away seems even sadder reading.

For a Victorian woman she packed a lot in to her short life.

Mary, you've done a great job in finding these records I wonder what else there is to know?? *runs out quickly*

[Margaret in Burton]

Wow!

Always been interested in reading about Agatha although I've never contributed. Well done Mary and Janet and well done Phoenix for finding the admon in the first place.