Order. |
Name. |
Original
number. |
Relation
to head of family. |
Age
in 1884. |
Remarks. |
1. |
Subh-i-Ezel
|
1. |
Head. |
56 |
|
2. |
Fátima. |
9. |
Wife. |
-- |
Died,
apparently soon after arrival. |
3. |
Rukayya. |
10. |
" |
48 |
Appears
also to bear the name of Badr-i-Jihán, since a petition written in
Greek to the Commissioner of Famagusta on September 13th, 1886, is signed
"[Greek text]." In this petition the writer asks
leave for herself and her two daughters Tal'at and
Safiyya to go to Constantinople. In reply she is informed
that only her husband
[Subh-i-Ezel]
is a State prisoner, and that she is free to go where she pleases. |
4. |
Núru'lláh |
-- |
Son. |
-- |
Was
residing in Persia in 1889, and seems never to have been included amongst the
exiles (probably because he parted from
Subh-i-Ezel previously to 1868), as his
name nowhere appears. It is only from information given to Captain Young by
Subh-i-Ezel that his existence is known
to me. He has thrice visited his father in Cyprus, once before, and twice since
the English occupation. The last time is said to have been in 1878. |
Order. |
Name. |
Original
number. |
Relation
to head of family. |
Age
in 1884. |
Remarks. |
5. |
Hádí. |
-- |
Son. |
-- |
Also
lives in Persia. The first portion of the preceding remarks applies to him also. |
6. |
Ahmad. |
2. |
Son. |
31 |
Left
for Constantinople on May 3rd 1884. Seems to have visited his father since then. |
7. |
'Abdu'l-'Alí. |
3. |
" |
27 |
Resident
in Famagusta. See Introduction. |
8. |
Safiyya. |
5. |
Daughter. |
23 |
Named
in some of the documents "Rekié" (~~~) and "Refié" (~~~),
but, as it would seem, incorrectly. She went to Constantinople on September
21st 1886, married a man named Hasan
'Abdu'r-Rahmán Efendí, and returned
without her husband to Cyprus on December 12th 1888. |
9. |
Behjat
Raf'at |
6. |
" |
22 |
Also
called in some documents "Bákir," on which the following comment is
made by the Local Commandant of Police:- "Bákir" means in Turkish a
virgin or girl. Subh-i-Ezel has no
daughter called Bákir." |
10. |
Rizván
'Alí. |
4. |
Son. |
21 |
Resident
in Famagusta. See Introduction. |
11. |
Tal'at |
7. |
Daughter. |
20 |
Accompanied
her sister Safiyya to Constantinople, and returned thence
with her (see above). Described as "either a widow, or left by her husband." |
Order. |
Name. |
Original
number. |
Relation
to head of family. |
Age
in 1884. |
Remarks. |
12. |
Fátima. |
8. |
Daughter. |
-- |
Died
on August 29th 1871. |
13. |
Muhammad. |
-- |
Son. |
17 |
Though
the names of these occur on nearly all the lists, I could discover no |
14. |
Fu'ád. |
-- |
" |
15 |
other
trace of their existence. |
15. |
'Abdu'l-Wahíd |
-- |
" |
13 |
Called
in some of the documents 'Abdu'r-Rashíd. |
16. |
Maryam. |
-- |
Daughter. |
11 |
|
17. |
Takiyyu'd-Dín |
-- |
Son. |
8 |
Called
in some of the documents Ziyá'u'd-Dín.
From an undated Turkish document preserved at Famagusta it appears that the
last three are the children of Badr-i-Jihán (see No. 3
supra). From this document the following particulars are
also derived. |
18. |
Fátima. |
-- |
Daughter-in-law. |
21 |
Wife
of Ahmad (see No. 6 supra). |
19. |
'Ádila. |
-- |
Grand-daughter |
4 |
Daughter
of Ahmad and Fátima. |
20. |
Sheykh
'Alí Sayyáh, of
Kára-Bágh |
11. |
Head. |
See
p. 380 supra. |
Died
August 4th 1871. See pp. 380-381 supra, and note 2 on former. |
Order. |
Name. |
Original
number. |
Relation
to head of family. |
Age
in 1884. |
Remarks. |
21. |
Fátima. |
-- |
Wife. |
47 |
After
the death of Sheykh 'Alí Sayyáh. married
Mushkín Kalam, and was with him at Nicosia in
1884. It does not appear that she accompanied him to Acre in 1886. |
22. |
Jalálu'd-Dín. |
-- |
Son. |
25 |
Was
employed as Land Registry clerk at Kyrenia in 1889. |
23. |
Jamálu'd-Dín. |
|
" |
23 |
Was
employed as a trooper in the Cyprus Military Police in 1889. |
24. |
Kamálu'd-Dín. |
|
" |
21 |
Sheykh
'Alí Sayyáh's family are described as
having arrived "from Babylon" in a |
25. |
Jamáliyya. |
-- |
Daughter. |
16 |
state
of destitution. No allowance seems |
26. |
Rukayya. |
-- |
Servant. |
47 |
to
have been made to them till two years after his death, i.e. in October 1873.
This allowance was stopped in the case of the sons on April 1st 1884, but the
allowance to the widow and daughter was continued, and thus went to increase
Mushkín Kalam's pension, which, in 1884-5,
amounted to £58.17.0. As the estimates for 1889-90 still shew a sum of
£20.13.0 payable to Mushkín Kalam's
family, and as he lost his pension on leaving Cyprus for Acre in September
1886, while his sons' pensions ceased in 1884, it would appear certain that
Fátima, Jamáliyya, and the servant
Rukayya. remained in Cyprus. |
Order. |
Name. |
Original
number. |
Relation
to head of family. |
Age
in 1884. |
Remarks. |
27. |
Mushkín-Kalam,
of Khurásán. |
12. |
Head. |
-- |
From
the colophon of a MS. transcribed by Mushkín
Kalam and presented by him to Mr Cobham on his departure for
Acre, it appears that in the year [A.H. 12]91 (=A.D.
1874) he was still, to use his own phrase, "imprisoned for the love of God"
(~~~) at Famagusta. He subsequently went to Nicosia, and thence to Larnaca,
where he was in 1884. His final departure from Cyprus is notified by Mr Cobham
in a letter dated September 18th 1886:- "The Persian heresiarch and
calligraphist Mushkín Kalam left Cyprus for St.
Jean d'Acre on the night of Tuesday September 14-15, renouncing his pittances
and the protection of the Island Government. He found an unwonted opportunity
in a Syrian vessel going direct to Acre, the head quarters of the
Báb [sc
Behá'u'lláh]... I am extremely sorry to
lose him as a Persian munshí." He was still in April 1890 at Acre,
where I met him (see Introduction). |
28. |
(Name
not given). |
-- |
Servant. |
|
After
his marriage with Sheykh 'Alí Sayyáh's
widow, Mushkín Kalam obtained |
Order. |
Name. |
Original
number. |
Relation
to head of family. |
Age
in 1884. |
Remarks. |
|
|
|
|
|
possession
of both the servants allotted to the exiles. "It is not clear," observes the
Receiver General, "why Mushkín Kalam should have
both the servants, but Government need not, I think, object to the arrangement
if Subh-i-Ezel consents, which I doubt
his doing." |
29. |
'Abdu'l-Ghaffár.
|
13. |
Head. |
-- |
Escaped
from Cyprus on September 29th 1870, during the fair held at Famagusta, in
company with two other prisoners. According to
Subh-i-Ezel he went to Acre, but, though
a Behá'í, was somewhat coldly received. He subsequently
settled in Beyrout and changed his name. |
30.
|
Muhammad
Bákir, of Isfahán. |
14. |
Head. |
-- |
Died
at an advanced age on November 22nd 1872. |