Family Group Sheet
Family Group Sheet
NameJames Henry (James) Skene
Birth?
Death?
OccupationWriter and diplomat.
OriginEdinburgh, Scotland.
Note 1After his marriage, James ‘sold his commission in the King’s 73rd (later the 2nd Black Watch) to become a writer and diplomat, and they moved in with his parents, who, following their children's example, had moved to Athens.’
FatherJames Skene (?-?)
MotherJane Forbes (?-?)
Marriage1833
SpouseRallou (Jacob) Rizo Rangabé, 7C6R
Birth1813, Constantinople, Turkey/Byzantium
MemoAnother source says 1815...
Death1869, Aleppo, Syria
MemoAnother source says 1970.
Note 1“...aged 16, she was frightened by a mastiff in a street in Athens: so frightened, she said, that she rushed into a nearby house and jumped on the table... The dog's master, a 21-year-old soldier from Edinburgh named James Henry Skene...
Note 2... over from Malta to shoot duck, followed her in, lifted her off the table and fell in love.” (from ‘A Great Task of Happiness’). James and Rallou had a total of 7 children.
Flags***, Calvocoressi, Caradja, Giustiniani Pi, Mavrogordato, Maximo, Mourouzis, Soutzo
FatherJacob (George) Rizo Rangabé (1779-1855)
MotherPrincess Zoe (Eustache) Lapithi (?-?)
Children
1 FJane (James) Skene, 8C5R
Birthabt 1838
Death1 Oct 1880
BurialCarlton-in-Lindrick, Worksop, England
SpouseRev’d Lloyd Bruce Canon of York (?-~1885)
Marriage1863, St Michael’s, Oxford, England
ChildrenZoë (Lloyd) (?-?)
Elma (Lloyd) (?-?)
Irene (Lloyd) (?-?)
Douglas (Lloyd) (?-?)
Lloyd (Lloyd) (?-?)
Gwen (Lloyd) (?-?)
Rosslyn Francis (Lloyd) (?-?)
Wilfrid (Lloyd) (?-?)
Hilda ‘Presh’ (Lloyd) (?-?)
Jane ‘Podge’ (Lloyd) (?-?)
Edith Agnes ‘Kathleen’ (Lloyd) (1878-1947)