Family Group Sheet
Family Group Sheet
NameChristopher Aidan (Aidan) Long °, GGGG Grandson
Birth18 Sep 1948, Sevenoaks, Kent, England
Baptism23 Oct 1948, Westerham, Kent, England
MemoBaptised by his grandfather The Rev. Guy S. Long (grandfather). Also baptised into the Greek Orthodox church in an impromptu ceremony in the gardens of 441 Avenue du Prado, Marseille, by his cousin Cyril Argenti (the Archimandrite ‘Cyrille’ of Marseille) in 1954.
Residence1977, 6 Napier Place, Holland Park, Kensington, London, England
Residence2001, Le Bosquet, Pont-Farcy, Normandy, France
Residence1980, 14 Earls Court Square, Kensington, London, England
Residence1948, Monksway, Westerham, Kent, England
Residence1953, Courtlands, Westerham, Kent, England
Note 1Compiler of this genealogy and interested in his forebears because:
Note 2One quarter were Byzantine Phanariot Greeks fleeing national and cultural persecution + genocide on the island of Chios in the early C19th and who settled in Britain, France, Austro-Hungary, Romania, etc...
Note 3One quarter were Norman Huguenots from Manche and around Rouen, fleeing persecution by French Roman Catholics in the C17th and who found refuge in London...
Note 4One quarter were Scots (many of C11th-C12th Norman origin).
Note 5One quarter English (predominently of Saxon and Low Countries origins) who settled in Britain from the C5th-C11th onwards and were willing to offer a refuge from persecution and danger to others in the centuries thereafter.
God-parentsGeorges Michel Zarifi, Michael Croil Vlasto and Mary Macnutt (née Long).
OccupationJournalist, Editor, Broadcaster, Foreign Correspondent. In retirement: sheep farmer, Anglo-Norman historian, interpreter/translator.
EducationLaverock School, Limpsfield (1953-57). The Hill School, Westerham (1957-62). St Edmund’s School, Canterbury (1962-67). The Hon. Soc. Inner Temple (1967-72).
OriginEngland.
Flags***, Argenti, Boscovic, Cantacuzene, Caralli, Coressi, Croil, Denn, Desormeaux, Dickson, Dwerniki, Gilson, Giustiniani Fi, Giustiniani Pi, Kaplanoglou, Le Noble, Long, Mavrogordato, Maximo, Mitchell, Petrocochino, Poole, Rodocanachi, Sanderson, Scanavi, Shives/Chivas, Vlasto, Zarifi
FatherDr Aidan George Gabriel (Guy) Long ° (1915-2003)
MotherHelen Croil (Michel) Vlasto ° (1920-2001)
Other spousesSarah Ruth (John) Furze °
Marriage7 Apr 1973, Westerham, Kent, England
Married MemoThe service was conducted by The Ven. Archdeacon John Long assisted by the Rev’d Aidan Chapman.
Divorce3 Apr 1978
SpousePatricia June 'Tricia' (John) Reinsma °
Birth1950, Perth, Australia
Deathca 2006, Australia
OccupationFine Art Restorer.
Note 1The toast at their marriage was proposed by Dr John Watkins-Pitchford.
Marr. WitnessAidan G. G. Long, Helen C. Long (née Vlasto), Nellie Reinsma, H. R. Allen, The Very Rev’d J. S. Long.
FatherJohn Reinsma ? (?-)
MotherNellie [Reinsma] ? (?-)
No Children