The current stage of the ongoing research on the Churchill family in the Levant Note: De Balzac family according to the researcher Behzat Üskiden [Avrupalı mı, Levanten mi? p.99] were Bankers in Pera, Constantinople. A Leontine de Balzac married Charles Helbig who was born in 1822 in Liege in Belgium and whose descendants would continue his ‘Helbig & Cie’ banking interests in Constantinople and became very prosperous with many buildings to their name. From the similar dates it is likely Leontine and Eveline were sisters. click here to view a simplified chart of the related Belhomme family in the Levant - archive views of Adrianople, their one time resident city.

The simplified family tree of the descendants Louise / Louisa Churchill / Arlaud. Information courtesy of Angela Robinson. Note: Abraham Arlaud’s father Antoine was also an immigrant being born in France 1590 moving to Switzerland ~1617 (religious persecution? just before the 30 years war).

The grave of Lucien Arlaud & Louise nee Churchill in the Catholic cemetery of Kadiköy, Istanbul.