The descendants of Simon include people who use the surname
"Zohrab", and others who used the surname "Manuk"
(perhaps because they migrated to India, and wanted to avoid confusion
with a Parsee family with a similar name to "Zohrab").
According to the
book by Armèn Joseph, in 1780, the Catholicos-Patriarch Lucas
(1780-1799) confirmed in a letter to "Marcar Manuk, a great-grandson
of Zohrab I in the male line"
(whose descendants are the topic of this website), that he was a descendant
of the noble family of the Manuchariants.
We have no great-grandson of Zohrab I by the name "Marcar
Manuk" on the family tree. The
book by Armèn Joseph also mentions a "Margar Manuk",
as being a cousin of Gavork Manuk,
but we have no cousin of his on the family tree called Margar.
However, there is a Marcar, who married
Katherine, and he was indeed a cousin of Gavork, but he was a great-great-grandson
of Zohrab. Avetik C. Zorabian, in his "Annotations
as to the Genealogy of the Zorabian Lineage", mentions Margar
as being descended from the original Zohrab, his son Simon, and his
grandson, Astvatzatoor. He does not mention
Aviet, who appears between Simon and Astvatzatoor in all versions
of the family tree since Judge Edgar's.
We can be fairly sure that "Marcar Manuk" and
"Margar Manuk" are the same person. The Marcar who was
married to Katherine did not originally have a middle name in Kelvin
Pollock's family tree, but Peter Douglas Zohrab added "Manuk",
and the alternative spelling "Margar", on the basis of the
above information. Since Marcar received confirmation of his noble
ancestry, it is probably no coincidence that his cousin Gavork (George)
and his brother Malcolm assumed the Armenian title "asphet"
(= "Knight"). They probably
kept in contact with each other, as have other members of the family.
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