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Edward Goodwin Fortescue ("Fort") Zohrab as a boy.

Constantine Edward Zohrab was a wine merchant, and his son, Edward Goodwin Fortescue ("Fort") Zohrab, carried on the family business. But when he married, his wife, Blanche Miriam (nee Mabin) forced him to go into other types of businesses, because she was a prohibitionist (a "wowser").  According to a letter in the Wellington City Archives, dated 1913, he was a tug and steamboat owner and a shipping and commission agent, with an office at 2 Balance Street.  According to the obituary at http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=EP19330804.2.134&srpos=14&e=-------100--1----0Zohrab-- he was the manager of the Miramar Ferry Co., the Wellington Harbour Ferry Co., and the Chatham Islands Fishing Co..  He lived successively at Seatoun, Day's Bay, Heretaunga and Silverstream.  There is a newspaper photograph of him at http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=EP19330804.2.32.5&srpos=84&e=-------100--1----0Zohrab-- .

Judy Siers states:

E.G.F. Zohrab (known as Fort) had enjoyed a high-profile career -- a Wellington businessman specialising in maritime management and investment.  He was innovative and adventurous, particularly in pursuing new passenger services around Wellington harbour.  He managed the Miramar Ferry Company that sailed the steamers Loyalty and Admiralty from the city wharves to the southern bays and as the Company flourished the addition of the Cobar to the fleet opened up new services from Days Bay on the eastern side of the harbour.

The Evening Post of 16 December 1914 lists three of Fort's sons (John (Jack), Edward (Ted) and Amyas) among the prizewinners at Eastbourne School -- obviously dating from the time when Fort and Queenie lived at Days Bay, in Eastbourne.  See http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=EP19141216.2.17&srpos=55&e=-------100--1----0Zohrab-- .

The Evening Post newspaper, on 16 September 1931, published a photograph of his daughter, Joan, and his daughter-in-law, Dorothy Hadfield, at Dorothy's wedding to his son, Jack Zohrab ( see http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=EP19310916.2.36.6&srpos=10&e=-------10--1----0Zohrab-- ).  Dorothy was the daughter of Bishop Hadfield, and the two families presumably met through the Anglican Church, since Jack's grandfather Tino had been on the Standing Committee of the Wellington Diocesan Synod at a time when Bishop Hadfield was in office.

Wedding of Edward Goodwin Fortescue ("Fort") Zohrab and Blanche Miriam ("Queen") Mabin, Nelson, New Zealand, April 1901 -- photo courtesy of Mr. Tom King.

Fort and Blanche Zohrab

Joan Miriam Page (1907-1993), the only daughter of Edward Goodwin Fortescue ("Fort") Zohrab to survive into adulthood. (Earle Andrew Collection, Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Maatauranga o Aotearoa. Ref. No. F-35765-1/2. Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Maatauranga o Aotearoa must be obtained before any re-use of this image.)

Amyas Constantine Zohrab

Bridal Party of Edward Goodwin Fortescue ("Fort") Zohrab and Blanche Miriam ("Queen(ie)") Mabin, Nelson, New Zealand, April 1901 -- photo courtesy of Mr. Tom King.

Blanche Miriam ("Queenie") Zohrab (with thanks to Alison deCaen).

Blanche Miriam and Edward Goodwin Fortescue ("Fort") Zohrab, with two of their children, Edward Ernest ("Ted") and Joan Miriam. Photo courtesy of Mr. Balfour Douglas Zohrab.

"Gulistan" and "Lancewood", in Silverstream, Upper Hutt, New Zealand, were the properties in which the Zohrabs and their children lived after Fort's retirement.

Paul Page, Joan Page (nee Zohrab), Margaret Zohrab (nee Bendall), Margaret May Zohrab (nee Miller, widow of Ted Zohrab), Doug Zohrab and Rosemary Zohrab (nee Miller).