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Tessa MacMorrow

fl. 1952–2014

Heir, active 1952–2014. Lived at Famagusta. Child of George Basil Palma.

Life and work

  1. 1950s
    After George Basil Palma died intestate in the early 1950s, she says the only family in Cyprus was her grandmother, her aunts Kinga and Daphne and herself; her uncle Johny then came to Cyprus and he and Kinga took 'quite a few things', she did not know what (her own words as quoted by Merrillees).

    FamagustaRobert Stuart Merrillees (2014). George Basil Palma, Chemist and Collector of Cypriote Antiquities in Famagusta, Cyprus, in the 20th Century A.D.. Cahiers du Centre d'Études Chypriotes 44, 401-429, p. 404

  2. 9 September 2006
    Telephone conversation with Merrillees confirming that her grandfather died at home at 19 Hercules Street, Famagusta, in the early 1950s in his early 80s, and giving family details (brothers Moisis and Vassilis, second wife Mary).

    Robert Stuart Merrillees (2014). George Basil Palma, Chemist and Collector of Cypriote Antiquities in Famagusta, Cyprus, in the 20th Century A.D.. Cahiers du Centre d'Études Chypriotes 44, 401-429, p. 404

  3. 2006
    Wrote to Merrillees recalling her grandfather's room-sized 'museum' at 19 Hercules Street, the Phoenix Pharmacy in Hermes Street, small tear phials, and 'talanda' (ox-hide ingots) she believed were in Boston.

    FamagustaRobert Stuart Merrillees (2014). George Basil Palma, Chemist and Collector of Cypriote Antiquities in Famagusta, Cyprus, in the 20th Century A.D.. Cahiers du Centre d'Études Chypriotes 44, 401-429, p. 404

  4. 26 September 2006

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Sources

  1. 1.Robert Stuart Merrillees (2014). “George Basil Palma, Chemist and Collector of Cypriote Antiquities in Famagusta, Cyprus, in the 20th Century A.D.”. Cahiers du Centre d'Études Chypriotes 44, 401-429. Online
  2. 2.R. S. Merrillees, 2014, George Basil Palma, Chemist and Collector of Cypriote Antiquities in Famagusta, Cyprus, in the 20th Century A.D..
  3. 3.Annie Caubet; Robert Stuart Merrillees, Cahiers du Centre d'Etudes Chypriotes, Volume 44, 2014 (2014).

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