tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6287304674854338547.post7580233313336536120..comments2023-10-29T06:43:22.893-07:00Comments on The Schiff Family: FirenzeFrank Genthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03290115299578640520noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6287304674854338547.post-8069852717057037302019-01-22T12:50:40.127-08:002019-01-22T12:50:40.127-08:00I’m glad to see from later posts that you have rec...I’m glad to see from later posts that you have recovered. Thanks for filling in some family gaps for me. My father wrote of the Pios:<br />Ethel. Beautiful, delicate, married to Alfred de Pass, collector and considerable benefactor to native Truro and the Cape. Five children. Crispin killed in First War; John lost skiing; Dan rose to Commodore RN (married Jean Fleming—sister of Arctic explorer and future Dean of Windsor.) Myrtle (husband died very young); Dorothea married amusing but rascally Italian, Amerigo Pio—2 children. ?The other *Oscar [Alfred] married Gioia [Esmé Cooke, ?a WREN at Bletchley]—seven children, living at Milan and charming villa near Florence, successful in business and in growing Chianti. Merite le detour! Of Dan’s two sons, Alfred who had shown signs of intellectual distinction at Stowe, was killed shortly after the Normandy landings. Dan was already in the Far East and did not see Jean till 18 months later!<br /><br />CC<br />—<br />www.MissingPortraiits.infonehoChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14937068074934170255noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6287304674854338547.post-34380066477833760412016-06-29T07:18:09.633-07:002016-06-29T07:18:09.633-07:00Soon after writing this I was taken seriously ill....Soon after writing this I was taken seriously ill. Hopefully if I recover sufficiently I shall be able to tidy up some of the many loose ends in my research. It would be a shame if it were all lost.Frank Genthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03290115299578640520noreply@blogger.com