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MY GRANDPARENTS

Gazala Bey Abd el Ahad Suleiman Dominique and his wife Sofie Kroumi
b. 1854-09-21 d. 1929-10-18 b. 1873 d. 1906

Father was Gerges son of Yosuf. His mother was Hanna daughter to Elias Abu Al-Jonan (Abolyonan). Doctor of faculty of medicine in Paris. Responsible Doctor for the health service at the Imperial Court of Persia. Medical Officer at the Turkish Embassy in Teheran, Persia. Health and Sanitary Inspector in the Capital of Libya. Member of the constitutional assembly to Iraq. Principal Deputy for the Province of Basrah.

Distinction honour: Grand Cordon Du Lion et Du Soleil, Persia. Grand Officier De L'instruction Publique, Persia, Commandeur Du Medjidie, Turkey.

Born in Bagdad during the Osmanian Empire, the Ancient Mesopotamia and today Iraq. Most part of Suleiman's life he was an Ottomansk "Turkish" citizen, until the constitutive of the State of Iraq, and from there on he and his family was probable Iraqes.

The Bey was married to Sophie Kroumi, her sisters married to the Pacha Khayatt and the third one got married to the Pacha's brother Djamil.

In the year of eighteenhundred and eightyseven the eight month on the fifteens day when in Rome, Suleiman was adhernt the group old Chaldean Catholic, "The wise men". He was by the Caldée Archbishop presented to The Pope Leo XIII. Suleiman was blessed by the Pope, and later attended the mass with The Pope at the Sistine chapel, where he received the Holy Communion from the Pope's hand. God bless him. Suleiman is the Great Great Grandfather to Oliver Ghazala, my grandson.

Suleiman's mother died in late 1855, and his father Georges on the 15 July 1870, 55 years old. Gerges remarried Barbara, daughter to Isak Tomina, in 1856, she did not like her husband's children. Suleiman was buried at the English Chaldean Cathedral, "Notre-Dame de Douleurs" in Bagdad.

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