Family Group Sheet
Family Group Sheet
NameDr William MacNeil (George) Whistler
Birth1836, Stonington, Connecticut, USA
Death27 Feb 1900, London, England
Residence17 Wimpole Street, Westminster, London, England
OccupationPhysician.
EducationUniversity of Philadelphia, graduated 1860.
OriginUSA.
Note 1His portrait was painted by James McNeill Whistler. Specialised in throat diseases. A founder and senior physician at the London Throat Hospital and president of the British Laryngological, Rhinological and Otological Association.
FatherGeorge Washington Whistler (?-?)
MotherAnna Matilda McNeill (1804-1881)
Marriage17 Apr 1877, Church of Our Saviour, London Wall, City of London, England
Married MemoA second ceremony took place at St George’s Church, Hanover Square, London.
SpouseHelen Euphrosyne ‘Nellie’ (Eustratius) Ionides, GG Granddaughter
Birth15 Oct 1849, London, England
MemoAnother source says 18 Oct.
Death8 Jan 1917, London, England
MemoIonides/Butterworth tree says 1914 but is then corrected by an unknown hand to 1917.
Baptism17 Mar 1850, Church of Our Saviour, London Wall, City of London, England
Note 1Painted by Whistler three times in the late 1860s: in 2002 all were in the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, USA. She was a daily visitor to James M. Whistler at 74 Cheyne Walk, Chelsea, London, during his last days.
Marr. WitnessEustratius C. Ionides and Calliope Coronio.
God-parentsEuphrosyne Cassavetti.
FlagsIonides, Vouro, Xeno
FatherEustratius Constantine (Constantine) Ionides (1817-1888)
MotherChariclea (Ioannes) Xeno (1823-1919)